Why is Skyhammer in the competitive rotation?

[Logos.6498]

Jump pads don't work and the map is dominated by a giant laser. I think it needs to get out of the rotation. It sucks, you suck for creating this pos.

[Snellibee.2761]

The laser isn't as important as other objective on let's say Capricorn, but I do agree that the jumping pads are very annoying especially when classes like Holo and Weaver with quick sustain use them because they pretty much don't die

[Tiipi.6750]

Honestly the old skyhammer was way more fun, i miss flamethrower engi on skyhammer.

[ZhouX.8742]

@everyman.4375 said:Honestly the old skyhammer was way more fun, i miss flamethrower engi on skyhammer.

Agreed ... The jump pads were instant jump too I think... Now it seems like some kind of windup thing like when you jump on the shrooms in HoT. Maybe it was like that before too but just didn't notice it before.

[Abelisk.5148]

I don't get why it's not "Press [ ] to interact" for the jump pads. Run up to it while spamming interact 10/10.

[Loki.1763]

A whole lot of folks were very vocal in their whining about not enough maps for Ranked. Skyhammer got reworked (not for the better IMHO) and added to rotation. There is so much about this map I don't like, but I'm not gunna write of a wall of text that will bore everyone.

[otto.5684]

The more important question is why is sky hammer in rotation at all.

[Dahkeus.8243]

I'm not much of a fan of Skyham since it's just not a particularly fun map, but it doesn't feel as wildly imbalanced as it has in the past. I actually wish it was just kept as an unranked map because as cheesy as the knockback insta-deaths were, it was actually pretty fun that way for casual games that wouldn't affect rank.

@"LolLookAtMyAP.8394" said:I don't get why it's not "Press [ ] to interact" for the jump pads. Run up to it while spamming interact 10/10.

As comical as it would be to see people flung away when they try to revive an ally on a jump pad, I don't think that would work (There's never been a press-to-interact option for anything other than "f" and they wouldn't add a new hotkey just for this map).

[Abelisk.5148]

@Dahkeus.8243 said:I'm not much of a fan of Skyham since it's just not a particularly fun map, but it doesn't feel as wildly imbalanced as it has in the past. I actually wish it was just kept as an unranked map because as cheesy as the knockback insta-deaths were, it was actually pretty fun that way for casual games that wouldn't affect rank.

@"LolLookAtMyAP.8394" said:I don't get why it's not "Press [ ] to interact" for the jump pads. Run up to it while spamming interact 10/10.

As comical as it would be to see people flung away when they try to revive an ally on a jump pad, I don't think that would work (There's never been a press-to-interact option for anything other than "f" and they wouldn't add a new hotkey just for this map).

You know the interact function Special Action that appears when you kill enough players in Eternal Coliseum? That's what I'm talking about.

I'm not saying to get rid of the jump pads' function at the moment either. If players don't want to hit that interact they can jump instead.

[Bigpapasmurf.5623]

I miss the old map. My scrapper, hammer warrior, fear necro and ranger had a blast lol.

[Serenity.6304]

Yeah, good old times with the old skyhammwr...I remember fearing them down, as a terrormancer these were the days.I would love to get those maps back, like for a day, 1st April or sthRemember old capricorn with the underwater part? Worst map ever, but due to Nostalgia I would love to play it once again.

On Topic: As a scourge main this is one of my favorite maps and I love the hammer and the distraction it offers while our team caps the points ;) Let‘s see when Djinn is making it into ranked...