Suggestion: Support healing beam targeting

Current issue is the healing beam does not discriminate between bots and human players.

Suggestion is to set priority of healing to human players in all instances, but especially during high traffic where there's 4 bot between you and your human teammate. Also notification of who you're healing is quite small, difficult to see, etc. I'd really love to clip the healing beam through bots straight through to my teammates, and have visual confirmation that it's them I'm healing. :->

I agree with this even though I do not play support much; this does get on my nerves.

Agreed.

Perhaps it should put the Jackbot on a higher priority than other bots, but still a lower priority then Pros.

Fixes asside there is one aspect of the heal beam that i feel is a MUST change, and it'd be simple too: just make it like TF2 medics gun and provide a small caption with the NAME of the target your currently healing. muy muy importante imo

hope ekanaut is waaaaatching

I play support a lot, and it feels to me that the heal beam will target the closest friendly that's within an arc that's centered at your reticle. I would much rather have the heal beam target within it's range on a hitscan from the reticle. Continued holding of the beam with no target would continually check for a friendly you're aiming at, not just close to you. I find it snaps to bots way too often, especially if you're playing properly and hiding behind bots.

Of course, I would probably prefer the hurt beam to target the same way it currently does (the exact same as the current heal beam, but on enemies,) and having this discrepancy would be confusing. Maybe just a preference to pros on both beams?

Instead of having it lock onto a teammate, how about we actually make it target what you are aiming at?

I have no trouble with making the Support's job a little more difficult and having me actually AIM the hurt heal gun.

yeah its really annoying you trying to heal a assault with 5% health next to you and it latches on to a blackjack below you.

Gotta click twice to heal in some cases as well, as sometimes it won't take the target at first click.

Yes.

Yup.

that's my biggest issue with the gun.

God, i just realized how bad it is today, the beam went the completely other direction i was aiming at and targeted a black jack at half health as opposed to Assault that was right in front of me severely needing heals. He died...

Then it happened to a Gunner and a Tank as well.