Would you play with Captain Knockback?

Presumably if he's kicking people he's the team leader so whatever he says is fine.

If you don't like it, leave.

However I presume you are trying to find something wrong in whatever his instructions are.

Well, sometimes I see people acting like this should be a single-player game with IA team members.

Only thing is... It isnt. Every single person on a team is a unique individual, and for some the overuse of control is actually pretty annoying.

I never had to kick anyone from the teams I assemble, and normally my only command is "Have Fun, No Drama".

And very rarelly i found necessary to leave a team because of the positioning of the leader. Mostly because of me playing with cherished friends, and we all know our styles.

Imagine, if you will, the instruction "don't waste endurance on those stupid powers, just heal."

While the team leader is certainly allowed to run a team by whatever rules, it's sometimes nice to distinguish between "rules I personally don't enjoy" and "rules which are provably stupid."

Hehe
It brings up an interesting point of counter balance that I think people on either side of such things can forget about.
When this is part of role-playing, the other characters also have to play their role and that might very well mean (partly) correcting/helping or ditching the menace.

Usually the problems arise when 1) the other role-players don't consider the fact that they're free to role-play and interact to try and make things better or 2) the offender is immune to all attempts to generate some acceptability in regards to OOC playtime fun.
And 2) even includes a more extreme imbalance from the offender... when they are simply pushing things so far it defies the reality of the offending character. When constant faceplants mean absolutely nothing, it can greatly cheapen the whole experience and the role-play value. If that character had real thoughts and emotions and a shred of intelligence, they might either rethink their approach or rethink being involved in fighting at all.
The balance of any extreme thing such as this is generally taking it short of the point of extreme failure (let alone repeated extreme failures, hehe).
Much, much, much fun can be had through perseverance (through intentional or unintentional snafus). Repeated, completely overwhelmingly impossible odds might be fun for a set theme of imbecilic moron fighters of inept proportions (alright, who's in on this super team idea?), but, short of that, as in all cases of interactive/collaborative playing... everyone has to conceded and bend a little.

I don't have any steadfast rules and generally gravitate towards giving everyone the benefit of the doubt and a chance (or two) to get things right and well and we'll all have fun.
If/when that doesn't pan out, then, yeah, it's time to walk.



I do hope to run into Helpy sometime!

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My experience thus far is that it's slow but not usually fatal. In fact, he's impressively high mitigation compared to some other troller builds I've tried.

I try to aim for "disruptive enough to make things interesting". A lone minion getting knocked off a balcony and shooting at us from far away could be funny, or irritating, but won't kill us all. A single group ported in at the elevators is not going to be a big deal with 6 large robots waiting to gank them. So, you know... Enthusiastic stupidity, but carefully tweaked to tend to work out.

Irresponsible Captain Tylor, maybe.

Don't forget Peacebringers. Those squids put out hella knockback when they try.

Add Assault Rifle to the list, with their Slug, Buckshot, and Grenade powers.

My Knockback character is an AR/Storm corruptor named Agent Cyclone, who has slotted most of his powers for knockback. On teams I try to keep it toned down, using Lightning Storm rarely and never using Tornado or Gale. But every once in a while I like to cut loose. The results can be messy and epic.