Throwing a dead body at a player should stun them.

I've always liked in this game how you have to use your surroundings in order to get the upper hand on a player. One thing I've started doing a lot in game is try and throw a dead body at a player in pursuit to knock them off guard so I can come in for a kill.

Currently if you throw a dead body at someone, they'll get knocked back a little bit and lose a half a heart (sometimes). My suggestion is that you are also stunned. You would be stunned similar to the way your are stunned when someone slashes you while shielding or by landing on you while shielding downward.

Continuing on with this idea, you should be able to counter this attack by either, slashing through the body, catching it, or shielding. Or if your an archer, you could also just shoot the body while it's being thrown. The nice thing about this is that it's not limited to knights. Any class can pick up a body and throw it at a player. Overall I think this would be a great addition to the game. It would make knight fights a lot more interesting and more fun being that this opens the possibility for some pretty cool combos.

Thoughts?

 

Would this turn corpses into shootable entities? (With arrows and such)

If so, this would make my life more horrible than it already is. (Migrants and traders being vortexes of arrow-nomming doom)

Also, doesn't tossing bodies only deal 1/4 of a heart?

 

Throwing bodies already does damage. The max amount of damage I think it can do is 1 heart. That is the most I have ever seen and the body was thrown down from 25+ blocks up.

Bodies also push enemies around. If you throw a body before an enemy swings you can knock them back enough for them to miss and you to double slash them. Of course, it takes a lot of skill.

I don't think having bodies do stuns when thrown would be a good idea. They already do what I said above, I really see no need to add anything to it.

 

People already hate the fact that water ammo stuns, and players have to use resources to get those. Could you imagine the uproar if a resource as common as corpses became the next water bomb?

Please, no.

 

Logs were treated this way in beta-testing; they were unblockable, improvised on the spot, and did an immediate one heart damage. They /were/ a feature, until we discussed with @Geti on how OP / unneeded it was on the battlefield.

We might've also got him into a US server and solely killed him for several games with only logs.

 

^Thus, if something just as common (like dead people), could do this, it would be just as bad.