a multiplayer shooter with portal guns

[shootthebandit]

A cool idea i had (im sure theres a mod out there somewhere) would be for a shooter to have portal guns. If everyone had one it would be to hectic so 1 person from each team get nominated as teleporters they cannot pick up a "real" gun and can only use the portal gun (no melee either) so basically your team must protect this one guy who can either transport them or use it to trap the enemy.

Just imagine you see a portal pop up in front of you so you wait there with a shotgun and pick everyone off or you see an enemy sniper and you get transported behind him and pick him off. Theres so many possibilties. portal + grenades/rockets would be a winning combo

What do you guys think?

 

[Prawnyman]

I actually had an idea about this but there wasn't any guns besides the portal gun. Players would use the portals to guide lasers, plasma balls, gels and other things around. Not sure if it would be fun but I am fairly certain it would be hectic. Valve did try competitive play with portals in a basketball like game and found cooperatively solving puzzles was much more satisfying.

 

[The Harkinator]

So what is the point of trying to use the map/terrain to your advantage if the teams can zip all over the place? What's the point of being a sniper or using a defensive position if the enemy can just portal behind your cover and get you? How does this change the balance of gameplay?

These are the questions you need to be asking for something like this. It's a cool idea and there have been multiple times in games where I have thought "Right now I really need X" but I'm sure if it existed threre would be plenty of moments where I would think "That damn portal trick. Such a cheap tactic, it undermines the game!"