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Unread 09-01-2017, 17:04
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Re: Shoot while Activating Touchpad

But, there's an interesting end-game protection for the shot. In the last 30 seconds, if you are in contact with your rope, you are protected in the sense that your opponents are penalized for touching you. So, you might not want to shoot once you've climbed, but you may want to shoot once you have touched it. Those are all essentially guaranteed points, because either you get points for climbing the rope (per <G07>) or you get your shots in the goal.

You could even touch it, shoot, reload, touch again, shoot again, and then climb...if you have enough time.

It's the only truly protected shooting location in the game, and it only happens in the last 30 seconds of the match.
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