Tazers being too powerful?

[SophieWLust]

Hello, 

I switched from report to more of a suggestion type of post.

I attached below my pov regarding a situation with cops where tazer was used in a situation that cancelled any gunfire

I think that in certain cases tazers are like sooooo over-powered, I get tazered once, I can't move for 20 seconds. In a shoot-out situation however, a person can have kevlar, mg and all that and with just one tazer shot while you're packed with body armor you just fall down and they spray you hard and you lose everything. I think in a real-life situation where heavies/kevlars are brought, they dont use stun guns, maybe they do, I haven't really been watching TV that much except for Rookiee hhh.

But no what I'm trying to say is that, I know I was 1 vs 4 swats, totally accept that I was going to get shot down, but I wanted to have my own shot at shooting back, maybe I would've shot one back, you know? 

Maybe there should be some different regulations on when to use tazers, such as when the culprit is either unarmed or has melee weapons, not if they have an ak and kevlar and was in a laboratory cooking drugs with 10 other people ( like a dangerous situation).

Also tazers used during bank robberies would be a bit non-rp, I think a bank robbery is expecting people with guns coming out of the bank, but ya I haven't seen tazers being used as of late during bank robberies and that is pretty realistic.

To summarize:

1) I think tazers should only be used in melee/knife type of situations, if you hear gunshots, that should go straight to either pistol or shotgun or lmg or whatever bigger gun there is.

2 ) When someone gets tazed, dont just send in 500 rounds into their electified body and instead just point your guns at them, yell at them to raise their hands and it should be fine

3) Maybe cops themselves should fear rp to use such a small device like a tazer when a full leather jacket ( kevlar ) carrying an MG is on someone's chest and switch to something more viable aka a gun.

https://streamable.com/mnikml <-- I attached the link here

I would really love to see if there's possibility for something positive out of this post

Thanks lots everyone~

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[SneakySniper]

What you've suggested are things that should happen anyway, gunfights = guns being pulled not tazers.

Anything you have experienced otherwise u can make OOC IA reports, or feedback reports on certain experiences. 

The reason tazers are used in banks is to give people a fair chance. If cops see guns aimed or fired they switch right to their firearms. Theres no need to go 100% at every situation for the win. PD have been great with taking the foot off the gas especially with the servers recent dip in population. 

You shouldnt realistically be tazed then shot. Could be seen as fear rp. If someone is close enough 9/10 from my experience we are meant to shoot, simply because u pose a threat on the officers life. Given you have a gun

Apologies with the shit situation you experienced, i do recommend taking it to a feedback report instead. They are much more looked at.

 

Edited November 19, 2025 by SneakySniper276

[Bala]

It would have been nice if you'd raised this with your faction's leadership, before making this post.

If you want a positive to come out of this, I'd start there.

[Clank]

9 hours ago, SophieWLust said:

https://streamable.com/mnikml <-- I attached the link here

I have a genuine question, and want some important context so I can get into your mindset before agreeing/disagreeing with your post/suggestion.

My question:

What was your goal in this video and If you had not been tased how would the situation have played out in your opinion?

 You're being chased by 3 cops and you turn around and shoot. Someone in the car accidentally tases you not realizing you had turned to shoot. This was a complete total accident by whoever that cop was and not something that happens often if ever, an extremely rare occurrence. 

Edited November 19, 2025 by Clank

[penguinkibble]

Yes, tasers are too powerful and heavily abused by LEO factions, and I predict as a result they’ll be heavily nerfed soon. 
 

the amount of times I’ve had cops tase my tires out or tase me through my windshield is insane

 

also completely ruins any kind of foot pursuit as they shoot a magic electric ball at you from any range that’ll automatically put you on the ground where they can insta- cuff you with no RP

[penguinkibble]

6 hours ago, Bala said:

It would have been nice if you'd raised this with your faction's leadership, before making this post.

If you want a positive to come out of this, I'd start there.

I think open and public discourse is the real way to implement change  

[AtlasOLimbo]

7 hours ago, penguinkibble said:

Yes, tasers are too powerful and heavily abused by LEO factions, and I predict as a result they’ll be heavily nerfed soon. 
 

the amount of times I’ve had cops tase my tires out or tase me through my windshield is insane

 

also completely ruins any kind of foot pursuit as they shoot a magic electric ball at you from any range that’ll automatically put you on the ground where they can insta- cuff you with no RP

They have been nerfed drastically. Two shots before you need to go and grab another has resulted in very drastic changes to how foot pursuits are handled, along with internal changes in the approach to foot pursuits.

I don't think this post fairly considers the opposite side.

[PenguWin]

hello, you're upset over a situation that was desync and it did not change the outcome of the roleplay.

We raided merryweather lab and you swam away to the terminal, we followed in the cruiser, when approaching you from my POV you were running UNARMED.

I first pull out my SMG and realising there was no gun at your back so I switch to my taser to stop you from jumping in the water again. The moment I tased I realised a gun appeared from your hand; I had no time to react and stop the tase. I apologized repeatedly and even let you know that I will only be giving you possession charges, the outcome of the roleplay would not have been changed as you were outnumbered.

I'd like to state as you are an LEO too and you're aware that we do not tend to use the tasers immediately with recent announcements, in your case, you were running for far too long and swam in the process, no rules were broken either since its been done from a window of a stationary vehicle.

I don't appreciate the fact that you took it straight to forums and framed me out of context, we even told you in /b that it was desync, tasers are not meant to be used in active shootouts and it just was not the case what so ever here.

Here is my POV for the desync: 

Thank you.

Edited November 19, 2025 by PenguWin

[SophieWLust]

14 hours ago, SneakySniper276 said:

Anything you have experienced otherwise u can make OOC IA reports, or feedback reports on certain experiences. 

Apologies with the shit situation you experienced, i do recommend taking it to a feedback report instead. They are much more looked at.

 

I don't think reporting everyone for every mistake that happens is really the way to do it, I wanna use this thread on a more type of get cops to be more lenient or zen-mode when it comes to OOC abilities.

14 hours ago, Bala said:

It would have been nice if you'd raised this with your faction's leadership, before making this post.

If you want a positive to come out of this, I'd start there.

It's not such a huge thing that requires secrecy imo

9 hours ago, Clank said:

What was your goal in this video and If you had not been tased how would the situation have played out in your opinion?

Having fun, I wasn't expecting to win a 4v1, but having heavies on us is a nice situation for both parties, but it ended too fast, I mean, who knows, maybe I would've been shot 4 times in the head and end just as fast, but that's pretty much it.

 

[SophieWLust]

2 hours ago, AtlasOLimbo said:

They have been nerfed drastically. Two shots before you need to go and grab another has resulted in very drastic changes to how foot pursuits are handled, along with internal changes in the approach to foot pursuits.

I don't think this post fairly considers the opposite side.

Tbh that's also true, but mostly from a non-rp perspective, I haven't ever been tazed irl, but if someone gets tazed I think they're pretty much done for, especially if they get tazed twice, yet people still decide to run. More ammo and more cooldown would be pretty fair still.

45 minutes ago, PenguWin said:

hello, you're upset over a situation that was desync and it did not change the outcome of the roleplay.

We raided maryweather lab and you swam away to the terminal, we followed in the cruiser, when approaching you from my POV you were running UNARMED.

I first pull out my SMG and realising there was no gun at your back so I switch to my taser to stop you from jumping in the water again. The moment I tased I realised a gun appeared from your hand; I had no time to react and stop the tase. I apologized repeatedly and even let you know that I will only be giving you possession charges, the outcome of the roleplay would not have been changed as you were outnumbered.

I'd like to state as you are an LEO too and you're aware that we do not tend to use the tasers immediately with recent announcements, in your case, you were running for far too long and swam in the process, no rules were broken either since its been done from a window of a stationary vehicle.

Here is my POV for the desync: 

Thank you.

Ya I was told it was a desync this morning so after I made the post, but yeah I know it was pretty unfortunate overall

[Clank]

3 hours ago, SophieWLust said:

Having fun, I wasn't expecting to win a 4v1, but having heavies on us is a nice situation for both parties, but it ended too fast, I mean, who knows, maybe I would've been shot 4 times in the head and end just as fast, but that's pretty much it.

The way I see it right, is fun totally dependent on how a situation comes to a conclusion? Should the fun part not be the experience as a whole and not just be based off the climax of it all? I feel like having fun regardless of the outcome in the end is just as important. Just like you can have an amazing movie with a sad ending or a really shitty movie with a happy ending.

Edited November 19, 2025 by Clank

[SophieWLust]

On 11/20/2025 at 1:02 AM, Clank said:

The way I see it right, is fun totally dependent on how a situation comes to a conclusion? Should the fun part not be the experience as a whole and not just be based off the climax of it all? I feel like having fun regardless of the outcome in the end is just as important. Just like you can have an amazing movie with a sad ending or a really shitty movie with a happy ending.

Absolutelyyyy I totally agree with you, but is it more fun to have a shoot-out or you know, a tazer shot that ends the whole thing in 2 sec and i mean for both parties, crims and PD's. I don't mean just my case, but it is defo harder for crims to get heavies. All I wanted to say was basically to be more lenient, like for example today was the LSPD racing event and I let people pass me or wait for them to turn their engines on when they crash, it's more like creating a sense of OOC pleasure for everyone.

[Bala]

Your case happened because of desync, otherwise you'd have gotten shot.

If we wanna talk tasing, then it should be about how people should react when they've been tased in-game and the consequences for not doing that.

[Mrpyth0n33]

On 11/19/2025 at 8:56 PM, PenguWin said:

in your case, you were running for far too long

This point of view no one on the server should have iv heatd it multiple times "you gave been running for too long or you have been evading for too long" yet just the other day i heard an LEO its boring no pursuits nothing, they hoping for someone to do something, so engaging in either a foot or vehicle pursuit is the rp YOU chose. Why cut it short when YOU have had enough. The longer the situation the longer you have something to do right?