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Posted by: Hylebos
Its not suitable as multiplayer equipment.
Equipment are designed to give an even local effect, but a uneven global effect. In effect, they change the gameplay environment, so everyone needs to adapt to the new situation, but it doesn't neccesarily give an advantage unless it is used properly.
For example, the power drain kills shields obviously, so if I throw it at a guy I'm trying to kill to shred his shields, I could get a quick and effective kill. However, if this guy is a flag carrier, and he manages to slip around a corner before I can shoot him in the head, he can get away scot free because I need to invest a few seconds to wait for the power drain to die or to destroy it myself as it would be unwise to charge through the field, losing my shield, around the corner where there may or may not be people waiting for me. Even local result, but globally he got the better end of the deal because I was stupid with using it.
All this decoy does in it's current form is give one team a pure advantage. I could understand if the decoy created several copies of different players and had them run around shooting things, but that would be a bit too complex.