Hand teleporters

[callanrockslol]

Right so, a newish (in the months that I wasn't playing) feature of hand teleporters is that they teleport you when you use them and spawn the portal after woulds, instead of spawning a portal to go through.

I understand that it makes them easier to use but its harder to take people through them with you.

[paprika]

It's so you don't make a portal into space or the derelict and feed bodies into said portal gg no re.

[Gun Hog]

I believe the original intent was so that you could use it as a means of escaping a location where you could not move to enter the portal.
https://github.com/tgstation/-tg-station/pull/2928

[ExplosiveCrate]

Why not just make them work like worm holes? Where clicking on them teleports you.

[lumipharon]

Yeah it is actually genuinely annoying when you're trying to move shit/crit people, but you can no longer push/throw them into the portal before going in yourself.

[Erbbu]

Now that you mention it I would like the old more robust hand teleporter as well, myself.

[cedarbridge]

Yeah it is actually genuinely annoying when you're trying to move shit/crit people, but you can no longer push/throw them into the portal before going in yourself.

Does it work if you activate the teleporter while standing on top of the crit person?

[Gamarr]

Maybe we can let you hit things with the hand tele, with a delay to 'precisely triangulate bullshit' the objects location and send it, opening a portal in the process as well to the location?
The new method though sucks because of such listed: being unable to recover lockers or corpses with it due to how new portals are made. Regarding the 'op' nature of why this was brought about I instead say those running in the hall should've been paying more attention. Or maybe just not running everywhere.

[whodaloo]

I'd like it if it created the portal instead of instantly shunting you, purely so as a HoS I could make a portal to instantly drop people in the brig/perma.