Muddeh wrote on 12/18/14 at 11:59:43:
it would be difficult to use simply due to such a close-range special.
Depends on which version of Twister the game would have. If it was the one from Small Brawl, it will be overpowered. In Small Brawl the tornado was made really easy to use than the one in TM2. The car can just drive pass you while the tornado is active and you're caught just like that, even though you had a shield up. Not much effort was needed and it has the most speed so it won't have trouble with chasing. Also the special can immobilize cars, making them unable to shoot and use advance attacks. I can see that being broken in Team Deathmatch when it catches multiple cars. Have Twister turbo to an enemy or two, then spin the car and have the team shoot those cars. It's a car that needs to be fought from a distance. The one in TM2 needed to ram into you in order for the car to get caught in the tornado. This one immobilize cars too but not 100%. You can still shoot but not in a fast rate and getting a freeze or shield to come out required luck. You can escape it by pushing Twister with a ricochet.
Muddeh wrote on 12/18/14 at 11:59:43:
you'd need to remain mostly stationary
If the special worked that way, it will be less overpowered. In TM2, Twister needed to be stationary to reduce risk of getting rammed by the car it's spinning and doing it close to a wall was a bad idea. The one in Small Brawl didn't need to be stationary because the cars stayed above you.
Muddeh wrote on 12/18/14 at 11:59:43:
becoming an easy, low health target for onlookers
Ah yes of course the remote bomb spammers can easily kill the low health cars. A weapon that needs to be nerfed.
Muddeh wrote on 12/18/14 at 11:59:43:
It'd also likely need some sort of charging sequence, so the special can't be immediately used back-to-back.
I agree with this. One of the things that was broken in TM2 is when you get caught in Twister's special, you're pretty much dead when you have no ricochet and the freeze is not coming out because the CPU will use the special over and over. When being controlled by a player, you can see that the special recharges really fast. Faster than any other special in the game.
Muddeh wrote on 12/18/14 at 11:59:43:
I don't know if that's a special they would have intended Twister to use,
It wouldn't make sense to call it Twister without the tornado, like Spectre without the ghost missile.
Muddeh wrote on 12/18/14 at 11:59:43:
but the game wouldn't have needed another lightweight anyways.
Yes we don't need a high speed car with an area of effect special that can pick up and immobilize multiple cars, even though you had a shield on.