A pointshop upgrade, where if you buy it, your fall damage is reduced by a little amount each time. Maybe? (Also, I didn't know what sub-category this belonged in... Sorry if it's an obvious one.)
This has been suggested a few times by the term of "feather boots" or parachutes that decrease fall damage. If you look at the current upgrades, there is only one that has to do with damaged dealt; the insta knife upgrade. It is that way to keep veteran players from having too significant an advantage over new players. Insta knife is fine because the regular knife is a 2 hit, sometimes instant if thrown, kill. Things that alter the damage dealt to a player, whether giving of receiving, should not be added. I can only imagine a player getting Newton launched and not dying where they normally would due to the upgrade; making it frustrating for new people -1 Pro Tip: If you want to take less fall damage, be careful when on elevated items.
While all of that is true, the damage could be a minimal amount. For example, it could be 7-10 damage per upgrade, with only 3 available upgrades. And, you could raise the price of it to an amount that would take a while to get.
Negatives of this : can be used to jump to inaccessable areas of maps that have ledges and non placed death barriers ( metropolis, rooftops, infini, cod stalingrad, and a couple others), and makes discombobs for traitors hard to use due to the less amount of damage that the victem will take, alongside with the newton launcher. Positives : Can deal less to no damage to people beneath you of accidental goomba stomp and have less deaths by falling from annoying ladders or ledges. My vote is neutral
I mainly just got this idea from the cs_assault map, where many a person would fall from the gate and die (except @kynwall, who somehow managed to survive without any damage #HaxOMGPleaseBan). Again, people wouldn't be totally exempt from dying of fall damage, but just reduced damage. There are still consequences to jumping from high places, and dying from a fall will still be possible.
I blame my feather boots, -100 fall damage! Only 400,000 points! No but seriously, I didn't die because the fall where I fell was shallow, and the other few were times because I strafed into a little lip and then slid down. Otherwise I would've died so many times!
