i don't know if this is a suggestion but here it goes. do you know in the show and in like almost all the movies one of the characters would fire a beam really close i mean hes only like 6 feet away from the person hes attacking and he don't get hurt. now in ESF youe not even close and you get hurt by your own beam. now i don't know how you would get this to work or what you coud do but i was thinking that maybe it was possible to get close to a person and fire a beam or ball and not get hurt like a speacial way of firing it so it doesn't hit you too. im pretty sure everyone knows what im taking about(atleast i hope they do).