Rynx Sinfar
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Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2014.03.07 21:56:00 -
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Concept: Provide an option to recall my suit, both to prevent suit loss as well as clone loss. Either near suicide button or in deployment menu.
Possible Balancers: Limit movement, adjust time required, add fee, reveal player on radar. Next spawn may not use uplinks or vehicle CRUs. Long cooldown on use. Require some sort of spawn unit nearby, uplinks included, cannot recall while you have an active hack
Why: It is difficult to support my team for important temporary needs that will leave me useless afterwards. Frankly it isn't fun.
Examples of issues:
Anti Vehicle - Anti vehicle options not of the Nade/Proxy/Remote variety generally leave you with an extremely diminished capacity for fighting against infantry. Additionally supply depots are a frequent and easy target meaning changing suits can be difficult. In 90% of fights AV work is temporary. Either you succeed or must periodically scare the vehicle off. This means you are either left with a suit that is terrible at available needs or when you die you change back (meaning you must pay for a suit in exchange for the vehicle kills).
Deployable equipment - Uplinks and hives are extremely important. Equipment slots are also precious as they let Logis keep busy and etc. However deploying in a suit with hives or uplinks might mean that you're two slots down until you die. Hives have plenty of life but don't do much good if everyone just left. For uplinks don't suffer from that as much but a flux or roving scout can again mean a wasted slot you can't replace without death.
Considerations:
Escaping snipers, running away as scout to gain enough time to escape, setting mines behind enemy lines then escaping, backhack and run
Personal plea:
My major pain is the AV. I can sometimes spend 25% of a game doing very little because tanks did the smart thing and destroyed the depots and also because they did the smart thing and ran if they were uncertain of survival. I personally don't mind if it takes 15+ seconds of standing still. It gets very frustrating to spawn in with my nice AV only to have the tank be in the middle of blowing up or running away never to be seen again. It can get pretty frustrating to feel trapped in your own suit.
Extra:
I understand that there are workable solutions for the above situations. But I don't think the above hurdles really add any substance to the game. |