Now, I personally am against a "cover system" in Dust 514.

Although, sliding (like seen in A Future Vision Trailer) would have helped me in multiple situations earlier today.

This would vary with dropsuit, scouts having a good sliding distance and speed. Decreasing with larger suits. and pretty much impossible with heavies.

Using the crouch button while sprinting could begin the slide and would take stamina. Ending the slide you could be in crouch.

Thoughts?

wow thats crazy I been had that idea 2 weeks ago on june 22nd HERE for proof. https://forums.dust514.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=152028#post152028

This is what i said


#1 Posted: 2012.06.22 20:22
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It would be a good ideal to have evasive maneuvers in the game like jumping over fences like in BF3,For the 3 main classes they each get a different maneuver.

Enforcer GÇô Assault
For Enforcer class they can slide like in the dust 514 trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRyXDlZKwgA at exactly 1:13 the merc guy slides for cover.

Arbiter GÇô Scout
For Arbiter they can roll over when close combat goes to them http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mBa0_19XqY at exactly 2:04 the heavy trooper rolls over for incoming rocket.

Sentinel GÇô Heavy

And for Sentinel class they are able to hide behind pillars and walls and switch to pistol to shoot at enemies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4nw4u-KgHw at exactly 0:46 the soldier hides behind a pillar from incoming fire.
Well what do you guys think?

I would not like a slide.

Strange movements are always taken advantage of in FPS games. As someone mentioned before "bunny hop" and "Dolphin Divers"

Not to mention the other games that did have slide effects in an online FPS. In my experience slide mechanics have been very difficult to pull off, and I would be very hesitant to add it into a game as a second thought.

I really enjoy the movement in the game so far, a little bunny hop here and there, but nothing worth complaining about. I think a slide system that wasn't intended in the first place would come across very poor.

In the end, I think, a slide mechanic would just be an annoying gimmick that would lower the image of Dust 514.

I don't really know what you mean but "that would lower the image of Dust 514."
If you could please explain a bit more of that, that'd be awesome.

Dust 514 isn't just another boxing ring FPS.

This has much more to it. Those other games put in "sliding" and "cover systems" and "par coeur" to try and separate themselves from the pack.

Dust 514 has already done that. CCP doesn't need to add in a cheap gimmick to try and gain a name for themselves.

sliding seems like it would be very hard to pull off for dust while i admit id love to try it it seems a bit unreasonable especially if you like playing heavies. i mean if i was in heavy suit taking out a tank while in semi cover say somewhere are the a pillars int he skirmish matches and a scout ran up shooting at me from behind i pull around taking out secondary just to have the scout slide right under my view while shooting (if they could shoot while sliding) then getting up and melee kill or shoot me to death within no time at all because heavy turn ability too slow. seems extremely unfair to heavies in such cases.

YES, wall running, we are in sci fi suits, the scout should be able to sprint striaght up a wall, i mean, why not? make it a tech 2 feature of many drop suits.

even if it's slowler, larger suits like the assaut, could take a moment to get his boots on the wall, and then you can head up the wall slowly, could be really awesome.

Support from me, add sliding, and more movements! Like why can't I go prone! I want to get on my belly and snipe without wobble, this is the future, I should have an automatic kick stand on the gun if I drop to the ground. you become defenseless and can't see anything around you, but it's a fps standard. Also it could be fun for the heavy, if you could set up the HMS as a turret. You fire it like your manning a turret, but you cant move with it unless you pick it bak up. I think halo had something like this?

This is a very good point.

We shouldn't be able to shoot while sliding in my opinion.
Or slide under people.. that would be crazy.

The turn speed on heavies in my opinion is to slow already so maybe if they speed that up it could be a protect counter to the slide.

the fact people would run at you and slide to get a better postition to knife or use CQC weaponary is just how it'll have to be played out. Some counter to this would be great to think of but i think turn (look) speed for heavies being a bit quicker would allow for them to shoot someone that is sliding in a set path.

Prone with my 500 EHP, and that would mean i could dolphin dive, you'd never kill me..

The wall running.. ehhh, idk you can make another post requesting that for it's own feedback.

but thanks for the support on sliding.

I'm honestly curious. dolphin dive? what? I haven't heard that before.

I think that the sliding feature is a good idea. You shouldn't be allowed to shoot while sliding cause then you would have everyone sliding and shooting at each other. If you could sprint up to a wall, pillar or any other kind of cover and hit the crouch button to slide behind it to stop from getting shot at it would help out. It should definitely drain your stamina quite considerably so people can't just keep running and sliding all over the place.

It's a great tactic that people would be allowed to use especially if you have a sniper or a heavy holding down a certain area. It would allow you to sprint by them and slide into cover to dodge the shots coming from them. It would be good for someone who is trying to pick someone up to that is behind cover so they could run up and slide to them to help them out. This is the future and sliding has been a tactic used for years so why not in the future.

As for the heavies, they shouldn't be allowed to slide. You already have a big advantage having a bigger gun and the ability to put more rounds down then an assault rifle. I could see like a quick side step to get behind cover quicker but not sliding. If you run with a heavy suit then you already know you aren't going to be fast and not going to be able to slide with the extra weight.

dropping to your belly in the middle of a fire fight so your hitbox is as small as possible.

i personally think horrible idea cause of how much hitpoints we can have and adding that makes it almost impossible to kill people.

and everyone is complaining about jumping. could you see everyone running around doing the Syndicate slide? lol

yeah I'm not exactly gonna jump on the slide around wagon here...

yeah I'm not exactly gonna jump on the slide around wagon here...

Must disagree. Brink was built around movement like this, it's not really something you can tack-on to a shooter. If you added this nobody would ever choose heavy because you know you'd just get taken down from behind by some scout who jumped over the wall behind you. I played Brink and I think it only really worked in that because even the heavys were pretty quick compared to dust's heavys.

+1 as long as the slide isnt a faster way of getin around than sprinting, and as long as it doesnt have to crazy of a use in cqc cause sliding in brink was alittle crazy (not saying brink was good but still)

I've never played brink, so i wouldn't know.

But only thing i'd want it to be fast then running when trying to slide to where ever, but it'd eat a lot of your stamina causing you to be easily hit if caught in the wrong place after the slide.

I didn't like this at first but sliding would be kinda cool and give us some more options when moving into cover. I would however like to be able to lay down as well. Hold triangle while sprinting to slide. Hold triangle while standing still to lay down.