HORSECAKE
D3LTA FORC3
Orion Empire
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Posted - 2012.12.16 19:24:00 -
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I saw this was posted once before, but I have some details I was thinking about specifically.
tl;dr: Anyone should be able to spawn on their squadmates, if they are in the open. But this'll come with obvious game environment penalties.
Something that really brings players together in FPS's online is the encouragement to act as a squad. As a player coming from BF3, a short history in EVE, and a lot of experience of dropping into new games headfirst, I can honestly say that jumping into Dust I felt totally solo. I don't know who my squadmates are, I don't know who's in what corp, hell, I don't even know who's on my team if it weren't for the color of their name on the battlefield.
My idea is to first to have a spawn screen that makes it obvious who's on your squad. Name, KDR, most recent dropsuit type used. Second, allow the player to spawn anywhere on the map in the vicinity of a squad member, if it's in the open field. I'm assuming in Ambush that the CRU is up in the air, so here's two spawn scenarios:
- The flying CRU could shoot out the player like a cannonball to the location where they want to spawn (think Pumpkin Chunkin', or BF2142 spawn). This could be an attachment that the employer of engagements puts on his CRU's, or can be a player corp specific CRU feature.
- A flying CRU could transport the player to a location in the same way a cloaked dropship swoops in and drops a jeep or other vehicle. This would explain the long respawn time.
In both of these situations, the other team would be made aware (if they pay attention to it) of squad spawns, so it's gotta be carefully done.
Sci-fi proof of concept: If we have GPS devices in every single one of our phones today, 20k years from now we should have been able to develop quickly deployable GPS. |
HORSECAKE
D3LTA FORC3
Orion Empire
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Posted - 2012.12.17 08:10:00 -
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Apologies! Yes, I did mean Ambush and not Skirmish. This would be awful in Skirmish, you wouldn't have flying CRU's when you already have grounded ones.
Also, I was almost positive I was in Feedback when I hit new topic. I guess I'll need to find someone to move this over..
Tiel, if we're able to spawn after 10 seconds, there's no reason I can't have myself get shot to my squad's position. Though thinking about it, based on how long it takes to kill someone, that would make it really difficult to take on a freshly spawned squadmate |