Ivan Avogadro
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Posted - 2013.05.10 17:03:00 -
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Seriously, take a page from Skyrim. In Skyrim, you could be a Two Hand Broadsword Healer, or a Heavy Armor Pickpocket, or a Fast Talking Necromancer Alchemist. Or all of the above with enough time and training. No classes. Build your own experience, do what you want.
I think DUST would benefit from that mentality. Let us tinker with our own dropsuits, not try and fit into bucketed classes.
Keep the three frames: Light, Medium, Heavy. Keep the four racials: A, C, G, M. That's 12 suits total.
Give each suit it's own specific CPU, it's own specific PG, a specific bonus for Frame, and a specific bonus for Race.
Heavies only can wield heavy equip plus a sidearm, decrease to speed and stealth. Medium gets a light and a sidearm, base speed base stealth. Light frame get a light weapon only but increase to speed and stealth. Like it is now, you MUST equip a gun in order for the suit to be valid.
Then let us go nuts. As long as we come in below the CPU/PG, let us equip whatever we want.
5 different grenades but no equip? Sure.
4 different equipment pieces but no grenades or sidearm? Sure.
7 shield extenders and no low slots? Sure.
7 kinetic catalyzers and no high slots? Sure.
If the modules, weapons, and equipment were balanced with each other, this level of control would not break the game. It would make it more fun. Pick out 200 lego bricks, and build whatever, but it needs to be 200 max. Everyone will make something different with the same pieces. We would get more classes than CCP could ever hope to program. And they could focus on new maps, and new game modes to challenge our builds, instead of new exciting classes that will just be used counter to indication (looking at you, Logissaults). |
Ivan Avogadro
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Posted - 2013.05.10 17:17:00 -
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i agree practically its not likely to happen, unless there is a huge swell in the player base. But the slot layouts as they exist are broken for several classes. And CCP will never stop rebalancing them, because no matter what they INTENDED for the Caldari Logi to be, players turned it into something completely different. What are they supposed to do about it now? Nerf and deal with the backlash? Keep handing out respecs? Let it be and have half the game spec CA Logi for the obvious advantage?
Mark my words, its going to be the same with Commandos. 4 different suits that can equip 2 light weapons each? One of them is going to be too strong right out of the gate.
So unless they are planning to discourage using Logi suits for non-medic roles somehow, they could just let us build our own medics and our own assaults and our own hybrids. |