NEW YEARS MONEYBALL DROPPING VIDEO! COMPLETE WITH JUICE RUSH! MAKE IT HAPPEN! 1. On a more serious note, I think that when you have a new protag, an indicator should be placed on the subcategory you earned it in. This would save a lot of pain. Say I earned "OMFG" or "I live for this" in a game and forgot to check the results screen-I have no idea where my new protag is and have to sift through every category and subcategory of tags. This would save me a lot of pain and make me very happy Example [Category] [SubCat1] [*SubCat2] [SubCat3] *Bullseye's head goes here 2. Also! When killing someone during a taunt, if you have the corresponding protag for how many kills for that class, there should be an option that lets your protag automatically switch to that for a second. Example Gunner: OOH LET'S DO THIS TIKI- Me: *Back grapple* He sees: [TIKI STYLED] even though I have [I'm Fried!] as my current protag These 'situational' protags could be put to a lot more uses, now that I think of it... 3. Many games I join I find I'm the only one with a mic. Communication is key to teamwork! Oh god that Gunner has Juice and he's moving towards the base!! HE KILLED YOU! OR ME!! ****! He's closing in on the base, tron lines shining as he prepares to hit right and left bumper! But wait. A no-micer can't tell me about that Gunner! OR my voice coming out of the TV is being ignored!!!!! >=(! But! He (that no-micer not the gunner) or I could open up the scoreboard, find that gunner, and mark him as a PRIORITY TARGET! This would cause a skull and crossbones marker to appear visible to your teammates over the desired target's head; similiar to the Firebase icon that appears to the Support. This could also be a good way to dispose of someone who got Bacon. Similarly you can mark your own teammates as Priority Targets for assistance; this would put an arrow over their head. Is that poor Gunner pushing all by himself and you're busy with your own lane? Send him some love. 4. I think that when you're in need of some Blue Love, an icon similiar to the "Medic!" bubble from TF2 should appear; sometimes I think that a red class icon next to your name does not honestly cut it. 5. How about an extra Bot Spawn button for each Spawner that can be activated, similar to Jump-Pads, for say...$1000? maybe $750? Sure it's a hefty investment, but if you've got all your skills and cash to burn; why not? From the responses that have already been posted to this idea I have concluded that it is bad. However I still think it would be fun to pump out extra waves. I'm gonna have to say this is going to be an idea that I'd like to see in private matches. 6. The ability to play as the Icemen in Blitz 7. There's a gametype I've been thinking of. Blitz Battle! Hotshots and Icemen both play Sudden Death in two seperate arenas. Both teams have the ability to spawn bots for the other side to deal with, and additional bot upgrades can be purchased. Unlike Crossfire, bots are not class-specific, rather specified in-menu. The Annihilator is located in a ring between the two arenas, accessed via Jump Pad. Jump pads back into the main arenas can only be used by their respective teams: The Hotshots cannot jump into the Icemen base and vice versa; unless you pay a hefty fee (like, 2000 maybe) to get a chance at sabotaging their base (and with all those 3.3 Rockits and 3.3 Shaveice; I don't know if I'd want to risk it!) 8. Extra teams to play as in private matches! Purple - Spunkies Green - Moneyshots Yellow - GoldDiggers 9. When the host is successfully migrated, the timer should reset. 7...8..9...Host migrated! 10! FAILED! BACK TO THE MENU! becomes Host migrated! 1..2...3...4... hey the game's back up now! (This is a lot less common now, but hey, it would save me some scares)
My thoughts(as opposed to me posting someone else's thoughts): 1: Sounds cool. 2: Could you elaborate a bit further on this? I don't think I understand fully. 3: Sounds cool, but such a thing would be ripe for misuse. Should one player's mark override another's? How would you set priority for such a thing if so? If everyone could set marks willy-nilly, well it'd just be clutter that appears over every single player after a bit :lol: 4: It would be handy, seeing as how friendly Supports tend to never heal allies :roll: How about instead the Support can just automatically see the name and health bars of anyone below 75% health? Usually having that much health means you're about to die in most public games, so that makes sense to me. 5: I think that'd be imbalanced and needlessly difficult to implement(it'd require changing the maps themselves). 6: Choose teams? YOU ARE MAD, GOOD SIR! But no really, MNC could really benefit from being able to choose teams in both modes 7: I've been promoting a similar idea myself. I prefer the idea that the teams aren't able to directly affect each other beyond using the Annihilator, though. 8: Nah, I don't think it'd be worth the trouble. If it's just recolors it'd require new assets for every single pro, Pitgirl, and a specific color of bots to be spawned. If it's more than two teams playing at once, it'd require completely new maps and balancing maps for more than two teams is a development nightmare: the main reason why games supporting more than two teams in play at once are so rare. 9: Absolutely. And whoever becomes the host shouldn't be able to move around before the other players do. That's just unfair :|
1. I'm glad you agree! 2. Like, say you sneak up on a taunting Gunner. You kill him mid-taunt. Would it not be deliciously ironic if your protag was TIKI STYLED, but your current protag suffices? Or if you collect Bacon; you could have your protag switch to I Got Bacon to be obnoxious whenever you kill someone. 3. Well, my hope is that people would be responsible and mature with the marks! Otherwise there'd have to be a small cooldown Still, it could be good in the hands of a player who knows when not to cry wolf. You could also mark your Jackbot so people help you keep it alive and push it into their base! 4. I guess that'd work! 5. I know. Just wishful wishful thinking! 6. I'm glad you agree! 7. Well I see your point about the teams not interacting outside of the Annihilator, but I must politely disagree, I think spawning extra bots for the enemy to deal with would be a good way to break stalemates. 8. Well yeah, just recolors and different lines for Mickey Cantor and Pit Girl. It wouldn't be that difficult to implement on the botside, considering there already exist different colors of bots in Blitz, a few of those can be re-used. In any case like the extra bot spawner idea this one is mostly wishful thinking too. 9. Glad you agree! Thanks for the feedback and input.
Instant irony protag change? Sounds cool Yes, it would be useful in the hands on players that actually understand the game...But since most don't such a feature would just add more for the game's engine to process, and I suppose that isn't such a good thing since the game is already unplayable on splitscreen as it is :| I suppose I forgot to include the bots still being purchasable in my vision of the idea Hmm...Tank and Support are the only pros that really matter in normal or super sudden death as it is, imagine three supports spawning gapshots in rapid succession :twisted:
1. Protag indicator - Very good idea. 2. I like the reaction based protag showing up - pretty good, though perhaps complicated to code? I dunno, not a coder. 3 & 4.Oh god how I want the ability to mark targets for the team! Maybe instead of opening with back though, use left and right on the d-pad, one for a "priority target" the other to call for a health? 5. I think the extra bot spawner's probably a bad idea. From what I understand they slowed bot spawning to decrease lag anyway, so this would negate their neagation of that problem. 6. Yeah, Icemen need some love in Blitz. 7. Blitz Battle is a golden idea that might actually get people to play more blitz mode stuff. I really like it! Kind of like a tetris attack mode. 8. Extra teams to play is a serious addition the game needs in general, not just private matches. If I recall, there was a whole thread on this, and there seriously needs to be a ton more teams. I personally want to see a season tournament elimination mode once enough teams are added (probably 8). 9. Host migration timer reset . . . eh ok.
Perhaps the extra bot spawners was just a bad idea to begin with. *shrug* I think it'd be very fun in private matches however...I'll edit it, I suppose.
