Monday Night Combat is a fantastic game, and to add to the gladiatorial combat theme, there could be more factors both teams have to deal with. "Watch out, cause here comes the Buzzer Swarm!" "Get ready, cause we're gonna pump up the gravity for a bit!" "Oh my, its just raining money and bacon today!" Just a few ideas for the current maps. New maps could have other things...
Solid idea. You could have events like: -Random Annihilator attacks -both money balls drop for a few seconds -A single wave of bots spawn as "Super Bots." More health, faster move speed, more damage.
But random events like that can ruin the competitive element of the game. Imagine if you're team is about to push into their moneyball when suddenly you get annihilatored at random, instantly enabling the enemy turrets and pros to wipe you out. Suddenly the tables have turned and the enemy team is knocking off your moneyball. F*ck.
My intention was to have these events effect both teams. It adds to the fun side, and it adds to the gladiatorial combat theme.
Yes it would effect both teams, but as he said in his post - you are about to wipe out their base and then poof your ball is down and taken out - even though your team has spend the past 5 minutes taking out their base.
Super Smash Bros. introduced random tripping when your character starts to run or change directions, and naturally losing a game because you tripped at the wrong time is infuriating. It's one thing to have random events like Bullseye, which add a new point of contention to the game, but random annihilators would be bad.
Bad idea IMO. Thats what ruined the horde modes on things like Halo ODST and Borderlands. For all your tactics and planning a random event would come in and sh*t all over you. Good for party games, bad for tactical warfare.....and bacon
Oooh. SushiBomb brings up a good point. It's the ultra-violent sport of the future; does anyone care about fair play or do they want to see some explosions? While I would like to avoid something that will make some players very angry, I have to support any idea that contributes to the MNC theme. I redact my previous criticisms of this idea.
Well, how about adding a larger, stronger version of the Bouncer who spawns in the centre of the arena and homes in on the nearest Pro, and after killing him/her goes to the next nearest Pro! It could end up being one of those moments where both sides turn together to take the beast down.....or probably not lol
That sounds like it would be awesome. But its also more in line with Gladiatorial Combat. Which was hardly fair. Even so, random events can be fair.
Acually the game is based on a futuristic games show with guns. Realistically it isn't a sport it is representing mans basic instinct to fight. I think being compared to gladiatorial is about right.
An neutral Dreadnaught that would wantonly destroy whatever was closest would be awesome, with q guaranteed bacon drop.
i would like something like this, but not the suggestions you had, something more like bullseye instead of instantly affecting everything around it, maybe a neutral turret nub will some or something like that.
