Goonhub
04-26-2019, 11:33 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-26-2019, 11:37 AM by Xeram. Edited 1 time in total.
Edit Reason: Added the escape shuttle thought.
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Best way I can think to describe the issue inherent in Rev that everyone points at (Stalemates) is to look at how another game/gamemode elsewhere handles this.
So lets look at Vs Saxton Hale from Team Fortress 2.
Simple concept, one super buff, fast, instakilling Australian man punches an entire servers worth of the mercs to a red mist.
Except situations arise where the best move for both sides is to wait for the enemy, because Hale has only a small amount of health left and the last few players are still vulnerable to being swatted like flies and losing.
In the end however, the rounds end up ending fairly soon without a timer anyway due to a few things:
If Hale has played well and has enough health, he can simply tank the damage, use his ability to stun the final player and win.
If Hale played poorly, the final players can go on the offensive with increasing damage buffs as it reaches the final 3 players with relatively little fear.
If neither side wants to make a move, either side can immediately force the other into a "Fight or Lose" scenario by moving to the capture point, which unlocks after a set period of time (+ an amount of player deaths in some servers) forcing a confrontation to decide the game.
Quite simply, Rev mode needs its own "Capture Point" in order to force a final, climatic (or anti) confrontation. The equivalent of the phenomena you see in a nuke round once the alert goes out that The Bomb Has Been Planted. Everyone drops everything and moves to the conflict zone. Because it's either do something or lose and get blasted to fine space dust.
You know what'd be a great place to have a massive conflict that starts off at or on the way that starts off fairly neutral? An escape shuttle that has been announced is en route and won't leave until it's been occupied for an amount of time by either NT or revolutionary heads.
So lets look at Vs Saxton Hale from Team Fortress 2.
Simple concept, one super buff, fast, instakilling Australian man punches an entire servers worth of the mercs to a red mist.
Except situations arise where the best move for both sides is to wait for the enemy, because Hale has only a small amount of health left and the last few players are still vulnerable to being swatted like flies and losing.
In the end however, the rounds end up ending fairly soon without a timer anyway due to a few things:
If Hale has played well and has enough health, he can simply tank the damage, use his ability to stun the final player and win.
If Hale played poorly, the final players can go on the offensive with increasing damage buffs as it reaches the final 3 players with relatively little fear.
If neither side wants to make a move, either side can immediately force the other into a "Fight or Lose" scenario by moving to the capture point, which unlocks after a set period of time (+ an amount of player deaths in some servers) forcing a confrontation to decide the game.
Quite simply, Rev mode needs its own "Capture Point" in order to force a final, climatic (or anti) confrontation. The equivalent of the phenomena you see in a nuke round once the alert goes out that The Bomb Has Been Planted. Everyone drops everything and moves to the conflict zone. Because it's either do something or lose and get blasted to fine space dust.
You know what'd be a great place to have a massive conflict that starts off at or on the way that starts off fairly neutral? An escape shuttle that has been announced is en route and won't leave until it's been occupied for an amount of time by either NT or revolutionary heads.