Goonhub
05-25-2021, 06:21 PM
(This post was last modified: 05-25-2021, 06:46 PM by nefarious6th. Edited 6 times in total.)
Hey; this was really exciting and I'm glad I got to play. Loved everything from the greater mode to the little touches for the teams (syndies have a red janitor bucket!)
A couple thoughts/problems:
1. I was the fool who spawned in pilot and got stuck on an empty Z level for ~Science~. Maybe just make sure that stuff is disabled for pod_wars mode.
2. Teamkilling and griefing was a major problem on both sides and contributed to NT team's slow start and Syndie team's quick demise at the end. Is there a way to make weapons not work on your own team?
3. The bottom engineering door into the furnace room on the syndie base had no floor under it. I'm not sure if it was missed totally or if there was something else going on there since I could also phase through the door
4. The rate that the meds (burn particularly) run out is really brutal and we were pretty much done with meds by halfway through the round (knowing Fortuna also had some med stuff there). This was a particular problem again because of (1.)
5. Ultimately we figured something out, unceremonious as it is, but a better way to dispose of bodies with maybe a crematorium on each station might be nice so as not to send your teams' gear off into space where the other team can snap it up
6. The lag was very bad for me past minute 75 and I began crashing a bunch. Not sure what caused it specifically. Someone thought it was all the bodies.
7. The locations are nice but the map feels too big to realistically be able to get anywhere and help defend capture points if you start from base
8. AHhhhhhhhhh No one seemed to listen too much; maybe multiple team captains might help on that front? It was always sad when the sole team cap bit it and no one would listen to anything at all (maybe not that they did that much regardless)
9. There was a particular issue we had with power at the Syndie base and it didn't look like a problem with the furnaces or SMES units to me (the output was toggled off but the input was not even high enough to sustain that anyways); this was either a map problem or a problem with (1.) again, which pretty severely dented Syndies at round end.
10. Maybe it also doesn't matter much but I think dead players being ghosts then rejoining the round is a little Stinky; this feels like more of a strat gamemode than most others so I'd like if you were better able to plan things without opponent ghosts hearing your comms and peeking at bases and stuff then being revived and joining up again. The window for this is small but I saw someone do that. By the same token, and in shameful honesty, while the radio headsets vaporize when you try to pick them up from opponents, if you sit over an opponent body while they have a headset on you can still hear opponent comms, which is something I did when I realized while carrying a body that I was hearing NT channels. Feature or to fix? Not sure. Felt bad of me to do that, so, sorry for circumventing the protections in place on listening to other team's comms.
10.5. A way to know who's in what pod would be nice, I shot a teammate in an NT pod that way, but I would like to keep infiltration possible without Bonking your own team. Maybe extend overlays to pods?
11. No internal pod doors to open and close the bay when on foot for all my Reckless Teammates and Good Friends who went spacewalkin'!
12. Puritans still die as usual when cloned! Very sad and inefficient!
A couple thoughts/problems:
1. I was the fool who spawned in pilot and got stuck on an empty Z level for ~Science~. Maybe just make sure that stuff is disabled for pod_wars mode.
2. Teamkilling and griefing was a major problem on both sides and contributed to NT team's slow start and Syndie team's quick demise at the end. Is there a way to make weapons not work on your own team?
3. The bottom engineering door into the furnace room on the syndie base had no floor under it. I'm not sure if it was missed totally or if there was something else going on there since I could also phase through the door
4. The rate that the meds (burn particularly) run out is really brutal and we were pretty much done with meds by halfway through the round (knowing Fortuna also had some med stuff there). This was a particular problem again because of (1.)
5. Ultimately we figured something out, unceremonious as it is, but a better way to dispose of bodies with maybe a crematorium on each station might be nice so as not to send your teams' gear off into space where the other team can snap it up
6. The lag was very bad for me past minute 75 and I began crashing a bunch. Not sure what caused it specifically. Someone thought it was all the bodies.
7. The locations are nice but the map feels too big to realistically be able to get anywhere and help defend capture points if you start from base
8. AHhhhhhhhhh No one seemed to listen too much; maybe multiple team captains might help on that front? It was always sad when the sole team cap bit it and no one would listen to anything at all (maybe not that they did that much regardless)
9. There was a particular issue we had with power at the Syndie base and it didn't look like a problem with the furnaces or SMES units to me (the output was toggled off but the input was not even high enough to sustain that anyways); this was either a map problem or a problem with (1.) again, which pretty severely dented Syndies at round end.
10. Maybe it also doesn't matter much but I think dead players being ghosts then rejoining the round is a little Stinky; this feels like more of a strat gamemode than most others so I'd like if you were better able to plan things without opponent ghosts hearing your comms and peeking at bases and stuff then being revived and joining up again. The window for this is small but I saw someone do that. By the same token, and in shameful honesty, while the radio headsets vaporize when you try to pick them up from opponents, if you sit over an opponent body while they have a headset on you can still hear opponent comms, which is something I did when I realized while carrying a body that I was hearing NT channels. Feature or to fix? Not sure. Felt bad of me to do that, so, sorry for circumventing the protections in place on listening to other team's comms.
10.5. A way to know who's in what pod would be nice, I shot a teammate in an NT pod that way, but I would like to keep infiltration possible without Bonking your own team. Maybe extend overlays to pods?
11. No internal pod doors to open and close the bay when on foot for all my Reckless Teammates and Good Friends who went spacewalkin'!
12. Puritans still die as usual when cloned! Very sad and inefficient!