Goonhub
07-19-2015, 08:13 AM
I always rather liked the Revolution game mode and I've been sorry to see it gone, although I fully understand why the mode has become such a problem. I was thinking about this and watching an episode of the X-Files featuring the Black Oil (go watch the show if you don't know what I'm talking about I am not about to spoil it) when the idea game to me for an Alien Virus game mode.
The Alien Virus mode would work similarly to a revolution; you start the game with several "carrier" players whose job it is to infect others with an Alien Mind Control Virus. Once infected, those players serve the carrier players, but cannot infect people themselves. Much like in revolution, the carrier players can be given specific goals to carry out (must infect x person, only infected can be on the escape shuttle, etc).
The advantage to this over revolution is that you have a way to verify if someone is bad or not: they will have a detectable virus in them if they are. Ideally there will be several ways to detect the virus, such as being able to detect it both through some medical equipment and through some chemical reaction or something. It's also possible a chemical or virus-based weapon could be built which only harms people with the virus in their system.
I don't know how hard it would be to implement something like this, but I hope that you'll at least consider this suggestion as a way to bring Revolution back without turning it into a grief party.
The Alien Virus mode would work similarly to a revolution; you start the game with several "carrier" players whose job it is to infect others with an Alien Mind Control Virus. Once infected, those players serve the carrier players, but cannot infect people themselves. Much like in revolution, the carrier players can be given specific goals to carry out (must infect x person, only infected can be on the escape shuttle, etc).
The advantage to this over revolution is that you have a way to verify if someone is bad or not: they will have a detectable virus in them if they are. Ideally there will be several ways to detect the virus, such as being able to detect it both through some medical equipment and through some chemical reaction or something. It's also possible a chemical or virus-based weapon could be built which only harms people with the virus in their system.
I don't know how hard it would be to implement something like this, but I hope that you'll at least consider this suggestion as a way to bring Revolution back without turning it into a grief party.