[ Closed ] [SUGGESTION] Ideas for the next version (Page 26 of 60)

@ghithor:

The thing is, not all players will play so much that they will reach the high level area. In fact it is only a very small percentage of all players. And for those who don't even want to try reaching that level but just want to play for fun a bit, dynamic camera will be a great thing. The game is just much more dynamic and all, and for those low-level/fun games, that's exactly what's making the game even more fun. If you go to the point of view that every player want's to be as good as possible and reach "near-pro-limit" disabling dynamic camera might be a good idea, but I think if you start the game for the purpose of just having a bit of fun, it is more practical to have it enabled. Especially as those players for sure won't take a deeper look into the settings tab while players who want to advance their level certainly will do so.

Thanks, guys. Now I understand why it should be enabled.

Thank you for discussion. I think this issue should be added to the list in first post and marked as declined to avoid reps.

            if(config.cl_mouse_deadzone)
            { // These are the commands to disable dyn cam
                config.cl_mouse_followfactor = 0;
                config.cl_mouse_max_distance = 400;
                config.cl_mouse_deadzone = 0;
            }
            else
            { // These are the commands to enable dyn cam
                config.cl_mouse_followfactor = 60;
                config.cl_mouse_max_distance = 1000;
                config.cl_mouse_deadzone = 300;
            }

You'll need to bind two buttons for dynamic cam ON and dynamic cam OFF, and bind these three commands. Example for the ON mode.

bind x "cl_mouse_followfactor = 0;cl_mouse_max_distance = 400;cl_mouse_deadzone = 0;"

It's not very pratical, I guess something should be coded so you have the ability to bind a toggle, and even a dynamic camera on-button-push.

Anti-chat-kill system. Just hear me out before you go all, "then people can cheat with it!"
I thought about it and I have an idea to prevent that. Since, I assume, the reason people are apposed to the idea is because people could hit chat for a split second right before they get hit to "shield" themselves from damage, hence, cheating, but here's how it would work: once you go into chat, all bullets/capsules/laser shots (etc) that were shot before you go into chat can still hurt you, however, all (those things I already mentioned) after you hit chat, cannot. This would prevent people from using it as a temporary shield. And with flag carriers,  it simply wouldn't work or it would ask you to drop the flag beforehand so they can't cheat either by sitting all cozy, waiting for their flag to return.

Comments? Criticism?

@Bee, I think it will ruin the gameplay ?
Also it's quite abstract if a tee doesn't get hurt when just standing there

+ there will still be the possibility to cheat, when you're in trouble and surrounded, you hit chat , wait for your teammates to come and help you out

@Bee: If players want to chat, they should either go spec or, even better, use an instant messenger.

I don't know if these players are that slow at typing, but to write short messages it shouldn't take that much time. I usually just go in a corner, chat for 3/4s, and come back in-game, usually in time to take no damage and only loose the chatting time as something I could have used to grab the flag.

Another problem with this kill protection would be obviously 1n1 on DM and TDM gametypes where you'd like to end the game.
Also, you could camp on the ninja spawn point, and only 'wake up' to grab it.

The real problem about that is that this is not really needed, and create some counter-inutitive physics. When I shoot to someone, I expect him to die. That doesn't make much sense:

No, it's not a city map, I just can't draw anything else

Going into death tiles would still kill you, it's just that everything else wouldn't.
I personally thought it would be a neat feature. Not needed (of course) but neat. And I personally don't have a problem with grasping the idea of someone not dying when I shoot him.
This feature can be on the back burner of programming, I don't mind, but I wouldn't want to throw the idea out all together because it's "not needed". A lot of things aren't needed but are nice to have. Like really cool updated graphics aren't needed in any shape or form but is nice to have.

@Bee it wouldnt be "nice to have":
- could be abused as cheat
- 5 seconds "chat shield" with 10-15seconds cooldown and you can still die through deathtiles...KISS says NO!
- 5 seconds shield -> poor opponent player, he has to waste 5 seconds to kill you?
- if you think smalltalk > match, the match cant be that important, to get killed wouldnt be that dramatic
- if you want to talk with your team 'bout tactics...use binds! Its the only thing chat binds are good for :\

PS Dune: I love your graphics skill, pls more

That is still to be proven.

I don't understand your argument...

If he really wants to kill you instead of going on to kill someone else, then yes. He'd have to wait anyway for someone to get out of chat if he has any self-respect.

In some cases, you'd be right; in others you'd be wrong. I am a very serious player sometimes but I do, every one in a while, want to send a quick message but I am still taking the game seriously, although other times I'm just fooling around and don't mind when people chat kill me because I'm not really talking the game seriously.

I'm not limiting my reasons for implementation for only that.

I really want to see laser bounces to be 3 damage. Its been discussed frequently and I want to see developers final word on this issue.

Personally I would like it alot (even though I am bad with the laser and I get alot of bounce hits )

my argument is that its not a problem of luck but its that most bounce laser hits are unintentional and intentional bouncing lasers are rarely seen.

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This next opinion may be really unpopular but...
I don`t think this should be in the next version but I really think modders and developers could give DOM a chance (maybe introduce as a mod again). There were not alot of  players for DOM when it was out but I think it has great potential to be a good gametype (racing type gameplay getting between flagzones, dm tdm type gameplay around flag, ctf type gameplay by way of map control).
OF course it needs better maps than the original dom (which suffered from bad movement and too crampd flag areas) but I think it shows promise if other people play.