In another thread I was musing over ways in which UT could be made to feel more like a tournament, and enhancing the replay value of what up til now has been a pretty rudimentary ladder system. One of my ideas was that before each ladder match, the opponents are being introduced and stuff, and then someone comes out and you are shown a pad. This triggers a menu on your screen with a fullscreen view of this pad, and you can choose your starting weapon for the match. This idea can be taken even further though, and in a way that might bridge the gap between the games logically.
When I read this post something clicked:
In warfare and vCTF we have Axon vs Necris vehicle sets. They are not 100% balanced against each other, but to a reasonable degree, and that is part of the beauty of it. It makes the game a bit less predictable. Now what if we applied that thinking to weapons?
Could we have maybe:
Assault Rifle vs Enforcer
Lightning Gun vs. Tracer Sniper Rifle
Ripper vs Stinger
So in the ladder either you could choose your own weapons and each player would have a custom weapon set of their own, with pickups set in pairs and showing the chosen weapon to any given player - or - You get to choose the weapon set for all opponents in the match if you have won the last match or alternatively, picked up some kind of card.
Personally I think the first method would work well for both offline ladder and online play. But there are many ways to do it, the point is this, they have created different stuff for every game and then it becomes a case where each new game just pretends something doesn't exist anymore and it becomes disjointed. Fans of previous games also inevitably become driven away - you could argue that they need to adapt but the series needs to evolve too and not just keep doing the same thing but with different clothing.
I think something like this would both make the game more interesting and enhance the tournament feel.
When I read this post something clicked:
Originally posted by iron12
Could we have maybe:
Assault Rifle vs Enforcer
Lightning Gun vs. Tracer Sniper Rifle
Ripper vs Stinger
So in the ladder either you could choose your own weapons and each player would have a custom weapon set of their own, with pickups set in pairs and showing the chosen weapon to any given player - or - You get to choose the weapon set for all opponents in the match if you have won the last match or alternatively, picked up some kind of card.
Personally I think the first method would work well for both offline ladder and online play. But there are many ways to do it, the point is this, they have created different stuff for every game and then it becomes a case where each new game just pretends something doesn't exist anymore and it becomes disjointed. Fans of previous games also inevitably become driven away - you could argue that they need to adapt but the series needs to evolve too and not just keep doing the same thing but with different clothing.
I think something like this would both make the game more interesting and enhance the tournament feel.
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