1/7 Feature Requests

[Noname]

I'm just gonna dump some ideas here that I had to make the game better in some aspects. All constructive feedback on each issue is appreciated.

Resolved Requests

Cade Placement Preview

There are some problems that are often encountered when constructing barricades: they are hard to place in the right spot (SHC on thin walls), they stack on scene props, they do not align with other cades (gaps/edges between platforms) or drop down where they aren't supposed to (also platforms).
For these reasons I deem it useful to add some kind of preview that shows where exactly cades will be going if constructed in the current position.
In case this requires too much work to code, it would already be useful to display the centre of mass, so as to have an indicator for how to place specific cades.

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Support Overhaul

As most people might have noticed by now, engineers are far superior to medics in terms of late game usefulness (regarding runs). Once a medic brought 2 tomes and 2-3 or more MSKs/FMBs are spawned, they are basically obsolete for the remainder of the match. I comprehend support items to be categorised into three different sections: Defensive support (the most basic barriers required to separate Bots and players), Offensive support (anything that affects bots in a way beneficial for the team) and Tactical support (means that affect the players' ability to fight off bots in a positive way).
I suggest to make the following adjustments:

    Give medics access to a wider array of tactical and offensive measures. Currently, engineers are accountable for both defensive and all map-related tactical support, including all offensive support (barrels).
    For this reason medics should take over a larger portion of tactical support by enabling them to provide shooting opportunity (platform-kind deployables) and cover (eventually dynamic cades like windows to open/close, gates, weaker wall-sized deployables). Offensive support ought not to be engineer only either, given that medic seems closer to alchemical items rather than craftsmanship, which suggests introducing throwing flasks with special effects.

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Master Peltast Perk

I propose enabling Master Peltasts to switch their throwables from ranged to melee and back without delay.
The idea behind this is the fact that a vast majority of throwables is greatly limited in terms of ammunition count. Thus, MPs are often required to wear 4 stacks of ammo so as not to run short before the end of the wave, resulting in a lack of polearms/separate melee weapons. This is especially a problem when fighting Assassin-type enemies, which requires quick reactions.
In my opinion, the Master Peltast is designated to excel in the use of throwables. Therefore it should not be forced to rely on additional melee equipment if there is the possibility to make use of what melee weapons are already available.

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Repeaterman Perk

These perks are what I found to be quite useful for Repeater (my main class). The second one could probably be applied to all xbow classes (if adapted to each individual hero).

• Quick Reload (Repeater only)
  As a Repeaterman, it is vital to always have as many shots available as possible so as to land the killing blows quickly; especially with (relatively) low accuracy and strong bots, it often takes several shots to avoid leaving a nearly dead bot to rampage, just in order to reload.This is why I suggest giving Repeatermen the ability to reload their repeaters faster the more bolts are remaining in the magazine.Ideally, a single press on V reloads at a speed that depends the leftover bolts while holding V empties the whole magazine (no idea if Warband is capable of doing that)
  

Now on to the interesting perk:

• Siege Stance (all xbow heroes)
  Seeing how crossbowmen are frequently associated with siege tasks, I thought it would only be suitable to give them their own little specialty:Upon entering siege stance (perhaps Q key), the player will receive a number of benefits in exchange for stat penalties. These up- and downsides could consist of
  • Pro: (eventually crouching to resemble Siege stance,) greater accuracy (esp. Repeaters), greater reload speed/fire rate, greater missile speed, special knockdown/knockback effects (esp. CMs), greater armour (esp. Pavise) and so on...
    
  • Con: greater vulnerability, significant decrease in movement speed/immobility (both similar to Odin's ability), greater ammo costs, lower reload speed/fire rate and so on...
    
• As I said earlier, each of these ups and downs have to be adjusted to their respective class. An example Siege stance for the Chosen Marksman could be knockback in exchange for immobility while using the stance.This can, of course, be transferred to other classes with different effects (eg. a Royal Guard that restores an mount of its shield's health by temporarily lowering their max HP (=non-healable)).If the penalties don't seem to make up for the benefits, it might also be possible to add timers to each perk in order to avoid overuse.
  
  

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Cheering Timer

I'm almost sure we can all agree that this is the core element of the latest patch. The timer is set to 30 seconds (from what I experienced), but everyone knows cheering is life. Spam might be a reasonable argument against making it shorter, but I suppose 15-20 seconds won't hurt that bad.

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Mortar Enemies for Hard/Rag

Most of you should have seen the new Donators' bots on Normal by now ("Boorish Commoner" - naked guy throwing beer at you). Personally, I would love to see something likewise on Hard and especially Ragnarok mode - Rydell's most recent Rythja's Bomb seems like a perfect fit to me.

Wave Bonus
This is something really important to me; a few friends and I often do runs with (very) small teams of 2-4 players (including Hard and Rag). Now, by the time we manage to get to higher waves like Loke or Thor, the server will usually be cramped with 12-14 joiners that just wait for respawn.
Despite the servers being public, I absolutely despise the fact that a little team grinds its way through the rather unrewarding first couple of waves just to allow others the exact same loot chance and rewards for doing literally nothing in return. This often continues even after respawn when people are either inadequately equipped (no/bad support) or hardly contribute other than shooting/attacking (standing around doing nothing when all cades are down at Thor prep).
That is why I would like to request a bonus for gold/assist XP(/probably not loot) according to how soon you joined a run. This bonus should possibly grow exponentially so as to make the reward greater the sooner one actually joins and contributes.


What do you guys think about those features and which is/are your favourite(s)? I'm open for discussion and would like to hear some feedback + ideas

[Ramos_Caoliki]

+1 to the cheering timer and -1 to those who use it behind me on rag

[Rydell]

SUPPORT OVERHAUL 
There should be items that medics can equip and benefit at the battlefield after spawning two tomes. When I talked to Irish about ideas for new weapons he came up with a grenade - something like barrel but throwable. Ofcourse that would be too overpowered, so few things should be changed.

The item would be: Rythja's Bomb
The word Rythja means "To clear land" in Old Norse and it originated word "Rid" in English.
The main purpose of the weapon would be to stop Nords from attacking. Just like Royal Torturer's throwable stops players and deals little amount of damage.
The weapon itself should deal very little damage, it shouldn't be lethal as it uses AoE damage. So it wouldn't become main weapon.
If it would be legendary support item maybe Loke could drop it. Upgrading it should increase damage and ammo count.
If crafting it should definitely include sulphur

Irish liked the idea and he said yes. Terath also liked it although he was a bit mad that I made item without asking first Big Grin. Still yes from him.
On server Terath said that Kaas also liked the idea. I still need to talk to Kip about that (KIP PLS ANSWER)

Regarding other ideas. I'll keep an eye on this thread. I can make a model it something is worthy of doing so.

Cade Placement Preview
Yes, this would be awesome! But I think this would have to change the way cades are deployed. Right now they spawn relative to player's postion during construction. This should be changed to spawn when placing the cade. Although this idea is awesome, I doubt this could be possible in warband.

Master Peltast Perk
Yes. Also, please more ammo. There is no fun factor in refilling and droping items on the ground just so you can keep your attack. 

Xbowman Perk
In my humble opinion Xbowman is one of the most if not the most powerful class in NI. He has HUGE damage output. Bolts go through shields, you can one headshot most of the enemies and also
he has good armor. Increasing his damage or reload speed would cause him do be massively strong comprared to other classes.

Mortar Enemies for Hard/Rag
I support this idea. However as you probably guessed by now Rythja's Bomb was made for something different. I could make another model based on this http://i.imgur.com/AtABUf5.png

Cheering Timer
No cooldown. Let's cheer after every kill.

[Noname]

Not to get in the way of the discussion, but I added another idea:


Wave Bonus
This is something really important to me; a few friends and I often do runs with (very) small teams of 2-4 players (including Hard and Rag). Now, by the time we manage to get to higher waves like Loke or Thor, the server will usually be cramped with 12-14 joiners that just wait for respawn.
Despite the servers being public, I absolutely despise the fact that a little team grinds its way through the rather unrewarding first couple of waves just to allow others the exact same loot chance and rewards for doing literally nothing in return. This often continues even after respawn when people are either inadequately equipped (no/bad support) or hardly contribute other than shooting/attacking (standing around doing nothing when all cades are down at Thor prep).
That is why I would like to request a bonus for gold/assist XP(/probably not loot) according to how soon you joined a run. This bonus should possibly grow exponentially so as to make the reward greater the sooner one actually joins and contributes.

[Sir Baron]

Not to get in the way of the discussion, but I added another idea:


Wave Bonus
This is something really important to me; a few friends and I often do runs with (very) small teams of 2-4 players (including Hard and Rag). Now, by the time we manage to get to higher waves like Loke or Thor, the server will usually be cramped with 12-14 joiners that just wait for respawn.
Despite the servers being public, I absolutely despise the fact that a little team grinds its way through the rather unrewarding first couple of waves just to allow others the exact same loot chance and rewards for doing literally nothing in return. This often continues even after respawn when people are either inadequately equipped (no/bad support) or hardly contribute other than shooting/attacking (standing around doing nothing when all cades are down at Thor prep).
That is why I would like to request a bonus for gold/assist XP(/probably not loot) according to how soon you joined a run. This bonus should possibly grow exponentially so as to make the reward greater the sooner one actually joins and contributes.

Say good-bye to wave 12 tome spawns then
I would be pretty willing to bet that this would do more harm then good especially for normal mode
I would be willing to bet that 90% of normal mode joins come after wave 6 and that would make most of those people not bother joining at all

[Forward]

Though wave bonus would be good solution of the problem, I could offer another one:

Mini-servers
Just add couple of 8-places Rag servers (on EU and NA for example, or both EU since NA is much less populated anyway). While these servers would be worse in term of meterials/xp farm small teams on such servers would benefits from ability to play undisturbed and do not wipe from lack of cades when 12 players join on later wave.

[Kaasovic]

I am not a big fan of adding advantages to people that are on a server for a longer time.
What if a player crashes? What if a player just start up his game, ready to play his first run of the day. Would putting someone in a disadvantage for not being on a server quick enough be a good idea?

oh and btw; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJtGWWjLC5k

[Sir Baron]

I am not a big fan of adding advantages to people that are on a server for a longer time.
What if a player crashes? What if a player just start up his game, ready to play his first run of the day. Would putting someone in a disadvantage for not being on a server quick enough be a good idea?

oh and btw; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJtGWWjLC5k

Will this show if a cade is going to be stacked to?

[Rydell]

God damn that is good. Good job Kaasovic.

[Forward]

I am not a big fan of adding advantages to people that are on a server for a longer time.
What if a player crashes? What if a player just start up his game, ready to play his first run of the day. Would putting someone in a disadvantage for not being on a server quick enough be a good idea?

oh and btw; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJtGWWjLC5k

What do you think about my mini-servers idea?


And your btw looks nice. Does it show when cade stacks? Is it possible to make previewed cade being semi-transparent or in solid color (like blue, fopr example) texture?