there are lots of posts about these types of different gameplay ideas so id love to hear more of your ideas. this is where i stand on reinforcements but totally get where you are coming from. i made a reinforcements bashing post myself at one point so i feel you.
Reinforcements
i just find some teams im playing really need reinforcments and cant get them cuz u can easily wipe them and the ones good enough not to need them can get them easily… strange really.
i never liked the idea of taking away things in video games form players i always like the idea of adding reasons to try something else.
ya i can get on board with more things in the jungle to do as predator. and definitely more interesting missions than hold F as fireteam.
it could be cool you could interact with environments in certain ways as fireteam to make it harder for predator to get at you and you have to find alternate ways as predator. so allow fireteam to reinforce as it were their position somehow without being cheap about it. giving both sides more tools to do what they do.
yes and the problem lies in that once there are 2 FT left they are as good as dead anyway. so the difficulty is only when they are at full 4 and sometimes 3. so if they could reinforce half lets say. if 2 die they can bring back 1. if 3 die they can bring back 2 or something like that. id be ok with that too. it would be easier but whatever i suppose.
this is why they need the opportunity to come back to a full 4 team. because they are shooting for the balance of 4 v 1. when 1 or 2 die that balance is gone and the game becomes exponentially easier for pred and impossible for FT.
Or trap some trees with vines n shit like form the 1987 predator moive
ya now we’re talking.
id much prefer gameplay mechanics that make the cat and mouse game smarter and more intense than a respawn mechanic for sure.
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this is a great idea, if fireteam has an objective and they know the predator could use certain trees there could be gadgets to trap them, either set off an alarm or spot (gotta be careful here) or blow up who knows, but at first glance could be cool (and abused)!
No no not tools like use the trees and the vines and wood spears and stuff
even better.
a net that you couldnt see in thermal in the trees would be cool that you have to get out of like in the 87 movie.
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it would be cool because the predator cant see it with his heat vision, and it would take time to set up.
im thinking like 45 seconds of time but each player that helps them cuts it down by 33% so that way if the whole team works on one tree then you can do one tree in like 18ish seconds
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How about the shorter the game time the reinforcment takes less time and the longer u play before being downed (eg probably a better team) the longer u wait for reinforcments.
So if ur a really good team and only lost 1 guy 10mins in, then it would take 2/3mins to get that 1 guy back.
But if u suck and 3 team are down in 2 mins then it only takes 30 seconds to bring back those 3… something like that.
but real talk where the fuck is THIS i want THIS as a weapon for the predator how bad ass would this be chucking this shit around.
Edit: it also better sound like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-64q4HpZyaY
So the reinforments coming back are not the same people, they are new people. I think due to technical reasons, they just re-use FT that are already in the match.
It would be very cool if it would pluck new folks from the queue instead, but how buggy do we want the queues to be?
iiiiiii LIKE IT
lol imagine getting reinforced as a new player and the predator is waiting for you you are immediately trapped and then plasma’d and claimed lol.
