I know most don’t launch into custom games very often, but there’s a few things that need to change:
You should be able to launch into a custom game with no other players but yourself. This will allow players to explore maps when they want.
You should be able to have a full team with no enemies if you want, if autobalance is turned off. This will allow larger groups of pilots to work on strategies with no issues.
If bots are enabled, the teams MUST be balanced (see image below).
There should be a time limit that the user can set.
Game conditions should be tweakable (For team battle, ship count; for domination, point limit; etc.)
Any other options are welcome.
Image: Some of the RadiX guys and I were working on tactics, and we wanted to test it in a quick custom game. Well, it WAS pretty quick…but not what we wanted. Please make it so players are counted as part of the team instead of including bots + players. If that doesn’t make sense, just look at the imbalance. Sure, we would have won no matter what, but this is just impossible to tell if our tactic is working or not since it’s 8 v 4.
Racing Gamemode: we got speed boosts and warpgates. There are checkpoints in the tutorial missions that can also serve as checkpoints in the racing gamemode.
Endless Zombie PvE: Play with friends constantly getting harder and harder. For funs
Racing Gamemode: we got speed boosts and warpgates. There are checkpoints in the tutorial missions that can also serve as checkpoints in the racing gamemode.
No. Unless the 700 m/s speed cap is removed for this game mode.
Endless Zombie PvE: Play with friends constantly getting harder and harder. For funs
Custom games ought to have significant options. I mean, why else would you play custom? It’s in the bloody name!
Silly things like gore, or balloon gore, or unbalanced matches (I’m looking at you, Skanvak dude), or no speed cap with all the consequences of going above 700 m/s on, or everybody gets Styx level tank, or whatever. Custom ought to be custom!
to 1) this would break the logic as you cant fight for objectives and
all maps can be visisted in Invasion
to 2) I dont the see the advantage, you can face 4 bots and test everything - please elaborate further if you feel required
to 3) 4) 5) fully agree
thanks for your input - forwarded to Devs
Suggestions 1 and 2 are mostly saying that there shouldn’t necessarily be an enemy team when doing custom battles. This can help make map exploring and strategy rehearsal easier, since you won’t have anyone trying to damage you. This is still different from Invasion, since pirates and aliens are a serious bother, there.
Suggestions 1 and 2 are mostly saying that there shouldn’t necessarily be an enemy team when doing custom battles. This can help make map exploring and strategy rehearsal easier, since you won’t have anyone trying to damage you. This is still different from Invasion, since pirates and aliens are a serious bother, there.
I think the easiest way to solve a lot of the issues mentioned in the OP would be an option to add bots in one by one, like in any RTS game’s custom rooms. Maybe even be able to customise each bot’s difficulty level individually, and (I’m pushing it a bit here…) their ship lineout.
All this while keeping the current settings if you just quickly want to assign an equal number of bots to each team.
