Melee Battlegrounds - New Gameplay concept!

[Thomek]

Exact final map sizes and such are subordinate to gameplay and technology.

For example, maps should not be too crowded, nor too sparse with players, but we want more players on them than any other melee game can muster.

Testing will be the final reveal to what will become the "right" mapsize for the "right" amount of players, as this is very hard to quantify otherwise. We want to push it as far as reasonable hardware and good netcode can do.

But the goal is.. as you know: Epic!

[Nessaj]

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Thanks for the reply. As I've stated above - I've got it all correct and I read all the stuff before commenting. There is a 225 sq km map where people do something. I agree that making everything consequence-free would make this game a survival game (because if you let someone kill someone without any consequences - people will start killing on sight, especially trollkids) but on the other hand I don't want to see a complete Minecraft sandbox. Players should not be limited in their actions like that and the price for the killed should not be that big.

In my opinion small fights look much more promising. In my opinion death in all fights should be punished somehow, whether those are fights for the castle or ambushes on the road. The only one that shouldn't - training fights (like tournaments, training camps and so on). It brings diversity to the game. I also like the family idea so even if one of the family members is getting penalized for the death (lets say each "death" makes the certain character unavailable for a growing amount of time depending on the amount of deaths and eventually at some certain death you die permanently) you can use the other one. The benefit for the killer scales well in such case. For instance - 6 hours inactivity (lets say it's his 10th "death") for the field commander might be enough for his enemies to win a couple of very important battles facing a headless army, but 6 hours for a random peasant is nothing - he will just switch to other things/characters (and he will not actually have 6 hours as he won't die, so if it's his first death - the inactivity would be i.e. 5 minutes).

But it all doesn't matter as those are things that are behind the main purpose of this game - epic fights and battles. As I've said multiple times here: small fights can be as epic as big battles if not more.

I share all your concerns It's not an easy feat to hit that magical middle-road between everything, where it's not too much or too little.

There will be smaller battles too though, in the world, and for the instant battle feature.
There'll also be arena/tournament type features as well, like jousting, duel, 3vs3 (or 2vs2 instead), 5vs5 etc.

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(Don't consider this finalized! It's just an overall we made some time ago)

[pogosan]

[Jona]

I can barely come up with one or two decent character names... and now you expect me to be able to create a reasonable surname (in addition to many, many first names)?!?!

[Utrakil]

Jona Jonasson

that was easy

[Jona]

Haha, I had initially typed out:

I can barely come up with one or two decent character names... and now you expect me to be able to create a reasonable surname (in addition to many, many first names)?!?!    Jonasson just doesn't sound all that great.

before I just deleted the last sentence cuz its just that bad a name.

[Taser]

Do mine eyes deceive me or do we have all the ingredients for the most badass, amazing, trolling, PK-bullying clan/guild to ever be conceived?

M:BG deserves players like us lol.

Innnn.

Also I'm glad you guys are focusing on epic now. My wallet is ready.

I can barely come up with one or two decent character names... and now you expect me to be able to create a reasonable surname (in addition to many, many first names)?!?!

Also this.

Aw fuk bai.

Taser Tazerington.

Taser Can'ttouchthis.

Taser Thunderthighs.

Taser Sirshockington.

And what about alfred? Aw shit mang.

[lombardsoup]

Innnn.

Also I'm glad you guys are focusing on epic now. My wallet is ready.

Also this.

Aw fuk bai.

Taser Tazerington.

Taser Can'ttouchthis.

Taser Thunderthighs.

Taser Sirshockington.

And what about alfred? Aw shit mang.

Taser Direct Cardiac Effect

Taser Training Academy

Taser Master Instructor

Taser Drive Stun Mode

Taser Probe Mode

[lombardsoup]

So yeah, is there going to be a system to stop sad people disconnecting before they die? (and get murdered on the ground).

Also, have you thought at all about the player map? Will everyone have a mini-map and easy compass/a dot that magically shows exactly where they are? Or will maps be more vague and general just showing natural features and not any player-made ones, and people must discover settlements etc manually?

Do not want magical open world video game markers that show players exactly where to go with no thought process required.  Force players to remember their surroundings.

[Sigibert]

That would be nice indeed. Like in Mortal Online

[lombardsoup]

An option to make our own maps would be nice.  If there's one thing I love doing in these types of games its exploring, but the immersion is ruined when you can just toggle a premade map at the touch of a button.

[Bittersteel]

What if you run out of family members? Is that possible?

[ANGLO_SAXON]

ok

[Leshma]

Will there be lag like in cRPG? You are obviously capable delivering on other fronts, but netcode worries me the most because that is by far the worst side of mod you've been developing for last 5 years. Good netcode can make or break the game.

[chadz]

... but netcode worries me the most because that is by far the worst side of mod you've been developing ...