DRL > Requests For Features
Head gear!
Kornel Kisielewicz:
Helmet only. Apart from that I'm gathering ideas ^^
Hipster Scumbag:
--- Quote from: Melon on June 02, 2009, 04:59 ---3) Not Doomish? It is Doomish!
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No, it's not Doomish, or at least a visor certainly isn't. Just a helmet would be okay, I guess, but the problem is that even the smallest possible armor value (1) is as big as a whole suit of green armor. A helmet, then, shouldn't drop until red armor is commonplace.
Let's keep in mind that you're a marine, not some computer-enhanced gizmo-wielding JC Denton. I'd like to see the game refine & balance its core gameplay Spoiler (click to show/hide)(nerf cacodemons & hurtfloors) instead of adding in gimmick items that can do as much as whole traits.
Vestin:
--- Quote from: Hipster Scumbag on June 03, 2009, 06:51 ---Just a helmet would be okay, I guess, but the problem is that even the smallest possible armor value (1) is as big as a whole suit of green armor. A helmet, then, shouldn't drop until red armor is commonplace.
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It doesn't HAVE TO add any armour at all. IMO - it should mainly be a destructible device with charge- or cooldown-based abilities.
You CAN have them early. They would just have a single charge or a massive cooldown.
Hipster Scumbag:
--- Quote from: Vestin on June 03, 2009, 07:32 ---
--- Quote from: Hipster Scumbag on June 03, 2009, 06:51 ---Just a helmet would be okay, I guess, but the problem is that even the smallest possible armor value (1) is as big as a whole suit of green armor. A helmet, then, shouldn't drop until red armor is commonplace.
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It doesn't HAVE TO add any armour at all. IMO - it should mainly be a destructible device with charge- or cooldown-based abilities.
You CAN have them early. They would just have a single charge or a massive cooldown.
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More than a single charge would mean a single helmet would be worth three or four phase devices / medkits / computer maps / whatever for no inventory footprint.
Vestin:
--- Quote from: Hipster Scumbag on June 04, 2009, 17:36 ---More than a single charge would mean a single helmet would be worth three or four phase devices / medkits / computer maps / whatever for no inventory footprint.
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Or two ;). But - yeah - you're absolutely right. I'd suggest that the helmet have 25%-33% of getting damaged along with the armour as you get hit, so that they would still be a portable bunch of medpacks/phase devices or whatever albeit - a destrutible one, as opposed to things that you have in your backpack.
That still doesn't solve the problem 100%. You COULD make such abilities strictly on unique helmets, but then - what would the REGULAR ones do ?
We could simply lower the amount of regular stuff to force the player into using helmets and keep the balance... But that would be drastic.
I have no other ideas at this point. I really hope you guys figure something nice out.
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