Pvp Idea

[Griss]

I know I know, this is not a thread about the current server merge reaction fecal storm I'm sorry.


I was thinking yesterday. In every game with pvp and two teams it end up being basically Red Vs Blue. So My idea is it would be pretty darn nifty if the development team could take advantage of the way gear is colored and displayed in turning the teams gear Red or blue while your participating in the pvp events.

Ok that's all i got. you are free to return to your previously scheduled cage rattling

[ninesunz]

what about a red or blue icon besides the players name?

[b0ats]

fecal storm made me lul so kudos to you! As for your idea its a good one i like it.

[Estellios]

what about a red or blue icon besides the players name?

Would be easier to pick out what side people are on if the gear was colored a specific color since names are 2d and easily get jumbled together in a crowd.

[Lyndis]

The idea of uniforms is pretty neat ^^

It just makes your enemies stand out more which could be seen as a con.

[Brigandier]

We can make PvE carebears bright pink and easy to spot for the kill.

[Griss]

Would be easier to pick out what side people are on if the gear was colored a specific color since names are 2d and easily get jumbled together in a crowd.

Actually the colored icon replacing the ls crest would work pretty well along with the team colors.

It could also be expanded to free company combat. Your company could set up "home" and "away" uniform colors for the castle battle thing they showed off in the design docs.

[Estellios]

Well of course you could do both, I was just stating a reason why the uniform color thing would be useful instead of simply color-coding the name/adding an icon.

Thinking about it more, if every class got its own uniform for PVP it would make it a lot easier to pick out specific targets out of a crowd so you can better coordinate who to focus on. For example, a group of mages you want to take out the healer, but if the CNJ gear looks much different from THM gear it would be much more intuitive. Team Fortress 2's design discussions mentioned each character type having its own unique silhouette so you could quickly and easily tell who you were looking at, even in the heat of a fight.

[Griss]

Very true estellios and being a avid hat collector I mean tf2 player i definitely see where you are coming from with the idea of a standardized class uniform.

The only real argument i could bring against that is the differences between the races throwing a massive wrench in the silhouette identification. Namely the lalafells, damned little rat bastards ruin everything lol.