Hey 9mmFu. The following are the suggestions you asked me to PM you. I did this quite fast this morning so please excuse and any errors, I also probably forgot a few things. Each paragraph below is a separate suggestion. Enjoy!
At the moment if someone is stealth is damaged they come out of stealth. This was fine before CR2.0 because it was possible to raise your dodge enough so you were rarely hit. With the randomness of CR2.0 it is nearly impossible to not get hit if someone sees you in a stealth skill. You will then be removed from it and have to retreat. I suggest making stealth use the ability concentration, so you have a chance to stay in stealth even after taking damage.
Firing a sniper ability while in Concealment shouldn’t un-stealth you. A real sniper can obviously take more than one shot from a single location; we should be able to do that too.
The abilities Find Weakness, Martial Arts Prowess, and Firearms Skill need to be executable while in stealth. Assassin greatly benefits from Find Weakness but they rarely ever have time to use it before a spy attack because of all the time taken to prepare a sneak attack.
Spy needs a real fighting style. I know it was given a style but this only applies buffs to the spy attacks. As soon as you IL you revert to Self Defense. Even if the fix worked, and spy style stayed on in IL, it would do almost no good offensively. When you hit your opponent the take melee or ballistic damage, depending on whether you are using your fists or a gun. This is ridiculous because once a spy is in IL they become completely useless even if they manage to land some attacks. A real spy combat must be created. At best it would have all new animations, but I know that would be completely unrealistic with the current MxO budget. I suggest, and suggested this in the past, that you make a spy combat system that looks exactly like Self Defense. The attacks from this would have Thrown Damage applied to them, not ballistic or melee. Without this Spy is almost completely useless.
Stealth abilities that use interlock, such as Bulldog or Punt, need to be usable from out of IL if the target is already in IL with another attacker. As it is, they cannot be activated if the target is already in IL. This makes spy almost useless in duels and PvP. I suggest that these abilities become free fire abilities when the target is already in IL, but they should still require the user to be stealthed.
It should be possible to cancel free firing by clicking on it again or going into stealth. As it is now, the only way to stop free firing is to jump, interlock, or select another target (which you cant do in a duel.) Free firing is a nuisance when it comes to stealth. For example: If I am a Sniper and I agree to a duel. I normally shoot first to damage and maybe stagger them. I then attempt to get in Concealment to fire a sniper shot. If I don’t jump before getting into Concealment, in 5.5 seconds (my sniper rifle’s reuse timer,) I will be forced out of concealment to fire a shot, thereby canceling the sniper shot. This is extremely annoying! Please make it so Free-firing can be cancelled by clicking the free-fire button a second time or going into s stealth state.
“You have to wait X seconds to use XXXX Ability again,” and other annoying messages should appear exclusively in the system chat instead of covering the screen.
Find a way to reset our base attribute set, True Believer, Fanatic Self Improver, etc or reset all base stats to 5 and give us the extra 15 attribute points to distribute as we choose. If neither is done, many people will be very pissed.
Make rolls less random or give us percent accuracy. Well as it is rolls are far too random. Before the roll scores were removed, I remember rolling a 397, followed immediately by a 7. This is just ridiculous in my opinion and makes it hard to really be “better” than someone else. My suggestion is to make the rolls less random, like the old system. If you guys still want low levels to hit high levels then make average ct start at around 200 for a new char, and end up at around 250 for a 50. This way with randomness of 50, even a level 2 can hit a 50 if he is lucky. If you guys are very adverse to this I suggest you make hitting someone the same level as you a certainty. For example: a 50 would never miss another 50. I 50 would never miss anyone below 50 either. However, a 49 would miss a 50 about 2% of the time, a 48 4% of the time, etc. I know this may sound a little weird but at least then on an even level duel the two participants can concentrate on timing and resistance, instead of getting lucky with extremely random rolls.
Evade shields are too strong. In duels, a good rifleman or hacker will almost always win against an IL class such as martial arts. Even when using Force Combat and the grab tactic, it can take 5 to 6 hits to break a bubble. I think with all that it should take at most three hits.
Get rid of XXXXX uses an Ability. It is useless, annoying, and clogs up system chat.
Make upgrades automatic. If I equip Expert Rifleman, the expert rifleman upgrade should go on by itself and stay on through teleporting. There are far to many self buffs as it is. I have to take 20 seconds or so after switching to a new tree to make sure all my buffs are on correctly. This is an unnecessary annoyance.
Thanks for listening. Any questions or comments please PM me. Also, if it’s not too much trouble, could you comment on each of these suggestion about the feasibility of them and whether you like them or not. Thanks in advance.
c.c. MxO Community, External Playtest Discussion
Best,
KROG
