Friendly Fire?

[Azren]

FF is really a big issue in PS1, almost half of the time I die to FF in any close combat battles, but all that aside I would quit playing this game if it ever got disabled.

FF has to be in any massive shooter; there will be AoE weapons, no question about that, and as such there will be hell of an AoE spamm if FF is not inlcuded - just how long would a game like that last?

Even the fact they are considering this makes me very uneasy about other gameplay choices they may make...

[ikon]

really depends on the kill rate and how much aoe is in the game

but there should always be ff, hopefully better grief mechanics this time

[Redshift]

If FF is not included at launch, we'll not retain numbers past the first month, it would be a disaster for PS2

[Aractain]

Originally Posted by Redshift

If FF is not included at launch, we'll not retain numbers past the first month, it would be a disaster for PS2

Dont know if troll.

[Tigersmith]

Originally Posted by Redshift

If FF is not included at launch, we'll not retain numbers past the first month, it would be a disaster for PS2

I agree this has to be on a launch.
There is no way it's going to be implemented after launch. It's too much of a gameplay change.

[Tigersmith]

Originally Posted by Aractain

Dont know if troll.

I'm sure he was somewhat kidding. Like most of us are unhappy about it.

[Crator]

We don't know how game play flow will work. Hard to say if FF is going to matter. I would assume it would though. I'd assume if this was an issue during beta testing that they would definitely add it in.

[Redshift]

Nah I wasn't kidding, if there's no FF it will be a spamfest, spamfests aren't fun, if the first month isn't fun then a load of people won't resub after the first month runs out. Assuming the business model is the same as Ps1

[Crator]

Doubt SOE will treat PS2 like they did with PS1. I would hope, if mass unsubs happen due to something SOE did/didn't do, that they would reconsider fixing the issue to bring back folks to the game.

[Logit]

Originally Posted by Crator

We don't know how game play flow will work. Hard to say if FF is going to matter. I would assume it would though. I'd assume if this was an issue during beta testing that they would definitely add it in.

FF will always matter when the battles include hundreds of people.

No matter what. Without FF, the game will be lame as balls. Spam spam spam

[Atuday]

Hey Higby, take a look at the poll results and you may find we the fans answered the question for you. You now know what we want so please reassure us that we will get what we want. Because one way or another we always get what we want

[Aractain]

Originally Posted by Redshift

Nah I wasn't kidding, if there's no FF it will be a spamfest, spamfests aren't fun, if the first month isn't fun then a load of people won't resub after the first month runs out. Assuming the business model is the same as Ps1

Grief stoped the spam. The actual damage to friendlys was mostly just annoying.

FF is directly tied to grief in some peoples views, it dosn't have to be. Doing something with FF (like just halfing the damage) dosn't have to change grief in anyway.


Hopefully they play around with it (without telling people) in beta to see what happens.

[TacosWLove]

Yes FF!! How else are we going to keep those camping vangaurds and prowlers from shooting me as I run up the tower stairs?

[Raymac]

Originally Posted by TacosWLove

Yes FF!! How else are we going to keep those camping vangaurds and prowlers from shooting me as I run up the tower stairs?

Keep the door closed. You should be doing that anyways because do you know how expensive it is to run the A/C in those towers? I'm not paying to cool the whole neighborhood.

[Krowe]

Of fucking course?

Who the hell voted no?