Slower TTK requires more skill to dominate. When you have a short TTK like in CoD or BF the gameplay degrades into a "who sees who first" metagame, and that's just not attractive at all to players who prefer a game with a higher skill ceiling.
In the GDC videos the TTK seemed ridiculously short, as short or possibly even shorter than BF3 unless a lot of the people he was shooting were already damaged. The longer a battle takes the more skill that is required and atm it just doesn't seem like there is a high skill required to be above average in this game. I'll have to wait to try it before I can really comment, but as impressive as these videos were I can't help but be left feeling a little disappointed. I realize this game isn't even in the running to be considered "esport," and that's fine with me, but I still want to feel like I'm being rewarded for showing a higher level of skill, otherwise it just gets boring too quickly.
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But wouldn't faster TTK also promote cooperation? If you didn't know what you were doing, and weren't working with your team, you'd get killed pretty fast.
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No, it's actually the opposite. Slower TTK requires A LOT more coordination between teammates in order to meet goals since it's harder for a single player to dominate. It might sound weird at first to a lot of people, but faster TTK = slower gameplay, and slower TTK = faster gameplay due to the increased need for teamwork.
People always reference oldschool games like Quake, UT3, Tribes1/2, etc to get this point across, and they're right, but here's a more recent example of a game going against the CoD-trend, although I guess it still technically falls under Tribes...
http://blip.tv/tribescast/team-zfz-v...tic-m2-6002163
This is only 8v8, and I don't expect the TTK in planetside to be quite as long as TA, but it does get the point across. When you play 8v8 in this game the pace is so fast you get the same feeling as playing 10v40 in a planetside base. Despite the larger map size and lower player count it always feels like there's someone in every corner, and the high speed combined with high TTK rewards skill in almost every aspect. The games are very different but the point is still the same.
The TTKs in planetside1 should be roughly carried over to PS2 and with the reduction in lag it would still feel faster, and keep gameplay at a good pace imo.
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