Hi Battle Baylians.
So I've seen a bunch of people saying free for all, including myself, and I wanted to write down some ideas I thought of so I'm gonna drop this here.
Free for all would be a big change from standard 5v5 battles. Where working as a team has always been the optimal way to play, you're being sent out on a suicide mission: take down the other 9. We could use a couple bigger maps for this, but the current maps could work as well, for smaller numbers of players depending on the size.
A few stat modifications would be necessary (or at least awesome) to work for this type of battle.
- 1% hp regen per 5 seconds
- +10% speed
- +15% agility
- 70% visibility distance
- firing airborne projectile weapons brings this back to 100% for 3 seconds (does not include mines or repair boxes)
- +50% base hp
That's a lot of hp, but you need this when you have a ton of opponents and no backup. You also need to be quicker in general, because you WILL get into very tight situations quick, and often. The built in bandage provides decent sustainability for everyone to be able to fight on after emerging victorious over a mini battle. And of course, our detection radius must be smaller so we don't immediately spot each other right at the beginning of the match. This could be justified with it always being night, heavy weather, or fog.
In general, we're gonna need better ships if we're going solo. The bushes should also hide players (by reducing their visibility to 25%).
More on the topic of adjusting the number of players to suit the maps for free for all, why are our battles always 5v5? I think if there aren't as many suitable players online, 3v3 or 4v4 would also be cool. I think that added flexibility could help smooth matchmaking a bit.
Another cool thing for free for all would be doubles, consisting of 2-5 teams of 2. This would be the fleeting equivalent for free for all and should follow the same rules.
Capture? Definitely. It is still necessary to fulfill its purpose: to keep us fighting over something.
I think that's all I got. Thanks for reading.
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