GBMM Suggestion

[real ice]

Probably the best way to do GBMM could be to attach matchmaking "points" to items, like tier 1 cabins would give 5 points, tier 2 cabins like 20 points, whatever, add up all the compartment points, all the points from items on the players, and at the end lets say its like 200 points for your crew, and so you queue it up with people within +-50% (example) and so it would be a range of 100-300 points. With this it would also not be "tier-locked" lobbies, think this could be the best probably? And ofc for example with HIGHER points, 1k points queue up with idk like percentage based +-20%, so that would be like 800-1.2k range.

GBMM Suggestion

[brave perch]

Then what is the point of having a good trampler? you will just face more difficult opponents, you might as well just run a full basic build with all experimental cannons then

[chilly jay]

People like to fight and stuff right? What if there was a feature where if a trampler was significantly higher gear rating than yours you could have a rough estimation of their location on the map

Then players with massive tramplers can feel like mini bosses people try to hunt

[brave perch]

they should make the smoke scale with that point system. i dont love a system that just tells people where you are

[chilly jay]

I mentioned rough area. It require a person to look at the map. If the smoke stack gets easier to see I think that would be easier to find them

[brave perch]

rough area? thats like exactly the problem. you just have to go to that area and then you can see the smoke. That might aswell an alam box

[chilly jay]

It also would only give your location to people weaker than you. So the ones it gives it to should not be able to beat you in a head to head

[brave perch]

you can also just tell based on where the area is moving when inside it they are

[chilly jay]

I mean most of the time those large tramplers grab radio boxes, so I’m not sure it is a big change to current things myself

[brave perch]

the difference is that you have more info than just a radio box. now you know who is carrying it

[chilly jay]

But the main reason for making a gear based matchmaking is to help people at lower gear levels not get curb stomped by ones with far higher gear levels

[clever geyser]

lul

2 days

[chilly jay]

Though some people like to punch up as well

[clever geyser]

ppl already crying about gear diff

[chilly jay]

I am against fully removing the gear diff

[clever geyser]

wipe day people crying about gear diff

n00bs crying

always will

jst be quiet

if its possible

[chilly jay]

I want to be able to bring in a small trampler with one gun and try to hunt a massive one occasionally

[brave perch]

Yeah that can and should be done with speed penalties for heavy tramplers

[chilly jay]

Speed isn’t implemented yet. That’s going to happen at some point regardless. But it’s a feature already that exists which simply hasn’t been implemented

[clever geyser]

speed up small tramplers

nerfing big

is bad

[brave perch]

yeah base speed should be 50

going down

[chilly jay]

I don’t think any tramplers need to be faster. They are already too fast in my opinion

[clever geyser]

you people know nothing

[chilly jay]

I could see smaller tramplers speed boost lasting longer though

[brave perch]

yeah idk about you but i dont wanna cross map in a trampler going 35

[clever geyser]

he is low iq

waste of time

obvious brain afk

crying about gear diff minute 1

then types this nonsense

[chilly jay]

This game isn’t cod bro

[clever geyser]

cod no gear diff

go play

[chilly jay]

Not everyone wants a spaztastic ads simulator based on reaction timing and nothing else

[clever geyser]

1 trillion years old dinosaur typing this

for sure

thinks massive trampler right now is spastic ads simulator

why am i still typing

i don't know

[brave perch]

i mean something has to be done. what can the grumpy default walker even try to do against this

[clever geyser]

speed up small

obvious choice

[brave perch]

yeah. But i would like the smokestack to be bigger so you could avoid earlier and not let the gap be closed by the richer players modified rods

[clever geyser]

that is fine

[brave perch]

we took in like 10 in a voyage on slam and nobody could get away

[clever geyser]

10 rods

only?

[brave perch]

10 modified

[brave perch]

yellow rods

[clever geyser]

ah

i mean 10 yellow rods

[chilly jay]

If you speed up small walkers the only thing that will happen is people will shove them full of rams and shotguns and rush people point blank. It would defeat the purpose of the games core game loop.

Larger tramplers will be getting made slower, that’s already been stated to be in the works.
I could see smaller tramplers getting longer speed boosts from rods, or the duration of the speed boost being based on fuel efficiency. But that’s a different discussion from GBMM

[errant perch]

changing smokestacks is a weird thing to do imo

they would need to change every smokestack to make sure they're distinct - you can alr tell if it's a player by thin smoke and corpses by thick smoke

Also what abt ppl with smokeless rods? those ppl tend to be tramplers with big designs anyways so changing smokestacks would do nothing for that

[brave perch]

How is that wierd in any way? it makes perfect sense. A larger heavier trampler would need more power to be driven, which in turn makes the smoke cloud bigger

[errant perch]

i don't mean in terms of realism - i just mean that they would have to redo all the smokestacks

[brave perch]

make them rarer

[brave perch]

no they would just need to increase the lifetime of the particles as they go upwards. its not a hard change

[brave perch]

also you can tell the differance by more than width of the smoke. corpse smoke just kinda whafts upwards, while reactor smoke blooms upwards alot faster

[errant perch]

rlly? thought all the smokestacks r the same height

[brave perch]

yeah they are. so they just have to increase the height based on trampler scrap cost, which is very easy to do

[real ice]

well make experimentals give a very high score, so then ur up against ur weak trampler + exp cannons vs armored tramplers with worn cannons, you'd probably lose

[real ice]

I mean either way the devs said they are working on a gear based mm, this is just a suggestion on how they could make it

[clever geyser]

you don't play the game and its blatantly obvious

shotgun cannons are flat out useless outside of slugs.then they are just an 80mm

[chilly jay]

lol bro I was just in us central in 3 man’s last night where we killed 7 walkers in a row. We were so busy fighting that the first walkers we killed began to de spawn before we finished looting them as we were killing new arrivals in voyage

Ask any of our 21 victims from that match if I play

[chilly jay]

I don’t understand what your obsession is with trying to insult someone as a method of reinforcing your arguments either. It is a logical fallacy that is not conductive to discussion. If you cannot have a discussion without the use of ad hominems then I will simply cease engaging with you.

You have done it multiple times now.

[clever geyser]

you don't engage with any argument. and you spout nonsense, saying you don't play is not an insult just a fact.