FPS Buff

[naive basin]

Thoughts on buffing the player when taking an FPS role? Making them hit a little harder and be a little less squishy than the other two legged bretheren?

• Same goes when you are the low tier bugs too!

[latent tree]

i honestly think fps players should start as commandos instead of scouts and have the accuracy of their weapons buffed

and in turn i think player bugs should start as impalers as the crabs are super lame lol

also i think @thick siren should copy paste what she has mentioned about acquiring vics from command as i really like the suggestion they come up with

[thick siren]

I made that a suggestion

Personally, I would want a class system similar to BF, but idk how that would look for bugs

just seperate the FPS players from actual AI infantry, cuz they can do more conplex actions

[latent tree]

i think bugs need more smaller combat units to spam that are cheaper

impalers in my mind are our commandos

[thick siren]

well like have the AI units as the current classes, but have an actual class system for the players

[latent tree]

but we also dont get a small unit for anti tank stuff other then crabs that we need like 20 of them per tank which at that point the cost efficiency is ass

ahhh

i see

[thick siren]

you know like how in battlefield you have the assault, support, medic, and recon

something like that

[latent tree]

well one thing we could do for bugs is make a custom unit thats like a nest praetorian guard or something that can either be tanky, fast, or ranged

ill leave the suggestions for infantry upto the people that play it more

[thick siren]

these would be classes any fps player could spawn as once the barracks is installed,

that way its not at the very begining

[latent tree]

instead of classes what about if they could make custom loadouts?

[thick siren]

well thats pretty much what i mean

[latent tree]

cause i believe gadgets and nades are coming at some point

ah i thought you mean classes as in what we have already but you pre select them from spawn

[thick siren]

yup

so like recon could help the commander recon the map

the assault could squad up infantry with them

a medic to help heal fellow infantry

[latent tree]

i think recon as a tool should get a personal short range teleporter or give it to the commando so they can actually move around quicker and safer

[thick siren]

hell you could have a non combat class focused entirely on gathering resources

like a class focused on building and mining

and literally just helps the commander build the base and get resources

[latent tree]

i think when you prospect a spot that spot should receive a buff to the amount you mine as well

[thick siren]

yeah

[past jetty]

engineer. maybe help with repairing vehicles too

[thick siren]

well i was thinking that would be a seperate class

[glad canopy]

for the bugs you could look at some of the old avp games? the alien drones had different classes as well

[thick siren]

ic ic

[latent tree]

i was thinking of something more along the lines of a smaller tyrranid swarm lord from 40k that could either focus on ranged, melee, support, or mobility

[thick siren]

ohhhhh boy

honestly im up for that

XD

[thick siren]

i was partially thinking about what if all the infantry was just players

and they increased the player count

cuz they have 32v32 in arena dont they?

[latent tree]

i think the game performance would suffer if they did that

not to mention that would limit the humans in defense capability and make it so bug commanders can easily come up with a ratio to figure out how many of said things they need to counter the human infantry

[thick siren]

yeah i gotcha

was just a thought

[glad canopy]

we could do something like that tho if we did a mode like old bf4 commander mode? where the infantry is fighting and the commander is in charge of giving orders (suggestions basically) and providing off map support/ resupply

[thick siren]

I would say that for other modes, not specifically the strategy mode

[red reef]

also then that would remove the RTS part of it tbh

there is a mode i think that is that but i came for the RTS mixed with FPS, not having ai infantry would be very annoying.

[thick siren]

I do still feel like it would be nice to have an increase in player count

[red reef]

Everyone thinks so, however that could cause issues with the current servers. Dedicated servers with raised playercounts are planned to my knowledge.

[jaunty heron]

I think it should slightly buff whatever unit an fps player controls in damage/health and have some sort of indicator that a human player is controlling it

[red reef]

You can tell when a human is controlling it because their names show over the unit

[jaunty heron]

I’m talking about when playing as an fps player