Player controlled drones on large servers
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The Lighter Side of Pessimism Join Date: 2002-03-02 Member: 263Members, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
The Lighter Side of Pessimism Join Date: 2002-03-02 Member: 263Members, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
In large servers, having ~10 v 10 battles gives an entirely different experience to play on smaller servers, and to competitive/gather play.
It'd be interesting if each team had a limit to the number of players they could have on the field at once - say 6-8. The players that were waiting to respawn as actual marines/aliens, would instead respawn as low health drones with a shorter respawn timer. On a 24 player server, a team would have 6-8 "players" + 4-6 drones.
The alien drones would be nibblers with 10 hp & a bite that did 15 dmg.
The marine drones would be flying drones, with 10 hp and a shotgun that did 10 dmg.
[EDIT] The drones would probably spawn directly from hives and command chairs.
Perhaps with the marine drones also being able to spawn from robotics factories.
It'd be interesting if each team had a limit to the number of players they could have on the field at once - say 6-8. The players that were waiting to respawn as actual marines/aliens, would instead respawn as low health drones with a shorter respawn timer. On a 24 player server, a team would have 6-8 "players" + 4-6 drones.
The alien drones would be nibblers with 10 hp & a bite that did 15 dmg.
The marine drones would be flying drones, with 10 hp and a shotgun that did 10 dmg.
[EDIT] The drones would probably spawn directly from hives and command chairs.
Perhaps with the marine drones also being able to spawn from robotics factories.
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