Hi, I'm tickle! Most of you reading this probably know me, but I'm very interested in the experience of newer and mid level players, and so I figure a quick statement of two relevant titles might be worthwhile. I host War Wednesdays and am a head admin on the Hawken TeamSpeak - both very open and public items.
I've always been a bit interested in how Hawken would feel with a raised or lowered Time To Kill (TTK), and now I have the ability to do this with essentially full sized deathmatches.
Recently the Hawken TeamSpeak (in game) server was updated to allow a total of 24 players in it at any given time. (The TeamSpeak itself is open to 150.)
Now, as you might be aware, friendly fire is an option on private servers - and along with it, the option to modify how much damage friendlies give you. (Strangely, global damage modifiers are not an option [Josh plz] and as such, I'm limited to having 12 people all on one team kill each other in a free for all for these tests, and cannot effectively make teams for either TDM or objective based games. Much sad.)
Initially, I just thought a "hardcore" mode would just be fun to mess with. (Super low TTKs [was thinking slug reaper and slug SS only, with two shot kills on the reaper and three shot kills on the SS - one burst of both weapons plus one or two slugs to kill a reaper and SS respectively] no radar, and no HUD) I still think that'd be neat. But one of the things I've always wanted to try to do was bring back a bit more of the heaviness in Hawken (JOSH NEW SOUNDS PLZ) and I can do that a little bit by setting the friendly damage modifier to any percentage less than 100% and switching everyone to one team. I can decrease the TTK by setting that percentage to >100%.
So, for the next couple weeks, I'd like to dedicate the hour before War Wednesdays to experimenting with this. I'll provide surveys, snacks, and beer - the latter two for myself only - and try and compile some limited data on how people enjoy things going one way or another.
This post will probably be updated.
PS - I've yet to try this at all, and would be quite interested in getting some experience before running the tests. I'll have availability most of today and tomorrow if anyone wants to get some people together.
PSS - You DO get points for killing your teammates, but are ONLY rewarded XP. Unfortunately, no HC is awarded at the end of the matches.
Edited by ticklemyiguana, 16 June 2015 - 01:14 PM.
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