feature request

[tmp500]

dunno if this is the right place for this but i would like to see two things in beta
1: players being marked in some way in the lobby when their ping is too high for a smooth game play. ill let the devs come up with a ping number where it doesnt make sense to start the game...

2: wind forces that flamers get unpredictable a neat arrow on the minimap that one can see which direction the wind is coming from. i dont want to start a balance topic thread here but yes.... i think... flamers.... u know the rest...

3: prevent offending usernames. i dont need to see illiterate kids choosing nicks from mass murders, dictators - in general people who violated human rights such as adolf hitler, joseph goebbels, stalin, augusto pinochet, etc... i know this list is endless, but it would be a good start if there would be a system that prevent the most obvious names.advertising racism in general leaves a very bad aftertaste in real life and in a war game.

[Shadow Wolf TJC]

1. Sounds reasonable enough.

2. It would probably make the game less fun for alot of people, myself included. I mean, isn't this game already fun enough as is without having to worry about wind speed or wind direction?

[Jorzi]

@suggestion 2: it's very hard to do that effect in a convincing way. What essentially happens is that the wind catches the flames and evaporated fuel very easily while the liquid napalm stream is relatively unafected. This means that the "projectile" still flies fairly straight while the damage is strongly directional. Considering the overall simplified mechanics in warzone, this would seem a bit overdone.

[effigy]

You're first suggestion sounds great to me

[NoQ]

Yeah, it does make sense in 3.1+, because now the gameplay experience is more or less related to the ping. On the other hand, i didn't have any seriously unplayable 3.1+ games yet. Probably i just don't play often enough (:

[tmp500]

i see.... maybe there is another way to balance flamers in case i'm not the only one who feels about them...


edit: guess now i started a balance thread.... pls lock this thread

[effigy]

Yeah, it does make sense in 3.1+, because now the gameplay experience is more or less related to the ping. On the other hand, i didn't have any seriously unplayable 3.1+ games yet. Probably i just don't play often enough (:

Yeah, I've had a few recently were I was glad to have in game kick back. It takes some time to for the game to get going again, but at least it doesn't freeze permanently or have sync issues because of lag.

[Emdek]

Showing ping value (number colored in green, yellow or red) should be quite easy to do and for me is more like bug that it is not shown in version which gameplay experience really depends on it's value.