Let´s redefine "as real as it gets"
First the introduction. This thread is pure brainstorming, with my own ideas to improve Infiltration and try to convert it in the most realistic and intense experience in fps gaming. You can suggest your thoughts about these ideas, you can criticize them or simply you can write your own ideas about how should be Infiltration.
i think that some of these features could be coded in Inf2.9 in the shape of mutators. In fact, is someone want to develop these ideas, he will have all my sympathy. Others, perhaps too many, i doubt a lot that it can be implement in the actual engine of UT, therefore you should read them like suggestions for the new, future version (in FC engine?
).
How Infiltration should be?
-When the players join to a game, they enter in a special briefing status. They can move in the map with the ghost cam (useful for the newbies, to learn the layout) and each team can speak. One of the benefits of this briefing is to make a plan attack, to speak and design the tactics of the round and coordinate well the action. And also, in this status the players will choose the commander/sargeant/officer/another-military-rank-more-suitable. They vote a player to choose the commander. If there is tie, ppl can change his vote. The game will begin when both commanders choose to begin thanks to a order in the quick menu. If none was chosed after the maximum briefing status time the game will choose the commander randomly between the ppl with more votes.
-And what can the commander do? He can plan the tactic to use, with the rest of the team, of course. The difference in this gametype/mutator/whatever the players should/must obey the commander´s orders, both in briefings and while they are fighting. You know, like in RL. If someone ignores completely the orders and go alone to emulate Rambo, the commander can kick him. Yes, the commander can kick a player of their team without more votes. Also, in the briefing, the commander can choose the loadouts of their teammates (players can choose his own loadout, but if the commander choose something, it will have priority).
-The loadout will have limits about the number and types of weapons. I suppose this aspect could be set up by the server setting. The most esencial settings it should be:
+Only a primary weapon per loadout. Weight/bulk doesn´t important, in RL i don´t see soldiers carrying 2 or 3 rifles..
+Only an 'special' weapon per team. Examples: 1 sniper rifle/team or 1 hk69 per team. I doubt a lot that an avergae platoon with 7 soldiers have 7 sniper rifles.
-Without respawns. Only 1 life.
-The team with high score in the end of the round wins. There is 3 basic ways to modify the score of your team:
+killing an enemy - your team wins 1 point
+be killed (by enemy or TK) - your team loses 1 point
Imagine that you kill two tangos, but a bit after you are killed and the nade in your hand blow up and kills to a near mate. Your team will have in the end the same score (+2 -2 = 0)
+reach a primary objetive, like invade tuscany´s villa for attackers, or end the round without the villa occupied by attackers for defenders - your team wins 4-5 points (it depends from number of objetives, the mapper should decide it)
+reach a secundary objetive - your team wins 1-3 points.
+The attackers team only begins to lose points by deaths when 25% of their team has died. Example: in a eight players team, if they end the round with only 3 soldiers alive (this is, 5 deaths), they have -3, instead of -5 (25% of 8 = 2).
This is because is more understandable to military headquarters and such to lose soldiers when the mission is to attack a defended position.
-wounds should affect the aim skill very deeply.
-Severe wounds (when a player has 50% or less of hit points) will cause bleeding. The bleeding will always decrease the hit points bit a bit. When a player has a severe wound, the best he can do is go to the evacuation point, surely in his own spawn point. why? When he arrives to the spawn point, the soldier (and the player!) is withdrawn of the round. Then at least his team will not lose 1 point, that´s the point (not pun intended).
If it can be programmed (not in this engine, i think), when the soldier´s health reach a point (20%??) he will go prone automatically and other teammates could take him to the evac. point.
-Perhaps a new item: the first aid kit. It will reduce the bleeding rate in a 50-70% (but it doesn´t heal hit points or stops the bleeding!!). Only makes it more slow. Thanks to this, it should be more easy to reach the evac. point.
Well, for now, these are my ideas. You can see that it can produce huge amounts of teamwork, cooperation and trust in your teammates. Like in RL. ;D
First the introduction. This thread is pure brainstorming, with my own ideas to improve Infiltration and try to convert it in the most realistic and intense experience in fps gaming. You can suggest your thoughts about these ideas, you can criticize them or simply you can write your own ideas about how should be Infiltration.
i think that some of these features could be coded in Inf2.9 in the shape of mutators. In fact, is someone want to develop these ideas, he will have all my sympathy. Others, perhaps too many, i doubt a lot that it can be implement in the actual engine of UT, therefore you should read them like suggestions for the new, future version (in FC engine?
).How Infiltration should be?
-When the players join to a game, they enter in a special briefing status. They can move in the map with the ghost cam (useful for the newbies, to learn the layout) and each team can speak. One of the benefits of this briefing is to make a plan attack, to speak and design the tactics of the round and coordinate well the action. And also, in this status the players will choose the commander/sargeant/officer/another-military-rank-more-suitable. They vote a player to choose the commander. If there is tie, ppl can change his vote. The game will begin when both commanders choose to begin thanks to a order in the quick menu. If none was chosed after the maximum briefing status time the game will choose the commander randomly between the ppl with more votes.
-And what can the commander do? He can plan the tactic to use, with the rest of the team, of course. The difference in this gametype/mutator/whatever the players should/must obey the commander´s orders, both in briefings and while they are fighting. You know, like in RL. If someone ignores completely the orders and go alone to emulate Rambo, the commander can kick him. Yes, the commander can kick a player of their team without more votes. Also, in the briefing, the commander can choose the loadouts of their teammates (players can choose his own loadout, but if the commander choose something, it will have priority).
-The loadout will have limits about the number and types of weapons. I suppose this aspect could be set up by the server setting. The most esencial settings it should be:
+Only a primary weapon per loadout. Weight/bulk doesn´t important, in RL i don´t see soldiers carrying 2 or 3 rifles..
+Only an 'special' weapon per team. Examples: 1 sniper rifle/team or 1 hk69 per team. I doubt a lot that an avergae platoon with 7 soldiers have 7 sniper rifles.
-Without respawns. Only 1 life.
-The team with high score in the end of the round wins. There is 3 basic ways to modify the score of your team:
+killing an enemy - your team wins 1 point
+be killed (by enemy or TK) - your team loses 1 point
Imagine that you kill two tangos, but a bit after you are killed and the nade in your hand blow up and kills to a near mate. Your team will have in the end the same score (+2 -2 = 0)
+reach a primary objetive, like invade tuscany´s villa for attackers, or end the round without the villa occupied by attackers for defenders - your team wins 4-5 points (it depends from number of objetives, the mapper should decide it)
+reach a secundary objetive - your team wins 1-3 points.
+The attackers team only begins to lose points by deaths when 25% of their team has died. Example: in a eight players team, if they end the round with only 3 soldiers alive (this is, 5 deaths), they have -3, instead of -5 (25% of 8 = 2).
This is because is more understandable to military headquarters and such to lose soldiers when the mission is to attack a defended position.
-wounds should affect the aim skill very deeply.
-Severe wounds (when a player has 50% or less of hit points) will cause bleeding. The bleeding will always decrease the hit points bit a bit. When a player has a severe wound, the best he can do is go to the evacuation point, surely in his own spawn point. why? When he arrives to the spawn point, the soldier (and the player!) is withdrawn of the round. Then at least his team will not lose 1 point, that´s the point (not pun intended).
If it can be programmed (not in this engine, i think), when the soldier´s health reach a point (20%??) he will go prone automatically and other teammates could take him to the evac. point.
-Perhaps a new item: the first aid kit. It will reduce the bleeding rate in a 50-70% (but it doesn´t heal hit points or stops the bleeding!!). Only makes it more slow. Thanks to this, it should be more easy to reach the evac. point.
Well, for now, these are my ideas. You can see that it can produce huge amounts of teamwork, cooperation and trust in your teammates. Like in RL. ;D
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