Carcasses Disappear After Taking Some Damage

The Situation

Just pulled off an epic stand on the last point of escort as NF.

We wouldn't've won without some very good grens, but certain portions of the match were very boring because BE couldn't push past a pile of dead APCs clogging a chokepoint. I definitely wasn't the douchebag causing it... ​

The Exploit

If you decon a carcass just a little every few seconds, the carcass can stay on the field for much longer than it should because the despawn timer keeps resetting.​

The Solution

Let a team do damage to their carcasses from the same HP pool that we currently recycle them from.​

The Benefits

The exploit is patched and a team can strategically deny their enemy the chance to decon carcasses.​

 

I say this is an EXCELLENT use of an intentional design decision. It just sucks on escort.

 

By "excellent use," you mean "exploit," right?

Yes, it mostly only fucks up escort, but we can't adopt it a la 9-mine. These are the kind of things that make this a hard game for people to learn.

 

I can write a book about those "excellent uses".

You just have too many of them in Empires.

 

Make carcasses take damage like any other prop.

there, escort unfucked. Took me whole 2 seconds.

 

if they take damage the carcasses should keep their armor levels when they die so they have to breach the armor in order to kill it while we decon it.

 

That's actually pretty fucking cool. It's intuitive as fuck and really damn cool. I wish this shit could get implemented.

 

Activate bio armor carcases, GO! lol some kinda bug will keep the carcass regenerated as they try to decon it.

 

I thought you were talking about putting the recycling goodies in the chassis and keeping whatever kind of armor still on the carcass. Recyclers would go past armor just like they do now with deconning vehicles. It's the people destroying the carcass that might have trouble (if it had regen).

 

It's not an exploit if it helps my team winning. - ©Trickster

 

I want to cry because you're so damn right...

 

Yes that was my intent... I was just saying... watch them add that in and have some kinda bug do what I said.

 

And then we'll keep the bug because it causes some quirky ass "strategic" exploit excellent use.

 

I guess no one else likes the idea based on the lack of commenting.

 

Is the idea plausible? Yes.
Will it improve gameplay? Potentially.
Is it worth implementing? Yes.





Will it happen? Probably not.

That, I'm afraid, is the sad reality which we face.

 

Welcome to the Empires Suggestions section!

Suggestion thread 1: No.
Suggestion thread 2: Would break game but good idea
Suggestion thread 2.1: Nah would unbalance teams
Suggestion thread 3: FUCK NO.
Suggestion thread 4: Get the fuck out
Suggestion thread 5: Lol noob
Suggestion thread 2.2: Lol decent idea but we cant add it because of stupid shit.
Suggestion thread 6: Nah
Suggestion thread 7: Nope
Suggestion thread 8: Actually, yes. Yes this suggestion is good and could be implemented, but it never will.

 

If nothing else, now everyone is aware of this "excellent use" and we can use it to drive away new players even faster!

 

I'd help develop Empires if I was competent enough as a programmer.

 

I'd help develop Empires if I weren't a lazy bastard.