I think this is the main reason CQC have become deserted. While implementing bots might make CQC more accessible, I think a better solution would be better communication channels for players. Problem now is that people don't know if other players is queuing. While the CQC discord channel makes it possible for communication between players, this is not used by most players. If there were some sort of CQC chat channel in the main game, it would be easier for players to queue at the same time. It would also be nice with a CQC chat channel the moment you open Arena, in order for communcation between players that is queuing at a given moment.
I think this is the main reason CQC have become deserted. While implementing bots might make CQC more accessible, I think a better solution would be better communication channels for players. Problem now is that people don't know if other players is queuing. While the CQC discord channel makes it possible for communication between players, this is not used by most players. If there were some sort of CQC chat channel in the main game, it would be easier for players to queue at the same time. It would also be nice with a CQC chat channel the moment you open Arena, in order for communcation between players that is queuing at a given moment.
there needs to be somthing simlare to E-sports, i mean CQC is a sport, and yess there is the discord, but if peopleopenly stream, YT and play it, maybe it'll become a litte more full
The AI does not use cheats like that...sadly , IMO they should. they just dont stand a chance against a player.
During 2.1 what I loved was that 80% of viper vs viper fights would end up with the victor only having 5% hull left.
I just have not had a epic 1v1 fight outside of PvP.
The NPC dodges via random direction I think , but they have yet to use FA/OFF but they dont target subsystems , they dont boost when needed they dont change direction out of the blue they just sort of sit there and act like canon fodder
Persistent universe rewards? outside of a few creds maybe.
Maybe offer some special upgrades or skins. (sidegrades rather than outright upgrades)
I think PC/Xb1/PS4 crossplay would help.
Betting on players with a spectator mode would be cool and maybe a 1v1 mode.
needs too much effort.
they might lose target but not 'awareness' of where you are. but the point illustrates that adding bots will involve considerable effort. one other particular problem is that cqc combat model is different from the base game's, meaning have to develop/evolve the same system twice.
i recall the same, but there were also some short lived changes around that period that made npc more active, as opposed to just hanging there spinning like whales, which was what they were doing at that point. i.e., at some point the ai was pretty decent, then for some reason turned absolutely dumb, then those changes came, then they went away and the engineers rage happened (which was reportedly a unexpected deployment bug, got fixed, but use of mods also restricted to higher rank npcs).
that's the crux of the issue. i just think cqc has been dumped for good by the marketing dept, after the experience.
hey, we need obsidian ant to make a video!
it would be indeed nice but dunno how this would attract more players.
this!
i proposed this long ago. regardless of forum whine, people love to grind if you just throw anything at them. it's also the standard frontier solution to force activities (see pp, engineers, ...). and there's many possibilities: modules, discounts, skins, engineer mats, reputation ... (just please do not invent yet another 'currency'!)
this would be by far the cheapest and most effective solution to increase cqc population, which would increase chances of matchmaking actually working, which would in turn attract even more players.
maybe if you say Fdev three times in the forum they appear....
"FDev"
"FDev"
"FDev"
and lets hope this works...
Be careful. It can end up like in "Candyman"....
I think NPCs have access to both pip management and sub targets. How they actually use it is another story though.
They use pips , I remeber there was a bug once because they would not change the pips in combat (or something like that)I think NPCs have access to both pip management and sub targets. How they actually use it is another story though.
But I remeber reading a while back that they dont use subtargts , but they will hit them from time to time due to ''luck''
There was a patch note a while back saying subsystem targeting was being disabled for NPCs. (one of the 2.1 point releases)
I haven't lost shields to once recently so I can't tell if it's been put back since or not...
One way you could have the luxury of admiring the scenery is if you could host friendly matches. That couldn't be as much work as adding bots.
I do understand that there's no such thing as an easy change, but just a little bit of love and attention to a feature you've already implemented doesn't seem too much to ask.
Same reason bots are not in most modern FPS games sadly.
Yeah you'd think Frontier will add a new visible queue system and/or NPC queue fillers. I believe/hope an update will be added in the new season model to combine a lot of new features. Good hunting
I think bots would solve two problems, one heavily discussed, and one less so.
The one we've all talked about is the problem finding a game.
The one that doesn't get talked about is the new player experience. After all this time, the CQC playerbase consists mostly of people who have been playing it for years and are very good at it (this isn't an attack on them, they all seem like very nice people in the Discord!). That means that any new player who does manage to find a game is likely to spend their first several sessions getting curbstomped by veterans, which can be demotivating. AI opponents would give newbies an easier opponent to learn the ropes against.
These are good ideas (and I imagine would be really easy to implement)
The one we've all talked about is the problem finding a game.
The one that doesn't get talked about is the new player experience. After all this time, the CQC playerbase consists mostly of people who have been playing it for years and are very good at it (this isn't an attack on them, they all seem like very nice people in the Discord!). That means that any new player who does manage to find a game is likely to spend their first several sessions getting curbstomped by veterans, which can be demotivating. AI opponents would give newbies an easier opponent to learn the ropes against.
These are good ideas (and I imagine would be really easy to implement)
Especially with the in game crew fighter pilots, the ai part is already done.
Necromancy is my favorite school of magic as well.
Well i want to experience the crushing defeat of fdev ignoring all my wishes for them to do minimal work and make something usable, first hand so im looking for all the cqc ideas i think are good and seeing what others think and if there is still interest in them.