CQC CQC, Mode which is twitch based, no powerups.

[TheMegaTurnip]

Please can we get a mode that is about skill, and not who gets to the powerups first?

Seems a little bit weird that a twitch based game gets "powerups".

Personally I feel it takes something out of the experience having players who fly round in a loop, grabbing the powerups and only attack when they have them. Or just sit on them constantly.

Why ruin a skill based game with gimmicky poop?

ta, o7

 

[Hanerib]

Powerups add structure to the game, and an element of strategy, in theory. It prevents players from just staying in one spot for the length of a game, which is exactly what happens in games with mostly new players. Experienced players start this powerup chasing game, and its gimmicky sometimes, but works in larger games. I would guess they even designed sidewinders to sit next to powerups, in team deathmatches anyway, which of course doesn't happen. I would try shuffling powerups, that could make situational awareness bigger factor than memorizing fields. It wouldn't even change anything really. Or maybe not, I don't know, throw a few thargoids in there or something.

 

[Sir Judas]

I don't like those silly magic circles either. They're just a bit too arcade-ish for my taste, even SF tech shouldn't stretch suspension-of-disbelief quite so much. Also, the damage and stealth ones seem particularly OP to me. Using them gives such an advantage, I sometimes feel like it makes me choose between wanting to win and wanting to get some satisfaction out of my efforts.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

They're not so bad in a full match with only experienced players - picking up damage is likely to get you focused and killed, while stealth has enough counters to be manageable (in TDM/CTF it's much more of a defensive powerup than an offensive one, as firing reveals you to the entire opposing team). I've won a fair number of top-level deathmatches without picking up weapons once ... and there are much better players than me who can do that consistently.

Where they don't work at all is in mixed-ability matches or matches with only a few players, where they just magnify any existing skill differences, and you have to pick them up if nothing else so that your opponents can't.

 

[SushiCW]

They could use some tweaking, but overall they add more than they take away. Managing the powerups is also a skill, and adds a tactical layer.

There's a reason nearly every "Deathmatch" game since the dawn of time has them.