Odyssey - Should it include a player revive option?

[JosiahD]

No details announced about how the mechanics work when a player dies on foot / in combat.

But do you think FDev should consider the option to revive wingmates? I even recall a game like Lord Of The Rings Online has that option haha!

Should we be able to revive a fallen team mate - or will lamesauce holo-me ship respawns take precedent?

Thoughts and feelings and buckets of salt below chaps...

I'd like to see something like in Division 2. While in a group, you're only downed and can be revived by a team member, but once the last team member is also downed, or when you're solo, you respawn in the nearest safe location (probably your or the Wing leader's ship or a nearby settlement in this case). I don't think there's any choice but to suspend belief and have such a mechanic, short of a hardcore mode.

 

[JosiahD]

Revive's, I vote NO. If you die, your suit in Odyssey's case most likely has been destroyed, like your ship in Horizons, so what would a revive accomplish. If you die, it is rebuy time... back to the last station/base/camp/outpost/settlement/jungle hut with you. Some penalty (time and location) for dying, revive is just a cheap mechanic to save time, and have no penalty for dying, in my opinion.

I wonder what FDev will pick. My bet is on rebuy screen.

I could live with a rebuy screen as a respawn instead of revive, but you know how vocal some will be about it delaying getting back into the action (ie COD or Battlefield style). You're probably right though in that the rebuy is what we have if we get destroyed in our ships, with a flight back to the CZ or whatever, so on foot probably should be similar. So the question may not be one of what happens on death but rather what is our survivability like so as to avoid death in the first place (just like it is with ships).

 

[Troopi]

As long as they don't spawn the cops right on your back...

 

[tolm]

Biggest issue will be how to explain whatever the solution is from a “lore” perspective. I mean, it’s always been slightly tenuous that there is a “magic escape capsule” that takes you to the most recent port you docked at when your ship is destroyed but that only takes a little bit of belief suspension ... likewise fighters being telepresence controlled, er, okay ... SRVs? Not too sure on that one ... but once your CMDR has been crushed at the base of a canyon, rammed by an anaconda or had themselves and their spacesuit evaporated by laser fire? How on earth do you explain the resurrection for that one in our “realistic“ Elite galaxy?! Unless we‘re all Bruce Willis in Surrogates now?