Bit of Arms of Telos chatter on "The Z Axis" podcast ep 6

JustinPierce 2015-09-23 14:11:51 UTC #1

Continuing the discussion from Projectile Inheritance in Arms of Telos:

AoT talk starts around 15:40 but the whole thing is worth a listen

I thought their discussion on what less experienced players gravitate toward was interesting. Larger playercounts, reduced pressure to perform, can basically do whatever they want, options to contribute without killing (focus on deployables etc). For AoT, I'm wary about variant playercounts but I've always liked the idea of play styles that don't depend on aiming skills.

Pumpelche 2015-09-23 15:57:04 UTC #2

Good point mentioned this one here too about the lower skilled players, etc. to attract bigger mass of players.
And my stunning idea of a lore that supports this, nobody seems to jump on but me.

In short: like Hearthstone, do a monthly ranking - class or weapon wise. Then, the person who's leading this ranking has special colored projectile trails and explosion colors. All former "champions" (yes, I'd call it the championates) keep forever that specific color to weapon/class and maybe even a glow to the armor or similar.

Triggers eager to achieve, voyeurism. It's just too cool, right? ... Right? =)

JustinPierce 2015-09-23 16:02:23 UTC #3

I like that idea, but I haven't seen how Hearthstone does it. A little worried it'd be like Destiny's daily bounties in that it'd basically mess up the meta. Everybody got the same bounties each day, which means if there was a bounty for handcannon kills, every game had a bunch of handcannons and nobody was really playing the matches optimally.

What I like about these sorts of things is that it entices players to try out stuff they'd normally ignore, so I've tried to think of ways to make it a win win. I think it'll be tricky, but I have some ideas to play around with