This is something I thought long and hard about writing on list, because if people take it the wrong way, either it'll seem like a complaint or it'll make people complain, which is really annoying.
I finally thought that it'd be ok, because what the heck. The good outweighs potential bad. I've been thinking about something. Right now, swamp has one person carrying around six rather large weapons. Nothing new there. It's a standard of FPS. Also, there's the one character voice. What if there were voice acted out several different male and female voice sets to choose from. These would have the injury/death sounds but they'd also include simple stuff like yes, no, follow me, wait here, I'm out of ammo, and so forth. That way, people could actually cooperate without having to type a lot of stuff. Also, as far as characters go, this was what I thought. What if there was at the beginning a selection screen for character types which would all have a .45 ACP pistol and some melee weapon of some type but whose other weapons would differ. I was thinking melee, pistol, primary, and secondary. There would, of course, be some overlap, and if this was implemented you'd no longer pick up weapons, but the character selection could be on some maps or as an option etc. Soldier: knife, pistol, assault rifle, and sniper rifle (Knife is fast but short, sniper rifle is long range and holds only one bullet but does high damage.) Policeman: baton, pistol, shotgun, and mp5 Outdoorsman: axe, pistol, hunting rifle, and shotgun (axe is relatively longrange melee) Assassin: sword, pistol, sniper rifle, and crossbow (the crossbow is silent to zombies but holds only one bolt at a time) Berserker: Fists, pistol, assault rifle, mp5 These are templates, and there's a lot I didn't include for brevity. Also, this is a way future consideration. The two things together, voice profiles, and character types, could diversify an already diverse and expanding game. Signed: Dakotah Rickard --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
