What i mean by a "Good" sniper rifle is one that has increased zoom, and increased damage. maybe a 2-shot kill to the body, one to the head (Obvious) and slower aiming down scope, like an animation. not a full animation like COD, but an animation like you aim, and it automatically pulls up, but then you have sort of a slideshow animation of moving from almost complete black to the scope sight. EDIT: that way, snipers would have a dis-advantage toward riflemen, but an advantage over smg's and Assault rifles (If they are added) Agreed?

The only guns with a good amount of recoil in CoD: MW and up are the rifles, which is very unrealistic.

True true. Some guns might definitely upset the balance, and what we don't need is a full list of smg's and assault rifles, and people running with them and spraying with little recoil to any distance, like in CoD. I'm not saying Call of Duty is a bad game (I love it myself) but it doesn't belong here. Mountable MGs would be great definitely.

I hope the update arrives fast, but as we know, programming takes time.

Hey Ben, any news on the update?

i would like the weapons thing of couse then mabye a side arm game modes ragdoll and classes and a few more things people suggested

What i would like to see is improved means of communication in the team, and more help in navigation. I'll just sprout what pops into my head:

- bigger and thicker text letters - they are too small and thin now. they are.
- hotkeyed communication macros like: "cover me", "help me bulid/destroy this", "don't build there/destroy it", "stop shooting", etc. - in hot situations you really dont have time to chat, and the good team tactics count a lot there
- status declaration macros like: "im going to charge/snipe/patrol/build" - so the whole team knows what you are doing
- map marker tool, with it you could ping points of interest on the map, like in strategy games
- when a votekicking is in progress, everyone could have a little info box in a corner with the text: "do you wish to kick xx?", plus a vote counter. And for voting, you simply have to hit a button like "I" for yes and "N" for no.
- grid numbers and letters on the minimap too
- special map options, that could be toggled, like: turning gird on/off; showing team member names over their white circle; an option to see the height of the top block instead of its color (like a relief map)

Also, joining the debate on the game's theme: I think this game is not representing any war. Moreover i think this game is very abstract, and it has a generic setting, that can be transformed into any theme.

I miss that too

@adhiofawkes

Marking enemies like they do in the *newest* games of the Battlefield series is a very bad idea. Basically it encourages the most unpredictable firefights in any game. You never know whether you are marked, but once you are, the entire enemy team knows EXACTLY where you are, even behind cover, for the next ten seconds which means they may as well be wall hacking for those 10 seconds. It makes it too easy to snipe around tight bends without so much as exposing a sliver of your body.

I miss Battlefield 1942 through Battlefield 2 where they would call out if they spotted an enemy and the coordinates would automatically display.

@0U7BR3AK
what do you mean a good sniper rifle? the current rifle is impossibly accurate.

@Galaxy
most of my rounds are headshots. and its not usually more than half the enemy team chasing the intel.

I want Ragdolls. It is damn fun with them :)

i wants the SECONDARY WEAPON

also generate some maps w/ trenches

and sniper

there should be rifleman(kar98 and lee enfield) submachine gunner(sten and mp18) machine gunner(maxim) and mortar

4 grenades classes from ww1 (brits and german teams) more bricks and ladders

Meh. All i want right now is ability to mark enemy on map, similiar like BF series

Eh, the primary weapon looks far more like a M14 than a M1, but I'm not getting into that whole "AoS takes place in xxx era" debate lol.

Anyway, I am getting impatient. Yes, I know, it has only been like 5 days since 0.51 came out. But ever since Ben mentioned that he would be focusing on weapons and stuff now, my want of an automatic weapon has only grown stronger.

As I stated in another thread, having an automatic weapon (which is not as accurate as the standard rifle, but not horribly inaccurate) would help to prolong each firefight.

Most engagements only last a few seconds; find the enemy, aim for his head, shoot him, move on (or vice versa lol). Having a machine gun (or a sub machine gun) would cause people to "duck for cover" so to speak, popping up to take a few shots then getting back in cover. It might make battles more interesting. It would also be a far more suitable weapon than the standard rifle for providing cover fire.

When your team mate(s) ask you to cover them while they advance, your little 10 round magazine that the standard rifle provides will usually be inadequate when dealing with multiple enemies (unless all ten rounds are clean headshots).

Anyway, I AM GETTING IMPATIENT AND I WANT A NEW GUN NOW.

THANK YOU.

Personally, i think that they should add a deployable machine gun, but in the way that @Galaxy said it should be. Also, there should be different classes of guns, for instance, a GOOD sniper rifle, a good Automatic weapon, a good burst type weapon, and an explosive that fires.

Everyone, THIS GAME IS NOT WW1! IT IS WW2/KOREAN WAR (In my opinion, since m1 garands are the primary, and weren't used very much in vietnam, plus the landscape of the default maps is quite like the korean jungles/forests

Akimbo lugers were ww1, germans had it first made.

Lugers=pistol/sidearm. and btw to be exact, AoS takes place in ww4 so i'd stfu if i were all of you

Guys this game is going to change a lot. Don't think you have to take into account balance issues quite yet. I would be creative with my ideas, but still keep suggestions as intuitive as possible.

...but yeah Custos, the tent is currently almost useless. It's really only helpful to people who want to build around it, yet really there is no purpose to building around it since it has no other uses and is not important enough to defend. Of course there is an exception if the intel somehow manages to be near the tent.

Personally I think it should be a destroyable spawn point as of right now. It just spawns in another random location once it's destroyed and prevents players for respawning for a while. I like the 30 second global respawn time idea for it too. It keeps players from constantly respawning and spawns players in groups that would be more likely to stay together.

i think one weapon keeps it VERY balanced. i do think there should be bigger maps (HUGE) as mods for maps and it would be like FFA over a HUGE map aka different game types

ITT: the game takes place in ww1

Seriously fuck you guys for saying this shit, he released the map editor tool for a reason, i feel this is the reason. With the map editing tool and the all the skins and mods people are releasing the game takes place whenever, wherever, and however you want it. I agree a side-arm would be coolio but quit saying; "this is ww1, NO ITS NAWWWWM FAGGGOT. SHUT UP BOTH OF YOU ITS OBVIUSLY KOREEEUHN WAR."

there has to be knives because sometime i dont reconize that i only have 1 bullet and so i shoot them from the back and i reload then i die so ya knives

A trench Gun for close range and pick damage would be nice for .52

mothers, ww1 had side arms

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THE LUGERS

Influx:

However, the most important thing, in my opinion, for 0.52 is to add cooldown times for resupplying at the base, to counteract the number of grenade spammers that have flocked to the game. I.e. you can only resupply once every 30 seconds/1 minute.

Today I realized, that restocking is just a waste of time.
For example I am at the half of the map, building, and shooting the enemy. My ammo and health are getting too low, and I am tired of mining new blocks to build.
I have two options:

1. Run home for resupply, then run back to the frontline. If the CP spawned too back, this route takes more than 2 or 3 minutes.
2. Attack the enemy with low health and ammo, and take with you to death whoever you can. After respawn, you start with full inventory, and "clear" stats. So nobody cares you died. And if you attack like a berserker, it only takes 10-20 seconds to die, than 1 or 2 minutes to return to the front-line.

So while the death doesn't count and the respawning players starts with better "stats" than the survivors, the CP is valuable only for grenade spammers.
So we don't need cooldown, simply we don't need resupplying CP.
Or let the resupplying stay, and implement the cooldown, but make the death more tragic. Maybe with respawn time, for example 30 sec globally. This will make the life of the soldiers more valuable.

;-) Beret, believe it or not, I agree with everything you say regarding the game dynamics being more-suited for World War 1.

Fair enough Buffet- I should have specified 'for building identification from afar'. My bad.

I'm split over whether new guns should be introduced. At the moment, it's a level playing field, and any new guns would need to not upset the balance, which would mean extensive testing.

What I would rather like to see is new game modes. Team Deathmatch would be top of my list, but I would also like things such as and attack/defend mode with capzones, a mode with one intel on the map, one team defends it, the other must capture it, etc.

Also, I would like to see (maybe a later release, not necessarily in 0.52) the option for a server to customise what is permitted to be used. For example - one server may remove the ability to use shovels - meaning they don't show in your inventory and cannot be selected - , build only servers could remove the use of guns, etc. Of course, this would mean the server list would need to be reworked to show what a server allows and forbids.

I think there should also be material strengths in both Voxed and ingame. For example, the blocks at the moment would be strength 1, and if a block was strength 2, it would take 2 shovel hits or 6 pickaxe hits to destroy, but uses 2 blocks to place in-game and takes 2 seconds to place one (to reflect the time spent reinforcing the block and also to deter block spammers), strength 4 would require 4 shovel hits or 12 pickaxe hits to destroy but needs 4 blocks and 4 seconds to place one, etc. The materials could range between 1 and 5, and at 5, a maximum of 10 blocks could be placed in a minimum of 50 seconds.

However, the most important thing, in my opinion, for 0.52 is to add cooldown times for resupplying at the base, to counteract the number of grenade spammers that have flocked to the game. I.e. you can only resupply once every 30 seconds/1 minute.

This combined with the material strength idea above, it would prevent people block-spamming 5-strength blocks making indestructible intel towers, and force people to choose between large and weak or small and strong.

TL;DR: IDEAS.