Archer crawling

Would it be possible to add crawling into the game?
It would be fun, cool and useful sneaky tactic. Also escaping a knight into a small rat tunnel would be epic.

What you couldn't do while crawling:
-Shoot
-Jump
-collect arrows
-make arrows
What you could do while crawling:
-Move
-Take damage

Would need only three new sprites :3

 

Three or maybe even two considering we have the prone sprite already.

 

I see pretty limited application. Crawling through grass would be way too obvious- even just lying in grass doesn't fool veterans.

Crawling into small holes is more useful, but not really if you think about it. It's slow and it makes you very vulnerable, for one. Climbing would generally be better for escaping knights as it is much faster and you can shoot or stomp on them also. They could also throw bombs into your hole (not sexual). 1 tile holes are uncommon by themselves, what's the chance of there being a situation where there is 1 tile hole and climbing is not the better option?

I'd be more in favour of some sort of dodging roll- however crawling was mentioned in a devlog post, it may end up in the game after all.

 

Who said it'd be slow? It could always be some crazy Metal Gear Solid prone crawl under the thing at the last second move.

 

I want it.

 

People would start adapting and building one-tile tunnels that all the rats could crawl out of :d

 

It would be so sick.

 

If you use archer,and lie down,you can hide in shadow and no one will ever see you!
I would really like to see this in game!

 

We should be able to dig in dirt still while lying down, then we can dig little one block tunnels under walls as well as climbing them :D
Sounds overpowered, but it could be counteracted with just one stone block, because archers can only dig dirt.

 

Lol they would be so rats

 

I had this very thought last time I was playing.
It just makes so much sense.

It would add a new element to base raiding. 1 block gaps would let archers in, but they're terrible in bases so it wouldn't be overpowered.

And I think you should be able to pick up arrows when you're prone/crawling. Just not make arrows.

 

Presuming there is more darkness in 1 tile high spaces, then this would be pretty cool. Archers can sneak in, and hide, waiting for most of the knights to pass by. They'd have to dig their tunnel first. Experienced knights would then learn to check the 1 tile high holes, leading to differences in skill dictating whether the archer gets detected. And yeah, it wouldn't be OP, because of knights bombs being nice and easy to push into a 1 tile space.

 

For the digging, yes, until it's only horizontical. Being able to dig vertically would be OP. though few stone blocks would always stop them.

Yes yes yes, I love hiding.

 

You can't hide from your problems!

 

Support it fully. We need this and another 64-slot server so I can play dead:)

 

I was about to say just the same.

 

I doubt that, Geti said ages back they were planning on it.

 

Uh, you mean like digging a two-tile tunnel and then putting one-tile floor/ceiling? That sounds rather illogical. If you've already got a tunnel for everyone, why make it archer-only, especially since it's just a matter of the other team sealing it with one stone block to counter it.. You realise you can't DIG 1-tile tunnels? ;)