[Rant] Game Balance And The Community

make ballistas start with explody bullets maybe? The regular non-explodey ballistas are just too weak for anything if you don't spawn/change class there.

 

We the people need:

-A Beer Wagon (only respawns team and adds tavern music to neardom; can't be captured but it runs out of beer and this makes music stop and respawn stop; can cost wheat as well as gold and wood to add REALISM)
-A Battering Ram (can kill people and destroys orthonormally positioned walls, holds people inside who are safe until destroyed)
-A Catapult (I see no problems with it now)
-A Ballista (shoots bomb bolts only)
-A Deployable Shield (works like a platform for projectiles and enemies have to jump over it)
And a balance in health and damage for all of these to be balanced.

 

I honestly think that catapults should work as a defensive siege engine (defense is less important to winning, thus the defensive siege engine should be cheaper) while ballistas should work as an offensive siege engine. Either way I think both need a buff in terms of movement, seriously when's the last time you've actually driven a catapult? They just need to be able to jump and walk like a player while still being slightly, slightly worse at moving than an actual player to be balanced. Also I think we all know that bomb bolts are overpowered... The fact that they can cripple a fort with little effort and time required is utterly ridiculous, they need a serious tile damage nerf, like maybe they do 1-2 damage to a block at the most... While catapults should be more defensive, and maybe better at destruction than a ballista, but less mobile. (maybe even have the crate for them be a heavy item?)

Lol even though this is a joke I kinda would like a battering ram... the beer wagon is very realistic though.

Yeah, it has always seemed like catapults and ballistas were just added to make the game more medieval-ey instead of actual balance. If they were to be heavily changed we'd see them probably more used in the way they were intended to be, and of course the game would be more balanced and cleaner as a whole

pls no

more unbalanced than it is already

Seriously if ballistas are going to start with bomb bolts then A) They need a reskin to not be ballistas because new players will not know what the heck to think of a medieval ballista shooting explosive bolts, and B) The bomb bolts need to be nerfed. (I would say a price nerf but that would basically make ballistas an OP item that's only downside is a high cost, which is a quick-and-easy but horrible balancing plan)

//EDIT: mfw monster WoT quadpost. ftfy. ~FBB

Thanks for the blue text attack FBB.

 

What I don't get is that they have wheels. I was so sad when they added so you can pop the wheels off. Shooting a ballista with arrows and it slowly riding backwards and then falling off the enemy tower...those were the good ol days. Now everyone just pops the wheels off. Only people out of their minds ride a catapult to battle, mainly because of maps not allowing it. Wheels right now are just useless.

 

if not the wheels on catapults on ballistas, KAG would be 200% more boring, the thing that makes KAG "replayable"
is

 

eh, wheels on any sort of siege are so rarely used that it's a shock when I see someone actually enter the drivers seat. why risk losing a siege weapon by moving it forward instead of the meta of immobile sky siege tower.

 

who cares about multiplayer lol everyone knows solo sandbox is the real 1337 gamemode

 

>why I wish there was a ram/tank vehicle for the purpose of going all out and ramming stuff.

 

I know, but i'd like it in the vanilla game

Like that's going to happen...

 

Have you ever seen Hospitalizer play?

He does more damage in the pilot seat than in the gunner's position.

 

Wait, what? That existed in TTH?
I am feeling very new right now...

 

don't necro

this thread was just necro'd

 

I am not familiar with the term 'necro', can one of you explain it?

 

Necro or necroing is the term used to describe when you bump, reply or simply to "bring back from the dead" an old thread.