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Changing Drawbridges - Archer Problems

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Carver, Mar 3, 2012.

  1. Carver

    Carver Meitantei-san Donator Tester
    1. The Young Blood Collective - [YB]

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    I understand that with the new build, drawbridges have changed to break arrows upon impact, except in certain situations (High-power shot downwards). CoughDrop brought this to my attention and I've got a few reasons why this need to be changed, mostly for archers:
    1. Even though you pass through drawbridges physically, your arrows have very restricted movement, causing you think in two separate ways for combat and movement (It's not exactly easy)
    2. Even with full power shots going through, it's random whether or not you'll pass at any given angle, and chance shots like that aren't good.
    3. Finally, they interfere with arrow ladders when you're going up a wall with your own teams bridges. That's not always a problem, but it can be.
    Ultimately, CoughDrop suggested something which I tweaked a bit to be this solution:
    Make it so only shots mid-power or up can fire through - this way you can't spam arrows straight down (except through spaced bridges-and not only) but you can still shoot at a moderate speed. In addition, you'd still need to be touching drawbridges to shoot downwards through them.
    Arrows should break only on drawbridges that touch walls (e.g. :a_shop::bridge::castle_wall:) but not with open drawbridges (e.g. :a_shop::bridge::blank: ) and allow arrow ladders through team drawbridges.

    Overall, this would allow drawbridges to allow cover as a roof, which is nice, but also allow for useful skybridge mechanics from above, without being too overpowered. Shots from the side would render them useless (Since they're sideway bridges) and from below... I s'pose they could act similar to from shooting above, but you wouldn't need to touch them.

    I have no idea if the block/arrow logic is this malleable, as it seems kind of complicated for all 4 sides, but if it's possible(or something like it) it'd be a wonderful addition.

    And as a side note: Please fix zoom :(
     
    Contrary and BlueLuigi like this.
  2. keyofdoor

    keyofdoor Haxor

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    Awesome idea.
    It gets annoying when a archer spams me uwhile protected.