Alrighty here are some things that I think could improve the game that aren’t backbreaking to do:
1: Allow you to manage your abilities and weapons while in a game/in between rounds.
The reason I say this is because it’s a struggle to get 4 of my friends on the same team with me, then one of us levels up and in order to start using those bonuses they need to leave the server, go do it, come back if the server isn’t full and eventually try to swap teams again. If you let us have access to those things without having to disconnect it would make things infinitely easier. Even a stripped down version without all the graphical elements would be good because this is a needed bit of functionality for the game.
2: Allow characters to change body type in game
First off I absolutely love the way the body types interact in the game. The big problem I am having though is there have been times where I need to switch a body type for flanking or a more sturdy one for heavy weapons and defense. I know it sounds silly to change your characters size on the fly but for functionality I think it is a necessary change. There have been MANY occurrences where I am light and need the underslung grenade launcher on my soldier or heavy and can’t flank. I’m sure people who flick between them can attest to this that it is super annoying to have to disconnect from a server then switch, then rejoin. It’s pretty simmilar to the last point.
3: If not body switching, then character switching
If you find that giving that is too much then at least let us change our characters mid game. Not only for different bonuses that are required for certain moments but I could go through the trouble of leveling up 3 characters, one light, medium, and heavy just to have access to the body switch problem.
4: Continued community support
This one I can’t speak for necessarily seeing as the game has been out for a few days but the thing that can take this game from good to great like Team fortress 2 is the updating, balancing, and more additions. I would really like these to be free for the consumer at least on PC (I know xbox has restrictions about such updates). This game is just one of those games that will see continued purchases LONG after the release date if there is continued updates. New maps, weapons, attachments, character models, etc. This game wont see super long replay value if these are implemented but in large purchase chunks to take our money. See almost every shooter out there ever that waits 3 months then charges 10 dollars for a few maps, does it one or two more times then forgets the game. From seeing the videos on your website I can tell the team really cared about this game so I pray that they continue to care long after the release. If that’s the case then I will be a long term customer of splash damage games.
Then some of the lesser ones:
4: At the very least let us change the colour of our guns
I love the customization in this game and the thing is I want more! I want to make everything about my character unique if possible and I’m certain others can attest to this.
5: More character models, especially female ones
The look of the game is fantastic and giving us more archetypes would be sweet. With the amount of customization, more colors and clothing would be sweet. I can’t really complain so far with what’s gone on though but is it a bad thing to want more of what you are already doing a good job on?
6: Improve the operative class
Let them give people a good buff or better ways to utilize disguise. This class just feels like a stripped down version of the others and rarely do I find people actively being the operative. They can do cool things like give radar of the opponents which is powerful but it’s not enough. It would be really cool if you let the operative hack things while in disguise because that should be pretty balanced within it self with the warnings. You see someone mulling around your base camping when all of a sudden the objective starts being hacked! If you could do this in disguise people would go all shoot happy on each other which is the kind of dismay the operative should cause. Firing blank bullets is another good suggestion that do no damage because it adds credibility to the disguise. The spy in tf2 uses the disguise to get close then cloak to assassinate. This operative doesn’t have a 1hk OR cloak so it lacks. Making the disguise believable/useful would be a great idea and balanced by a higher CD or something.
Thanks for reading and I hope someone from SDG could reply to this thread to show they are listening 