My Idea of "Squad Cubes / Layouts" or " I want to chose more mercs"

(k0k0nat) #1

What is this?

Squad Cubes allow players to chose from more than only 3 different mercs in a match.

They allow players to create different merc-teams, based on how many XP they have earned or how many nexon coins they want to spend.

Getting started:

Lets say you have 3 Squad-Cubes for your account:

Select mercs for your 3 cubes(by categories or how u want them to be. And name them!)

E.g. “Offensive” “Defensive” “Support”

Put the mercs into the cubes and finish the selection.

In-Game:

You now can select your mercs from the cubes. This can be done in the limbo-menu.

Say you want to rush the other team: Select the offensive cube where u put proxy in, and rush your enemies.

NOW: Your team needs supporters! Switch to your “support”-cube and select one of the FOPS-Mercs.

EASY PEASY!

But this will allow us to chose between ALL Mercs in just one round:

Yeahhnoo…

Once u selected another “Squad-Cube”, you are not allowed to switch to the next one for 4/2/3 (whatever) minutes.

This means: If you dont communicate with your team and everbody just selects cubes like non-stop-around-the-clock --> The chance of ending up with mercs that are useless for a specific situation is very high.

/Discuss

(BomBaKlaK) #2

Something like squad presets can be a really good idea.

(Protekt1) #3

I think simple is better. Once they let us pick mercs between rounds, it’ll be both simple and quick… unlike these cubes.

(BomBaKlaK) #4

Yeah the cube idea is a bit weird, But the idea to make some preset like he said for example

  • Attack preset
  • Defense preset
  • Fun preset
  • etc …

So maybe 3 or 5 slots (for a preset of 3 mercs for each slot) to change entire squad on the fly instead of changing every merc between rounds can be a good idea.

(shaftz0r) #5

i would agree with presets, but just letting us select in between each round is the solution. unless they just get rid of the whole silly thing to begin with.

(k0k0nat) #6

For me, the game loses much of its potential by forcing me to chose between only 3 mercs.

Sometimes I join the server and I want to play merc X, who is not in my selection. 5 Mercs were a lot better. I also dont want to chose them between rounds, I want the freedom of picking the merc I want for the current situation.

I does not have to be the “cube” system, but this current restriction is stupid.

PS: The fact, that u can not just disconnect and select new mercs during the scoreboard at the end of the round makes the current restriction even worse.

(BomBaKlaK) #7

If the system persist with 3 mercs then I want some presets, but having only 3 mercs is not enough, like said before 5 is the number

(RasteRayzeR) #8

I agree, it felt really good to be able to change in W:ET and ET:QW because depending on the maps you don’t want to become the useless guy because of your perks. They said they wanted to make it efficient to change mercs between each round, in which case it could work even with only 3 available mercs for each round, but I’m waiting to see that before commenting any further.

(shaftz0r) #9

the problem i personally find myself running into with the current 3 merc system, im the kind of player that will switch to engi just to get the obj done if nobody is doing it. the problem now is, i dont have an eng in my loadout because, well, ill just throw a fops in instead and do the obj slower. it just feels very limiting with everyone being able to do the obj and only 3 merc selections. it feels backwards to me

(Erkin31) #10

I had the same problem on Brink. What I want is to be able to select the character useful for my team at a particular moment. We should have 5 mercs.

(Glottis-3D) #11

at very least 5.
i’d prefer 6 - so i could use different mercs in one class, since they are somewhat different - and play how i want, not how i am forced to play. =.