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As well as trying to match players of similar skill together, to improve games, is there anything else you folks feel we could be doing to teach players how to player their roles correctly? We have quite a few ideas already but it’d be good to get more from all of you.

Well, I still feel that limiting to one of each Merc per team at a time would really help ensure you at least have the needed mercs on the field (for the most part). I understand then you run into problems with the 3 Merc limit and such but I am sure it could be looked into. I believe a Guide system could be implemented that would teach players how to play the game until you turn it off in the options menu. Left 4 Dead had a similar system where it would point you in the right direction…

ie, if you was using a Bushwacker and you was fighting in the middle of the map but a C4 was planted it would tell you to go and defuse and point arrows on the floor in the right direction (fastest direction). If your turret is not down it could remind you also. If you leave your teams location the game could tell you to fall back and also give you little extra bits of tips once you die to a certain aspect. Tell the person why they died to a landmine and how they can tell where they are in future and how to avoid the max damage.

This would be the best, cheapest and most effective way of getting people battle ready with new Mercs when the game is fully released.

Simple things like adding a mini objective marker for high valued team members when running as a medic, reminding you to drop ammo when using a field ops and to be at the front of a fight when playing a solly.

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I don’t like the idea of limiting choices.

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People pick this stuff up naturally if they’re close to their team mates and can observe how different roles interact, which is more of a map and spawn issue. It’s when teams are spread out and people are running around on their own and can’t see each other that things fall apart and begin to feel disjointed. The initial hook that got me into the RTCW Beach demo was seeing an engie trying to plant, him being killed and a medic picking him up. This is the unique selling point of games like this and what we should be amongst and seeing all the time. RTCW was excellent in this regard - long periods of play when you were close to your team mates and a clear frontline to return to and get back with them when you died. That’s the experience of playing it - being with your team or running back to them. My experience of DB is bumping into team mates every now and again while running about. We don’t get prolonged periods of seeing LTs dishing out ammo, engies planting while being covered, medics picking up people, Soldiers tying up choke points with a panzer etc. We get snippets of it - it’s all bitty. We shouldn’t need floating icons telling us where to go or what actions we can perform, and if we do it’s because the maps are too Modern Warfare rabbit warren and not enough RTCW/ET arena. Teamplay needs space to happen and a nice long los so we can see it happening and learn how the game works. Teams just all need to be in the same place and people will work out how to play quick enough - and then the emergent gameplay designers like to talk about all day will start to happen on its own.

Well said!

I liked this part especially:

"We don’t get prolonged periods of seeing LTs dishing out ammo, engies planting while being covered, medics picking up people, Soldiers tying up choke points with a panzer etc. We get snippets of it - it’s all bitty. "

This what RTCW and Wolf:ET is about.

If DB is supposed to be about this, I dont know.

I dont know who DB is for.