Rethinking about the Cover and Sync-kill.

AmalurLegend

Hi, everyone.

Here are some thoughts about how to redesign Cover and Sync-kill in the DOW game.

I - Cover

[I] What problems would we face about the cover?

A. Path-finding.
B. The cover is useless in late game.
C. The size of cover.
D. The degree of defense.

[II] My solution.

A. To make it pass-able.
B. To let units can build covers.
C. To make a large space for units to stay in the cover.
D. To make a defense degree by percentage of entity in the cover.

[III] Explanation.

A. There are 3 types of cover, one direction cover, two direction cover and all direction cover.

One direction cover

All direction cover

How do soldiers use covers?

If we want to let vehicles can pass those covers and we have to make Ramp for it.

These are the shape of cover.

B. The side view of cover types.

Flat ground

One direction cover

Two direction cover

All direction cover type-A

All direction cover type-B

C. The skin of cover.

You can use faction skins or non-faction skins.

D. To make a large space in every cover. (About 20 entities)

E. The new cover system - the defense degree by percentage of entity in the cover.

I try to use an example to explain this concept.

For example, there is a TSM squad and there are 10 men in the squad.
1. When there are 7~10 men in the cover and then the squad will have 100% defense degree.
2. When there are 4~6 men in the cover and then the squad will have 66% defense degree.
3. When there are 1~3 men in the cover and then the squad will have 33% defense degree.

F. Garrison

To use real buildings to do it.

1. Allowing enemy units can enter our garrison building. (It's like the game Act of War.)
2. It's more reasonable that those Vehicles can not enter the garrison area than shield generator.
3. Maybe can let players build this kind of building.

II. Sync-kill

[I] What problems would we face about the sync-kill?

A. What's the function of Sync-kill?

[II] My thoughts.

There are so many possibilities, but I just want to talk one for now. The one is that the function of Sync-kill is an ability to kill enemy. (One entity or one entity of one squad.)

[III] In this case, what problems would we face?

A. What will happen when there are 2 squads using their Sync-kill ability at each other?

B. How to prevent players from abusing sync-kill ability? For example, player A commands 10 TSM Squads to use sync-kill ability at the same CSM squad of enemy.

C. What are the conditions of executing sync-kill?

[IV] My Solution.

A. I think the executor of both sides will use sync-kill to kill each other.

B. To make sync-kill become rare to prevent it from abusing.

C. The resource system is like the faith system of Battle sister in DOW1:SS. That means players have to gather Faith resource on SP and very squad can use Sync-kill ability .

D. The more expensive units require more Faith resource to execute sync-kill.

E. Both squads can leave the Sync-kill zone, when the sync-kill is happening. After that, the sync-kill executor will teleport back to his squad.

III. There are so many details need to be discussed and I just put some main things on table. The problem of sync-kill is about all system, so it's hard to design it alone.

Thanks for reading.

Gorb

Moved to Feedback & Suggestions.

Dandalus

A good thread, but we should go with soulstorm approach of just ground cover working on models within its aoe. It won't be shaped as soulstorm however, it will be random shaped.