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Merits of Friendly Fire
Bjordion
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I'm personally all for it. It adds an immense depth of strategy to an mmo, eliminates wasteful and unskilled aoe casting, adds a sense of realism to the game by requiring line of sight (no more casting/shooting through the tank to the mob waiting on the other side) and provides the almighty ability to kill members of your own faction, race, guild or group that piss you off.
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soo what do you do with grieffers that nuke the AH or the Bank? with 40 friendlies?
I'd really like to think that the devs would put something into place called "neutral territory". Even the evil and unjust cannot survive without some form of justice and order.
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I don't see how it would add anything other then requiring a tank with more health.
RPG's aren't exactly first person shooters, they're autolock.
i like the idea, adds a more real "war" feeling, because now you have to think that if you use your more badass skills you could fuck all the group. but would be really bad in PvE because if you're going to tank a boss you have to think that if the DPS players will cast an AoE spell that kills all the things in the targeted zone, you'll have to stop and move, so the aggro will move the boss with you. what that means?, well.....the spell will be useless.....unless you're a healt machine and you could resist the AoE spell as fucks the boss.....you would be like a guinea pig for the DPS....
How about contested zones? What prevents a 1v1 turning into a 2v1 with your own faction member helping the other faction? Maybe AOE heals can affect opposing by healing them as well....
that sounds cool too, so damage and healing and buffs would be a think to plan before fighting. because the balance of the victory would be more challenging....
another one is when using "battle mounts" such as managing bombers and siege machines so you have to think at who are you shooting.......
hehe each time i think it the more it likes to me...
I'd give an "aye!" vote only if the game isn't faction based. Make it a free for all with the ability to group/guild with other players, and you'll have a winner. Factions plus friendly fire almost always results in endless whining to GMs, which then leads to players who take advantage of the system getting banned. Without factions, there is zero false sense of security to fall back on when the whining starts.
The idea behind "factions" has been wearing on me for a while now. Developers need to stop telling me who they want my friends to be. :P
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I think when players are making comments against it they are doing so from their idea of how pvp rules would work on a specific game or ruleset.
For instance someone mentioned factions. Suppose there were no factions?
This type of mechanic would work very well in an ffa pvp game. And most likely one that didn't have a "red" or muder system but one where one's actoins would then reap repercussions on who they attacked.
So obviously this would NOT be for everyone. I'll admit I'm for it.
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elimination factions doesnt need necessary, just having as a side part, you have the choice to join one but you can play as a neutral person....its the same with politics, you can choose to stay neutral or support one side or another.....or you can form a new faction......that and player made cities or towns and you have player based society....
FF works great for small, dedicated and moderated FPS servers. It does not work for largely unmoderated MMO's with large servers. If you need a reason you have no played the likes of WoW, etc.
If you want Friendly Fire MMO's, just go play one of the many sandbox games. Hell, in Eve I have friends who make a living off friendly fire, awoxers.
Didn't Age Of Conan have a similar concept? I don't see any valid reasoning as to why someone will offer an option like this, too many varibles come into play some maybe undetected before it's too late, and fixes may or may not happen in time, possibly ruining gameplay. MMO's have too many hurdles to overcome, and this is one I don't think any developer is willing to undergo at this time or in the near future.
Last I knew Darkfall had this. If you use an AoE heal you could heal your enemy too, if you use an AoE attack you could hit friendly targets as well. You had to aim your spells as well, your single target heals could hit an enemy if you didn't aim well, or an attack spell like "cone of fire" could hit your ally.
Well I think I do need a reason to understand your poit as I dont really like WoW. Not against WoW but having made a character on launch day, or pretty close to it, I think over the course of the game's life I've gotten him in the 30's. So I don't know all the ins and outs of the game.
If you could supply a reason that would help support your statement and make it more clear.
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Darkfall does have this.
Last I heard, there are issues with the alignment system, though (among other things).
And people above mentioned that this would cause problems for tanks, etc. I think if a game allowed friendly fire, the traditional tank-healer-dps trinity would probably either not exist or be very flexible. It would take a lot of skill for a tank to hold aggro and put the monster between him and the dps. All of those dynamics (aggro, trinity, etc.) would have to be rethought.
Not saying it's a bad thing, but the whole concept of the game would be different than what we have now (but see Darkfall for the nearest thing).
The possibility for griefing is too much in large, faction-based MMO games imo. FF works great on a 32 man FPS server, that has a mod there all the time to kill the awoxers. I just don't think it's manageable with a large game with 5,000 people on a server, with multipler servers. FFA games already have friendly fire, its free for all, but it's kind of inherent to that style of game. Most FFA games don't really have factions, besides player created ones. Yes EVE has factions, but they are largely meaningless when compared to the player created ones. I believe it's the same with Darkfall.
I guess that's where the disconnect comes in as my first mmo was ffa pvp and griefing ran rampant and it was all part of the game. I don't view it as bad but just different.
If there were griefers then you united against them or perished. I played lineage 2 for over 4 years so it was a more brutal game and could have possibly benefited from friendly fire.
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What we need is friendly fire plus permadeath. Nothing like getting accidentally killed by your own teammate in a high end dungeon. Whoops. You get to start over at level 1 while your friend continues on in the dungeon with a pick up replacement.
If you think it won't work for faction-based MMO games, then say that. What you said was "It does not work for largely unmoderated MMO's with large servers." and that gives the impression that you think it wouldn't work at all no matter the system used.
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Let me just quote Damien Schubert from Bioware's SWTOR team about friendly fire. IMVPO I think that says all.
Source: http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?p=5759138#edit5759138
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It would probably ruin gameplay if it was inserted into a game that wasn't designed for friendly fire.
In games where friendly fire is a part of the design of the game, like in Mortal Online, it fits, and is one of the things that makes such games a different type of play experience from the norm.
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I absolutely agree, a lot of players are idiots. For those of us that are not, FF is just one extra sliver of realism that makes the game that much more challenging. As was stated above, there are potentially a lot of problems with FF in an unmoderated 5,000+ populated server... but those problems and potential for abuse only exist if they are allowed to persist. It's all about separating the wheat from the chaff. The players that don't have the skill level to play with FF will either quit on their own or be forced out by the skilled players, making room for other players with skill that can handle FF as an aspect of the game.
SWTOR doesn't have FF simply because they want to appeal to as many players as possible. The devs refuse to risk potentially driving away customers who get frustrated when their gameplay experience is hindered due shortcomings entirely of their own design. I wouldn't go as far to say FF is an elitist-only feature, but it certainly is for the more advanced player.
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that issue could be fixed with making it enable/disable in the options?, i mean, making like a some sort of organizated PvP battles where there can be two modes, one with FF and the other doesnt have it......
It would probably ruin gameplay if it was inserted into a game that wasn't designed for friendly fire.
In games where friendly fire is a part of the design of the game, like in Mortal Online, it fits, and is one of the things that makes such games a different type of play experience from the norm.
I agree with Rohn, longer explanation follows.
Mortal Online isn't so much Friendly Fire as it is FFA PvP. Friendly Fire can happen, but it's not really part of the rules of the game.
FFA PvP and Friendly Fire are different because of the rules of the game. For instance, in World of Tanks, if you hit a team mate deliberately, you can get banned from the game. In Mortal Online, if you hit a team mate deliberately, another team mate might kill you (maybe). World of Tanks has Friendly Fire rules, Mortal Online doesn't.
So Friendly Fire is really unintentionally hitting a "friendly", not just being able to hit a "friendly". You could add this to most games, even tab targeting games. If you're standing too close to another player's target you might get hit with their fireball. Is it more challenging if, because of a RNG, you hit a "friendly"? I'm going to say, "No".
If the game uses shooter targeting, and it's possible to hit a "friendly", and there are penalties for doing so deliberately, then does this make the game more challenging? I'm going to say, "Yes". It doesn't matter if the game is a lobby shooter or an mmorpg.
Would having friendly fire make mmorpg better or more fun? I think most of the time it wouldn't because a lot the results you get depend on RNG. Unless there's a skill factor there it just makes the game more frustrating. The only mmorpg I can think of where you have aim based targeting is Global Agenda. It doesn't seem like the kind of thing that would make the game better because the action is generally all clumped up in a little area so you'd always be hitting team mates or never hitting your opponents.
If you designed it in from the start, like it is in most games that have friendly fire, it could be fun. I'd have to see the game first to really decide...so far I haven't played an mmorpg where friendly fire would improve the game.
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friendly fire is realist but annoying ,is a freepass for team mates to grief
, isnt abused (thank god) but when happens is frustrating
I like the idea of it, but due to griefers I think it would cause more problems than create a more tactical experience.
I think the closest way to implement it in a MMO with traditional combat, would be to simply prevent you from attacking if there is a friendly player in your line of sight/AE radius. Would have to include collision detection as well I suppose.