11-08-2011, 03:24 PM
We used the mod for an ironman game last week. There are some features which I recall as quite beneficial for multiplayer games.
Above all, the friendly fire innovation makes things a lot more comfortable. No annoying accidents in PvM games anymore, because the rogue can shoot through her partners. However, I take it for granted that there are two factions with different philosophies in this case.
Seeing other players on the automap: that saves all the explanations about where your teammate(s) can find you and vice versa with that always consufing data like horizontally, up, left, vertically, diagonally etc. Nice. However, if I remember correctly, the marks disappear at a certain distance. Apart from that, would it be possible to also implement a shared automap?
Leoric spawns skeletons.
Black Deaths don't remove life.
LAN over UDP.
Exp sharing: a tricky point. While it is quite enjoyable in games which you want to take easy, it may be found to breach the spirit of ironman games too clearly. There seems to be a bug, if it doesn't arise from the structure of the solution itself: we expected to have the same exp at any time of the game, but actually there were slight differences.
All in all, the changes we've seen so far provide an interesting change of perspective, but are still no guarantee of success. I think we'll stick to this mod for now and hope to discover the rest of it next time.
Above all, the friendly fire innovation makes things a lot more comfortable. No annoying accidents in PvM games anymore, because the rogue can shoot through her partners. However, I take it for granted that there are two factions with different philosophies in this case.
Seeing other players on the automap: that saves all the explanations about where your teammate(s) can find you and vice versa with that always consufing data like horizontally, up, left, vertically, diagonally etc. Nice. However, if I remember correctly, the marks disappear at a certain distance. Apart from that, would it be possible to also implement a shared automap?
Leoric spawns skeletons.
Black Deaths don't remove life.
LAN over UDP.
Exp sharing: a tricky point. While it is quite enjoyable in games which you want to take easy, it may be found to breach the spirit of ironman games too clearly. There seems to be a bug, if it doesn't arise from the structure of the solution itself: we expected to have the same exp at any time of the game, but actually there were slight differences.
All in all, the changes we've seen so far provide an interesting change of perspective, but are still no guarantee of success. I think we'll stick to this mod for now and hope to discover the rest of it next time.