@bluephaze

how? because te hunter already used it ... and it hasnt been 30-40 seconds

well.. basically ..

the hunter has an ability thats used like a health pill, press the number key or click it directly on the HUD

using this emits an EMP blast about the size of a 5* bomb radius ...

any "prey" inside this radius will have their shield abilities instantly drained

this ability recharges after 30-40 seconds

ok first of all there ate a few flaws forgive me if this has come up but I am half way through the third page but on page one I don't think that the damage ratio was solved be cause if it was equal then prey could easily kill hunter and if hunter can massacre groups then what's the point of playing and 10 people with 6 min terms as hunter is an hour but 200 -340 crowns aint worth an hour

yeah....... read sev's post again here.

To the rest of the community asking the questions I'm assuming Hija did...:

1. New game mode for a change of pace

2. Hunter can massacre a good portion of the group... that means should the groups metagame (and lord knows they will) they will attempt to set up an ambush for the hunter so they can group up and rise against him... making the game a tad more fun.

3. This game would test coordination skills that aren't hand-eye and more mental challenge.

4. Although what could be an hour of time would be invested, (which I'm sure the dev's can edit and tinker with so it's just one match and provide the raw version elsewhere) you could also have a bit more fun in other areas than dealing with the constant spam nature of BN, or the rather wonderful constant that's developed in LD.

5. We're attempting to enable the devs with more concepts for the coliseum... we are showing an obvious entertainment of this concept, which will in turn aid the devs with making games similar in nature to this (if not the exact same) a reality due to the interest involved by the community. :P

Void my last message it is mostly wrong I was jest thinking that there should be less people per round and a smaller amount of time cause not many people wana do something for 30-60 min because it can get boring tuning around for that long jest saying

Jest finished pg 4 I like where this form is going

this is the best game ever in the collisium
,its like surch and destroy on Black OPS just better (maybe we schould have that on here too hmm)
there could also be a pure verson where the hunter has a sword and 1 hit u die... and maybe the prey could have punch-gun's that you have to charge to shoot and if you hit the hunter 3 times you become the hunter...

anyway i totaly agree.

Wow this thread just took off... It's like a zombie that can suddenly run.

And I just wanted to point out a few things that might be interesting to think about.

1. The bombardier could basically instacharge Shivermists and VTs, making the prey immobile.
2. The Hunter isn't immune to stun, this could be problematic against a team full of bombers with stagger storms.
3. Since the Hunter is immune to every other status, bombers who specialize in Haze bombs will basically be rendered ineffective.

Dat metagaming....

Will always be there... but since stagger storm's a hardly viable option (takes a ton to spam effectively and only lasts a short time) I don't see it being any more of an issue than some players deciding a sudaraska is suddenly worth crafting...

Jest like the reason you normaly do to cause more damage peoples hp dose no go down in fact it goes up

Trollaris? Don't have an answer Aemicus... bombardier sure will have a fun time being a different breed though... I mean... it's extremely likely that RSS and DBB will become the only viable options... possibly alongside a vortex. Simply because of that reason, people can run the other way.

this is for the bombarders the charge time reduction would be ultra high and they would not get slowed down while charging

yea but his attack strength would have to be 400% above normal to do that

I speak from experience when I state that nobody likes watching me charged up... I slow them down a lot. I love two-hit swords and I love my bombs... Bombs have variable movement reduction (believe it's haze less than vortex less than blast) but it's a reduction nonetheless... and in some dead runs, it's an obvious reduction at that.
Charging the rare brandish (that's right, I rarely even touch a brandish, let alone cutters and toothpicks) the movement reduction isn't as significant... but again, the reduction is there.

The few times I don't see a reduction as visibly (maybe half a step in dead runs for 6 seconds or so) are, of course, high attack speed items, very particularly the toothpicks and cutters...

So there you go. recall that I'm using primarily t2 items... so I can't tell you all about the equipment charge move redux, but I know it's there.

This is why a lot of my guild enjoys making fun of how 'hipster' I am, by wielding the grintovec and a vortex almost every run.

Anyway, concerning movement reduction it's fine... I imagine with the bombardier's level of speed, the worst reduction for walking would be down to maybe a 5-6 on the scale... I don't absolutely know but feel that's about right.

"oh btw, 6th page already? W00T!!! I'm glad we made it this far.
Too bad I can't see a 7th coming..."

Get better glasses, or maybe some binoculars. Perhaps even a telescope - people seem to like this idea and there's always more balancing to be considered, so I'm sure there will be many more pages to come.

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