Spiral Knights - Make Lockdown competative

Make Lockdown competative

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Tue, 10/04/2011 - 12:19

Agronan

It's annoying to get extremely lopsided games in lockdown and I think there are two options for fixing it...

1) Better team matching- Ranking system, how teams are picked needs to be overhauled. Either by equipment or a better solution use the statistics that lockdown uses (ie. damage, captures, defends, +deaths maybe) to rank players and pair them off so that a team could have different levels within the same tier. This means the two people who do 2000dmg a game are against each other and the people doing 200dmg fight each other, the two teams have one of each, instead of the 2000dmg people on the same team destroying the worse players.

2) Make all equipment the same- Have players choose selection of all gear and make PVP only load outs(maybe you can only choose from tier you're currently on T1-1* T2- up to 3* and T3- up to 5*) ...so that no UVs or better equipment like 4* vs 5* gives one person the unfair advantage over another. This would make it the most fun because everything would be even and skill+tactics would determine who wins, plus newer players wouldn't be at such a disadvantage .

Tue, 10/04/2011 - 12:31

Orangeo

Yes, to some extent. But a

Yes, to some extent.
But a large no to 2. I played the preivew version, where you get all weapons, and it's really booring feeling. I guess you could make it so all gear is equal, but people should have to make the armor to actuualy use it.

Tue, 10/04/2011 - 12:36

Aatu

Number 2 !!

I REALLY like the number two. Would still have to keep the current system alive too, because there are people who want to have their money's worth with their UVs, but personally I'd really like the unified selection as an option.

Tue, 10/04/2011 - 12:53

Orangeo

"I REALLY like the number

"I REALLY like the number two. "
He said he likes number two >:3
Heheheeee.
On a serious note, no. Balancing all the gear (eg ash tail is same as sklover) makes sense, but making it all avaliable is boooring. On the preivew, everyone just had their favorite weapons, with a jelly, skelly, and magic loadout. So there was no reason to prepare a smart loadout, taking out the first half of the strategy you guys are valuing.

Tue, 10/04/2011 - 15:56

Nicoya-Kitty

If you want all weapons and

If you want all weapons and armor to be basically equal, then play T1 instead.

Tue, 10/04/2011 - 16:22

Agronan

Not the same as T1.. not all

Not the same as T1.. not all the same equipment has same stats, just everyone has the same options. So anyone who's unlocked T3 can use any 4* or 5* item they want and make custom PvP only loadouts. IE if I want a royal jelly helm I can use one/something like a DA so the guy with the superior weapon doesn't just crush...Still have strategy and can play using different weapons and spacial shields ect...Right now the PvP system just favors people with better gear or leaves it up to who gets stuck with the people with worse gear...

Tue, 10/04/2011 - 21:42

Playerman

Ehh

I'd think something to make lockdown a little more fair in a sense is the uvs. I've literally seen people running around with all max uvs on speed, defense, etc, and that's rather unfair for people that don't have good uvs, or any uvs at all. Other then that I think the ideas you have here are good too.

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