-1 to both OP and Xxdragneel.

Seeing the opponent is important. A text box won't suffice if you spot a striker dashing in at 60mph. You need to react IMMEDIATELY, and looking down at a text box would both distract and hinder you.

Text is a definite no. Regarding flourish on piercing protection: everyone does that regardless of the defense. The text box would be useless and annoying.

Set health would make the game not Lockdown. If you want classes with health, suggest a new minigame. Don't try to break our existing and beloved Lockdown.

-1 from the T2 Lockdown Fiend

#2 gets distorted with mixed sets along UVs. A simple text won't adapt to the situation.
#3 Makes defensive armors even more useless and over-overpowers sets with bonuses (skolver)

The most logical is #1, but is kinda complicated and troublesome to read mid-batle.

How about icons over players heads? Dots that change in size according to amount of defense.
If he has normal and shadow defense, 2 medium sized red and purple dots. If he also has a pierce UV, a small yellow dot.
It's still annoying but would also reveal some UVs.....

I never pay attention to what armor people are wearing :3 Or their weapons (that is, until they start chasing me down)
Personally I think all of these suggestions............are well............pointless (no offense :( ). Lets talk about suggestion #1 first =)
Odds are, you'll probably be dead (or in the middle of a fight) by the time you manage to hover your mouse over a player from the opposing team. Even if you don't (lets say you are hiding in your "base"), and you manage to find out what armor another player is wearing...........I don't really see how that information would be useful to you. First of all, you can't change equipment in the middle of Lockdown (unless you have.........what are they called again? Sets? I forgot :P). Secondly..............I can't think of one :3

Now lets discuss suggestion #2
Well, I'm pretty sure no one wants to have those words appear over and over again DX

Suggestion #3
Well, @Zaffy-Laffy had a point.........Besides............I always bring a Super Stun Gun with me to Lockdown ^^

Overall:
This is a nice suggestion to be honest =) I've actually also wanted to show off my costumes in Lockdown :P But sadly, due to the reasons listed above, I have to disagree :( Sorry

Happy New Year by the way ^^

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"but hey, they're only a few"

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I'll refrain from commenting on that, but it'd be good to heed my irritation. TL;DR: Take a hint.

"Answer me this, would you rather memorise what every set of armour in the game is weak to"

Frankly, for the armour's I've encountered, used, and considered getting, that job does itself. Skolver? Piercing resist. Vog? Elemental. Skelly? Shadow. The variety of gear used in LD I find is very small, so that's not too much of a trouble if you're trying to get 1337 at LD.

"who really stops to remember what kind of damage the opposition is weak to when your about to get"

They don't have to. There's a 'This dude? He keel yew' screen right after you die, also showing the weapon he was wielding when he killed you.

A mouseover screen would be too much trouble, considering you'll probably be too busy fighting to even bother to check it out. Not having Costume armour allows for quick viewing of the enemy's general defenses.

A little 'Pro Tip-bot' I find would be pointless entirely. "There's a better weapon to use." But...I like to use my- "Use the better weapon." Seriously, I find it eas- "Use. The Better. Weapon." If the player can't be bothered with enemy defenses, the assistant would just be annoying, get in the way, be disregarded entirely, or other. And if the player did care about enemy defenses, he'd probably know what to do already, and the assistant would just get in the way.

Reminds me of something.

#3 isn't as bad, but then there'll be no diversity whatsoever. Doesn't matter if they have defense against everything or no defense, the point of armours is to have a variety on the field. It's one of the things SK promotes in it's gameplay. Preparation in both attack and defense types.

You get to wear costumes in Haven and the CW because you can both fight and socialize. If you can look cool and badbucket while at it, better. In LD, all you're there for is to kill people. No-one's really going to take a look at your player and go: 'Hm. Nice threads.' Obviously looking nice is a thing for some people, but on a battlefield where everyone's more focused on tearing their sword through your neck, they're probably not going to notice nor care about mistmatched clothing.

Not to be the overly downer, but...

Discuss also includes and constitutes as criticizing. If an idea is terrible, people call it out as terrible. Not that this idea is terrible, but nevertheless, it's positive factor is small, and is merely a preference. Then again, most things are, but this I feel is less necessary than the rest.

Also, please refrain from posting things like "I'm directing this at the developers, not you guys" or other such similar phrases, for the following reasons I will post in a frustrated manner because I've had so many people say that it's really, really annoying.

"I'm aiming this at the developers" Of course you're aiming it at the developers; you posted it in their suggestions forum! They read it. They ALSO read the comments of other posters. Pretty much, they let US argue out all the kinks and whatknots so THEY don't have to.

Regardless of who it's directed at, if it's a suggestion that's going to affect other players, other players get to have a say. Debating in such a manner allows the developers to see both sides of the argument, and while all posters on said imaginary thread may disagree with the idea, if the developers find that such a feature would be more beneficial, they'll add it anyway. The forums are used as an idea-pool and community-response 'testing ground'.

Trying to say 'look, I like hearing your voice at all but I'm not really listening to what you're saying because I want to hear from developers" just annoys people. Like, really annoys people. I'm fairly sure you can see why, especially with my 'translated' version.

For instance, take a look at this guy.

Regardless of how good his idea may or may not have been, he decided to be a buckethat about how he was going to take comments, enraging most of the posters and pretty much getting nowhere. If it doesn't get support, it's less likely to get implemented. Also, it's just a really good example of a dude being arrogant regarding the 'you're not devs' scenario.

Now look at this guy.

Recognize the content? At least a few thing should look similar, if not ring bells instantly.

This thread was more or less responsible for the fairly recent GH patch. It was a long work-in-progress thing, but Severage spent his time finding, compiling, improving, discarding, tweaking and re-proposing only to revise it yet again, ideas to be used in a possible GH update. He listened to commenters, countered criticism where he could, for ideas that could be saved, and generally was just co-operative.

It's much easier to get things done that way instead of saying "...I don't like what you're saying." every time someone comes in and can't find anything positive about the idea; counter his points and prove him wrong, or improve your own points based on his critiques; that's what this' forum's about.

I understand what you're saying, but implying you were ignoring people I was not. I was pointing out the fact that saying that could imply that to other people and is what annoys people.

Also, there are only a few who actually post without thinking. Some of us may miss a point here and there, others may overanalyze. But there'll only be a few, and it'll be evident who, who will just come in to say 'ur idea suck u stoopid lolol'

-0 +0 You aren't supposed to look pretty during Lockdown considering a teddy bear bashing peoples face in would be weird but epic at the same time. c:

@Psy

I'm one of those people! :D

As much as I'd love to wear my prized Iron Bombhead Mask in Lockdown (it goes so well with Merc Demo), I'd have to say no. It's good to be able to tell what your foe is wearing, so you don't, say, pull out a Shivermist on a Skolver, or a Voltaic Tempest on a Mercurial Demoman. Yeah, Status Resists weren't mentioned anywhere; since people can be completely immune to a Mist Bomb (except for the center damage that no one ever gets hit by, except those rare lucky Mist Bomb kills you wish you had recorded because it was just so epic) with a resistant armor set (or two Max UVs, which shouldn't be the case, but it is), knowing what armor the enemy is wearing is crucial for any mist bomber.

However, a good idea was raised; an equipment viewer that could let you see UVs. If this were incorporated in the lobby before the battle, you could figure out who has unfair invulnerability to what by looking at the names with UV'd armors and matching them to each player. Levels the playing field ever so slightly, and requires the average Shock Max Skolver Clone to use his head a little (and if they do, well, more power to 'em because they probably know what they're doing). Being able to see that guy that's been getting top damage has an ASI VH Flippin' Flourish (or worse, an ASI VH TROLLARIS) should be helpful by letting teams know "Aim for that sucker first", hopefully causing his ego to get knocked down a peg (assuming he has an ego).