05 Mar 12, 05:01AM
My opinion:
-No Pickups of any kind
-Spawn with 100 hp, no armor, your chosen gun with one clip of ammo, the pistol with one clip of ammo, and your knife.
This would be a very stripped down game mode, with the intention of focusing as purely on player skill as possible.
Pickups are removed so that map layout will have less of an effect on the outcome (although some maps are designed with pickups in mind to help balance them, e.g. the akimbo in RVSF base in ac_arid) and to make the mode more "pure" (no nades, etc).
You spawn without armor (I felt I should specify this as the SVN T/SURV modes spawn with 100 armor) so that the rounds pass more quickly and will allow the one clip rule (although it should be noted that this is straight from my mind, playtesting could show that full armor works fine with one clip, or that it makes the mode more fun by forcing the players to end it with a pistol/knife fight).
You only get one clip for your chosen weapon to help balance the weapons, as it increases the emphasis on clip size which makes carbine a viable choice and slightly weakens the "big three" (AR, SMG, Sniper).
You get your pistol (with one clip) because why not.
You get your knife so you don't end up standing around stupidly if everyone runs out of ammo, or perhaps if you wish to go for the 2 frags.
-No Pickups of any kind
-Spawn with 100 hp, no armor, your chosen gun with one clip of ammo, the pistol with one clip of ammo, and your knife.
This would be a very stripped down game mode, with the intention of focusing as purely on player skill as possible.
Pickups are removed so that map layout will have less of an effect on the outcome (although some maps are designed with pickups in mind to help balance them, e.g. the akimbo in RVSF base in ac_arid) and to make the mode more "pure" (no nades, etc).
You spawn without armor (I felt I should specify this as the SVN T/SURV modes spawn with 100 armor) so that the rounds pass more quickly and will allow the one clip rule (although it should be noted that this is straight from my mind, playtesting could show that full armor works fine with one clip, or that it makes the mode more fun by forcing the players to end it with a pistol/knife fight).
You only get one clip for your chosen weapon to help balance the weapons, as it increases the emphasis on clip size which makes carbine a viable choice and slightly weakens the "big three" (AR, SMG, Sniper).
You get your pistol (with one clip) because why not.
You get your knife so you don't end up standing around stupidly if everyone runs out of ammo, or perhaps if you wish to go for the 2 frags.