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Why not just make pic related an actual Battle Royale game?

I was thinking the other day it could be interesting if they approached the whole "shrinking battlefield" thing differently.

What if, instead of a shrinking circle, it's done vertically? Have a game where the battlefield is a flooding city and the "danger zone" is the slowly rising floodline. (Kind of like pics related, where you could get a shit load of vertical combat going on) You still go underwater if you want to check the submerged rooms for supplies but too much contact with the water for a prolonged period will begin to damage you.

This way, the players all moving towards each other would be more natural, as they'll eventually need to work their way to the taller buildings in the city as everywhere else gets submerged.

Make it singleplayer, completely remove any dynamic elements or 'RNG', replace the huge map with several hallway levels, add lots of cutscenes after and inbetween each level, replace enemy players with zombies locked on easy difficulty, and make the playable character a loli.

There you go, a battle royale for /v/.

>>15424717

I surprised myself saying out loud "oh, cool" when reading your idea, anon. Reminded me of 999

>>15425129

>zombies on easy difficulty

When has /v/ ever supported this?

>>15424473

A perfect answer to that question lies in a term "Territory Control". Usually, when one aims down the sights in an FPS game, one controls everything in his sight with a certain degree of precision relative to his skill at shooting. Relative to this, everything is established - resource acquisition, survival (via relocation in pubg, fortnite etc etc, doesn't have to be that necessarily) and elimination of competitors. All you have to do is to find a way to improve on a way of spreading Territory Control, to make it more fun, to raise it's skill celling, to make improving yourself for that reason more fun, etc etc.

How to do that, however, is entirely up to the designer. There are multiple popular ways to spread control over an area that are currently present in an FPS. In this example, let's take a look at how TF2 does it to figure out popular different ways to do so. For the purpose of those examples, please consider this - we're going to look at TF2 from a top-down perspective to make it easier to pinpoint how each class's influence spreads.

Scout - fast-moving blip on the radar that threatens to kill units within a cone of his vision near him. Has a scattergun and a pistol. Obviously limited by a range of his scattergun, so he needs to get close and time his shots right. Needs health to resupply, eventually dies if somehow all health packs are taken. Weak to area-of-effect area denial e.g. sentry guns and well-timed explosions. Can get around those with time, however time is a resource enemy can use.

Soldier - slow-moving AOE area denial character that can move fast at cost of own health. Can create instant explosions near him as long as there is a wall to hit with a rocket. Has a rocket launcher and a shotgun. Threatens grounded enemies around him, creating a certain kill zone for low-HP classes and a significant advantage against the rest due to the way rocket knockback works. Because of the innate 4-rockets-at-a-time limitation, has to rely on a shotgun or teammates for cover when boom tube is empty. Also very dependent on health because of how good blast jumping is.

Pyro - ambush close-range class. Denies area around corners. Has a flamethrower and a shotgun. Flamethrower can kill low-HP classes within just a second, while the rest take longer, and will probably kill you before they die. Because of that, surprise attacks are rewarded. Also has element of utility against spies and snipers. Threatens his cone of vision near areas around which opponents can't see and deals damage proportional to distance between Pyro and target. Dies very quickly if in close range for too long.

Demoman - AOE area denial character that gets more advantage the more time to set himself up he has. Has a pipe launcher and a stickybomb launcher. Pipe launcher denies area in his cone of vision with lower hit rate and produces a delayed explosion on demand, stickybomb launcher allows demoman to either deal damage based on predicting enemy location or stack damage at one point, killing most enemies that pass through it regardless of their health. Compared to soldier, by delaying time of damage Demoman gains more means to deny area regardless of range.

Heavy - very slow mid-range area denial, extremely reliant on HP. Has a minigun and a shotgun. As minigun requires rev-up time, shotgun is very rarely used. After revving up a minigun (~one and a half seconds) heavy can kill any class at close range near-instantly and most classes at mid-range at the cost of slowing himself down even further. His minigun is not effective at farther than a certain range, meaning that getting outranged is his weakness. What's more, he is forced to always face the way he fires, making spies extremely effective. Very fast time-to-kill around him one target at a time, but weak to many kinds of things like Soldiers/Demomen playing peek-a-boo with cover to outdamage him. Constant influence projected on the battlefield, compared to their variable.

Engineer - structure-reliant area denial, dependent on ammo pickups. Has a shotgun, pistol, sentry turret, dispenser for replenishment and a teleporter for team support. All structures consume metal and, more importantly, time to create. Engineer is a separate actor from his buildings - he acts like a weaker version of scout, as damage from his shotgun does not rise above a certain point the closer he is to the target. His sentry, however, applies constant influence on the battlefield and combined with his own adaptability he is able to maintain area denial of his sentry's range provided it's feasible to do so.

Sniper - far-range assassination specialist. Has a sniper rifle and an SMG. Sniper Rifle can store charge when aiming down it's sights, lowering your movement speed and zooming you in. Can kill mid-HP classes without overheal instantly by shooting them in the head. Very weak to close-range attacks, as he has no ways to deny area near him but his low-damage SMG and risky Sniper Rifle headshot attempts. Also weak to proper spies. His reliable method of area denial is shooting at mid-to-far area of his cone of vision while area around him is clear.

Medic - team-wide health kit on wheels. Has a syringe fun and a medigun. Syringe gun is used while retreating to damage and repel an enemy, denying area directly behind his retreat or alternatively denying area based on his predictions around him. Medigun serves as means to gamble on the fact that your teammate can live longer than an enemy when their threat zones overlap, making them win in a normally bad situation or alternatively passively resupplying your team via overheal. Medic does not threaten area around him with Medigun, thus someone else must do it for him. If he survives long enough, he can activate Ubercharge to nullify all enemy damage with predictable results. Invaluable because of potential to nullify effects of enemies's presence. As long as medic remains alive for long enough to build Ubercharge, he can gain a lot of advantage. Such methods of nullifying enemy's shooting and dodging skill can turn a game from a tactics contest to a strategy contest.

Spy - close-range assassination specialist. Has a revolver, knife, disguise kit, sapper and invisibility watch. Revolver is a close-range weapon that deals more damage the closer you are, but nowhere near enough damage to out-DPS offense classes. Knife instantly kills if struck in the back, making for a good combination with a disguise kit, that allows him to make it seem like he's on an enemy team. Sapper disables buildings and eventually destroys them and invisibility watch can make it seem as though he's not there. Last of the three classes with unorthodox area denial ranges, Spy relies on distractions - such as enemy being too focused on whomever he's fighting to exist. His threat range is behind the enemy when they don't see him and when they see him he's usually really dead, has a revolver out or is making a getaway.

Each of those classes sports it's own method of applying territory control to a part of the map, usually meaning that whomever's in their range dies really fast, assuming that skilled players are using them. Certain ways to control and remove opposition listed here could be used, improved and refined further to make a really fun vidya, as having multiple paths of dealing with a difficult enemy is key for including strategic elements into your game's skill curve, which our gamedev industry that's pandering to the lowest common denominator seems to lack right now.