/v/ - Video Games

Your starting point is wrong. You should ask how viable an open world MMO FPS is from a technical standpoint.

>>16136942

Planetside did this, right?

>>16136919

eSports sorts itself out in the best cases, I would rather have more focus on balancing the avatar size issue if only to allow people to just mess around playing pink loli shooter, I can only imagine size would cap stats like strength and health to compensate the difficulty of shooting them, not to mention their inability to carry larger weapons like sniper rifles and the like, also, ammo reserves.

>>16136942

I wouldn't go as far as open world MMO without testing the viability of something like a "battle royale" shooter with those gimmicks first, that is, nothing on the scale of those, 180 players total (30 teams of 6 or less players) at most.

>>16136867

According to every hero shooter out there, it works.

>>16137079

Well, at least in this case there wouldn't be things like abilities like in hero shooters, just good old rocket jumping maybe.

>>16137081

Well as mentioned above, if you use gear restrictions, it could still work. Noone's going to complain that the loli isn't lugging around Heavy's Sasha.

How balanced? What the fuck do you mean 'balanced"? Nigger if I load up a game that lets me play a loli with a pink gun, I don't give a fuck how balanced it is. Games like that should be utterly absurd. Everyone should be as overpowered or underpowered as possible.

>>16137095

>>16137102

Maybe not leveling up, even if GGO seems to have a leveling system of sorts I think it would basically be something more akin to Warframe where you have some kind of limited point capacity while building your character (or multiple characters) and balancing their stats around, let's say Llenn would have limited strength but enough to carry her P90 plus a knife and six extra magazines without crippling her insane movement speed.

>>16137104

As someone pointed above, only enough as to not allow the loli to carry around a minigun while still being able to move like The Flash.

>>16136996

You need the scale of a MMORPG, which is thousands of players ideally. At the same time, in the same world instance.

>>16137104

>or underpowered

Fuck no. Overpowered is the way to go, underpowered is just tedious.

>>16137889

IIRC most of those girls are guys.

>>16137889

Who's talking about girls, you dumb nigger. Stay in your containment hole.

>>16137889

What does that have to do with anything in this topic? the animu is a different thing, I am just talking about the mechanics.

>>16136867

> how viable or balanced can a shooter be when you can have an avatar of different size as well as RPG elements like stats affecting your loadout capacity and your movement speed

Potentially viable, just depends on how it's balanced. As a thought experiment, using real-world physics, physiology, and technology, what would you consider be the likelyhood of your survival fighting through an abandoned city filled with enemy forces given the body of (A) a moderately athletic 25-year-old male, and (B) a moderately athletic 15-year-old girl.