I am a huge fan of NS and NS2. I love the game, and I have stated before and will repeat here, that NS2 is my favourite game of all time.
There have been rumours flying about on the forums and on the servers about a possible comeback of devour. I know that there's some implementation of it in the combat mod: I think this is a horrible mistake in principle, but haven't yet had to endure it when I've played combat - and I only really use combat as a way to warm up and relax without having to focus too hard on strategy.
The rest of this post is about ANY possibility, whether it's impending or just a twinkle in UWE's eye, of devour returning to vanilla NS2.
PLEASE do not ruin the public gaming experience by putting devour in!!!
(I recognise here that in comp games, 3 hives + onos doesn't really happen, as the game is won well before that point. If 3 hive oni are potentially going to be more commonplace in pubs (looking at the BT mod here), then it's not the case that most games will be conceded before devour rears its ugly head)
I can live with stomp, I don't mind it because there's a very real and frequent chance of you getting up again, and it's not a very long time being taken out of action. But devour in NS1 was what felt like 5 minutes of having to sit staring at some screen, and probably only making out alive in maybe <1% of cases. If you're going to have an instakill ability, make it insta-kill and don't deny me gaming time, please!
If you have no intention of bringing devour to NS2, I would be hugely grateful for official confirmation of this so that I can sleep easy that my favourite game won't be tainted with this godawful mechanic in the future!
Allow me to finish repeating what I started with: I LOVE ns2 - I think what you've achieved is remarkable, and I care about the longevity of the game. I have spent a lot of time since launch playing it, I've bought copies for steam friends, I've publicised on social media and elsewhere about the game. This post is slightly selfish, because I recognise that not everyone will feel so strongly about devour as I do, but I didn't pipe up in NS1 when it was introduced, and I regret that now as it turned out to be the biggest mistake in NS1 development history in my opinion.
There have been rumours flying about on the forums and on the servers about a possible comeback of devour. I know that there's some implementation of it in the combat mod: I think this is a horrible mistake in principle, but haven't yet had to endure it when I've played combat - and I only really use combat as a way to warm up and relax without having to focus too hard on strategy.
The rest of this post is about ANY possibility, whether it's impending or just a twinkle in UWE's eye, of devour returning to vanilla NS2.
PLEASE do not ruin the public gaming experience by putting devour in!!!
(I recognise here that in comp games, 3 hives + onos doesn't really happen, as the game is won well before that point. If 3 hive oni are potentially going to be more commonplace in pubs (looking at the BT mod here), then it's not the case that most games will be conceded before devour rears its ugly head)
I can live with stomp, I don't mind it because there's a very real and frequent chance of you getting up again, and it's not a very long time being taken out of action. But devour in NS1 was what felt like 5 minutes of having to sit staring at some screen, and probably only making out alive in maybe <1% of cases. If you're going to have an instakill ability, make it insta-kill and don't deny me gaming time, please!
If you have no intention of bringing devour to NS2, I would be hugely grateful for official confirmation of this so that I can sleep easy that my favourite game won't be tainted with this godawful mechanic in the future!
Allow me to finish repeating what I started with: I LOVE ns2 - I think what you've achieved is remarkable, and I care about the longevity of the game. I have spent a lot of time since launch playing it, I've bought copies for steam friends, I've publicised on social media and elsewhere about the game. This post is slightly selfish, because I recognise that not everyone will feel so strongly about devour as I do, but I didn't pipe up in NS1 when it was introduced, and I regret that now as it turned out to be the biggest mistake in NS1 development history in my opinion.