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Development => Bugs, Feature Requests, and Feedback => Official Feature Votes => Topic started by: i_am_a_pirate on February 23, 2008, 12:26:34 PM

Title: Feature: Lying down
Post by: i_am_a_pirate on February 23, 2008, 12:26:34 PM: Wouldn't it be cool to be able to lie down, like on most 1st person shoot 'em ups? It wouldn't neccisarily take away from the fast-paced action as some maps would require you to be able to lie down. camping ,ay be an issue, though
Title: Re: Feature: Lying down
Post by: Edgecrusher on February 23, 2008, 12:30:47 PM: Oh NO.
Title: Re: Feature: Lying down
Post by: Eiii on February 23, 2008, 12:41:16 PM: Agree'd. It certainly WOULD take away from the fast-paced nature of the game, given that you wouldn't be able to move anymore. Plus, it'd make players about three times harder to hid head-on, while they could still fire perfectly fine.
Title: Re: Feature: Lying down
Post by: webhead on February 23, 2008, 01:42:07 PM: Quote from: Eiii on February 23, 2008, 12:41:16 PM
Agree'd. It certainly WOULD take away from the fast-paced nature of the game, given that you wouldn't be able to move anymore.
... unless you simply hit that key and get back up.

Quote from: Eiii on February 23, 2008, 12:41:16 PM
Plus, it'd make players about three times harder to hid head-on, while they could still fire perfectly fine.
of course. thats the whole point, right?
but their firing ability wouldn't be "perfectly fine" if they can't move like normal.

this doesn't sound like a necessarily bad idea. i might not vote it up, but i probably wouldn't vote it down.
Title: Re: Feature: Lying down
Post by: Henkka on February 23, 2008, 02:37:40 PM: Bad idea.
Title: Re: Feature: Lying down
Post by: y00tz on February 23, 2008, 05:29:44 PM: Quote from: webhead on February 23, 2008, 01:42:07 PM
of course. thats the whole point, right?

DP characters crouching already have a very small hitbox in comparison to other shooters.
Title: Re: Feature: Lying down
Post by: Deranged on February 23, 2008, 06:59:16 PM: Quote from: y00tz on February 23, 2008, 05:29:44 PM
DP characters crouching already have a very small hitbox in comparison to other shooters.

lying down, their hit box wouldn't be shrunk, just rotated...
Title: Re: Feature: Lying down
Post by: eMo on February 23, 2008, 07:32:16 PM: Horribad idea.
Title: Re: Feature: Lying down
Post by: Gamabunta on February 24, 2008, 06:44:04 AM: Agreed, don't even come up with such bad ideas. Movement is fine as it is.
Title: Re: Feature: Lying down
Post by: i_am_a_pirate on February 24, 2008, 02:34:50 PM: okay, no need to flame over me, it was just an idea.
I think that the mappers could compensate for it. Not being able to move whilest lying down would be a huge disadvantage, but then again, if the person shooting at you was head on, then it would make it extremely hard to kill you. It's a bit like timed grenades, really. Once you have the hang of where to use it, then you can use it to your advantage
Title: Re: Feature: Lying down
Post by: webhead on February 24, 2008, 04:27:05 PM: ok look, how would you feel if you thought up something you liked, but someone came along and told you "don't even come up with such bad ideas"??

You can say you don't like it without taking away his right to even post the stuff he thinks of. That's the whole point of this sub-forum, to throw ideas around. Don't squelch ideas.
Title: Re: Feature: Lying down
Post by: i_am_a_pirate on February 25, 2008, 03:51:39 AM: Cheers :D
Title: Re: Feature: Lying down
Post by: jitspoe on February 25, 2008, 04:32:08 PM: The term for that is "prone."

http://dplogin.com/dplogin/featurevote/feature.php?id=10114

-1. It doesn't fit this style of gameplay, and it's just one more button to bind.
Title: Re: Feature: Lying down
Post by: i_am_a_pirate on February 26, 2008, 11:49:18 AM: Well, I wouldn't mind having to press something half-way accross the keyboard to go prone. You wouldn't in a heated battle, would you?