I'm still of the mind that when games attempt to focus on making sure everyone is a hybrid with no class roles, everything becomes a DPS race
When i think of hybrid they are just the inbetween not the highest dps or the heal,
So having the actual class gives us more focus on that strength and having the hybrid is just another option.
Would it replace the other class dont think so could add more variety in builds and ways depending on your play style.
While I loved that every class had it's own heal skills, that also meant that there was zero need for healers. If you couldn't kill it before it killed you, just use your emergency heal button and get back to DPSing.
Thats a good point, do hope that we either have a slightly longer cool down for heals / slow heals over time compared to healers. Meaning that heals should be used responsibly. Otherwise being close by to a medic or some sort of heal station if no medic is around.
What I really don't want Em8er "teamwork" to become is people barely interacting with each and just blowing things away without a care in the world.
With big world wide events there could be more to it such as repairing stuff, healing other players, deploying defenses, crafting additional supply to be dropped etc etc
So guess if people just blew stuff up would end up losing and it would effect everyone since the enemy have taken over our research bases and that could perhaps reduce our production or even make us unable to use certain thing perhaps.
Maybe there could be achievements for daily random team ups with different people and the reward to encourage to play with others?
What if there are areas that not just 1 individual can get in and that it needs a team effort to get in an example could be
Mothership infiltration situation in my mind
- Recon can get in but would find it hard to defend the entrance point without an engineer to seal it up after.
- Inside the mothership its going to be even tougher your going to really need some heals for sure a medic could be handy
- Now right inside the heart of the mothership there are scanners, experimental units and traps
so the recon does its thing but during the time you have to make a diversion while this can go on as the hacking process might take longer a slip up and the alarm goes off.
- Now your relieved you have your team behind the tank deploying the toughest shield while the others do dps and the medic healing the recon and others etc
- how are you going to escape one of you needs to call for the dropship leave a player less.
Since the lockdown has made it that more tougher. You all decide to all hold on for as long as possible.
- until the last moment the recon leads out scouting for any obstraction and finds some heavy units
with motion detection the recon runs back to let the team know.
- The damage is too much for the tank to take so you have to use the cover of the pillars or walls until it gets destroyed. Thankfully assault has your back blasting away and using its damage to take some aggro too.
- Sadly your pet gets wiped out :OOO but its ok 3d printing technology helps to create your pet eventually but after sometime the cool down may be longer.
- You make it out the dropship arrives and you have stopped the threat for this time.
Perhaps It could depend on the objective and its difficulty so if the biomes with each difficulty since there could be many biomes with varying difficulty the question is do you do it alone and end up fustrated or do you call in your fellow reapers and make it more enjoyable.
Its crazy how a boss could die so fast with just dps if the health of the boss was so high and it was powered by a device that kept regenerating it fast meaning they would need to stop the device whilst keeping the boss busy.
There could be many situation for blasting stuff generally if you add some extra layers to an objective such as
doing 5 things at once making it virtually impossible for 1 to do but as a group you can manage it better.
- race to nearest tower activate before time
- collect the required processors for the device
- Capture attack vehicle to transport processors
- Scan the area for potential hidden turrets and death squads otherwise will make the mission harder
-Defend and escort vehicle back to extraction before enemy catch up with reinforcements
Got a good feeling that with a team this game will be good and if we are talking about solo players perhaps the pet could be enhanced in some way to help. What out bots that replace players an example when playing l4d2 if a player leaves the group they are replaced by the bot.
The bot is quite poopy but they do make great bait lures !