It didn't have friendly fire and the game suffered for it. If assaults tried to jump into a proper sustained melee they just got spammed with Nades or Plasma Cannons. Was pretty fucking awful. Actually I can't. CoD is blisteringly fast. Borderlands is 20+ seconds in some cases. It's so vague that we literally don't know. Even if you factor in Planetside 2 Heavy Assault TTK which is 5-7 seconds sometimes friendly fire is 100% relevant and an issue.
I'd suggest to make FF weapon or even loadout dependent. Weapons with large AoE are just too powerful in a mass battle scenario without FF, whereas full FF will make melee a living hell. Somethings in the line of bolters with internal IFF, where friendlys take reduced damage; heavy bolters with optional IFF, where you sacrifice some fire rate for reduces FF or just an IFF mechanism in exchange for another upgrade with some othert use. Of course none of that for tanks or other explosive stuff. Wouldn't even be hard to pull off lorewise, some machine spirit recognizing friendly machine spirit mumbo jumbo should cover it
just like the ranged characters need to L2p and be carefull with their shots (according to several posters in this thread) the cc characters should L2p and dont just smash their head on their keyboard
The issue is the idea of large sweeping motions. I think they should be possible, but optional, we should have the ability to make precise cuts, directly in front of us in a downward motion and/or slightly diagonal. Keep the FF on, but make it so that if you're in a giant manfight you have the option to not annihilate all your squadmates around you as well.
eternal crusade without ff: 10 man assault squad: spam grenade while jumping the jump crash stagger/stun the enemy the 10 grenade devastate the enemy that are staggered and can't run away from the grenade. 10 man plasma cannon devastator: aim? LOL, spam plasma in that room.
Could you list a few of these games that FF didnt work in? Im really curious because the other mmo style shooters both have ff and it works wonders. So please list some of these 30 beta tests youve been in. I dont think any of these games had FF. Frankly most of these games have been huge failures.
Let's mention a game that doesn't have anything to do with EC and say it was good because it didn't have FF!!
I loved Elder scrolls skyrim. Was a great game with 0 FF. Edit* you could kill your henchman with FF so strike that
