Riot's new LOL MMORPG nearly guaranteed to have one feature I have never seen another MMO try.

The bushes you can hide in!

I don't think I would actually play a MMO based on LOL. I am more of a Smite guy myself, and even then I would not play a Smite MMORPG.

In any case. Having bushes around the world that are so thick you could not see if someone is in them would be great for open world PvP. I don't feel like it would be hard to implement.

What downsides are there too a feature like this?

World too dangerous?

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George_Black

Sounds fun and would love it if more mmos had it.
No downsides. It's good stuff.

TriggerTec

Sounds fun and all until you get ganked by a giant squad hiding in the bushes lmao

bloodprophet

They had a player transmog effect in APOC you could turn in to a bed or a bush depending on which item you found.
I would think the same ability that revealed stealthed players would work here.

Vhaeyne

bloodprophet wrote: »

They had a player transmog effect in APOC you could turn in to a bed or a bush depending on which item you found.
I would think the same ability that revealed stealthed players would work here.

Never got to play APOC, I would love to be a mimic. Sounds like great fun when it works. Maybe a outdoor version of the spell that turns you into a bush for a short time?

Atama

I love hiding in bushes in the Assassin’s Creed games. I’ve said before I’d like to have environmental features you can interact with. Star Wars: The Old Republic allowed Smugglers to take cover behind objects to get defense bonuses (so there is precedent for something similar in an MMORPG). I’d like if you could do something similar for stealth. And don’t limit it to Rogues; let everyone do it to a degree, though maybe Rogues get more out of it (like a damage bonus on a surprise attack).

Enigmatic Sage

so they turned bushes into a stealth mechanic for an MMORPG... interesting. I can see some MMORPGS following suit with something like that. Don't think it would suit all MMORPG's though. Stealth and stealth classes are one of those things that can make and/or break a PvP based game.

Vhaeyne

Enigmatic Sage wrote: »

so they turned bushes into a stealth mechanic for an MMORPG... interesting. I can see some MMORPGS following suit with something like that. Don't think it would suit all MMORPG's though. Stealth and stealth classes are one of those things that can make and/or break a PvP based game.

I don't know for sure that the LOL MMO would have bushes, but I just would bet heavily on it.
Click bait title was just to get the topic going.

I agree it would not suit every MMO, but I have thought since I first played LOL like a decade ago, the bushes were the best idea in the game. Ever since then I have been wondering why no MMO has taken the idea on.

Enigmatic Sage

Vhaeyne wrote: »

Enigmatic Sage wrote: »

so they turned bushes into a stealth mechanic for an MMORPG... interesting. I can see some MMORPGS following suit with something like that. Don't think it would suit all MMORPG's though. Stealth and stealth classes are one of those things that can make and/or break a PvP based game.

I don't know for sure that the LOL MMO would have bushes, but I just would bet heavily on it.
Click bait title was just to get the topic going.

I agree it would not suit every MMO, but I have thought since I first played LOL like a decade ago, the bushes were the best idea in the game. Ever since then I have been wondering why no MMO has taken the idea on.

lol, click bait worked!

As fun as hiding in a bush with your nameplate above your head for everyone to see is fun and all thinking you're being sneaky... lol

It would be interesting to see something like that if the bushes are large enough.. Maybe they'd have to patches of over sized bushes everywhere and it would turn into a game of Jurassic park raptor pen.. lol
I could stealth mechanics being extremely over powered from the visibility curtain mechanic of being in the bushes. Maybe they're adding in wards and/or detection abilities too. to spy in said bushes.. starting to see the issue now with placements.

Some games are developing mechanics such as eyesight into races and classes, where if enemies are outside a specific range, you are unable to target them and see their nameplates on top of their characters and as a name plate for your targeting for your UI that shows hp, stats, name etc

You may be able to see a group of players run by, but you wont be able to exploit the games selection options to figure out who is who.

Could be interesting to see how it pans out.

Blandmarrow

Only issue I see is that wherever those bushes are positioned, everyone who does not want to engage in PvP will just avoid that space all together. Basically it creates a path players will follow because they know where people will be waiting.

Enigmatic Sage

imagine walking into an open area with a bunch of bushes spaced out in branched pathways with your party...

be all like " well, we're going to get ganked, but from where... LOL "

Vhaeyne

Blandmarrow wrote: »

Only issue I see is that wherever those bushes are positioned, everyone who does not want to engage in PvP will just avoid that space all together. Basically it creates a path players will follow because they know where people will be waiting.

Yeah, ideally they would be placed with "care" taken to place them in a MOBA map. Which may be mission impossible to balance. I am sure it took a lot of testing for riot to figure out where all the bushes go in LOL. Maybe that is the reason we don't see the bushes used at open-world scale.

Perhaps a spell similar to the effect @bloodprophet mentioned from APOC is best solution.

Maup

I mean having bushes that requires you to get close to be able to see players inside is also a cool effect. Not sincerely entering the bush to check the players inside but getting close might work.

Enigmatic Sage

Maup wrote: »

I mean having bushes that requires you to get close to be able to see players inside is also a cool effect. Not sincerely entering the bush to check the players inside but getting close might work.

it has potential.
lots of mechanics and abilities to interact with it for different situations other than a hiding spot for surprise attacks and escape routes via line of site pathing

open world strategy vs instanced strategy ( battle grounds, arena, pvp dungeons )

EDIT:

they dont always have to be organic like bushes, they could be fogs, smoke, vapours etc

daveywavey

I was already thinking that it might be a funky way of reducing the shimmer effect from the Rogue Invisibility. Harder to see the outline if you're hiding in the graphics!

Enigmatic Sage

i think submarine stealth classes would be abusive to a mechanic like the bushes.
Better to use a stealth decay as a timed ability as an example or players would just sit there invisible in a gankers paradise ruining players lives for days.

Similar to how league of legends already implements stealth and detection

Voidwalkers

Would be interesting if Ashes also have bushes for camouflage.
Exactly what one would need to ambush a caravan

Enigmatic Sage

Voidwalkers wrote: »

Would be interesting if Ashes also have bushes for camouflage.
Exactly what one would need to ambush a caravan

not sure if it would suit the games current design path. especially with the designs of environments and biomes already.

visibility effects with weather and seasonal effects would better suit the combat style and goals in relation to design.

Enigmatic Sage

In an action-interaction-reaction system (AIR) there could be lots of potential with effects for visibility and eyesight in and out of combat, especially with a stealth decay mechanic.

example using weather interaction:

using heat/fire abilities during the cold or wet weather effects to create fogs and steam vapours.

same can be said for biome interaction if no significant seasonal change

Vhaeyne

Enigmatic Sage wrote: »

In an action-interaction-reaction system (AIR) there could be lots of potential with effects for visibility and eyesight in and out of combat, especially with a stealth decay mechanic.

example using weather interaction:

using heat/fire abilities during the cold or wet weather effects to create fogs and steam vapours.

same can be said for biome interaction if no significant seasonal change

could be cool. I always liked how FFXI's weather was important. The next natural evolution of that would be things like what you are saying, Instead of just flat elemental buffs.

Also I have played FFXIV for years and never once seen the weather do anything game changing. Yet the game acts like their is a weather system under the hood that does something. I hope that don't end up the case for ashes.
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Climate
They say its going to do something.

Enigmatic Sage

Vhaeyne wrote: »

Enigmatic Sage wrote: »

In an action-interaction-reaction system (AIR) there could be lots of potential with effects for visibility and eyesight in and out of combat, especially with a stealth decay mechanic.

example using weather interaction:

using heat/fire abilities during the cold or wet weather effects to create fogs and steam vapours.

same can be said for biome interaction if no significant seasonal change

could be cool. I always liked how FFXI's weather was important. The next natural evolution of that would be things like what you are saying, Instead of just flat elemental buffs.

Also I have played FFXIV for years and never once seen the weather do anything game changing. Yet the game acts like their is a weather system under the hood that does something. I hope that don't end up the case for ashes.
https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Climate
They say its going to do something.

I think there was something mentioned about spells and environment/biome interaction in the one of the videos, i'll see if I can find it again, lol

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