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Let's add a stamina cost to Jump and help keep the game prettier

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Just a few months and we will see how it plays. I love jump shooting as a ranger in other games. Meaning while kiting do a 180 to shoot a skill, 180 again and keep running.

GrilledCheeseMojito

I need the jump button. I crave the jump button. Even if it doesn't do much beyond shift me around on sharp terrain, I need a jump button. I will find a way to jump as much as humanly possible.

Do a stamina penalty or whatever, I don't care. But I want to jump.

Pyrolol

Jump team ftw

George_Black

Pyrolol wrote: »

Jump team ftw

You will never look that good.

Sathrago

George_Black wrote: »

Pyrolol wrote: »

Jump team ftw

You will never look that good.

Thats why we play video games where we can look that good.

Mag7spy

Sathrago wrote: »

George_Black wrote: »

Pyrolol wrote: »

Jump team ftw

You will never look that good.

Thats why we play video games where we can look that good.

I was that good though xD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1I9jNTT1IdA

Bunny hop pro here

RocketFarmer

Don’t worry. The Dead Wabbit guild will take care of the bunny hopping.

I think jogging, running, climbing and jumping could cost stamina, but at different rates. And if we want to play the immersion card, wouldn’t the hopping increase your stamina over time? Jack LaLanne style? So if you want higher stamina, better start hopping.

The goofy part of jumping in games is the disproportionate height/distance and change of direction in mid air as though gravity and momentum don’t exist. Now magic jumping could violate those physical laws, because magic is the trump card for realism. Kind of goofy like jump charging. But then I think goofy physics is the AoC style because it’s more fun over realism.

The immersion argument is about as old as the game is not for everyone argument. On one hand it could be valid, but more times than not is just a lazy go to reaction to fair criticisms. Besides, any game with lethal combat without permanent death is immersion breaking. So we can go to the extremes on these arguments and that can easily lead away from a game and more towards a murder simulation.

Noaani

hleV wrote: »

"It's fine because it's a game" is a cop-out since you can use it for anything.

Yeah, you can.

Because it's a game.

However, this only applies to things that don't otherwise matter - things that are just for fun.

So, if jumping around offers no benefit, make it resource free, because it's just a game.

If you make it use a resource, you need to make it have a purpose.

You wouldn't make it use a resource and state "because its just a game", because that is taking more fun away from people than it is giving.

Spif

Like someone else said, jumping has several real advantages:

Hides animations
Continues your movement at full speed when snared mid-air, until you land (in some games), making it great for kiting

And has the disadvantage of not allowing change of direction while in mid-air (most games...some have air control)

So we have a balance reason to add a (small) stamina cost to jumping, as well as cosmetic one. I'm all for adding a small stam cost to jumping. IE, you can still jump 50 times before running out as long as you are not using stam for anything else.

PrinceMaslama

What if instead of spamming the space button indefinitely we give Rangers DPS abilities that also have built-in movement like literally every other modern MMORPG game. I really hope Intrepid doesnt recreate WoW for their combat system that would be hella lame.

PrinceMaslama

Noaani wrote: »

hleV wrote: »

"It's fine because it's a game" is a cop-out since you can use it for anything.

Yeah, you can.

Because it's a game.

However, this only applies to things that don't otherwise matter - things that are just for fun.

So, if jumping around offers no benefit, make it resource free, because it's just a game.

If you make it use a resource, you need to make it have a purpose.

You wouldn't make it use a resource and state "because its just a game", because that is taking more fun away from people than it is giving.

That's not the point of the original post. The OP complained that the jump spam makes the game look goofy, cartoonish and visually unappealing. They suggested to apply a stamina cost to the spacebar ability to limit its use however that is only one of many solutions to this. It is rather lazy from a design PoV to have combat for a certain class heavily rely on spamming the spacebar for optimal kiting/survivability. The developers can do more and offer a more visually appealing alternative to the bunny jump spam.

PrinceMaslama

It might not be a concern if you've never played any of the modern MMOs in the market but to the majority who have, it might not be appealing to switch from their already pristine MMO with seamless movement and abilities to a spacebar spam fest.

It does AoC no good having silo vision it is a fact that there are combat systems out there 100x better than that of Aoc and they need to account for this if they're looking to siphon playerbase from other MMOs.

Noaani

PrinceMaslama wrote: »

That's not the point of the original post.

I know - I can read too!

That is why the post I quoted above, in the post of mine that you quoted, wasn't the OP. I wasn't replying to the OP. Rather, I was - gasp - replying to the post I quoted.

See, this is a concept you yourself understand.

How can I possibly know this? Well, it's simple, my friend.

The above post of yours, where you quoted me, there was nothing at all in that that talked about what the OP talked about. You weren't talking about what the OP of this thread was talking about though, and we all know this - because you quoted me rather than the OP.

That is how you signal on a forum that you are replying to a specific post.

Edit to add - if you look at literally the first reply to this thread, I said in that post literally everything that needs to be said in regards to the OP of this thread.

PrinceMaslama

What are you saying brother

Noaani

PrinceMaslama wrote: »

What are you saying brother

Noaani wrote: »

PrinceMaslama wrote: »

That's not the point of the original post.

I know - I can read too!

That is why the post I quoted above, in the post of mine that you quoted, wasn't the OP. I wasn't replying to the OP. Rather, I was - gasp - replying to the post I quoted.

See, this is a concept you yourself understand.

How can I possibly know this? Well, it's simple, my friend.

The above post of yours, where you quoted me, there was nothing at all in that that talked about what the OP talked about. You weren't talking about what the OP of this thread was talking about though, and we all know this - because you quoted me rather than the OP.

That is how you signal on a forum that you are replying to a specific post.

Edit to add - if you look at literally the first reply to this thread, I said in that post literally everything that needs to be said in regards to the OP of this thread.

PrinceMaslama

Hinotori

daveywavey

To be honest, the majority of my bunny-hopping is out of combat, just cos it amuses me while I'm running long distances, or if I'm bored for a few minutes waiting for somebody to turn up, etc.

Noaani

daveywavey wrote: »

To be honest, the majority of my bunny-hopping is out of combat, just cos it amuses me while I'm running long distances, or if I'm bored for a few minutes waiting for somebody to turn up, etc.

This is by far what I see the most of.

It's generally just people that are bored pressing a button and watching the thing happen.

CROW3

daveywavey wrote: »

To be honest, the majority of my bunny-hopping is out of combat, just cos it amuses me while I'm running long distances, or if I'm bored for a few minutes waiting for somebody to turn up, etc.

That’s ok - jumping mice lead to happy hawks. 😈

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