Tank class: 3 pickup slots °.°

[Tiakh]

Hmm i think in a normal race this could be balanced, and actually interesting. However adding more movement options, like air control and manuel jumping will require more driving skill, which isnt bad, but will reduce the focus on the high speed wall riding, which is the main feature of the game. Especially new players will have a even harder time getting into this game with new mechanics like this.
E.g. aircontrol, is nice to have for skilled players, but for new players it´s just another option to mess up their landing. Thinking of Distance a good implemented Air control in a racing game is quite difficult because in air you have more movement directions and rotations than on the ground, which could be quite confusing if you re not used to it. So in the end the speedster class, which should be the easier one to drive becomes much more difficult.
Im not saying these are bad ideas. Actually they could spice up the gameplay quite a bit. Im just not sure if its really necessary to make the game a better player experience.
Balance with these new perks is already off, depending on the game mode. In the parkour mode the jump button or aircontrol could be really good. In Arena the tank is the best pick with 3 power ups.

[Queadah]

[Tathendal]

The air control could be implemented such as
gas = pitch up
brake = pitch down
left/right = roll (as is now)
hold handbrake+left/right = yaw

Pitch up and down would be logical to be gas and brake but then you could not accelerate while in air without pitching. I suppose yaw would be most difficult to implement controls-wise

[TheOnLY]

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[Tathendal]

Oh we use qwerty keyboards in EU, too I think azerty in Greece or something though...

I think yaw would be the single advantageous manouver and as all cars have roll, only adding pitch wouldn't make that much advantage

[TheOnLY]

What about having a truly passive thing like a recharging shield?
It could recharge over like 45 or more seconds and then deplete giving a free shield when there wasn't a shield already deployed. If there already was one it would just replace this one once it gets destroyed. I don't think that it would be too op because I haven't really seen somebody get a huge lead with a speedster and that is the only situation where it is really strong.

Right now the Speedsters are blown out of the way easily and it would be even worse with a buffer slot for the tanks.
Speedsters have no defensive capabilities at the moment, because even they can't dodge the rockets.
It would be kind of reasonable why they aren't heavily armored then too: They have a shield.

[potterman28wxcv]

[TheOnLY]

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[iamthatiam]

100% agree!

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[Chris_CE]

Some cool suggestions Que, but this will take a lot of thought and balancing. Perhaps a conversation to propose in another thread or on Steam/Discord/Skype (general chat)

[Queadah]