Replace the Assault Rifle with the Battle Rifle.
Replace the Sidekick with the Commando Rifle.
Speed up the revival time.
Make revives be like a respawn so people don’t stand still for two seconds as they are brought back, instead respawning them nearby.
No weapon pickups. Just default loadouts. Equipment pickups for sure, but power weapons should be out of the arena.
There you go.
Now people will stop charging at each other with ARs and Pistols, dying in large clusters so the enemy team can camp your revivals.
Players charging at one another, whittling their shields down with the AR or Sidekick.
Players then punch the shieldless enemy, resulting in death.
However this results in a trade as both players were shooting at each other and both punched at the same time, resulting in a bro-fist of double-death.
With the Battle Rifle instead of the AR, it will encourage longer-range engagements and spread out the revive balls so the winning team cannot so easily camp them.
With the Commando instead of the Sidekick, it will get players more familiar with the weapon. I see it rarely being used in the game because it doesn’t perform as well as the AR in terms of damgae-per-second and the BR outclasses it in ranged combat. Did you know it is an achievement to get a perfect kill with the Commando? A rare achievement that causes that diamond-effect instead of the normal achievement blip sound.
This way if you want to engage close, you use the Commando. If you want to fight at a range, you use the Battle Rifle.
BR would just create cross map shooting and reviving virtually possible, and it’s the things of no reason to pick up other weapons.
Why commando when you already have a precision weapon with the BR in your options.
I’m fine with the revive but maybe a little faster would be nice, not sure on this one.
I’m kinda fine with getting back up where I am, especially since you gain like 2 seconds of invisibility. Maybe make the camera quicker at getting back into the action though.
Weapon pickups are fine, vehicles on the other hand though are a bit OP in this mode.
Just add Attrition to Ranked so people can stop making these BR start threads. I don’t care about Ranked. I don’t care what Ranked players want. BR in Attrition would just be a worse Tactical Slayer, because people would be extreme camping, making the game drag out until the border shrinks, then it becomes a trash fest of people quickly trying to get to the middle before the wall kills them, while also not being stomped by the other team. 5 minutes of sitting, and 60 seconds of chaos. Sounds awful. Put it in Ranked anyway.
It’s honestly best to circle the map with your whole team, so when you run into that one guy running around by himself, he gets stomped immediately, and if someone on your team gets stomped, you’re already next to them to revive. BR starts would just make some maps super toxic with camping certain far range vantage points and rooms, waiting for someone to come, or waiting for the walls to close
That doesn’t happen in Ranked with BR starts. Also, when all lives are depleted, the camping already happens currently. I’m not sure you are encouraging anything that already isn’t happening. I actually think AR starts make that worse cause you want the other team to come to you when you have a closer ranged weapon.