What if the power seeds spawned like a little bit more dispersed? And not all in a single place? Maybe also 2 or 3 different spots? Right now if a team dominates, the match can be over in as little as 3 minutes. Ive been on both the losing and winning team btw.
The other day power seeds spawned inside the geometry so no one could score unless we stole the seeds from the enemy, which made the game more entertaining and fun imo, the game did last like 30 minutes in sudden death though. Maybe spawn less seeds at the end to encourage more seed stealing? Timed drops? Like 4 seeds every two minutes?
Just throwing this out there, as it seems all people care lately is the broken progression system. I’m having fun, I’m just saying it could use a little tweaking to make it better.
Maybe the mode could work as it currently does but remove the ability to throw the nodes
it’s a pretty powerful ability to have & pretty much decides the round when a few people throw 'em at the direction of their base, make players commit to carrying them to back to base
Probably won’t fix much though, stockpile is a weird mode. ◑﹏◐
Me and my friends thought about the idea but we came to the conclusion they make them spawn in one location to give each area of the map the spotlight.
Unlike the other modes like CTF and Slayer, Total Control and Stockpile want certain areas of the map to be zoned in on.
As a level designing standpoint, it’s clever but in this case it’s very lazy and not too interesting level design wise.
I’d be interested to see 2 spawning locations (but very close together) that have consistent gunfights between the two locations.
For example, on Deadlock there is the tunnel right behind the Banish AA Gun, the middle entrance and the cave itself could be spawning locations, therefore allowing both areas to interact.
But I think one major issue with Stockpile is overall score and how easy the power seeds are just picked up and thrown.
OG Stockpile was originally just neutral CTF with alot of flags, there was no point stealing. so they could just increase the score limit to keep the mode as is.