Much Needed! Make Bumpers and 2x Optional

Old topic, I'm sure someone could dig up the original post but since its something I really want to see changed.

Please make the purple bumpers and 2x game host options.

It makes our tournaments hard to do with those.

Please consider this. Thanks -chickadee

 

YESH DO EET!
Tourneys can finally be how they used to be ​

 

agree.... also make some xp bonus if it is on (for the bumpars)

 

I think it would be cool if there was an option for the bumpers like there is for the wind. Mainly because I enjoy trying (and usually failing) trickshots and all. But thats just me.

 

This is a needed option. Too many clan tourney games are decided by that random bumper or 2x in your face.

 

Agreed. I'm the kind of player that gets into the game and gets power hungry, forgetting the tourney rules and goes for the x2's lol >_< kinda messes with things >_>

 

Well that's one of the reasons we have them accepted. I think we'd keep it anyway though maybe.

 

I think it would be a good option to have. I'm sure others wouldn't mind being able to have the option of new ssl2 vs old ssl2 game play sometimes. That way nobody has the possible advantage when a x2 shows up or a bounder blocked a shot like firestorm or airstrike, ect.

 

I agree; this should be a host option. However, should XP be increased with the option of added bumpers, decreased with the x2? Much like wind makes shots more difficult and gives an XP bonus.

 

Increase it by .2/.4/.7 for each option would be good enough if anything or just .7 if you have it at the highest.

 

All of you forgot to tag this person who has been doing a great job recent days,

@kChamp

 

YES , I Agree With You.

 

I'm glad for all of support for this idea. But at this point, I don't think it will be implemented.

I've noticed alot of people complaining about how this game is P2W making it unfair. Well lets really think about the game play. First you have levels 1-50 each with its own upgraded weapon. Each one of those weapons can be upgraded 5 times increasing the hit points. The game randomly selects weps at the start of each match(assuming the selection if fair). Then you have the supply boxes which you can get in the game to get more weps or points. Then you have armor which effects the amount of hit points on your weps as well as luck, traction and fuel. This is all before buying one tank coin. OH WAIT. Forgot you can use shields, jetpacks, supply drops and tracers. No coins spent nothing bought. That's alot of stuff for not buying anything.

Now we have 2x and bumpers to added to the game play. Still you haven't bought anything. If you think the game is fair in anyway your wrong. Some people will get supply boxes, use tracers, be at higher levels, have higher level weps, and use tracers. So tbh I guess I change my mind about the 2x and bumpers. Its part of the game play and really gives lower level ppl the 'chance' of defeating a higher level person or can create an unstoppable high level person which way you look at it lol.

I guess I want something more than just turning off 2x and bumpers. I like to see a whole tournament room with custom options for every part of gameplay. The tournament would be separate from the leaderboard. It would give players a balanced and fair chance at showing their skill without any "game changing" items or assists. Im sure someone else has thought of this and has much better ideas than me. This could be really fun idea and actually make the game challenging for both new and old players.

Also ppl need to remember, those who paid for upgrades so they can use them. I would never suggest taking away something someone has paid money for. Its part of the game so deal with it.

 

The sad thing is, if you give a non-paying player an advantage, what is to stop a pay-to-win player also having the same advantage? Everything a Skill/Win player has access to, will also be accessible to Pay/Win players. There is nothing that can be done. Just hope that the Pay/Win players do not know how to use their upgrades. Nothing that can be done. Nothing.

 

I mentioned a few things to kChamp last week on Wednesday. I said that it would be nice to see (@Rarity 's suggestion) a notification available to see when people come online- like Steam. And also, (@chickadee 's suggestion) to have an option to turn on or off the x2 and bumpers. His exact quote was: "Yeah. I just saw that thread. It's on the list."

And I agree with what you have said here. People that are Pay/Win players do not necessarily have an advantage of Skill/Win players though. A Skill/Win player has to make sure ever shot is perfect and the maximum it can do, since they may be hindered by the lack of options compared to a Pay/Win player. So, I think the mindset of a Skill player is slightly different than a Pay player in most situations, because they have to make every shot count- and normally they know that.

 

Thanks Time! I'm glad he noticed this and is working on it. Sorry I just got l little long on my comment earlier lol.

 

Thanks for thinking of us @buyingtime when you were talking to kChamp. Its easy to get too excited in moment and miss some stuff that needs to get discussed, but you did a fine job and all of us our grateful.

 

Well, you're welcome. But, to be honest, I rarely ever talk to kChamp. And when I do, I kinda go crazy telling him everything we all mention here. (haha) I just want to see this game improve, and our suggestions actually getting to the creator instead of just in a thread he never sees. I hope he does the things that we all have suggested now.

(btw, I didn't take credit for the above mentioned ideas. I told him who suggested them.)

 

I know you rarely do, but you did what we all wanted the chance to do. I played him 3 times consecutively and didn't suggest anything but a mini game idea. (Tank was busy giving suggestions)Glad you took the ideas that were here and gave them to him directly. I would do the same thing now.

 

Last time I played Kyle he was only asking for minigame ideas, so we can only hope.

 

as soon as i first saw the update with bumpers and double damage spheres i thought that it could be an option to toggle on or off for the host when starting a game, just like the wind etc. i was also supporting this thread from the time i've found it but i never really thought that this option suggestet here is, as the title says, "much needed".. i just thought i would prefer it to be done. but today i was kinda frustrated because of a bumper that came out in a really mean place for the circumstances to me. i didn't take the screenshot unfortunately but i'll try to recreate the situation. and one thing important to be mentioned about the circumstances here is that it was death-match and both my tank as well as my opponent's had the amount of hp (about 90-100) which couldn't let one survive a shot from really powerful weap. which i was trying to use - it was firestorm. but when the bumper appeared it was impossible to use that effectively and other weaps were really kind of a crappy ones (and not very effective with that bumper too) so i just had to fire anything and hope he won't kill me on his turn. and of course he did.. firestorm wasted..

 

So he could shoot you but you couldn't shoot him?

 

um.. it was individual shot, so.. it was my turn.. at the next turn the bumper goes away, and so it did at his turn

 

Ah okay, that makes more sense now.