Home » MODDING HQ 1.13 » v1.13 Idea Incubation Lab » Rebalancing Scope and sight mode mechanics
| Rebalancing Scope and sight mode mechanics[message #354972]
|
Wed, 19 September 2018 00:52 
|
|
 Morbo513 |
 |
Messages:47
Registered:February 2015
Location: West Yorkshire, United Ki... |
|
|
Let me preface by saying I have little clue as to the technical feasibility of any of these ideas.
The main focus of this is going to be on the 2 and 4x scopes against the 7x. In my experience, there's zero incentive to use the former two in place of the latter, ditto with a 2x in place of a 4x. The only situations I've found myself using them in is if a particular weapon is incompatible with the higher magnification scopes - Which its self doesn't make much sense to me; if it's got rails it should be able to mount any compatible scope, but I digress.
How are the scopes currently balanced against one another? Field of view, to my knowledge, is the only diminished aspect for higher-magnification scopes. I imagine there's probably some background stat buggery, but it's never been apparent enough through gameplay to paint the 7x as anything but the optimal choice for assault and battle rifles.
The first and probably easiest idea I've had for changing this is through APs. At the most basic level, scopes could increase the APs-to-ready cost of the weapon it's attached to, by how much depending on its magnification. This would emulate the mechanics of eye relief. If we wanted to get really finnicky, higher marksmanship could reduce (but never eliminate) this malus.
Of course it'd only be incurred if readying the weapon while in scope "mode", which brings us to...
Exacerbating the 7x' superiority is that there's no penalty for swapping optic modes, allowing you to check your mercs' peripheries without spending a single AP and therefore nullifying the disadvantages of higher-power scopes. This should definitely change - however, the player should have to "confirm" the optic mode they're swapping to so as to avoid inadvertently wasted APs. Since it's such a small action the cost could be minor - 1-2 when swapping from scope to reflex/hip, 2-4 swapping back.
Following on from the previous idea, readying the weapon while in reflex mode could reduce APs-to-ready, with ironsights being the true neutral.
Taking inspiration from the Battlefield series, scopes could have "glare" - In effect, making the wielder slightly more visible to anyone in the scope's field of view (Regardless of current sight mode), even marginally increasing the CtH against them. This effect could scale differently with the vision range of each scope. For example, a 2x scope would only have this effect out to 2/3 of its range; with a 4x it'd get up to 90%; For the 7x it would extend 15% or so past its vision range, and 10x 30%. Alternatively, the visibility/CtH effects could vary by intensity.
This next idea is where technical feasibility/work-to-benefit admittedly calls it into question. Assuming such concerns could be addressed, scopes could have dirt values of their own.
When dirty, random segments of their vision cones would be partially or totally obscured, and/or reduced in range, leading to blind spots in the optic. Smaller scopes have less surface area to accrue dirt and so suffer from this less. Alternatively or additionally, scope dirt could reduce the shooter's CtH or increase number of aim clicks.
There could then be a "wipe scope" action which takes one or two APs to perform.
A further option is to remove the 7x' ability to mount a reflex sight, and precluding the mounting of one directly on the weapon - instead giving them an "ironsight" mode, where the shooter looks along the top of the scope to acquire targets in closer quarters. This would be less effective than the weapon's true ironsights. Or, mounting the reflex on the weapon as opposed to on top of the scope has it canted, increasing autofire CtH penalties, something along those lines.
Finally, expanding the content with these ideas in mind would be cool. For example lens caps/sleeves which protect scopes from dirt, are removed/popped when the weapon is first readied at an extra AP cost (Or done manually by the player). A few different models of each scope with their own minor attributes, for example an ACOG with no back-up sights but a glare hider; a SUSAT that's more resilient to dirt and has a back-up sight but produces more glare, you get the picture.
That's just about all I've got off the top of my head, but if any of you have more ideas feel free to throw them in.
Ed: Just had another one; The higher the magnification of the scope, the greater the CtH penalty against a moving target, to emulate the difficulty of tracking them visually and maintaining a lead. Now the maths there doesn't quite do it, but that's the general gist.
Ideally, at the scope's maximum vision range this effect would be minimised, even eliminated. But the closer the moving target is to the shooter, the greater the effect.
[Updated on: Wed, 19 September 2018 01:02] Report message to a moderator
|
Corporal
|
|
|
|
Current Time: Fri Jan 10 14:45:57 GMT+2 2025
Total time taken to generate the page: 0.00948 seconds
|
Blog
Search
Help
Members
Register
Login
Home
