MAG

[ToeSweet]

Thought I'd start something that just listed things that need to change in order to help make this a better game. BTW I do like it currently but it could be improved.

Here goes:

1. To improve the teamwork skill points could be awarded for squads that stay in a close proximity for a period of time. Even if it's just half the squad (e.g. 4 members at 10metres for 3mins), this would improve the team working spirit which I believe this game is trying to encourage. I'm guessing a circle would appear around the members to signify this is happening.
2. Voice chatting should be the only way we tell each other what to do but, in Europe at least it can be hard to get the one language, therefore why not have something like MGS online had. This is where simple commands can be made with a push of the d-pad, such as move to objective, cover me, fall back, etc. I know that the leaders can do something similar but the team as a whole needs something to communicate with each other. Voice chat would be the best method but some people still don't want to use it, so this may help? Either that a skill points again award for headset use, this would seem unfair to nonheadset users though.
3. To discourage sniping from the spawn points and camping thereof from the opposing team, I would suggest a time limit to staying in the vicinity of the spawn area (30 secs). This vicinity would then enlarge to a finite limit out from the spawn point (100metres) to push the squads out of the area, thus stopping sniping, pushing the squads towards the targets and stopping spawn campers as there would be very few at the spawn points.

That's me for a start, please add more then maybe, just maybe the developers could incorporate something to make this good game into a great game.

[wardenxx]

i think there is something similar (although much more basic) to MGOs codec comms system using the d-pad. you can call for backup or for a medic. it would be good to be deeper though and more granular.

agreed on the teamwork thing - over the few hours i've found that if you work together you generally win, or really nearly win if the opposition is working together too - get more than a couple of guys running off doing their own thing and you start to struggle.

i've also found that playing as valor against raven in the jungle outpost bit to take the satellites is nigh on impossible - the map feels very very weighted in favour of the defenders with lots of hiding spots and metal walls with tiny slats they can shoot through but not really be shot through, which none of the other maps i've played do.

all in all though now i've got the hang of it and the points system i'm really enjoying it. wish the beta would stay running until release really.

[zonaw]

Basic problem with those D-pad commands on MAG is that they don't work while you are been wouded badly. So you can only call Medic or backup while things are well, not at the time you´ll really need reviving.

[ToeSweet]

Agreed, and the controls are quite fiddly; pressing R1 to accept command - half the time I just shoot my gun.

[oOWoodyOo]

How would you be able to stop people staying in or near their spawn given that when defending on some maps i.e. ones on Aquistion you cant leave it when you have been forced back? 

And I cant believe someone is complaining about camping in this game.  Its highly tactical, what would you expect?  Please tell me you dont want it to be more like COD?  Sorry but I don't see that there is such a thing as 'camping' in this game.

[ToeSweet]

Fair point, just found that some people rather than going as a team to the objective, stop just short and snipe. Not saying this is a bad thing just would help force the team forward to the objective.
Definitely don't want it ot be more like COD, can't play the games online, people just seem to find a few postions sit there till someone walks pass. Just sold my MW2 after completing single player due to this.

[Abyssmire3]

Respawn glitches - Am I the only one that gets these? I guarantee at least once per match I will lose at least a minute of play (which can make a big difference) to these things. Sometimes my character is glitched in mid-air and I join it only to find it has been sniped.

[ToeSweet]

I've not noticed this, but a friend of mine has; i saw him unable to move on the floor but still alive (in limbo if you will). May have been due to internet speed? not sure..

[Abyssmire3]

Think I had this. No idea though - I'm pretty sure your dead at this point but you can't swap to the respawn screen and the countdown just repeats.

[dandog187]

wow i cant believe that after almost ten days of beta testing that no one really posted much fee back,.... we this is what i think,great game as is sure sumthings like the jungle stage does seem kinda unbalanced,so yes i agree about that,im hoping that in the final MAG realise that we could jump and throw a grenade,also did u find that sometimes you had to knife someone more than once for them to die?it also seems that if you have the medic skill that u can tend to have a top score an large amount of xp by the end of a match,i sold my MW2,because people just seem to camp and noob,but thay tend to call it playing defensively.il glady support MAG when it released as i find it more the team based FPS ive been waiting for, oh an i wish the pistol would firer faster i never use it because of that reason