WOLFENSTEIN PROMODE CONCEPT
- first approach: some notes without any knowledge about the future game -
| Feature | Details | Consequences |
| WTV | -
Wolfenstein
TV to broadcast the events - Or create a multigames IDTV as Source TV from Valve -- concentrate the energies for all id games based on the same engine Note: There is a very large viewers community close to ET, with some matches which collect 2500+ viewers at the same time (HUB servers necessary) |
-
Developing community and competitions - Doom3, Quake4, ET:QW and of course the Wolfenstein sequel could have their TV for events broadcasting with an IDTV |
| Good netcode | - When aiming at the right place, hitting | - Skillful, randomless |
| Accurate hitboxes or per-poly hit | -
When
aiming
at the right
place, hitting Note: a per-poly hit detection can be discussed with the randomness of the model animations -- especially the legs -- but in RtCW, you have to make headshots! An undeformable zone (trunk and head in the player model) which can be hit without any failure if the tracking is perfect should exist |
- Skillful, randomless |
| Allow hard tweaking | -
As simple
items, wolfparticles, tracers, fog, blood, gibs, picmip 8,
unlocked
cvars excepted wallhack's one, etc. - Try to make a light game without compromising the graphics in high quality (hard job) |
- More FPS, more accessible game, better gaming experience |
| Raise 60FPS cap from Doom3 engine | -
The Doom3
engine is capped to 60FPS. Today, Quake4
can't overpass this 60FPS limit. Many monitors can have more than 60Hz
refresh rate, it's sad that we can't get benefit from this - 75FPS would be a minimum; 125FPS or higher would be just nice |
-
Better
gaming experience - More competitive |
| No buggy demo and built-in avidemo system | -
We hope
that
we don't have the same buggy demos that
Quake4 out of the box, and never the Doom3 demos which need many Gb
to be stored - Use an image file format that stores Z-depth informations when capturing with the avidemo system, besides the classical TGA files (look at OpenEXR for example) - Some cvars for external cameras (freecam, followplayer X, angle of view, camera files support from GTKRadiant, etc) when demo viewing Note: on this point, RtCW and ET demos are very good with mods |
-
Developing community - Creating movies close to the game, good advertising - Z-depth storage in frames captured could improve so much the video making universe with many other perspectives of editing |
| Hitsounds and other sound effects | -
When
shooting at someone, hear a
sound which can differ between bodyshot and headshot, or
differ in intensity if the hits are repetitive (as in CPM -- more
you're hitting, more you're hearing) - Low volume or adjustable volume for hitsounds or other things like environmental sounds, weapons sounds, music sounds, player movements sounds to remain discreet, in a good sound environment |
-
Better
control - Enjoyable but some people find that the hitsounds are annoying for aiming |
| Toggle screenshake | -
Turn on
or
off the screenshakes when shooting, zooming or being hit (client-side) - Or set the value of screenshaking (the value 0 is authorized) |
-
Pointless - The player has the choice: if he wants a beautiful and realistic game for playing, watching demos or making movies, he can. The gamer who wants to be the more competitive cans disable the feature - Better control |
| Toggle bobroll, runroll, walkroll... | -
Turn on
or
off the
bobbing when
walking (client-side) - Or set the value of bobbing (the value 0 is authorized) |
Same as above |
| Toggle impactvibration | -
Turn on
or
off the
vibration generated
by the explosion (client-side) - Or set the value of the vibrations intensity (the value 0 is authorized) |
Same as above |
| No pistol, SMG or sniper recoil | -
When you
shoot, the crosshair
stay at the same place with
all weapons and
doesn't go upper - Let the sniper rifle behave as the rail gun in Quake4 (same damages with and without zooming, no recoil or shakes when shooting and zooming + auto unscope after shooting a la AQ2/CS/etc, significant recharge time to compensate this, make the bullet pierces multiple bodies and heads when hitting) |
-
No
useless recoil FPS
dependent - Avoid anti-recoil scripts - Better control for everyone - Skillful sniper |
| No XP points | - Ban XP points rewarded by skill upgrades which have nothing to do with competition | - The game isn't perturbed by a feature which destabilizes a round. It doesn't unbalance even more a game -- only real skills have to do it to be fair |
| SDK | - Software Development Kit | - Create mods close to the game which is vital for its life expectancy |
| Linux version | - id has always
supported
Linux community in the past -- we hope that the Microsoft and id's
agreement for the exclusive release on Xbox 360 won't break this - Linux support also for the community tools that will be released (for generating MegaTexture, making maps with GTKRadiant, etc.) |
- Larger community |
| Multi-processor or dual core support | - Possibility to enable or disable the multi-processor or the dual core support in the game interface as in Quake4 with the 1.2 patch | - Performance boosting |
| Feature | Details | Consequences |
| MP Bots (source) | - Practice and train offline with bots | -
It encourages new
players and trains the veteran players - Life prolongation of the game |
| In-game auto-download and auto-update | -
In-game
download of pk4
files needed for game server connection on FTP or HTTP servers - In-game updater to install new official patches |
-
Useful
and practical - Easy connections on game servers - Reactivity and reliability |
| Autoaction | - When starting and/or ending a round, the client makes stats, screenshots, demos, etc... Many leagues need them | -
Demos and screenshots aren't
forgotten -- practical - Stats files |
| Demo autoname | - Demos are autonamed with tags, nick (POV), map, format (duel, 3on3, 6on6, etc) or date | -
Easy
administration of your demos base -- practical - Allow to keep a trace for the history |
| Toggle Quake3 drawgun style | -
No weapon
vibration when shooting or moving - Adjustable opacity with an alpha channel for the drawgun display - Why don't unlock gunX,Y,Z cvars which are cheat protected if we can drawgun "0"? |
- Players who use drawgun "0" usually can keep it at "1" value with benefit |
| Variables in chat | - Players can send in teamchat to his teammate the amount of ammo or the health he has, the last player he kills, he hits, etc. | - Better communication, increase teamplay |
| In-game voice chat | -
Built-in
voice chat
program with good quality and good audio codecs (high
bitrate) as
in TS or Ventrilo with Speex for example - Keep the possibility to disable it Note: Like in Quake4 |
-
Multi-platform - Non-experienced players which don't know TS, Ventrilo or others voice chat programs can directly communicate between them - Team play increased |
| HUD | -
Possibility
to customize the HUD as you want... Ammo
under the weapon, Health at the left side, Power at the right side,
compass at the top... which fonts size? etc. - Team overlay: viewing all your teammates names in a box on the screen, with some infos like their location on the map, their ammo, their class, their health, etc. - Having info (name, class, ammo) by pointing a teammate with your crosshair is also a good feature - No triangles above the teammates or enemies that indicate their locations through the walls like in ET:QW -- use bright skins system instead - Objective infos with flags like in RtCW |
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Customization - More teamplay |
| Coach | - Possibility to a team to callvote to name a spectator as its coach who has a splited screen with all the players POV and can use say_team function to communicate with his players | - Increasing teamplay, nice training for LAN |
| Shoutcaster | - Possibility to callvote to name a spectator as shoutcaster on the server, to overpass speclocking, to view dynamite timer or names on the players' head | - Developing community |
| MVD | - MultiView Demos (as in CPM) | - Possibility to view every POV with a client-side demo of several Mb |
| Brightskins | -
Toggle
bright skins - Choose which color to use |
- More competitive, better control |
| Skins | -
Ability
of choosing the skins (face) for your class model which keeps the same
uniform to recognize what class it is in game - Force skin cvar (client-side) |
- More variety (women,
black people, etc.) - Customization - Cool in movies |
| Flags | - It's just a game -- don't feel obliged to use true Nazi and American flags. A red one with the eagle and a blue one with a star inside are well for red team (Axis) and blue team (Allied) | -
Less political and
restrictive - Free distribution in Germany |
| Feature | Details | Consequences |
| No vehicle in MP | -
Vehicles
slow the game down, increase
the spam, are just lame - No turrets or deployables that auto aim |
-
Playing
infantry is preferable and preferred
in FPS - More fair (no vehicle versus person battle...) |
| Choice of weapons | -
Be able
to choose weapons (with their specificity to balance them -- as rate of
fire, damages, windup, speed of projectiles or hitscan, number of
bullets in a clip, max ammo, reload speed,
overheating,
running speed when holding them, but not
spread which is
random) according to the class
like in RtCW with Thomson, MP40, Venom and Sten for example... - Diversify the type of aim with alternative weapons besides the hitscan weapons as SMG, pistols or sniper rifles: projectile weapons (as plasma or nail gun in Quake), different grenade trajectories, speeds, bounces, damages or explosion type (after hitting the model or after a 5 seconds delay) and explosion area (splash) between the grenades, etc. but well balanced for not having a spam-based game but a punctual and skilled spam - Diversity of weapons but balanced weapons addition with weapons 1,2,3,4,...,N: same chance of winning a duel for two players of same skill level with a good weapon overall -- not overpowered weapons as Panzerfaust in RtCW (a max ammo of 1 for Panzerfaust with the splash from RtCW could be nice -- "punctual and skilled spam") or overpowered rifle grenade in ET for example - Avoid landmines, mortar, artillery or other "I can't see you but I can kill you" weapons which fuck up the game. They are OK for Battlefield-like, not for Wolfenstein or others Quake oriented games - Avoid "stationary" weapons as MG42 in ET - No iron sight - Alt fire on each weapons to change the weapons mode and their reaction (fire rate, damage, animations, etc) - Same arsenal of weapons for both sides (Axis and Allied) |
-
Less
repetitive and boring, more fair and fun - Developing skills and tricks (as fast knife gibbing) for each weapons - Very large possibilities: it gives depth to the game - No random kills (distribution of the artillery impacts) or area blocking with an artillery which slows the game down or an easy spam of grenades thanks to their big splashes - Team play increase between the soldier (with his "BFG" Panzerfaust) and the lieutenant thanks to this "max ammo of 1" idea - Iron sight slows the game down and favors camping |
| Lower spread, no spread or no spread increase | -
Lower
or remove spread of this fake hitscan weapons (MP40, Thomson) because
of this spread which is random - Remove the increasing spread when moving the crosshair quickly - The only acceptable spread would be a predictable and non-random spread that we can avoid (a spread from the 20th bullet for example) - Ideally, weapons should be 100% accurate to reward skill. It means no spread - If there is a shotgun or something that responds like this, it should have a predictable dispersion (with the same figure as in CPMA) and not a random one |
-
No random
weapons but precise, skillful, true hitscan weapons - Why penalizing a player who aims better or who moves by increasing his spread when moving his crosshair? - Backshooted players have a chance to kill the backshooter without penalizing his reflexes. - Avoid the half-spread exploit with a mouse rate which is the half of the FPS - Better weapon control |
| Weapon damages | -
Keep a
significant difference between headshot and bodyshot damage for hitscan
weapons as MP40. It can be seen again with others new weapons? - Make the gib harder as in RtCW instead of ET |
-
Team
based game with objectives but
personal exploit possible (eg, rampage with many headshots) to save the
day or to make your team win - Force the players to be very aggressive, they don't only need to kill and gib the engineer, but to kill the more opponents as possible with the harder gib - This will increase medic's role: the easiest gibbing is, the more useless the medics are Note: exploits were possible in RtCW, less in ET |
| Same damage amount with and without helmet | No comment | - Two players with same HP: the main thing that cans separate them is the skill, not the helmet on their heads which is partially random |
| Damage amount according to the distance | - Same damage at any distance or a proportional one like it seems to be in the ET:QW beta. But not like in W:ET with that invisible line. | -
Better
control - Quicker game -- no need 8HS to kill someone at long range |
| Faster weapon switch | - It will be very nice to be able to make more combo kills, not only be killed because you haven't ammo anymore and you are switching slowly... | -
More fun,
quicker gameplay, skillful - More combo kills (SMG then Luger, Luger then knife, etc.) |
| Reload interruption | -
Allow weapon switch
during a reload; the current reload is canceled and you are able to use
another weapon as pistol, knife... Note: like in CS |
2
possibilities if you
face an opponent while reloading: - You think that you can manage the enemy until the end of the reload - You prefer to switch to another weapon to keep your chance to kill the opponent [you will have a time penalty for your switch to prevent abuse] It favors action instead of inactivity |
| Knockback in midair | -
If you
are
being hitting by
someone, you move back only if you are in midair - Low knockback on the floor - Separate this with two cvars like g_knockback on the floor and g_airKnockback in airs |
-
Better
duel (free movements and free shoot) and less ping
dependent - Keep the possibility to be boosted by someone who is shooting you in your back while jumping - Jumping in duel is annoying for the jumper: he has knockback |
| Trickjumping & physics | Possibilities: - Strafe jump - Circle jump - Circle strafe jump - Double jump (from Quake2 and not ETpub) and stair jump - Ramp jump - Slide jump (crouch slide) only in hillside or on a plain too? - Bring back grenade jumping, air strike marker jumping, etc. from RtCW - Ability of bullet jumping to go higher on a box for example or bullet climbing on a wall (as plasma gun in Quake3) - g_speed, g_gravity, g_airControl... server-side cvars to change physics as you want - Possibility to lower the speed while crouching with g_crouchSpeed and g_crouchRate cvars for example; g_walkSpeed cvar is also a good idea - View this OSP 0.9 demo to see how strafe jump could be - Boost buddies or opponents with a +action or +activate bind... - Same speed for forward, backward, strafe left and strafe right is preferred for fast-paced duels in close range - Loose accuracy on a jump impulsion, but stay accurate in air sometimes after this impulsion. Same for crouch Note: Double jump could improve the game so much! |
-
Gain
speed on a plat area
with double circle jumping, bullet climbing, double
jumping on a box (or on a crouching model) then strafe jumping,
etc. Not only in a
hillside
as ET - Skilled, fun and fast movements to have a better gaming experience - Very large possibilities -- it gives depth to the game - Movement is a main part in Wolfentein as aiming -- don't neglect it! - Avoid crouching/jumping, then standing, then crouching/jumping, then standing... in duel -- the crouch has to serve for hiding in priority and the jump for moving - Team play dimension with the possibility to double jump on a model which is crouching or to be boosted by a teammate - Total control on the game play and physics with many server-side cvars |
| Stamina bar | -
Stamina bar is
unfair on asymmetric maps, the defender has
stamina for dueling an offender who has nothing - Jumping or sprinting by being in air shouldn't take stamina anymore and stamina bar should reload twice as fast for example |
- The sprint is more balanced in favour of the attack and we keep this non-linearity in duels and trickjumps thanks to this sprint |
| No prone | - Prone is lame and slows the game down | - Faster game, more fun |
| No lean | -
Leaning
means camping and is unfair. It slows the game down, it's boring for
viewers and it's just an easy way to
manage to kill someone If leaning is included: what about an animation for viewing just the head of the leaner which could be aimed? |
-
Faster
game, more fun - That favors the offensive play |
| Lower fall damage or raise the limit when falling | - If falling, don't be crushed on the floor which slows down the game, and players aren't forced to play in a less spectacular way | -
Quicker
gameplay - Better trickjumping, fun |
| Same HP | -
Same
health points for all classes and no HP according to the number of
medics or lieutenants in the team! - Medics don't have their HP which raise automatically but can take their medipacks of course |
-
No
overpowered classes -- every classes can kill every classes at the same
level of skill - Fair duels (with good balanced weapons) which is more pleasant |
| Drop objective | -
Be able
to drop the objective (documents, gold) that you hold on the map to
give it to a teammate Note: Like in a CTF game |
- A new team play dimension |
| Maps and scripting | -
Well
balanced and small
maps adapted for about 6on6 competition format and for
close
or
mid range in priority instead of long range actions or very long runs
which are usually
boring (no Fueldump maps adapted for 14 on 14 battles) - No MG, ammo and health cabinets, random artillery (like on mp_beach) - Allow the mappers to be the most creative possible with a scripting language -- for spawn points customization in their maps for example |
- More
pleasant for
viewers, more fun for players - Small map means more FPS - Increase team play between lieutenants and medics - Spectacular and fast-paced |
|
Be creative! |