New Year, New Lead Dev
Posted: 01 Feb 2019, 02:07
Greetings my dudes, I apologise that I have been a bit silent since taking lead of BA (real life issues and all that.) But I will be returning soon™ and hope to start work on fixing up BA and reuniting this fractured community. For any GoT fans, I guess I feel a bit like Ned Stark here, don't really want to be here doing this job, but I love this game and will do what I can to try and save it. But I will probably end up having my head cut off in the end xD
I have spoken to some in pm already, but will now outline my rough goals for the future publicly.
In no particular order:
Make BA more community driven, anything that gains popular vote on forums will be changed/implemented into the game temporarily, if it is still well received, then will be kept long term.
Address the veh/kbot balance vs 9.46 (seems ok as of 10.20, but I haven't played enough to really say for sure)
Remove reversing until initial veh balance is sorted out
Air collisions turned off for better performance, old behaviour was preferred anyway?
Combomb range nerf revert
Rezzer nerf (pretty sure this is now actually fully reverted)
Thin down the bloated widget list where possible
Organise/improve the ingame options menu
Spice up the explosions a bit, make them less boring
Correct projectile speeds
Obviously these are my own thoughts and concerns on the current state of BA10 that need addressing, but this is a COMMUNITY mod. I want to hear what you guys think to, right here, on the forums, not discord. (Unless you want to of course, but anything you want to really be seen should then be posted here too.) Previous BA devs were accused of being ignorant to the community, whether true or not, I don't want a repeat of that whilst it's my name associated with BA. Every player should be allowed to have input on the way the game moves forward. Read: EVERY player, even bad ones. Games cannot cater to "pro's" alone, pro's always make up a small percentage of a playerbase, games die without casual playerbases.
As you all know by now the 103 engine will be unsupported at some point in the future. Whilst I don't really agree with this practice for open source software, there is nothing I can do about it. 9.46 WILL come to an end on the official server. Which leaves PA (has the same OP vehicle issues) or any other *A mod still currently being developed. I hope that those who are "anti BA10" see sense and try to put your efforts into helping BA become a game you want to play again, rather than just trashing it all day.
So let's try to stay civil and constructive, but hit me with all your issues! I will be editing this post as we go to highlight every concern.
I have spoken to some in pm already, but will now outline my rough goals for the future publicly.
In no particular order:
Make BA more community driven, anything that gains popular vote on forums will be changed/implemented into the game temporarily, if it is still well received, then will be kept long term.
Address the veh/kbot balance vs 9.46 (seems ok as of 10.20, but I haven't played enough to really say for sure)
Remove reversing until initial veh balance is sorted out
Air collisions turned off for better performance, old behaviour was preferred anyway?
Combomb range nerf revert
Rezzer nerf (pretty sure this is now actually fully reverted)
Thin down the bloated widget list where possible
Organise/improve the ingame options menu
Spice up the explosions a bit, make them less boring
Correct projectile speeds
Obviously these are my own thoughts and concerns on the current state of BA10 that need addressing, but this is a COMMUNITY mod. I want to hear what you guys think to, right here, on the forums, not discord. (Unless you want to of course, but anything you want to really be seen should then be posted here too.) Previous BA devs were accused of being ignorant to the community, whether true or not, I don't want a repeat of that whilst it's my name associated with BA. Every player should be allowed to have input on the way the game moves forward. Read: EVERY player, even bad ones. Games cannot cater to "pro's" alone, pro's always make up a small percentage of a playerbase, games die without casual playerbases.
As you all know by now the 103 engine will be unsupported at some point in the future. Whilst I don't really agree with this practice for open source software, there is nothing I can do about it. 9.46 WILL come to an end on the official server. Which leaves PA (has the same OP vehicle issues) or any other *A mod still currently being developed. I hope that those who are "anti BA10" see sense and try to put your efforts into helping BA become a game you want to play again, rather than just trashing it all day.
So let's try to stay civil and constructive, but hit me with all your issues! I will be editing this post as we go to highlight every concern.