IDEA: Power-ups without items - mood tracking

[qreeves]

[FaTony]

Sounds like a mutator. But if forced motion blur will pass, I will fork the client and remove it.

[SniperGoth]

"Depressed - Fall very far behind in score (maybe: 0.75x player size, 1.5x speed {size balance}, 0.75x health, invisible when walking and not attacking)"
I can already tell this is going to be abused for CTF matches, if it does get into the game
But yeah, i can see this concept being used more as a mutator than something that is in the core gameplay.
For core gameplay, i still want the utility system (but that's something for another discussion).

[qreeves]

[FaTony]

[Bobbo]

Depends on the severity of the motion blur, but this is only suggestion currently.

Imo, doing stuff that requires graphics (e.g., motion blur) isn't good for those of us with potatoes.

If this mutator/mode was active, would you be able to manually opt out of receiving any of these bonuses, or you'd manually invoke it when you want to use it? The one thing all these things seem to do is provide for a very inconsistent game experience (which imo, is bad), like with the speed/size changes, what I can do via parkour changes. Spread will change my damage output on weapons non-uniformly (really bad on shotgun, but negligible on flamer).

I already find some inconsistencies annoying, like how players can get >100 health with no active flag buff (so no glow on their actor) outside of vampire. You get a 100+ damage shot on them and they don't die.