I am not sure how adding difficult aiming will help out. Reach tried it with Bloom and look how that turned out. Any examples of games you viewed as having difficult aiming? I doubt Halo will be getting bullet drop-off and other more complicated features. It is an arcade shooter after all, not a military sim.
The Insta-strafe stuff is going to be hard since everything today is about animation. The boot-jet thing looks kinda fun though.
Played a W:ET but most of my playtime is in Doom and Quake. I still firmly believe skill should be about players learning level layouts and using that to their advantage, not just high damage weaponry and donging people from 2 miles away.
I'm not sure how you don't understand how difficult aiming will help out. This is what you do. Load up octagon with one of your buddies, make sure you're on the same team, and actively try to kill each other. Play that for 2 minutes, come back to this thread and you will not repeat that statement. It's ridiculously hard. That is with all aim assist and bullet magnetism turned off, mind you. And for the record I do not think that we should opt for zero aim assist unless we decide to go for a 1sk or a 2sk utility weapon. Basically, it would be cool for SWAT but that's it.
And to answer your question, CE has quite difficult aiming. Even the best players can't 3sk consistently with the magnum. Compare that to Reach where an average player can pull off 5 shots quite often and the best players can do it very consistently. The goal for the game developer is to have a very short minimum kill time and a notably longer average one. If you want another example, let me know.
Also for the record, bloom made the weapons more random than it did make them difficult to use. And if you play ZB Reach, you will notice that the DMR still has quite a bit of auto-aim. Thankfully in H4, the autoaim is determined by the inner circle now and not the outer circle. This means aiming will be more difficult in H4.
Very true. Though, I ask you (and bigshow and others who agree) why you feel movement should encompass instant change of direction and instant crouch?
Because it adds to the movement skill gap. Adding in acceleration/deceleration simply limits the effectiveness of jukes. It's not a clear cut decision to turn it on or off though. For example, I would be very skeptical of adding instant movement to vanilla bloom-sprint Halo: Reach as I feel it will drag on the average kill time by an unneeded amount. But for a game like Quake,
not having an instant strafe would be pretty bad.
