Arena Melee Suggestion

[Shiny Charizard 451]

As far as I know I'm the only Recruit/Member that plays Arena regularly, if at all, so I may not receive a lot of input.

When the Chicago Arena server was down I bounced around a lot and found some plugins that allow the last guy to 'force melee' when a team drops to one person if the sole survivor so chooses by hitting 1 (2 to decline).

These servers were popular because...

1. When you're the last guy you aren't being gunned down by four or five people making it nearly impossible to comeback.

2. Adds player skill as a factor (IE: One scout against four heavies? Now instead of 'LOLBULLETTORNADO' it shows how good those heavies would be changing their game.)

3. Make all around loadout matter. I only see roughly a few people ever engage in melee.

4. It is an unwritten rule. Arena vets will tell you if you're outnumbering a guy and they call melee in chat you do it. Sort of an honor thing.

I know the server that runs this and can get the plugin unless you'd want to make your own Lotus one.

Any and all input is welcome obviously.

Edited February 7, 2012 by CHARIZARD

[Barbaro 466]

As far as I know I'm the only Recruit/Member that plays Arena regularly, if at all, so I may not receive a lot of input.

When the Chicago Arena server was down I bounced around a lot and found some plugins that allow the last guy to 'force melee' when a team drops to one person if the sole survivor so chooses by hitting 1 (2 to decline).

These servers were popular because...

1. When you're the last guy you aren't being gunned down by four or five people making it nearly impossible to comeback.

2. Adds player skill as a factor (IE: One scout against four heavies? Now instead of 'LOLBULLETTORNADO' it shows how good those heavies would be changing their game.)

3. Make all around loadout matter. I only see roughly a few people ever engage in melee.

4. It is an unwritten rule. Arena vets will tell you if you're outnumbering a guy and they call melee in chat you do it. Sort of an honor thing.

I know the server that runs this and can get the plugin unless you'd want to make your own Lotus one.

Any and all input is welcome obviously.

While its considered 'honorable', and even enforced by clans via plugins or Server Administrators, you'll find some players who'll refuse to participate. The thought of forcing it or not, I'm not sure why but if it was popular, I think it would appear across the majority of Arena Servers. Sadly, this isn't the case. (Plus I'm not certain if that bugs some of the things Valve put in place)

1. I'm able to hold it against enemies using Rockets, Scatter, Minigun. So are others and I prefer the odds be stacked against me. Makes winning that more fruitful. Stupid, sure but this game emphasis that.

"Prove it that its possible to be bearded AND stupid!"

2. You forget to put Engineers in there, even if it was Melee, the plugin would require disabling Sentries, something I'm sure wouldn't be possible without forcing some sort of Special Endgame. I may be wrong. Plus the idiot could stand next to a dispenser, among other classes.

3. People will use whatever weapons they can. Its both a physical and a psychological game. "FAN Noobs" "Demospam". You can't restrict it to one thing without taking away others.

4. After playing today being the last person alive, this 'honorable' thing is shit. I have 2 Heavies and a Scoot after me, AS a scoot.

All in all, if the feature was implanted in-game, that would be nice, but I probably won't use it. Given the Vote thingy can bug sometimes, it probably would get affected too. I like spamming my Shortstop, Drinking my Crit-A-Cola, then running in for the suicide kill with my Gore-Splattered Boston Basher.