>vampire themed battle royal
>map constricting mechanic isn't a creeping sunrise
such an easy home run how do you fuck that up
Vampire themed battle royal
Henry Rogers
Gavin Ward
in what universe does a sunrise result in a perfect circle of shade collapsing in on itself
John Cox
Why would it have to be a perfect circle?
Andrew Miller
because the point of constricting map area is to corral the final players into closer and closer contact.
what would squishing players into a thin strip at the end of the map accomplish, other than knocking them both out at the same time if they fail to win sniper footsies?
Matthew Brooks
kek you were so close
Nolan Wood
Congratulations, you found the one single map layout that can work, while constricting circles will work on literally any map.
Nathan Sanders
>fortnite literally has ONE (1) map
Jack Anderson
Flat earth.
Adam Murphy
and now we're back to square one.
Asher Gray
nah flatearthers think the sun is a spotlight that spins around on a track.
Jaxson Nelson
circle bros...
Kayden Adams
it's fucking ancient traditional vampires using hebrew lore of cain and abel, it can get away with plenty of biblical mysticism reasoning for weird shit happening
have it be an eclipse of some kind and whatever object blocking the sun grows more distant over time, you'd end up with the same 'perfect closing circle' effect to corral players into the center
Isaac Hernandez
the circle constricts onto a point that is actually on the map.
also the constricted circles are free to hop around on the map, providing variety of location. a progressive wall of sunlight going the same direction every time will provide the same battles at the same locations every time.
Jordan Brooks
Simply design the maps in a way that as you have to move further away form the sun it funnels you together, its not that complicated
Julian Edwards
they could even call it THE UMBRA or some other grimdark moniker
maybe if this wasn't some trend-chasing cash grab
Austin Rivera
>simply design the maps so you always have to move to the same places at the same time every single game
that would be a bad videogame.
Elijah Price
Going in a single direction like this is still terrible design because people will just camp.
The reason the circle design works is you dont know where the final area is which forces you to be dynamic with positioning. You cant just risk camping some building because the circle may not end up there.
Julian Nguyen
You could randomize certain elements of the map (like they already do the loot) that appear in the funneled area and then it would be functionally exactly the same as a circle appearing but logically consistent with a sunrise
For this problem maybe you could have a ton of extremely hard npc's or something else to make it more dangerous than it would be worth to just camp there, this is definitely the biggest problem though.
Owen Thomas
it's not just "the biggest problem" it's a dealbreaker, hard stop.
Grayson Allen
You could definetely do something to disincentivise camping there
Julian Smith
lipstick on a pig.
Parker Adams
Listen here faggots.
I know that having the circle being sunrise is dumb
But
How about doing it anyway
Charles Davis
not dumb, see literally a natural phenomenon
just lazy cashgrab developers