Posted on 12 December 2017 - 12:35 AM

Hello fellow Badlion players! I am an active member of the Badlion community, and spend most of my Badlion time on the CTW server. Although many staff members play on this server, I think it deserves a lot more attention. What I mean by this is that there are a lot of problems with the game, and I am here to talk about them today! First off, on the forums, theres a discussion page setup just for CTF and Domination, games that no one plays anymore. Although there are discussion pages for these two games, there isn't one for CTW, which can peak at 50 players on at a time. I think CTW deserves its own discussion page, and that would help increase the amount of people that come to play CTW.

One of the largest problems with the game that I think, is the gameplay on some of the maps. Obviously there is going to be bowspam here and bowspam there, but on the maps Cake Day and Pixel Mix it is just crazy. One of the main reasons that this is happening on these maps is because, unlike the other CTW maps, these two maps are composed of many different "islands". On cake day, there are little cookie islands in between the main two islands. This makes it so that you have to bridge A LOT to get to the other side. And since there are so many bridges, there's going to be a ton of campers and bow spammers on these islands. Now you might think, well this is no big deal. But it really is. You can easily get 1 tapped off the bridges by the amount of bow spammers there are, and this just makes the entire gameplay on these two maps camping and bowspamming. If you just play a single game on these two maps, you will understand how annoying the gameplay is, and you'll end up going 10 minutes before someone even reaches a wool. I think that these two maps should be removed, since the gameplay is pretty bad on these two maps. On Bamboo Valley or Mushroom Gorge, the map consists of 2 main islands, so theres only one bridge you have to cross, and its pretty easy. This makes the gameplay a lot more fun, since you get to actually fight other people and rush with your teammates. I think that Cake Day and Pixel Mix should be removed because of these reasons.


CTW should also get some new maps. There have only ever been 2 sets of maps added to the game, at the very beginning with the original maps, and then an update 3 months ago that added a few more. There are a ton of CTW maps that could be added to the game, which can make the gameplay a lot better. Going along with what I said above about the bowspamming and camping, I think this problem is easily solved by having maps where there are two main islands instead of a bunch that are scattered in the middle. This allows players to get across easier instead of getting 1 tapped and falling into the void. This makes fighting a lot more fun, and makes the game in general a lot more fun as well. Maps like https://avicus.net/forums/7b55b9347 is what I mean by two different islands, since as you can see, once you cross the main bridge to the other side, you get to fight the other team, and so this makes the gameplay a lot better.


Also, there are a lot of features in the game that can be easily exploited or are really overpowered. For one, there is a flame bow on Pixel Mix, which really isn't that big of a deal because it really doesn't do much, but it is still a little bit unfair. Also, on the map Cake Day, there are 4 different strength 2 potions that players can obtain. These potions are super OP, since they allow you to kill naked people in 1 HIT, and full iron people in 2 HITS. You can also kill people with the wool who have diamond boots in 2 hits as well. This is super OP, and you can literally spawn camp and get 30 kills in a minute easily (although I understand that spawn camping is now not allowed). Also, on the map Fairy Tales 2, there are a few bugs and exploits within the map. For one, you can spawn trap people by placing lava on top of their spawn place, and then putting water on top of the lava. This creates a wall of cobblestone, and since the cobble stone is in their spawn, they are unable to break it because of the boundaries set. This can immobilize an entire team, and can be easily exploited by anyone. Also, some of the iron blocks near spawn are unable to be broken and mined due to the boundaries not being set correctly. Lastly, I believe it is in the Purple wool room on Fairy Tales 2, but there is no armor or gapples inside the chests, as if the builder forgot to put them there.

These are just some of the things that I think should be added/solved about CTW, and if there are any questions or any additional comments involving the topic please feel free to comment below. If there are any problems that other players have encountered while playing the game, also please comment below, as I feel as if I left some out. Thank you for your time reading this long ass post, and I hope that some of these ideas will be implemented into the game!

Posted on 12 December 2017 - 12:42 AM

Something that I want to discuss further is the thing I said about the maps with multiple Islands. Here is a visual example, since it might be a little hard to understand what I was saying through words. https://imgur.com/a/O2UIW In this picture, the red dots represent players. The black circle that I made is where players normally camp, and as you can see, the bridges are pretty thin. The players in the black area normally just sit there the entire game and bowspam other players that try to cross the bridge, and the players trying to cross the bridge are easily knocked into the void. This causes the game to be really long and really boring. If you go on to play this map, you'll understand what I mean. But pretty much once you keep getting knocked off, theres nothing you can really do since you can't cross the bridge, so you just end up bow spamming them back on your side of the island. This pretty much causes the entire gameplay on this map and Cake Day to be camping and bowspamming.

Posted on 12 December 2017 - 04:40 PM

I think that we need more maps, but the other maps is not bad.

+1 More Maps

-1 Remove maps

Posted on 13 December 2017 - 04:38 AM

Moved to Ideas/Suggestions.

Posted on 13 December 2017 - 05:04 PM

+1 on adding a discussion section for CTW

-1 Bowspamming is part of the game. Makes it more interesting and makes games run a little longer which makes it more intense.

+1 on adding maps but don't remove them

-1 on removing potions and extra items. Makes the game more interesting and they are rare so it doesn't change the game entirely.

-1 Middle islands add another strategy to the game and you can easily counter someone bowspamming you on a bridge.