Join Date: 02 February 2016

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Last edited on 22 January 2018 - 07:23 PM by SmellyPenguin

Hello everyone!
My very first announcement and update here on Badlion, I’m excited!

Introduction
Today I want to talk about the gamemode that we’ve created and tested this week. It is currently undergoing a few more changes as it needed some tweaking, yet you’ll see it soon on the calendar! First I want to explain the thought process behind this gamemode. If you rather listen than read, you can always check the video link at the bottom of this post.

What is interesting is that Battle Royale games in general have seen much popularity the last two years, while UHC seems to be on a slow decline. Some might say that it is due to players leaving for other Battle Royale games, yet I find that the core qualities that make these games so popular, you can not find in UHC. The popular Battle Royale games are fast paced fighting, kill rewarding with a high skill ceiling. Now I’ll explain how I find UHC is not any of these.

The Problem With UHC
Because of the cheater problem before 6.0, UHC had to adapt. As much as many people want ‘old school’ UHCs they know that reverting to this old school world gen is not a solution. The xrayers and cheaters are still here and will continue to ruin the game of the legit player, they will always mine full diamond x minutes in. Yet because of this world gen change UHC now favors the smart player. The formula for a current Badlion UHC win is gathering many books during the first few minutes, caving the entirety of the game and avoiding any fights until forced to. This is because caving has got more rewarding than getting kills, any fight you take means armor durability loss and draining of healing.

This should not be the case! Fighting should be the fun part! Most of us fell in love with this game when snowballing was an option. When you could hop in a game, run to 0,0 and fight a dozen full irons or 1 pieces. Or even going to the border and being very surprised how someone managed to be full diamond while the rest was half. Because of the low gear it was the skilled people that thrived. People played hours on end to become the best at UHC and get rewarded for it through getting games with many action and kills. Just like people are now on PUBG and Fortnite.

The Solution: Diamond Dust
If we can not make caving harder due to the xrayers, yet we also want to decrease gear, what is the fix? We believe Diamond Dust is!
When Diamond Dust is on diamond rates are heavily increased from 6.0 to the extent that both xrayers and normal players will find just as many diamonds. However, whenever mining a diamond it is not a diamond that drops, yet the dust of a diamond: the Diamond Dust. Combining an x amount of Diamond Dusts in your crafting table creates an actual diamond.

This game mode makes it that not luck is favored yet skill is when getting gear. The fastest caver will be the most geared not the one lucky, or even cheating. We can tweak the rates so that it should be impossible to be full diamond by 20 or 30 minutes, while it is rather common to be full diamond by first border. As the diamond rates are so increased we’re also adding a decrease of XP obtained from mining any ore to this gamemode. We’re going to be testing some drastic decreases of XP just to see what effect it will have on the game. Ideally we want to see people being able to win games with tier 2 armor again.

Conclusion
We’ve created a gamemode that drastically changes UHC. The aim of the gamemode is to completely change the dynamic of the game, through decreasing any gear that can be obtained while not favoring any xrayers. We ask you all to test and play this game mode when it is live and give us as much feedback as possible. We have to think outside of the box to face the problems we’re having. We hope you partake as enthusiastically as us!

Thank you for your time
Daniel - Mentally

The video: https://youtu.be/dRLeEDxbXOk

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