Now look at us... Everyones fighting, everyones upset. Over what? A silly game that people are going away from more and more every day?
Man i remember when nobody boosted... back in 1.2 and 1.3b. People actually ran upfield, the game was open to cherry pickers and defending actually took skill because if you didnt play the man he'd just get off you and score. Offensive players actually shot the ball, not this volley BS... those were the days.
Vollies actually took skill and timing to pull off and i was becomming quite good at them when 1.4b came out. 1.4b was fun for the most part. It was introduced mid-qualification and a lot of people were upset but got used to it. We all enjoyed free jump, dribble, boosting, everything...
Since then DB has been going down hill. People are loosing intrest. Games are too competative. People arn't having fun anymore. Everyones upset.
This brings me to my point... why dont we go back to the basics or at least to to mod deathball so its like it once was where playing a position ment something.
My suggestion: remove own team colissions from everywhere except the Pbox.
Why? it would remove boosting back, the boost goal, and would actually make people PLAY DEFENSE. It would still let a person be boosted forward to 1/2 field but because of the boost power reduction (which i hope like hell is only for your own team) would land them short of the enemy half.
This would make playing defense be critical, have actual odd man rushes for a change. It would make the game a bit easier for the offense and goals would mean more. Goals would mean that you outplayed the team and actually earned your goal because you forced them into an odd-man rush and you won.
This is how DB should be. Not this boost and and down field garbage...
The way i look at it, DB was never broke but the core elements kept changing for the worse. The only good changes to ever come since 1.2 were the passing that didnt follow your Y axis direction, banana shot, and the increase in volley power.
Everything else was completely un-necessary. People started leaving. People wern't having fun... Doing what i can do now with vollies actually made playing a game of 1.3b FUN a while back. We were dribbling, we were boosting, we were doing everything like we used to and IT WAS FUN!
Whats wrong with deathball is that scores mean too much and arnt very satisfying. Everyone somewhere deep down inside has a conscience thats telling them "the boost goal is wrong, why do you do it?". This move is ruining deathball. Boosting in general is ruining deathball. The scores everyong gets now arnt satifying at all for 2 reasons. either 1) its a cheap trick or 2) its a volley that the keeper has no chance at all of stopping.
Durring a scrimmage we had against Pi 2 days ago i had 4 goals all made by shooting the ball through a screen and scoring. I actually felt like the goals ment something and i was having fun. Meanwhile Pi was using the boost trick and scoring cheap goals on us. It wasn't fun, but i know that i sure had fun scoring those 4 goals.
This is my plea. Why are you chaging Deathball when there was no need? all it has done is damage the game and make it less fun to play. It makes it too competative. It makes it too... frustrating!
When a problem arises you address it, you don't create new ones without fixing others. Having small exploits in the game like dribbling didnt cause problems and still it was removed. It actually kept defense on their toes because they knew if you got behind them and dribbled you'd score most likely. Instead after removing it you gave birth to the cheapest move in deathball.
If you really want to save deathball i suggets instead of improving on your current design, you improve a design that wasn't as corrupt. Improve 1.3b for those of us that want to play. Those of us that want set jumping to reduce vollies. Those of us that want to be able to actually get a breakaway. Those of us that want to run scores up in the 20's for both teams without pulling cheap trick!
Deathball once was fun, now its a job. Why cant it be both?
