Should Friendly fire for siege be on?
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Siege (mangonel) hits require little to no micro. You can safely right click anywhere knowing your own units are safe from any damage. It will even lock and track moving units like a Stinger missile. This is a big difference with AOE2 and AOE3.
Shoudl AOE4 have friendly fire on?
Siege is already very expensive. And even infantry with good micro can dodge a mangonel shot. The best way right now to get a good shot is to throw army on front-line to at-least hold them and then throw mangonel in there. If friendly fire is on, the use-case will become extremely narrow. We already have great siege nerfs.
Maybe they should go with the middle of the road, meaning that manganels and other siege units deals just half, or a third of the damage to allied units, so to no make siege too difficult to use, but to at least reward skills and not make it too easy to use.
Friendly fire or significant damage/AoE nerf is a must.
You know what is best feature of friendly fire ? Its most toxic mechanic in video game design. Once its introduced in any form its used for trolling more than anything else. In non RTS games, people will just use it to kill allies and troll them to oblivion.
What happens in RTS? Team games can be ruined by trolls even more effectively. Solo games will either consider them useless or overpowered. Friendly fire will make each unit that does it feel like pain to use for 90% of player base (less then 15% are above 1200ELO in 1v1). Creating units that friendly fire will not feed rewarding to use. You will never be able to leave them unattended, because they would just kill your army over one running wolf to their aggro-range. Thats just not fun to babysit single unit you made, when the whole feel of game should be to make large army. And its not even rewarding to make them, as you never know if that large cost will pay off or it will in reality cost you 10x as much as it wipes more your soldier than your enemy one.
What about using that brain we humans are so proud of and and be more creative?
We have so many options that dont make game toxic and discouraging to play:
Remember that even one buff to counters or one nerf to mangonel can make them obsolete and situational.
That only happens to trolls and we have a report section for such trolls, so they get punished.
Your whole post is just about trolls.
Also, friendly fire reduces casual players to spam siege. That leads to more non-siege unit battles with little sieges. Current AOE4 is based on siege spam and siege superiority wins games.
In a competitive game, it makes players more responsible and improves the gameplay.
Absolutely agree with everything in your post. There are so many other ways to nerf siege that would be better than friendly fire
I just saw N4C Beasty destroying HRE mass with just only mangonels. It reminded me of seeing AOE2 siege which would destroy their own units by bombarding enemy units swarming and torching them. Or how you absolutely need army to protect your cannons in AOE3.
Instead in Aoe4 all fully upgraded MAA army died and all siege survived.
Seems like 6x mangonel= tank batallion in medieval ages right now.
That was Leenock fault, he made too many mistakes and had very few production buildings. Not to mention he did not switch to cavalry even through his opponent made only siege and Streltsy as core of his army. MAA are countered by both Streltsy and Mangonels.
bump bump 20 characters
@ZdsAlpha This convinced me to change my opinion/vote. Having no friendly fire floor siege always seemed odd, and made siege feel less like siege. However, their use would become very narrow and players would just ignore them.
@DoctBaghi makes a good point where some smaller damage for friendly units may work. Even if the damage was minimal (10%), this small change would make using siege weapons more like what a player might intuitively expect.
Siege should not be such an effective anti-personel weapon in the first place, this is not the age of Napoleon or the World Wars.
Siege should not be so mobile, their placement should be carefully considered with long set up and tear down times. Adding Friednly Fire will probably just lead to people avoiding melee units and just relying on ranged and siege.
Ok hear me out. I think mangonels needs is to shoot twice slower yet deal 50% more damage. Yes, twice slower, and no it wont make it twice weaker and i’ll explain why:
The first shot is the most important shot, so that remains true. If Mangonels shoot twice slower, it means you’ll have to be more mindful and make sure your first shot hits well. The enemy on his end will have to make sure the opposite happens, if they dodge or waste your first shot they are on the advantage. That makes for strategic play and a more “skirmish” and fun engagements where enemies probe each other before making an attack, as that first strike can change the tide of battle.
Right now, all I need to do is to defend mangonels (spears + xbow) and they dish out all the damage needed to destroy my opponents in a battle while the other units just guard to keep the mangonels alive. Enemy will be still willing to throw unfavorable horse trades against my spearman to destroy my mangos because they are that strong…
If mangonels shoot twice slower with abit more damage, the initial hit (which will either destroy your enemy or leave you at a disadvantage) will mean alot more. Enemies will actually be charging against you if you miss your shot as more will not ensue soon, or you will be charging them if they suddenly took that first massive hit to their bulk. It means engagements will actually happen after the initial shot, rather than two deathballs turtling and staring at each other.
Thats my take anyhow
I think that the problem is that we have gone from a game with siege that have friendly fire and no ballistics to a game with siege that have no friendly fire and ballistics.
That’s the big problem, they take the units from aoe3 but made it like it was aoe3, which are too different to make it work…
siege that have friendly fire and no ballistics to a game with siege that have no friendly fire and ballistics
Yes, that’s the whole problem right there!
By looking at the post here, is clear that game design has a lot of flaws, siege should work as in age2 they can miss and they do tons of friendly damage, that’s the the only way to avoid siege spam, also cav suck countering it, they still uses torches lol.
torch damage is an absolute joke agreed
There are other ways to avoid area siege spam (lower attack speed, higher minimum range, etc.)
I think relic already tried but siege and springald spam is a thing, also sepringalds is the only way to countering since units still use torches…
Torch damage is ok. In a team game an enemy player had 20+ mangonels… I spammed 60 horseman from my 10 stables in 2 minutes. I run through mangonels with open formation, when all mass of horseman in globes them, I press A + LMB. He lost everything in few seconds. Half of my horsemen still alive. Few minutes later he resigned