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Hello,
I was thinking what kind of natural hazards we will encounter in PFO.
A brief list of possible ones:
- Extreme Heat and Cold
- High Altitude
- (Sand)Storms and Tornados
- Avalanches
- Chasms
- Quicksand
Which do you think are more viable/interesting? Should they be included?
How can they impact the world and mechanics?
Extreme cold, high altitude and storms I'd love to see at least.
What do you think?
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I'd really like to see high altitude be a version of extreme cold/exposure so that wearing heavy fur coats is necessary. If the devs ever get weather & seasons, then blizzards similarly.
Damage from to character from:
- falling
- briars and brambles
- poisonous plants to the touch
Damage to buildings from:
- high winds, hurricanes/tornadoes
- lightning strikes
- crop failure from drought or heavy rain.
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-Water
I'd like realistic swimming and encumbrance, so if you fall in water wearing heavy armor, you would sink and drown pretty quickly.
I'd like to be able to dive under water to avoid incoming missile fire or spells.
I'd like small and large boats and barges for river trade.
I'd like the ability to build or destroy a dam on a river to flood a settlement in low lying areas (It will never happen, but it would be really nice for siege warfare)
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-Water
I'd like realistic swimming and encumbrance, so if you fall in water wearing heavy armor, you would sink and drown pretty quickly.
If crossing terrain features were in, it would have a huge impact on warfare. Imagine one of your scouts finding a good location to ford a river, and then enemy is focused on a bridge miles upstream.
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If crossing terrain features were in, it would have a huge impact on warfare. Imagine one of your scouts finding a good location to ford a river, and then enemy is focused on a bridge miles upstream.-Water
I'd like realistic swimming and encumbrance, so if you fall in water wearing heavy armor, you would sink and drown pretty quickly.
This. Also, make movement on different terrains have an actual effect, like through sand or boggy areas slowing you down.
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I've said before I'd love to see a "Soaking Wet" debuff that applied for some time after being in water, that perhaps made cold spells more effective. It'd be great if there were graphics changes associated with it, but that's not really necessary.
Or Lightning. As well as diminishing the powers of fire spells.
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Let improved road surfaces increase movement speed. Dirt roads, gravel, cobblestones, fieldstone, slate, granite panels, bricks. Heavy rain could make the dirt roads and paths much slower to travel on than improved roads. Slopes would be difficult; more so on steep inclines and declines.
I have always wanted to see the "dripping wet" effect on swimmers. A sodden person even not in armor is much slower, so it might be an effective way to elude pursuers, but could have the drawback of slowing you down. A river could also have the effect of quickly drowning your pursuer if he/she were in plate armor and were foolish enough to swim after you!
Now that I think about it there are rivers in Darkfall that have currents, and in rapids it is extremely tough to swim against those currents. A nice touch.
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Two natural effects that really impressed me / enhanced my experience were thorn bushes in Wurm and regular bushes in Mortal Online.
Thorn bushes in Wurm damage anyone who walks through them except priests of Fo (The nature god.) They are pretty distinctive but can still mess you up fairly bad if you aren't paying much attention to where you are going. The greatest part is that you can plant them, and Fo priests can use spells to make them grow faster. It makes it very useful for Fo priests to plant a few in their favorite private spots.
In Mortal, horses would not go through any of the larger bushes. One time while I was a newb, I got attacked by a mounted opponent on my way into town. By running from bush to bush I was able to avoid him well enough to make it into the safety of the town alive.
I would really like to see stuff like this in PFO. Plants that damage you, and ways to bypass that damage. Plants that grant concealment or restrict movement with different thing factoring in to how much. Limited control over the plant life of a region. Oh, and of course to hurl a fireball at those jerks hiding in the underbrush.
Man everybody's changing avatars lately, maybe I should get rid of this stupid Jason mask.
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Ah. If it was a reference to my old avatar I don't think it was a dwarf? I thought it was a human or half-elf with a bushy beard.
No, it was a Dwarf. lol
Maybe it had a human father and Dwarven mom?
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The effects of lightning on stealth would be interesting. WoW had footprint trails in snow that could also be a pain when trying to sneak about.
Rain storms hitting right in the middle of a siege...
Windstorm when trying to traverse sandy/desert areas...
Could cliff or mountain climbing cause rock-slides that hurt both you and the people below/behind you? Could they be triggered on purpose...
Could rutted, choppy land have a chance of not only slowing down mounted movement, but causing your mount to be temporarily lame (say 1 in 20 tiles of rutted space might have a "twist ankle" trigger)...
