Matchmaking.

Hats.

The perfect competitive game: Daft Grinders mixed with Militia.

Experienced people on the team capable of implementing all of these things, because without them, all of this is useless as it either won't make it in, or will be done badly.

Being pro at Soldier of Fortune 2, having a shitload of golden ideas, the game has to be super intellectual, feature ninjas, violance, etc.

As for the actual game: responsiveness and accuracy.

For all the "community stuff" (friends list, clan system, league system...).
hmmm I'd say that public ranking (perhaps combined with some rewards (example a medal for ever reaching the top100 and another one for currently being in the top100 etc.)) is most important.

On a 2nd place comes using those rankings to enable users to find fair games (or even better if theres an algorithm pointing them to these fair games).

The other stuff is all lesser important

promode
better pub games(CA is holding back fast paced fps)

good netcode

- spectator mode
- mod tools
- anticheat
- decent "maps"

matchmaking

You know why i not always like matchmaking is because i play casually so i could happen i dont play for a
Month then when i wanna have some fun i am matched with people who play 24/7.
Maybe a bad example but this happend with call of duty on a console.

My point, make a good thought out matchmaking system :)

Good mouse input, even when you're not getting a million frames per second. (I guess some games have mouse lag of x frames? Some feel ok-ish at high fps, and terrible at mid-low fps.) Can't believe how many get this wrong.

team consisting from more than one guy, especially named GuAY

Special tools for casters/spectators.

I thought about it now during the Prague lan. If you could add things for casters so they know more whats going on then the viewer. So the caster can tell more about what is going on off screen.

The things I'm thinking of is.

Multiple screens support. Not only multiple screens but so the caster can choose on person to follow on one screen and broad cast his pov while on an other screen he have a 2d map where he can see all the other players and their health. On the 2d map the caster can see the players as arrows indicating their direction and above the arrow is the players name and health and armor.

The caster can switch pov on the second screen with let's say the numkeys. So keys 1-4 is blue team 5-8 is red team. 0 and 9 is all four of red team and all of blue team respectively.

This will make things easier for the caster(s) and will make things easier for the viewer. Because the caster doesn't have to switch view all the time to get info about what the team is doing. He can see that red team is going for this power up while blue team is gathering for an attack over here.

The multi pov view will also help so they can see in more detail what each individual is doing. When a caster is switching view several times it can be rather annoying for the viewer. So the caster switches on his secondary monitor to see who he is going too switch to.

Say that blue team have secured the quad room. He then switches over to the blue teams mutli pov too see which one is going to take the quad. He sees that player two takes it and then switches on the main screen to player two instead of switch through all of the players to get there.

The reason for the 2d map is to make it easier for the caster to explain what is going on in the game. He can see immediately what both of the teams are doing and can switch to the player that is in action right now. He can also say that the team is splitting up two and two. player one and two are going this way to do this and player tree and four stays to do secure the room.

This is just some thing i thought about. I do think that the 2d map would be a good tool to have for a caster and would make for better casting.

Advertise streams, online tournaments and LANs in the game's client.

Or rather, just copypaste what LoL does and what has been doing since closed beta.

fun rich gameplay.. easy to pickup, hard to master

without a solid playerbase, why bother?

decent anti-cheat.

seems that... popularity is most important :(

so LoL, world of tanks etc. best esport games evah, lolz...

Replay fridge just like in rfactor, the possibility of cutting demos inside the client, fast forwarding/rewind thru them, save them as a new file without losing the rest of the game or even make a video file out of it. Add timestamps and stuff... imagine i make a nice midair and i just hit a key binding, when i go to the timeline later in the replay fridge i'll have a mark or some shit over the time of the demo where the frag happened.

This way people will be more likely to make videos of their own gameplay, and if youtube has a lot of stuff from that game it's a bit like autopromotion if the videos aren't too shitty : D

in q3 it has always been a pain in the ass to go thru demos, to organize them, to cut them, to rename them, to capture them, etc... It's a way to make it simpler and easier.

For the rest of stuff just look at what lol is doing... the game is shit itself but the model and the platform is very welcoming and they introduce the game to you thru basic tutorials and so on...

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