Trouble in Terrorist Town - a GMod gamemode

[Qloos]

Expanding on the removing of crosshairs,  is it possible to have an option to just disable the karma portion of the crosshair when it is pointed at another player.  It adds more clutter and reduces my reaction time to firing at people I've marked with "suspect/avoid/kill"

[Bad King Urgrain]

Rather than adding more and more minor options, I would prefer adding an "minimalist target ID" option with for example only the target's name coloured to reflect his health, no "press USE to search" hints on bodies, etc.

[Finparasite]

I have a suggestion: What if a kill is a headshot, the body would not have reflection.

[Bad King Urgrain]

Not having a reflection is one of the uses of the disguiser, hence it would be a bad idea to make it effectively free for anyone who can aim.

[Ajunk]

Random tangent: I still think the silenced pistol needs to actually be silenced, because it's still audible and that's just wrong. Besides, nobody uses it right now (unless they want a challenge) because it's insanely hard to kill people with it and not get noticed. Maybe removing the death scream for people killed by it would work too?

Just food for thought.

[Bad King Urgrain]

The thing is that you don't hear it on the other side of the map like other guns. Removing the death scream is a better option. I agree the gun is used very little right now.

[that guy]

Actually the silenced pistol is my favorite weapon ecspecially combined with the disguiser.

[Marauder8]

Random tangent: I still think the silenced pistol needs to actually be silenced, because it's still audible and that's just wrong. Besides, nobody uses it right now (unless they want a challenge) because it's insanely hard to kill people with it and not get noticed. Maybe removing the death scream for people killed by it would work too?

Just food for thought.

I love the silenced pistol, it works extremely well with large groups of people. Get yourself to a distance, fire a shot or two at either the one with the highest health, or lowest health, then hide and the innocents will panic. Do this as many times as needed, or until they disperce, kill each other or you kill them all.

[Qloos]

The main use of the silenced pistol is a cheap shot in which other players won't be able to determine who fired.  If it was a regular pistol that was fired, they could run over to you and demand to see your pistol.  At which point you would be revealed.

[Blan21]

i have used the normal pistol is place of the silenced one many times. It works about 90% of the time, and they always scream that it's a silenced pistol.

[JossiRossi]

Being the reasonable fellow I am. I fight a wall.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGVzoo48ST4[/youtube]

No High Quality version yet.

[that guy]

THAT WAS MY IDEA D:

[worbat]

Nice try jossi!

[Bad King Urgrain]

I winced at the suffering of the physics engine in that video.

[Bad King Urgrain]

What's people's impression of balance right now?

I'd crunch some numbers, but I'm not sure the server log contains who has won/lost. I'll make sure it's in there for next version.

[that guy]

I think that this gamemode is almost perfectly balanced we just need some more good maps that are fun for traitors and innocents.

[UnInvincible]

Last time I played TTT I believe the traitors won the majority of the time.

[Qloos]

Its more fun if the traitors win more often:

Regarding gun balance, I feel the mac10 is overpowered, (again.)  It takes about 1/3 of a clip to kill someone to the chest, it's fire rate is high so if you miss the first burst you can adjust your reticule and pepper him to death.  Plus the range is quite good.

Compared to the huge, which has no range at all but is deadly for spray and pray at pointblank.  The shotgun, which has a bit more range but you need to aim your shots.  The M16, which is outclassed at short range and very long ranges by other guns and it takes a few moments of firing to kill if you miss the head.  And lastly the sniper which is a long range assassin and reconnaissance weapon.

I feel if the clip size was reduced to 20 for the mac10 it would be balanced as the user would be forced to actually hit his enemy, instead of miss and compensate.  It serves as a good quick killer at short to medium range to make sure he doesn't talk the moment he realizes he's getting shot.

Pistol balance is great, regular pistol is good for accuracy and long range while the deagle is powerful but inaccurate.

[Marauder8]

I feel the HUGE needs a little bit more power. I feel even at point blank, hitting every shot, my enemy can still kill me easily with anything else.

[Bad King Urgrain]

I mostly meant traitor vs innocent, because someone in the detective thread said innocents never lose. I was wondering if there was a trend there I was missing.

Weapon balance is okay right now. The HUGE is the biggest gun and also the worst, by design.

That the MAC10 may be more powerful than the shotgun in an extended/ranged firefight is also not a problem. The shotgun is a pleasant traitor weapon because it's a guaranteed single-shot kill as long as you get close. Even if the MAC10 is better overall it won't have that property and people will often prefer a different gun. Its ammo limit also hampers it.

In the end I don't think any gun is the obvious best choice for everyone right now, which is a pretty good situation to be in and not one I am eager to meddle with.