Street Fighting
 

The fists literally the most pointless weapon in the game. You start with them, but you also start with a much better melee. They deal the least possible damage... Well, I have an idea. Instead of dealing health damage, implement a second "health" bar, a blue colored one. This, my fellow graalians, would be the stamina bar. Now, me go into detail about reworking the fists. Instead of the normal second stick fire button, there could be 3 buttons: punch, kick, and headbutt. Punching deals roughly 10 out of 50 stamina damage. However, it takes away 5 of your own stamina. Kicking deals around 15 and you lose 10 stamina. Headbutting deals a lot of stamina damage, around 20. But you lose 15 stamina, and upon a successful you damage yourself for another 5. All but the headbutt cannot bring yourself down to 0 stamina, only going as far as 15, so you should plan you moves carefully and not headbutt too much! The logic behind having 3 different moves is to make it less of a spam-fest and actually incorporate the necessity of strategy. Upon losing all your stamina, you get K.O.'d for 10(yes, 10. You're freaking knocked out, you shouldn't be able to get up a few seconds right after getting the living daylights beat out of ya!) seconds, and you "drop"(not from your inventory!) some gralats and a occasionally a nice stack of grenades or healing items. On rare occasions, quite a bit of gralats could be dropped, around the 500-750 range. This would give people the incentive to actually make use of this system. Every second when knocked out, you bleed for 2 damage. Now here is a sorta "optional" part of the suggestion: rework the starter knife into a new, fully gani'd switchblade. It could deal the usual 2 damage, but it could also deal 10 stamina damage and take away 5 per swing like a punch, as well as coming with the kicking and headbutting, so you could use it to K.O. someone with the intention of them taking bleedout damage. Also, upon being K.O.'d by a knife, you take 3 damage/second rather than the usual 2.

Oh, and of course stamina would slowly regenerate, maybe like one or two points per second.


And maybe there could be an area implemented where players are restricted to fists, so they can safely and consistently duke it out without having to worry about getting gunned down :)

A good idea never gets recognized if everyone is just "TL;DR" and moves along. I know this idea is big, but it'd be nice if one of the 11 people that viewed this so far actually took the time to give feedback...

Its a good idea lol.. so much math in there i didnt read most of it. Its more like ninja moves than street fighting xD

Allow me :). I love this idea! Insteading of just boring Pking you can do this which is more fun and unique. Great idea man very well thought out. I would give rep but I have no idea how to so ill just say it lol +Rep

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Or buy brass knuckles and have improved fist damage

Well, I sorta want everyone to be equal in terms of power in this.

theres one problem with this though, the main problem is that everyone in era will own a gun, so if one person starts beating the crap out of someone else they will whip out a gun and people will then get into a street gun fight.

Fist used to be the best basing melee. For doors and the flag.

maybe you can click more actions>challenge and you can challenge someone to a fight. then you two can fight for a wager in the middle of the street.

then fking daggers were released. But not against doors, melees won that.

That's where the special fists-only area in my idea comes in.

You must be dreaming, there's no equality in a P2W game like era

Just because guns are Pay to Win doesn't mean everything has to be. We're talking a sort of diversion here; it's meant to be a fun alternative to usual combat. I'm sure even Stefan could find it reasonable to make sure no one is more powerful because they have more money to waste on a diversion. As long as Stephane doesn't try to manupilate his opinion on it...

Pretty cool idea!!!! Love it! Maybe if considered, there could be some areas in Era where you can't use weapons and only can use the street fighting moves. It will be a blood bath.

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Ooops I see at the end of your post you suggested a no guns area

Ha ha ha love this idea too. Great concept!

The only thing I hate about this whole idea is I didn't come up with it.

Anyone hear that Ultra Street Fighter 4 was announced? Oh wait, this thread is for Era... nothing to see here.

Well, I wouldn't say that there would be any "moves". The way I want it is more along the lines of Sega's Virtua Figter. No fireballs or gravity defying roundhouses, just punch, kick, and headbutt, all of which must be used strategically and skillfully to ensure your opponent is the first to lose all their stamina and get knocked out.

It would be great to level up skill for it such as stamina and power.

HADOUKEN! SHORYUKEN!

your crazy right? Everyone knows what happens to these things in era, the playerbase wander out to go peek at whats new then go back to start and it all becomes a deserted wasteland

The only reason areas like this don't see much activity after a while is because they're pointless. I'm assuming you mean areas like the PK arena, or certain areas that play a minimal role on the server. Think, if you had this entire new way of fighting, but people would rather fill you with lead, would you still want to fight with your fists? It's just like how sparrers use arenas meant for their unique form of combat rather than fighting in the street where people could intervene at any waking moment. I'm sure people would make use of it.

I'm not sure. Boxing was popular for a few days and this is a similar system.

How does one compar a lackluster melee spar to a completely new way of fighting? For one thing it's street fighting. You don't do it in any arena. And it's an idea intended to improve the useless fists and turn it into a system of knocking someone out with not only punches, but kicks and headbutts also, all set up so that one must fight in a strategic manner. You really should read the OP before comparing it to boxing spar.

I did read the OP. Boxing is fist fighting and so is street fighting or at least it is a component of it.

The why the heck did you compare it to boxing spar? It's obvious that it and my idea barely anything in common. Boxing is nothing more than a lame melee spar, my idea could quite possibly gather up a new kind of player. We have basers, sparrers, and PKers, and with this we'd have an entire section of the playerbase that focuses on this.

The thing is that tht brass knuckles are pretty expensive and what if you were new to the game, so I think the idea of a fist fighting style is an amazing idea

Boxing involves punching, yes? Street fighting involves punching, yes? Nothing in common at all. People had a chance to use a melee only area and it didn't work so why would this work?

LOL those are NOT expensive, 2.4K in era is not that much cash. Also its the best deal you can get for weapons, you get a incredibly fast melee with a low freeze (these kickass in bush race), and 7 damage. Brass knuckles can easily last you up until you get a EC melee.

street fighting is a way different style of fighting. In standard boxing you can't kick, grab, hit below the belt, etc. Theres no rules in street fighting, you pull any dirty trick you can.

But in terms of gameplay if this was added, it would be very similar.

No it wouldn't >.<

Boxing spar was a pointless spar that restricts players to a special boxing melee

My idea can't be compared in such a way to anything else, read the freaking OP

special attacks are mere useless in this game, pirate hammer spin attack. Completley useless, your better off just using a basic attack. A special arena would just become a abandoned ghost town within a week, plus if this system was implemented into era as anywere anytime, the HUD would be so freakin cluttered on ipods and smaller devices. Also the whole stamina system, if admins are lazy enough to not finish projects that they started when they can easily ask people in charge of them for the files and complete it, what makes you think they will implement a whole new gameplay function?

What can be possible for the fists though, era could add in combo attacks feature were if you hit a guy you go into a hit hit kick and the kick does 4 damage + knockback.

Basically you want certain areas to be non weapon and only that yes? That's never going to work. An area would be a ghost town like ghetto said.