After a pleasant conversation with Mac about the RC Battle Boats minigame, I thought I’d put together a little suggestion for it.
Firstly, the map for it.
I think a wide open mini ocean with rocks, archs and islands would be perfect for it.
Seeing as how the boats are going to use classic cannons.
Excuse the simplicity, simply put the map would be a circle surrounded by buoys to symbolise the the map’s border.
There’d be rocks and small islands to split up the map and prevent one single player sniping from a distance.
But what is a battle boat minigame without said boat!
So two means of attack to split up engagements a little.
Side cannons (which could be bound to RMB) fires both left and right cannons at once, they are short range, long cooldown. But pack quite a punch.
The main cannon (bound to LMB) will be the most reliable way of engaging in combat, allowing limited rotation via pitch/yaw to fire cannon balls at enemy boats. The main cannon will be limited by a certain degree to prevent the cannon from being able to fire upon itself or behind the boat. In addition perhaps a rotation speed limit. The main cannon being huge and heavy requires a lot more prediction as it slowly rotates toward where it’s being aimed, not so slow that it’s sluggish but enough to where players can’t react immediately to being hit from an angle they’re not currently aiming toward.
Honestly I can see this being one of if not my most favourite plaza minigame whenever it comes out, even if it turns out entirely different from these suggestions, the idea of a mini ocean war amongst players with the added possibiltiy of said battle boat being an unlockable item sounds awesome~
'Cuz that opens up a buttload of custom battle maps for condos.