All Games: Customized Loadouts

It's been a long time coming (as I'm sure many forum veterans will attest) but Customized Loadouts are making their way to all four games.

I'm making a new thread regarding this to start fresh and collect some feedback on the feature speccing that Smack put a lot of time into this week. There are several considerations here, so we want to know what you guys think is the best bet. Here is the original thread if anyone wants to give it a read over. Let's get started.

How Will The Customized Loadouts Work?

Right now what we're leaning towards is giving players a set of three Loadouts to work with. On the existing Personal Loadout page there will be three buttons (A B C, 1 2 3 or whatever we decide to go with) that will allow you to switch between Loadouts.

How should this work? Would your prefer:

1. Totally customizable loadout that are up to the player's discretion?
2. Loadouts that are automatically filled to perform a certain role?
3. A mix of both where veteran players can customize their loadouts or you can press a button and have the game auto-fill some recommended items in each category?

Where Can I Access My Customized Loadout?

For now we're having the Customized Loadout in the Personal Loadout screen; that's where you can fill up the slots and see the stats of your items. Of course, you also need to access this on the fly. Where would be the best place to be able to swap between loadouts?

• On the Personal Loadout page
• In the User Settings
• On any PVP interface

Those are the three options we're currently leaning towards. Let us know if you think it would fit in somewhere else!

Would You Like to be Able to Equip More Items?

This is kind of a touchy subject which is why we're going to ask it here. Currently, you can carry a wide variety of items across all games, but would you like the option to be able to carry more? Right now we're thinking of adding in the option to equip another Matey/Warrior for Pirate Clan and Viking Clan and another Armor for Mob Wars: LCN and Zombie Slayer.

Note that this would only affect your personal stats and wouldn't change how your Clan/Mob/Squad brings items into battle. What do you think? Should this be something we explore with the Customized Loadouts?

These are the questions we're posing to you folks at this time. Thanks to forum user Matthew William Jaderlund for proposing this idea and sticking with us as we work to implement. So what say you guys? What do you think about these options for the Customized Loadout? Please try to be as concise and helpful with your feedback as possible.

 

TY, "Totally customizable loadout that are up to the player's discretion?" Would be best and just keeping it where it is in "On the Personal Loadout page" Is what I'd prefer... As for the additional option to carry more in loadout, should stay the same.

 

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"How should this work?" " 3.A mix of both where veteran players can customize their loadouts or you can press a button and have the game auto-fill some recommended items in each category".

The more options the better here, sometimes if time is an issue than the Auto selection may come in very handy. Im assuming this would pick your 3 best in any category. If the lag is still goingto be present the auto select will be a great asset i would imagine.

"Where Can I Access My Customized Loadout?" definately "On any PVP interface"

Definately the handiest where u need it most, loadouts get changed more often for battling diff opponents. But they also get swapped in and out for leveling and bosses, so maybe we could access our personal loadouts in all the suggested areas....lol

Personally I think both the previous answers are no brainers.


"Would You Like to be Able to Equip More Items?" This sounds kinda cool but I really dont see the point of it. I dont see how one more loadout item will make any difference other than we will have to spend more FP/UN to make sure we have the latest and greatest limited item in each category. I think it would just create more of a divide between the haves and have nots. Those that have and are willing to spend the FP/UN on the latest and greatest items will have no more advantage or disadvantage having 1 more loadout item than they do now over others that are willing to do the same. Im gonna vote no for now unless someone can convince me otherwise


Will this still be affected by the lag?

Three personalized loadouts will work just fine but 4 would be optimal.

1. All attack
2. All defense
3. Even
4. customized for your preferred leveling partner

 

I LOVE the whole idea! I'd like to see us have 2 weapons in PC and maybe 2 Captains. There's Armor? Oh hell yeah, I want that! I wouldn't be switching back and forth much but would LOVE the option -thanks very much!

 

The armor is not in PC it is in 2 of the other three games

 

When these changes are implemented we will be addressing some of the performance issues with the existing Loadout interface. While I think there are some guaranteed gains in efficiency I cannot guarantee how much less lag there will be. It should be better though.

Overall if there is a toggle to switch between your config that is not on the Loadout screen itself it should not suffer from lag at all. Change the config from a dropdown, your loadout is swapped quickly, continue on battling.

 

3. A mix of both where veteran players can customize their loadouts or you can press a button and have the game auto-fill some recommended items in each category?



The mix of presets would work out fine as well, I'm just using this as example (say these are highest attack I own) of why would rather have 3 custom. Say I wanted highest 3 attack (autofill) This would not be choice of what I wanted in attack, I'd rather have World Crusher Armor than the Arkano staff giving bump of -3/+151, but either way is fine with me.

 

Sounds promising...ty Smack!

 

custom loadouts would be best...as for an autofill, kind of pointless...if you dont know that 300 is higher than 160 then somethings wrong....adding another weapon or warrior? also kind of pointless since it wouldnt give an advantage cause we'd all have it...EARNING an extra spot somehow would be better

 

Yes. 3 would be good. 4 would be better.

i want 1 For battle arena. 1 for bosses. And 2 for fighting.

Maybe it could be 3 if there was a seperate arming for battle arena?

Player choice all the way.

andYes!!' Please let me arm another item. my bosses are all too strobg except the ones from the very first area.

an extra item would help my xp at least a little bit

 

Oh and I'm going to say i wouldn't hate it if there was a 3rd wapon to go along with the 2nd armor.

the loadout doesn't effect the outcome of fights in zs nearly as much as the other games. it helps a ton on bosses tho.

 

thats a good point about the bosses, i take back my comment about it being pointless lol

 

The loadout doesn't really affect fights at all, If you don't have the best tool for the job equipped....your squad is going to use it anyway.
So yeah, the loadout only really affects, bosses, arena and faction wars.

Edit: Forgot to say, I wouldn't be apposed to a 2nd gear or even vehicle

 

Loadouts in the three other games are important for reg PVP fighting

 

hey mi7ch i think you should have a look at my new thread i made it is about having 2 different loadouts one for bosses and the other for battles. here is the link to the thread where i explain it- http://forums.kanoapps.com/showthread.php?11034-boss-loadout-and-battle-loadout&p=94529#post94529

 

Found this on another thread, not sure why this wasn't announced here? From this link post #9 http://forums.kanoapps.com/showthre...-Curb-Cheating-and-Manual-Freezes-(All-Games)

 

I was going to announce that today, Matthew, but I said in there to correct some misinformation in the post I was addressing.

 

OK guys, based on the feedback in this thread, we're moving ahead with the Loadout. Here's what we're working on for the initial phase:

3 Customizable Loadouts

- Can be filled in by you or with an autofill button

New Loadout layout and improved performance

- While we build the Customizable Loadout we'll be looking to address the performance issues some users have experienced in the menu and well as changing it slightly to make it more intuitive.

Ability to chose your Loadout on the Loadouts page or in the Settings

- For the first iteration we wanted to keep the Loadout centralized. We're looking to add the ability to change your Loadout in multiple areas in a future update

Basically this is to address the immediate needs of the Customized Loadout so we can get it out to you quicker. The following are still on the docket for a second iteration:

- Extra slot for Weapon/Armor/Soldier
- An additional Loadout slot to bring the total to 4
- Ability to change the Loadout from the Battle interface

What do you guys think about the current/future direction of the Customizable Loadouts? Sound good to you?

 

Works for me, TY Mitch! OOOOp's sorry, TY Smack as well for the hard work.
LOL Mitch were you looking at my FB page and saw Bday is tomorrow?

 

Other than the "Extra slot for Weapon/Armor/Soldier" it all sounds great. Ty