New Terrain Ideas

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(03-19-2013 03:33 PM)rob12001 Wrote:  

(03-17-2013 09:44 AM)TheGoldenGriffin Wrote:  And also, the obstacle hiding the wit space doesn't have the HP counter so you won't know its destructible. And if you can attack it, the attack button is invisible so you won't know its destructible until you attack it. And any team can attack it.

I feel like this detracts from the idea that Outwitters is purely a skill-based game, and adds too much luck into the equation. Whoever happens to find their secret first would have a big advantage over the other player, even if the other player was playing better. But I think that this wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing in friendly matches, but people would complain if this was added to league games.

I think people are misunderstanding the idea of secrets. Each game you have a 1 in 10 chance (that's 10%) that two obstacles (the same one on each side of the board) will be destroyable and have a secret under it.

It does not add luck to the game because both players will have the same secret and 90% of the time both players will never find it anyway. But if a player does find it, it's a simple matter for the other player to just destroy the same obstacle on their side. Both players now have the secret and therefore the game is balanced.

I love the observer space idea too. I like the idea of having to place a unit on it and that unit gets +2 vision. Though I also think it would be cool if there was a similar space that just gave the unit +1 movement when they leave the space. So a soldier could jump 4 spaces away from it, a runner 6 etc.