As mentioned in the Play Updates thread, I find that running out of ammo in Winterstan can result in wasting a lot of time looking for an ammo supply. Not so much a problem in Thunderbowl, because the map is small and the ammo resupplies are never far away..
But in Winterstan, you can end up so far away from the ammo supplies that their light beams aren't even visible, in which case it could take minutes to find the nearest one, and more minutes to actually get there. At that point, it would probably be more effective to earning score to just sacrifice your multiplier and let the nearest AI kill you, so you can restart the wave, which is a fairly counter-intuitive strategy.
I guess the easiest solution would just be to put a lot more ammo supplies on the map, right?
An alternate idea, though, would be Small Ammo Boxes added to the powerup pool. Each containing just a few shots. But that might make the large boxes redundant, right? You wouldn't want the player to be able to just sit in one small area and wait for tanks (and ammo) to come to them, so I guess these would have to be rarer than the other power-up types.. IE, if each box had say 3 shots in it, you would want it to take an average of 4 kills for each one you'd find, or something like that. Or even better, if technically possible, the chance of finding one could scale based on the player's current ammo count when getting the kill. Above 50% ammo, it could be a 0% chance. On the player's last shot, it could be a 100% chance.
A third idea is that if the player goes X amount of time (a full minute, maybe?) Without any ammo, it could trigger an ammo box to spawn somewhere close by. If you don't mind the extra work, it could look cool to have the River Run chopper fly overhead and literally drop it off.. but simply poofing one into existence (with a small UI or audio alert) would probably be good enough.
But in Winterstan, you can end up so far away from the ammo supplies that their light beams aren't even visible, in which case it could take minutes to find the nearest one, and more minutes to actually get there. At that point, it would probably be more effective to earning score to just sacrifice your multiplier and let the nearest AI kill you, so you can restart the wave, which is a fairly counter-intuitive strategy.
I guess the easiest solution would just be to put a lot more ammo supplies on the map, right?
An alternate idea, though, would be Small Ammo Boxes added to the powerup pool. Each containing just a few shots. But that might make the large boxes redundant, right? You wouldn't want the player to be able to just sit in one small area and wait for tanks (and ammo) to come to them, so I guess these would have to be rarer than the other power-up types.. IE, if each box had say 3 shots in it, you would want it to take an average of 4 kills for each one you'd find, or something like that. Or even better, if technically possible, the chance of finding one could scale based on the player's current ammo count when getting the kill. Above 50% ammo, it could be a 0% chance. On the player's last shot, it could be a 100% chance.
A third idea is that if the player goes X amount of time (a full minute, maybe?) Without any ammo, it could trigger an ammo box to spawn somewhere close by. If you don't mind the extra work, it could look cool to have the River Run chopper fly overhead and literally drop it off.. but simply poofing one into existence (with a small UI or audio alert) would probably be good enough.