Accepted Petition to Get Rid of Men in the Middle

The title is self-explanatory.

The last straw was when it glitched earlier today and there was no Man in the Middle. People ran around for like 4 minutes trying to kill themselves because nobody knew "kill" in console.

 

this mode is absolute garbage, it comes on and the whole server groans. I know that a lot of work and thought went into making this mode but its just not fun for the majority of players. Its not fun to try to kill the Man because you do little to no damage with a high risk of just dying and it is not fun to be the Man because you just go around getting your screen spammed with effects and try to kill people that would rather have you kill them than play the game. Just please take this out and come up with something better to replace it.

 

Honestly when man in the middle is chosen I just go off and watch youtube. Its a horrible gamemode so +1

 

legit just got this, fuck this cancer its not even luck or fun its just all rng

 

Not fun at all... If you die early, you're gonna be waiting a good 5+ minutes.

 

@Opalium

 

Poor Opal just wanted to make a gamemode.

 

NO, it's good you all just suck at it. Stop ur bitching.

Don't remove.

 

What about just removing the effects... TF2 VS Saxton Hale is fun so why not

 

Leave it.
I've always liked the gamemode and I like it even more with the recent changes.

 

I'm indifferent. I don't dislike it .. but I prefer most of the other fun rounds.

 

Guess all people who want it gone are the people who can't win in this gamemode at least, everybody who answers it to be gone are not "pro players" (i bet i can defeat the top 10 pro players anyway)

 

All I read was Petition to Get Rid of Men

Yea fuck men, +1

Gamemode is great though keep it pls.

 

Idk man, that's kinda gay.

 

I don't like nor dislike it, but rather not get it 3 maps in a row. But a lot of people like it, it's not a bad gamemode, the change they made makes it actually enjoyable to play (Because I mean come on, no one wants to put 50 rounds into a guy then just get one tapped with him still at high health) and the new one gives you a chance to actually kill them.

 

Im fine with it, what I seen people complain is that it takes too long. Maybe add another man to speed things up?

 

First: bugs/glitches are not a reason to shoot down an entire feature. They're obviously going to be fixed.

The fun round in its current iteration is becoming a lot more popular than the previous iteration. There are a lot more players who enjoy it at the moment - the poll you made also shows that.
Like I said last time this was suggested: removing something entirely is a last resort - we can try improving it instead. The ideas offered by the community previously already helped in bringing MitM to a much better place and made it enjoyable by many, so there's no reason not to continue doing so. If you have ideas, do tell - but don't be so hasty to bury the idea.

Following the momentum of the last changes, an idea I had to further improve MitM is to get rid of the UMPs and let players equip weapons normally - and in return increase the Men's health. Since the mode is now more around surviving for as long as possible rather than taking a target down, it makes more sense to have it like so.
Just an idea. Perhaps you guys also have some.

 

My only issue with it now is that it just takes forever, usually 4+ minutes which I think is way too long for a fun round, since any other fun round is barely 2 minutes with a full server (one in the chamber, gun game). I think the UMPs should still be a part of the fun round as it's a balanced counter for the MITM's insta kill weapon which is quite easy to use at close-medium range when a massive crowd of players is swarming you, making it quite easy to take out players until their numbers are reduced to less than 8 or so players. I was thinking maybe make the UMP's do 2 damage rather than just 1, with maybe a possibility of getting a critical hit that does 3 damage? This would make the fun round much quicker so that the players that end up dying early don't end up waiting 5 minutes for the game to end. Also maybe giving the MITM a speed boost, such as the sprinting shoes for the detectives? I always see the MITM getting pinned in a room with 20 players shooting at them, making it impossible to kill anyone and you just have to except your fate in the corner of the room since there's literally nothing you can't aim or even run away due to the effect of the UMPs.

 

The UMP damage currently scales with the amount of players remaining - from 1 up to 4. When we tested flat damage increases previously we found it to be fairly impossible for the Men to survive, and this is why a progressive increase of the damage was introduced.
The speed bonus is an interesting idea, and should be easy to implement - I'm just worried it might tip the scales too much in the Men's favor. Though, since they are now alone, maybe it's only fair to do so...