Basically increases your hearing ability with respect to: -Footsteps -C4 Beeps -Silenced weapons Total Hearing Improvement: 25% Total Levels: 5 (5% increase per level)
Seems difficult to use if you want to listen for C4 and silenced weapons since if you're going to amp up the footsteps(and there will be MANY footsteps on this server) as well, and with how much people banter on the server already, the effects may turn out to be negligible. I suggest making the two separate, one for C4 and silenced weapons, one for footsteps, and just make the costs of both lower proportionally. This allows for separate adjustments on the values, as I imagine footsteps don't need to be that much louder and the others need to be ramp'd up much more if they're to be worth the cost.
The thing is, they don't necessarily have to be louder. You can just as easily increase the radius that they can be heard from by 25% and you can achieve the desired effect.
Assuming one of two scenarios: 1. You're running away from the C4, and 2. You're trying to find the C4 In situation 1, if you had increased hearing radius on the C4, this might help if there were only one C4 on the map. Bring in more C4's and I think the increased radii on the beeping might actually be detrimental as you now no longer know which way to run(especially on C4-claustrophobic maps like Clue and Innocentmotel.) Similarly, if you're trying to find the C4, you had better hope there is only one C4 and that the beeping sound loudness values are adjusted properly or else you might have a harder time than before finding the C4. These are just some of my thoughts as to how useful the perk might be, since using sound and location awareness is already part of a good player's toolkit, messing with the values might only hinder them, and I for one wouldn't be interested in this perk.
@theteutonic Its true, some people will like it, some people won't. If you don't like it, you can always just disable it:
From an utility standpoint, all the other upgrades at the moment are purely beneficial (with the exception of the crowbar draw which in itself is a novelty upgrade more than anything,) but the implications of messing with sound and situational awareness isn't as straight forward as "increase DNA recharge rate by 10%" Granted, I'm not discrediting your reasons as to why someone might buy this perk, but it has unwarranted side-effects to it unlike the existing upgrades in the pointshop. Edit: However, if making the silenced weapon more noticeable is able to be achieved via pointshop coding wizardry, I believe that would be a solid perk to add in as I believe the silenced weapons could use a nerf of some kind already.
While I do agree with increased hearing distance for C4 and silenced weapons, increased footsteps would more likely hinder players and cause general confusion when there are many terrorists still alive. +1 for c4 and silenced weapons, but not for footsteps
I believe this has received a great level of positivity from the community. @Sinz @Darktooth @Highwon Perhaps something that can make the most players happy can be added?
