Add the option to lock classes

[SCAMDEMIC]

Can you add the option to lock classes. I remember some epic games where the team had to traverse those deep vertical shafts to get back to the drop pod, but nowadays even noob drillers just drill a straight path through everything, so extraction isn't a big deal anymore. This will totally shake up the meta, which is what this game needs.

[Bookslayer10]

If you really want this, just host your own game and tell people to not play Driller manually. I really don't see why anyone would ever do this, so it's pointless for the devs to waste the time and menu space for this.

[🎲Mimind🎲]

nah.. never gonna happen

[Chibbity]

Worst. Idea. Evar.

[Frisky]

you only have the option to prevent class dupes, I'd suggest just naming your lobby "no drillers" or something and kick people who join as driller anyways, make sure class dupes are enabled so they can pick not-driller if they're the fourth joining player, the odds of adding some kind of "restrict x class" are basically nothing

I do agree that drillers who dig straight to the extract are lame, it's a small side effect of the extemely open way DRG allows problem solving, personally I just ignore them and run my own path back, pretty funny when 90% of the time I'm at extraction before they are or they mess up and die because they ran out of fuel

[RUCKUS RELOADED]

they're never going to implement class bans. that's a horrendeous idea

a much better conclusion to come to here would be that the powerdrills have too much fuel at a base level and reducing it slightly would hopefully curb the number of W+M1 drillers who trivialize the extraction sequence

[Okram]

Originally posted by SCAMDEMIC:

This will totally shake up the meta, which is what this game needs

No.
The only thing the game needs is to be fun, which locking a class would be a direct opposition to. Why ban an entire class for one of its abilities? Gunner should also be banned then, the shield is a get-out-of-jail free card, and they get 4 of them at the start.

[Derpykat5]

Banning game mechanics is not going to "shake up the meta" in any way that's enjoyable. If you don't want people to be smart with their terrain tools find a preset group that's okay with sandbagging to have more fun.

[Fox]

i apologize for using the tools at my disposal
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ scout lighting up caves is lame! i wish i could throw my ♥♥♥♥♥♥ flares everywhere all day long but the scout is using his invaluable lights to save me the trouble...
♥♥♥♥ me we need the meta to be shaken up

[Shirojacky]

This is a silly idea.

[Fox]

Originally posted by Shiro:

This is a silly idea.

the silliest part for me is the "meta needs to be shaken up" part

they just need to stop playing meta, the game at no point forces you to play meta, unless you're playing on insane modded difficulties, in which case that is on you

me and my friend consistently clear hazard 4 and 5 (solo or multiplayer) with the whackiest inefficient builds, and we're not very good at the game, you just need to make good usage of your tools

it's so sad to me to see people so stuck in the meta that they think the problem is the meta
but yeah i think we should cancel driller for drilling, sounds like a plan

i'm gonna go do that now, goodbye

sounds of me drilling my way out of this discussion

[Hand's Hermit Permit]

no

[Nightwolf]

i like how he calls a player that does his job correctly noobs. its usually the noob drillers that are running back to the pod. sounds like the only noob on the team is the op

[GIRL]

Originally posted by Bookslayer10:

If you really want this, just host your own game and tell people to not play Driller manually. I really don't see why anyone would ever do this, so it's pointless for the devs to waste the time and menu space for this.

Or he could just host, go Driller, lock class duplication and not cheese the extraction himself. Problem solved, besides maybe a few angry people yelling at him to dig a tunnel.

[Smetrix]

If you pay attention to the terrain and where the pod is, 9/10 times you can be the driller back to the pod anyway lol.

[eMercody]

I am thoroughly impressed that an idea so terrible crossed your mind. Please reflect on your blasphemy.