The Duel Emote is an interactive emote similar to the "Make Friends" emote.
When two pirates face one another and use the "Duel" Emote, their names turn red for each other until the Duel ends. (One of them dies)
The main purpose of this it to be able to fight your crewmates to practice and pass the time sailing.
After your duel partner dies, regardless if they are in your crew or not, you are able to revive them.
@hegemon3 was tested by the devs before release of the game and they didn’t like the feeling it gave among crews.
Theres nothing you can do about that except hope pirates respect the duel.
So it be pointless. No such thing as "respect" when you sail on a ship, ready to fight and notice they are dueling. With maybe loot on the ship ready to be stolen.
It not really a duel at that point if others can pick a side and help the others...kind of what a few dislike about Hourglass xD
@jaxycafe I like the idea but I would just prefer a friendly fire toggle. That way you can get larger fights. You can already pretty much do what you described with other crews just by alliancing, and ofc you could do the same with friendly fire toggle.
@burnbacon Well functionally it would be pointless, but that’s kind of the intention. It’s just a fun thing to do among crew mates, like playing music or drinking grog. If anything they put you at disadvantage, but it’s still fun so people do it anyway. I personally would love to practice my TDM with my crew who’s much more sweaty than I am.
I would suggest adding 2 different emotes, the original proposed duel emote. But also an “I yield” emote. Because if my crew has to end the duel before someone wins or loses due to an enemy ship approaching or anything that requires immediate attention, I don’t want to accidentally kill my crewmate because we still had friendly fire on. It would be much quicker to just stop the fight than to kill crewmate and revive him.
Well functionally it would be pointless, but that’s kind of the intention.
and if anything has been pointed, nobody wants that to happen. Hourglass is indented to be between two pvp wanting ships, but the moment another ship joins the pvp. Its a crime. :p
It’s just a fun thing to do among crew mates, like playing music or drinking grog.
At least with those you can do during any moment in time and turn it off.
they put you at disadvantage, but it’s still fun so people do it anyway.
Nobody wants to be at a disadvantage at any moment.
@strikeboy01 true, a way to end it would be good.
But loosing midway through a duel and hitting the never mind Emote would be pretty cringe.
@burnbacon said in Duel Emote:
and if anything has been pointed, nobody wants that to happen. Hourglass is indented to be between two pvp wanting ships, but the moment another ship joins the pvp. Its a crime. :p
You keep comparing it to hg as if it’s supposed to be taken super seriously. Dueling is literally just a way to have fun. You won’t earn rep, you can’t make gold, it’s just for gits and shiggles. If someone interferes, Womp womp deal with it. It’s not that big a deal.
At least with those you can do during any moment in time and turn it off.
that’s why I proposed an I yield emote to go along with it.
Nobody wants to be at a disadvantage at any moment.
Lots of people aren’t sweaty and don’t really care. Also I usually drink grog and have a drunk race to the tavern with my crew at the end of a session because it’s fun and we’ve already sold our loot. If you don’t have loot, no one cares about being at a disadvantage, so just dueling for fun after selling is something I can see a lot of people having fun with.
I understand your criticisms, but dueling is a kind of idea that only adds to the game. Doesn’t take away anything. If someone doesn’t want to use it, they don’t have to. It’s just a fun thing that people might enjoy.
@jaxycafe said in Duel Emote:
But loosing midway through a duel and hitting the never mind Emote would be pretty cringe.
True lol.
@strikeboy01 not to mention most "sweaty" players would end up using it the most, whether to just mess around in HG with it on or just to tdm
Great idea!
I like it!
Specially because with an emote with interaction it gives concent on attacking or being damaged by a crewmate! The emoted activated feature is a great solution to give TDM lovers something to chew.
Improvement idea: By doing the emote, you activate the concent of receiving damage when you are attacked by any crew mate's normal-attack in general.
It should be able to be deactivated on the Ferry tho ... =D
@tesiccl they don't. Why you spam the same answer time after time?
They tested betreyal mechanic to gain whole loot on early stage of game development. Not duels.
Jeez.
@tesiccl said in Duel Emote:
@jaxycafe possibly but my worry is the toxicity it brings to open crew.
1v1 me bro!
Toxicity ensues no matter what happens next...
I'd rather get more recolors.
I’ll add to the idea from your guy’s feedback:
While being a guild leader there is an extra emote page by pressing E.
Similarly, while in a Duel there could be a new emote page by pressing “F” or something. The “Yield” emote is at the top (which ends the duel and messages chat you yielded and lost the duel) and a few different taunt emotes.
