I find myself in many situations where I want to hide from players who are in the same island or a boat getting closer to the island I'm at. I see it very difficult to hide myself especially in small islands like Chicken isle when a boat is sailing past. I don't really see a downside of adding a crouch mechanic to the game. You could even use it in combat to avoid bullets. and to make it not"overpowered" you can delay the time it takes to crouch within a couple of seconds" meaning you can't spamclick the crouch button. I would think it would be a great addition to the game. But I'm not a game develepor. Maybe its a bad idea?
Should they add a "crouch mechanic" to the game
@thesicksack I totally agree, while I played the scale test I found myself trying to crouch behind rocks to hide from passing players only to just stand there like a complete twig.
@thesicksack not sure about crouching but a stealth option that doesnt broadcast your name to anyone within 25m. Also there is a view distance cap for players. I think its about 50 or a bit more. i've rolled up on ships from a distance saw now one on board with the sails up then once i got closer the sails all magically went down at the same exact time. then once i got even closer I could see the crew scurrying aboard their deck
@thesicksack Not a bad idea at all. When I "AFK" for a few minutes I use the sit emote in bushes. Truthfully though your name tag over your head will give you away crouching or not. Not sure crouching would make a big difference.
@touchdown1504 it would be nice to be able to move aswell and hide your nametag. I see a lot more ways to have fun and new ways to attack opponents. would be fun to add it. altough maybe some people will camp at outposts and kill players trying to cash in the chests. that might be a small issue i can see with it.
@zalavaaris @thesicksack SoT indeed could use a crouch mechanic, mostly just to make your gamer tag invisible. Otherwise it's pointless to hide in a bush.
Oh I meant the other one but that works too.@thesicksack Some crouch mechanic would be cool i think. I play on PC so i dont know what happens with XBox player :/
Cntrl is currently slow walk on pc, but it isn't on xbox. I wonder why that is ..
I think crouch would be a great function provided you cant spam it like jump. There are some players vehemently against such things. As it is quite possible to stealth if you play it smart.
Oftentimes when this idea resurfaces, one of the reasons it is suggested is for spotting the gamertags in the water. But .. i dont recall crouching being much of an option whilst swimming in a lot of games. So i dont know how difficult to implement that would be.
.. anyway, tl:dr yes to crouch! No to crouchspam. Hidden gamertags, or camouflaged gamertags? Crouch while swimming?
@bartimaeu thats true. Its such an universal thing that it is hard to forget. It can still be useful anyway even if some think it would'nt.
@thesicksack what i meant with"walk instead of taking the bike" is that it is easier to get somewhere and faster with a bike. I just wanted to state an example.
While I find it a bit odd that there's no crouch. I don't see Rare adding it to the game at this point.
The game world has been build with no crouch in mind, the devs would have to go through lot of islands and rework asset geometry to make sure there aren't places where the player could get stuck and stuff.
@thesicksack yea they should. what if they put a voyage were you cant kill anything but still steel the treasure and the only way to sneak was to crouch behind barrels and try not to be seen by a skeleton. the award should be a captains chest
@frosenborg that is true. but i still haven't seen a good reason to not inplement it in the first place. but i think some type of way to hide your gamertag atleasr would help.
@thesicksack too late in the development now, who knows what it may break.. I love the idea, and mapping it to right stick clicker🤗 I’m not hating on the idea, I’m just fine with the game the way it is and don’t see the need for it as an imperative.
@boaton I didn't take it like that :). yeah that is an issue. but I dont think we have to crouch really low where it will break the game and get affected by the map. Just enough so you can tell someones sneaking and as long as it hides the gamertag.
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