A plus one from me on adding this as a mechanic for us players to utilize. It's really fun in my opinion. And if its listed for only a player to toggle, and not a crew, that's the best you can do.

@tesiccl said in Friendly fire option:

@andrewking01 so fun fact, Rare tested this back in Alpha and felt that the experience was horrible for the crew. I’m inclined to agree, we know for a fact that open crew mates would be used as fodder for sweaty tdm players. Even if it was a vote type of system, it’s open to abuse.

I would say a way it could be made so it cant be abused is if each player had a self toggle, and only players with it toggled on could actually attack each other.

That way if one player has it toggled on, and another has it off, they cant get killed by the guy with it shut off. And to prevent people from turning it on and off quickly, they could stuff it in the "my crew" menu.

@foambreaker

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The only change I would like to see is friendly fire for cannons, it makes no sense that a player boarding another ship is not damaged by his own cannons.

I think there should be friendly fire without the option. Guns and swords aren't toys, after all.

Edit: Nevermind. Apparently the community is too toxic to have this feature. Would've never occurred to me. Sad.

@pugwash9586 wasn't here 5yrs ago. But I think this would be a fun feature which would only add to the game

• Turns friend fire on

Plays for a few, random enemy ship appears. Kill each other by accident because friendly fire is on while trying to deal with enemy.

Sounds good to me XD

@andrewking01 def be up for this but I'd say no to it following the brig mechanics as likewise the ability to brig can be abused by outvoting someone. I think it would need to be opt in for everyone involved.

Only issue is you'd need some safety mechanic to stop for example both opt in, one gets kill then opts out.

@andrewking01 asked for a feature like this 5 years ago now XD, maybe one day we'll get it

@andrewking01 so fun fact, Rare tested this back in Alpha and felt that the experience was horrible for the crew. I’m inclined to agree, we know for a fact that open crew mates would be used as fodder for sweaty tdm players. Even if it was a vote type of system, it’s open to abuse.

Agreed! That could be very cool.

That would be cool.