Got hit with a random obsessed today, but I wanted to work on my own objectives rather than do obsessed stuff. There should really be a prompt for players with Obsessed enabled DURING THE ROUND, just a simple “Do you want to be The Obsessed”, in the case that you think there’s something more interesting or fun. There ARE rounds where I wouldn’t mind, but there are also rounds where I just don’t want to deal with that, and especially because it’s midround and random, you have no way of knowing when.
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I beleive you can turn it off in Game Preferences.
Though a pop-up won’t hurt.
Be Obsessed [Enabled/Disabled]
Midround Antagonist [Enabled/Disabled]
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mandatory “deal with it the game is random and chaotic by nature”
me when i metagame run around looking for someone acting weird and using health analyzer on them (i got obsessed prompt)
just disable midrounds if you are too busy & don’t want to do it, a prompt is the worst way to go about it
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The nature of the game is to be random.
And you can’t ride every round hoping to do your own things, since you are always at risk of being killed/converted etc. The game is designed for you to go with the flow.
If you don’t want obsessed, just disable it.
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Also this, you know at least one person is gonna metagame the fuck out of a pop-up.
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I was doing something I was interested in, because it’s fun. If I thought being obsessed at the moment would be fun, I’d say yes. I don’t want to disable it because I don’t want to never get obsessed, but I also am not going to go flipping it on and off because it’s too rare for me to care. Why is there a problem with giving the player more choice in what they would find enjoyable to play at the moment?
Because sometimes it’s too much choice. This game is not a sandbox and sometimes things won’t go your way. Besides, we all know how voluntary midround antags turn out (just look at devil).
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if you give a player the option to metagame the fuck out of something, they will. Don’t assume good intents.
And, once again, this game isn’t a sandbox. Having to face randomness, evilness (antags), whatever which will end/cut your round short/change it drastically, is an integral part of it
You should expect this even on HRP servers. You don’t get to choose when your round changes/becomes different.
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I think that the risk of potential metagaming outweigh the fact that some people sometimes having to play obsessed when they would rather not in that specific moment.
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