I've played the Campaign missions thirty times, and I don't have anyone else to play with.
Using the jetpack to stay in the air is perfectly balanced in my opinion, it's easy to fall and die. You also can be attacked from every angle.

Moving around on foot is just so inconvenient.

(As for me personally, I attack what I see. I don't shoot off the map. Of course, I have a pretty high resolution.)

I don't want bullets to fly around the map, but they also shouldn't disappear within a single screen.

An approximate range of say, 1500 pixels is far from enough to wrap around a map, but well past any average range. That's an absolute maximum, but the minimum should be no less than 700 pixels.

As for jetpack bursting, if it's removed entirely, then the jetpacks need to be more efficient. Even the barely-useful jetpacks that last thirty seconds that we have TODAY are capable of flying several hundred feet across the ground and a good distance upward. While mystical recharging could explain the lowered range, a more lateral and less vertical jetpack could be a good addition.

This is also all assuming that walking, climbing, and crawling go from horrendously nerfed and nearly impossible to at least moderate SPEEDS.

Why are you having the bullets simply disappear? Why not have them fall to the ground slowly after a set distance? Or even better, have them lose effectiveness after a certain range like a real bullet would.

Actually, on that, why aren't you using the ammo.ini in Base.rte for the YAK47? It has a nice, very balanced, 7.62x39mm round.

on tiny lifetime bullets
consensus says no.

totally agree. taking some extra fuel to burst wouldnt go astray either though.
i'll be pretty happy when walking becomes feasible.

The jetpacks we had IRL now are impossible to control, that's why they are barely useful. Don't go comparing CC to real life or we'll have instakill on 60 pixel drops.

I think that if you could make jetpacks more horizontal than vertical, I'd make my pissy 3 sentence rants in support of you.

http://www.rocketman.org/

clearly impossible to control

that's why he lands exactly where he wants to and takes off smoothly and gently

Bullets that only go a screen-length? Wow, that's retarded. Jetpacks are obviously broken right now though, I don't mind that getting fixed.

However, I really hope Data is going to fix game-breaking bugs (like the AI crawling out of bunkers) before he goes on a premature balancing rampage.

i dont think its going to be data doing the rampaging..

I would like to make a small suggestion about the bullets vanishing after a screen. How bout instead of vanishing they turn tinted like the background but now simply go through actors and vanishes when it hits terrain, as if it skewed off to the side away from or towards the screen.

So, essentially, disappearing: except with a needlessly complicated and laggy graphical effect?

And what would the need for that be when you won't even see them, no, i think airresistance should be used.

Add a new variable to go with airresistance: Minimum Velocity. That way you don't get the dumb "floating down to miniscule velocity then drifting like snowflakes" effect of most effects (here's looking at you, mauler)

Snipers are actually guns that will become long range weapons compared to other weapons like shotguns (close range) and machineguns (medium range). Right now the snipers and other weapons dont really differ from other guns because each weapon is capable of sending projectiles far enough.

Cutting down the range on weapons where they need to be (shotties are close range, mg is medium range, snipers gain more range.) will work out good.

hahah, no. i can do this in lua in about 40 seconds or so.
heck, lets do it now

woo so laggy oh wait not unless youre firing upwards of 500 or so bullets per second.

numgun, i know what you're trying to achieve, im just saying lifetime is a horrible, horrible thing to do.