Walls that you can walk on and defend from

[Wilizin]

Wouldn't it be nice if we could create walls that we could have patrols walking on that could shoot at any incoming invaders? The walls themselves could be about 4x4 big for each piece.
This way villages could build greater defenses and allow for extended mobility around the village walls themselves. Of course you would ALSO need to build a form of stairs to get ONTO the walls. Similar to what you could do in the game 1408 AD.

X= ledge of wall
0= the walkway

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[cobaltjones]

Unless walking on the wall would somehow increase your FOV (I don't see how this is possible in game), then how is walking on top of the wall sprite any different or better than just hiding behind it?

[brohammed]

You can already shoot through palisades and brickwalls.

[Oskatat]

i would look nice though, but thats all

[dra6o0n]

It would dynamically change the way range works in various ways:
- Making the palisades being the only wall that stops ranged attacks from hitting (100% miss chance)
- Making watch towers the enable a player to "climb up" and use it to shoot past a palisade (the user is at risk of being shot too!)

Not sure of the field of view, the devs pretty much are working on this slow and "unsteady" and rarely do they upgrade core game mechanics.

[Oskatat]

this hasnt been suggested anywhere in the initial suggestion. i dont know where you pull this from, but even then, it would take some serious game development

[cobaltjones]

I don't think it's possible to make ranged combat be "stopped" by anything, without a complete overhaul of the current system at least.

[Thijssnl]

I don't think it's possible to make ranged combat be "stopped" by anything, without a complete overhaul of the current system at least.

Its probably possible, but hard, yes.

[Grelf]

It's probably easier to make it impossible to engage enemies who are behind walls.

[SeanPan]

I don't think it's possible to make ranged combat be "stopped" by anything, without a complete overhaul of the current system at least.

Its probably possible, but hard, yes.

Wouldn't it be possible for the ranged weapon to try to measure collision from the shooter to the target, and if the pathfinding collides with a Paliside or Brickwall or Tree, it will immediately return Target Blocked?