I was thinking maybe LD could have the “default” options in favour of a more realistic game (i.e, with FOW enabled and most of the other realism server settings by default), this way the game can only get more soldat like the further you stray from the vanilla LD servers. So instead of making the effort to learn to play the “R/S” style games, you already have those skills and then there might be a proportionally smaller number of servers with the realism settings relaxed. Kind of the opposite of Soldat in that light.

Not being able to see through the staircase really limits your vision… not sure about that part. People can juz camp on the other side of the stairs and blow you away with a shotgun.

I think the FOG should be feathered (slightly transparent and blended in) on the edges so they can’t immediately appear and disappear behind the FOG

That way someone could literally opt to hide in the shadows and they will see others coming (due to their torch/flashlight) but you could turn yours off.

For example you could allow the mapmaker to, say, make “hunter”-players, like the ubermen, have fog of war, while “hunted”-players, like the mutants, don’t. In this case the mutants would have to be nerfed a bit, since they would have a great advantage, but it would allow them to ambush and plan attacks on the uebermen much more effectively.

Other ideas for mapmakers would be for all players to have FOW at the beginning, but if they accomplish something specific, they get it turned off for a while… (maybe a hacker’s goal?). Or the mapmaker enables FOW inside buildings, but not outside. I think these are all aplications of the FOW that differentiate Link Dead remarkably from any 2D or 3D game, since neither have had these options or these broad possibilities. But I’ll leave these ideas open for the future.

It’s lacking the “delay” to information, seeing what he is doing all the time, as opposed to seeing him do something, and realising that he had to do something to achieve that before hand, out of sight.