Why Brawl Should NOT update to 1.9

Everything you mentioned in this post can and will most likely be removed for HG.

 

I think it's just the best to go with the flow and update to 1.9. Eventually 1.8 will fall apart and cause many bugs.

 

I at least want it away from HG

 

As stated in other threads, yes Brawl will eventually update to 1.9, but there's no hurry to do so.

 

Brawl doesn't update, they lose players. Less players mean less profit. Less profit means no brawl. See where I'm going with this?

 

I agree, I think it is all about implementation. For example with the cool down feature in 1.9, Brawl could just make a plugin to not have a cool down. They should update, but get rid of some of the new features. I mean come on.... duel wielding swords is ridiculous

 

It depends on what the community wants. Shields will probably get removed from HG because that makes towers really easy to take down.

 

Rip pvp

 

RIP Sword spamming*

 

1.9 is a pretty iffy thing, they have quite a few unique things, my favorite being the gliders. But I do agree that the mod-like things are pretty dumb.

Although this is true, can't we just grab some of them and leave the rest out? You could easily code to prevent players from obtaining the OP and useless things in 1.9. There also already has been a finding of how to change the PvP so that it's normal. The particles and everything else may be there, but the features and mechanics can be changed back. Although I say this, the change will probably take a while, and especially would be a pain for the AntiCheat. But other than that, I'm pretty much 60% 40%, I think we should do the change.

 

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I listed some ideas of how 1.8 servers can phase slowly into 1.9. The future may seem bleak in regards of updating, but worry not .

 

The thread is built upon two main points of argument: 1. that Minecraft 1.9 doesn't feel Minecraft-like and more like a modpack, and 2. that the new combat system isn't as good as the old.

Regarding 1: This is the typical reaction for every single Minecraft update. 'What they added doesn't feel right, it doesn't fit to Minecraft, Minecraft is ruined, lots of players will leave' etc. The same concerns were raised with the update to 1.7.2 (the biome update), 1.6 (horses n stuff), 1.0 (with the end), even back to beta 1.8 (hunger bar, xp) and probably even further. Of course it doesn't feel like Minecraft, because it is new. In the end, everything can be considered mod-like (for example, pistons prior to beta 1.7). I will predict that for 1.10, people will say the exact same thing, that it doesn't feel like Minecraft, breaks the game, will make players leave, that Minecraft is past its peak, and that some players will consider 1.9 to be their favourite update.

On 2: I can understand this point, I'm not too sure what to think of the combat mechanics myself. It can be easily deactivated since Mojang left open this possibility, but testing it would allow to check on how well it is suited for multiplayer combat.

However Brawl cannot stay on one version. If it does, other servers will eventually overtake Brawl, more and more people will be using 1.9+ and if they see they have to downgrade to join brawl, they will rather play on other servers.

 

Whatever it is, Spigot announced that Mojang is very likely to release 1.9 tomorrow. And they're releasing 1.9 build (so developers can finally mess with 1.9 yussss, fun stuff ). Information iz here. 1.9 itself may not seem very promising, but what the developers can do seems endless.

 

They wont make a seperate server for the minority of players that will stay in 1.8 after 1.9 comes out.

 

My problem with the 1.9 cooldown is that it completely ruins soup PVP since you can only attack each other every 5 seconds. It makes soup so easy to use.
That is why if Brawl upgrades to 1.9 the cooldown should be removed for the soup servers.