Some thoughts

In a small discussion with @rhoske, we came to a few conclusions:

• HG on Brawl isn't doing too hot at the moment, reasons being a lack of good players (I'll come to that) and the high skill cap required to play hunter strategies (which is the main strat since hardly anyone towers nowadays) combined with the fact that there are few new players on Brawl anyways
• HG in general is pretty much surrendering to time - SimpleGalaxy is losing players rapidly, due to loss of interest and a lack of updates

So what does BrawlHG need?

1. Event-only mode. Yeah yeah yeah all the memes are gonna come along, "dude you retard HG is event only anyway get a life", but why not make it official and actually make it happen? Back when @Viva did the regular HG events HG had a decent amount of players, even outside of event times. Now, weekly is overdoing it a tad but I think every 2-3 weeks would be a decent variant. You could do 2 events per event date, one normal and one rotating (KotH, DeathSwap, TeamHG, NoSoup, SoloHG, Kit Madness (only certain kits)
2. Bring in good updates that are not too hard to code because they revolve around structures. I hate being, you know, that guy, but come on? A new feast with new spawn types can't be that hard? New structures can't be that hard?
3. Remove certain kits - if needed I can post a list onto this thread later.

That's all folks. I don't want to see someone posting "haha loser HG is dead go somewhere else" or anything along those lines please and thank you.

 

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oh my god

 

Oh yeah regarding the high skillcap thing - if I can kill some of the top Raid players without any armor while they're in full iron, that's saying something.
If people like X_SUS or @NoRiskyyy or profii123 count me among the best HG players, and yet I'm personally not that good, that should ring an alarm bell or five.
High skill minimums are an issue nowadays, let's be honest.

 

Brawl can‘t - too much coding involved, plus Brawl is 1.8+

 

What exactly do you mean by this? Please elaborate.

 

What are you talking about?
The iron sword from warm-up was removed long ago (it has no reward at all anymore).
And please specify. The changelogs from 2012-2013 are massive and not really relevant.

 

They "dwindled" because they weren't being hosted properly :v They weren't being advertised in-game or on Twitter, etc.

Yes, but structures are a start and they're easier to implement than new kits or stuff. They're also not necessarily too much of a game balance upset if they're done correctly. Additionally, they can be modifications to existing structures, for instance the Feast, as explained in this thread.

Again, also in this thread. I think I went into reasonable detail on all the currently available kits (since the other suggested changes would cater to veterans as well) on said thread, if you feel that I missed a major one, please let me know.
As to the playstyle - sorry, but what? Each and every trapping kit (for instance) is very strong even as a hunting kit, think of Endermage (which fulfills even more roles!), or Fisherman, or Digger, or Demoman, or anything like that. As I explained somewhere else (probably in a thread that I never publicly posted), everything is down to the player's creativity with any kit.

 

The first 3 events were rotated - as in, there would be different modes each time. After that, a) they were not advertised on Discord and b) not in-game.

https://gyazo.com/991c82132904796b69474f4bd92f4d1a close enough

Maybe I misunderstood you, but from what you said, if you played a certain class of kit (as in trapper/hunter/tower/utility/etc.), you're limited into playing the kit's role and none other. IMO this isn't the case, but maybe I can't read

 

https://www.brawl.com/threads/72978/
Read that, I think that'd be good for this discussion.