Update #176: Rotation

[parrothead]

Picture five or more players huddled around a Wii.

The number of people who can play is limited by the number of controllers that can connect. When that happens, you usually have the people who win or lose rotate out so that everyone gets a turn, right?

So be nice and give everybody a chance to play!

... ...That’s how I feel anyway, but just in case you need a little help being nice (and since everyone has their own controller preferences), I went ahead and rigged up a Rotation mode.


This is the top menu for Group mode!


First decide the number of controllers.


Then get a count of people in the room with you
and enter that in.


How many people per brawl?

You can set the rules to rotate out a set number of winners or losers from the brawl. Rotation doesn’t have to be about coming in first place.

If your group is on pretty equal footing with each other, go for Loser Swaps Out. If you’ve got some green players in your midst, why not start out with Winner Swaps Out?


It’s always useful to log your name.

But, hey, if putting in a name is too much of a bother for you, you can play fine without it. Just as long as you remember your guest number, that is.

If a new player happens to come by during a Rotation match, you can add him or her to the group if you’re willing to head back to the name-entry screen.


When your name comes up, hit a confirmation button.

Press a confirmation button on the controller of your choice when your name pops up. That sets the controller you’ll use.

And of course, your control settings will be applied to your control when you play.


Need a bathroom break? Opt to sit out a match!

Even with numerous controllers and dozens of people lined up to play, you’ll be good to go if you use this mode!

... ... Well, not quite.

Rotation is limited to 16 players. Mm hmm.

[Snuka7]

I don't really get it? What does it do? Is it just like tourney but you swap controllers or something I don't get it.

[thores]

Well, that's kinda neat!

This'll actually be pretty great for me since my group of friends throw Melee parties all the time, and there's always at least 5 of us.

Not the most exciting news ever, but it works for a Tuesday update.

[Dances in Undergarments]

I don't mind this. Nothing groundbreaking, and nothing we couldn't really do ourselves, but its just that little bit more efficient and just generally nicer this way.

[Da Robot]

This is quite a nice mode, it's amazing Sakarai's level of thinking and problem solving for this game.

I happy this is in the game.

don't really get it? What does it do? Is it just like tourney but you swap controllers or something I don't get it.

When you are playing SSBB and have a larger number of people than the controllers you are using this mode does an auto rotation set up of the controller for each person.

[Snuka7]

darobot said:

This is quite a nice mode, it's amazing Sakarai's level of thinking and problem solving for this game.

I happy this is in the game.

don't really get it? What does it do? Is it just like tourney but you swap controllers or something I don't get it.

When you are playing SSBB and have a larger number of people than the controllers you are using this mode does an auto rotation set up of the controller for each person.

Thanks. I just worked it out. This is pretty cool. Now I will have a party with my 10 friends and be able to swap eaiser.

[8bitretroshit]

You could also do this in Melee so no surprise here, but I like the little extra's like bathroom breaks

[Johans Nidorino]

The amount of details they're adding to the game makes it feel like Sakurai's team knows when will the end of days happen (and that it will probably be next year).

[Sqrt2]

Sakurai, we could do this in Melee! (except the bathroom break part)

And so the lame updates continue....

[Da Robot]

Not really, you could only do it in a Winner Out/Loser Out under the Tournament Melee settings, here you just do it in a normal multiplayer match.

It also looks a lot more user friendly as well, which with the Wii's audience is a really good feature.

[nocturnal YL]

That looks good to me. I seldomly have a need to play with multiple people, but if I do, this sounds easier.

If we have different controller settings, that is. We'll just plug our GC controllers in anyway, so it may not be as useful.

Although this does indeed help on separating the win/lose data of each participant and cater for different needs.

I thought of one thing though... Theoratically Brawl can support up to 12 people! 4 using GC controllers, 4 using Wii Remotes, 4 using Virtual Console controllers, and atthis state no further Nunchuck can be used so that doesn't count..

[NinjaRygar]

This aint bad. It's an interesting feature. I hate to say it, but they've really thought of everything.

[Captain Walrus]

This is neat. This is basically how my friends and I play Melee (by manually handing over the controller), but this (I assume) will keep KO counts by person instead of by player slot.

[Manspeed]

I wonder if they'll put in a feature where the Wii bakes cookies while you wait. That would be the best thing ever.

[TV Eye]

This is okay...but I would've liked it if it was a double update.