Friendly Fire
Khaze
Join Date: 2006-12-12 Member: 59031Members
Join Date: 2006-12-12 Member: 59031Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Always on?</div>Well. Long story short: Force friendly fire to always be <b>on</b>.
The fact that marines can blast carelessly and toss grenades at their teammates just makes me sick. It's so easy to kill the odd Skulk (or Fade for that matter) jumping at a bunch of marines by just spraying and praying or throwing a grenade at your teammate for instant explosion. Same with mines, people just lay mines everywhere and sit on them, so when an alien attacks them the mine will blow up and the marine will be unharmed. It's an unfair advatange to the marines to use a friendly as a target to blow your explosives up where you want.
Discuss.
The fact that marines can blast carelessly and toss grenades at their teammates just makes me sick. It's so easy to kill the odd Skulk (or Fade for that matter) jumping at a bunch of marines by just spraying and praying or throwing a grenade at your teammate for instant explosion. Same with mines, people just lay mines everywhere and sit on them, so when an alien attacks them the mine will blow up and the marine will be unharmed. It's an unfair advatange to the marines to use a friendly as a target to blow your explosives up where you want.
Discuss.
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Same with mines, people just lay mines everywhere and sit on them, so when an alien attacks them the mine will blow up and the marine will be unharmed.
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the lasers in the mines detect wether the thing tripping the mine is a marine or alien. if it detects an alien, it blows up, if it detects a marine, it just beeps.
phase gates work the same way. if a marine uses it, it verifies he is human and lets him through. if an alien trys to use a phase, it doesnt work.
if friendly fire is made to be allways on (which i wouldnt mind), marines shouldnt trip the mines, but if one blows up near a marine, the dammage should hurt him.
the lasers in the mines detect wether the thing tripping the mine is a marine or alien. if it detects an alien, it blows up, if it detects a marine, it just beeps.
phase gates work the same way. if a marine uses it, it verifies he is human and lets him through. if an alien trys to use a phase, it doesnt work.
if friendly fire is made to be allways on (which i wouldnt mind), marines shouldnt trip the mines, but if one blows up near a marine, the dammage should hurt him.
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I realise that the mines don't blow up if a marine stands on them because of the technology in them, and I don't mind that, but it wasn't my point either. The point was that how come a Marine stays unharmed even if they're standing on a mine that blows up? Unless the explosion isn't really an explosion but a cloud of nanites, there's no sensible reason why the marine shouldn't be blown to hell with the skulk. It makes no sense and it's far from fair or balanced.
but yes it already is a server option, so just ask your server admin to turn it on ?
*Kills any marines in base* *Blows up the arms lab* *Knives the CC* *Kills anyone else* *gets killed* *leaves*
Above situation isn't THAT normal, but it happens and when it does it's a serious pain. If the server is moderated and serious it will probably have FF anyway. Other mostly public servers dont, since it's not so serious and you dont want to ruin things because someone feels like being a ######.
I rather have 50 things which can be changed then haveing 45 forced options.
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Comm doesn't have to give that guy a GL? Besides, with a penalty system that guy would only "panic" once and learn a lesson to either never take a GL again or hold his bloody fire around friendlies.
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"Hey im in bottom of the scoreboard and I must leave the computer in 5 minutes, lets ruin the game!"
*Kills any marines in base* *Blows up the arms lab* *Knives the CC* *Kills anyone else* *gets killed* *leaves*
Above situation isn't THAT normal, but it happens and when it does it's a serious pain. If the server is moderated and serious it will probably have FF anyway. Other mostly public servers dont, since it's not so serious and you dont want to ruin things because someone feels like being a ######.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Did you even CONSIDER the possibility of a penalty system? Did you? I bet you didn't.
Comm doesn't have to give that guy a GL? Besides, with a penalty system that guy would only "panic" once and learn a lesson to either never take a GL again or hold his bloody fire around friendlies.
Did you even CONSIDER the possibility of a penalty system? Did you? I bet you didn't.
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Since when did we discuss penalty system in this topic? I were simply refering to the idea at hand. Regardless, penalty systems can be exploited just as well.