Clearer powered/unpowered states

FuzionMonkey

I found that it was hard to tell if a structure was being powered or not. I think it needs to be more clear.

What if there were glowing, blue lines coming from the power node that ran along the floor to each structure?

Or if a marine structure isn't powered, it gets a lot darker, or perhaps has some red lights or something.

SgtBarlow

would be cool if it was possible to get the game to unload the illuminosity map for the effected props, would be great for lights but the entire effected area now turns to Red Auxilary lighting if its unpowered.

Twiggeh

A few simple green/red lights would fix that problem.

douchebagatron

or a general bluish lighting being emitted from a powered structure, and then have that light switch off with the power node being destroyed, then go red with the emergency lighting coming back on. also, i think i'd be much more atmostpheric if the lights flickered with damage to the power node, instead of just dimming slightly.

spellman23

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Just on the building models? Yeah.

Also, typically you can see the blue lights are off. Harder to see on turrets though.