Hydra Suggestions

PsiWarp

<div class="IPBDescription">Food for thought</div>Were there times when you got stuck in a corner for placing that Hydra, forced to type kill in console? Have you accidentally puked that Hydra beside the Resource Node and get yelled at for it?

Suppose Hydra alt-fire lets you greedily indulge on your slime-pile, perhaps even heal yourself from the appetizer, would you mind such an addition?

Or better yet, allow you and your teammates to squeeze through Hydras like running through a field of flowers, being smallest chamber and all. It doesn't feel right when it hampers your team's movement as well.

Plasma

I'd say its a definite bug it blocks RT placement.

On rockdown an egg sometimes spawns at the alien RT and you can't place that RT again if you lost it haha, thats another bug.

PsiWarp

Indeed, it's so easy to grief with Hydras since they can be placed right next to existing buildings, but Commander buildings can't be placed too close to them... eggs and Hydras should have a very tiny no-build zone.

Plasma

Oh and being able to freely pass through them sounds interesting, I haven't noticed it as an inconvenience but sounds useful.

twiliteblue

What? How could you not love getting loving cuddles from the Hydras you planted with love?

I wonder if the commander will be able to relocate Hydras with the Shift.

PsiWarp

<!--quoteo(post=1832013:date=Feb 13 2011, 06:14 PM:name=twiliteblue)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (twiliteblue @ Feb 13 2011, 06:14 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1832013"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->What? How could you not love getting loving cuddles from the Hydras you planted with love?

I wonder if the commander will be able to relocate Hydras with the Shift.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Do not misunderstand, good sir, I love my Hydras with all my fat- I mean heart :)

I doubt you would want to waste energy on some frail flora, but I suppose so?

ScardyBob

Allow them to be recycled and increase their hitbox so you don't have to target their roots.

PsiWarp

<!--quoteo(post=1832027:date=Feb 13 2011, 07:01 PM:name=ScardyBob)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ScardyBob @ Feb 13 2011, 07:01 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1832027"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Allow them to be recycled and increase their hitbox so you don't have to target their roots.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I wouldn't mind that, it does take way too much time to focus on each Hydra.

twiliteblue

<!--quoteo(post=1832027:date=Feb 14 2011, 02:01 PM:name=ScardyBob)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ScardyBob @ Feb 14 2011, 02:01 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1832027"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Allow them to be recycled and increase their hitbox so you don't have to target their roots.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I heard it's getting fixed.
<a href="http://getsatisfaction.com/unknownworlds/topics/hydra_hitbox_is_too_small" target="_blank">http://getsatisfaction.com/unknownworlds/t...ox_is_too_small</a>

peregrinus

If you pass through hydras then you wont be able to climb on them!

PsiWarp

<!--quoteo(post=1832110:date=Feb 14 2011, 01:46 AM:name=peregrinus)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (peregrinus @ Feb 14 2011, 01:46 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1832110"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->If you pass through hydras then you wont be able to climb on them!<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

If it means no stuttering on touch, I don't mind too much!

And yay for bigger hitboxies.

ScardyBob

<!--quoteo(post=1832297:date=Feb 14 2011, 09:59 PM:name=PsiWarp)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (PsiWarp @ Feb 14 2011, 09:59 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1832297"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->If it means no stuttering on touch, I don't mind too much!

And yay for bigger hitboxies.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Noclip for aliens on all hydras would be awesome too. Its particularly frustrating trying to run through a room of hydras as a skulks where everyone you touch trys to push you out of the way into the next one, ad nauseum.

l3lessed

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Noclip for aliens on all hydras would be awesome too. Its particularly frustrating trying to run through a room of hydras as a skulks where everyone you touch trys to push you out of the way into the next one, ad nauseum.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I like this idea as long as marines can still get tripped up in them. It's like the clown fish and a sea anemone. The alien life forms are connected to and immune to the hydras aggression and touch allowing them to freely move through them, unlike the marines. Maybe we can even get a nice little swaying/almost cuddling animation that hydra does as aliens move through it to show there symbiotic relationship. It would fit very well too with the concept that Kharaa have evolved from some underwater species.