Cooldown for Beacon

nilsnils Join Date: 2011-06-23 Member: 106039Members
in Ideas and Suggestions
Hiho,

I like to see a coldown for the beacon. Now it feels like you can spam it. Or let it cost more electricity with lower regeneration.
It is anoying for the alien team when you need to kill the entire marine team 3 time before you can damage the base buildings ;).
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  • JuCCiJuCCi Join Date: 2011-08-08 Member: 114961Members, NS2 Map Tester
    Its fine the way it is. You can use it 2 times when it is fully charged then you gotta wait. Unless you built more then 1 obs :)
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  • ryknow69ryknow69 Join Date: 2008-03-24 Member: 63952Members
    which most commanders might do...
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  • ScardyBobScardyBob ScardyBob Join Date: 2009-11-25 Member: 69528Forum Admins, Forum Moderators, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Shadow
    Beacon is fine as is. Also, the obs is pretty weak so the aliens can kill it pretty quickly.
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  • KalabalanaKalabalana Join Date: 2003-11-14 Member: 22859Members
    I believe observatory should be upgradable and have a more armored version.
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  • BacillusBacillus Join Date: 2006-11-02 Member: 58241Members
    I think some res cost would be sweet. Spending obs energy is a pretty trivial thing in most cases and with PGs you don't necessarily lose any map control either, so I'd appreciate some kind of alway notable cost for beaconing.
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  • swalkswalk Say hello to my little friend. Join Date: 2011-01-20 Member: 78384Members, Squad Five Blue
    edited September 2011
    I will agree with Bacillus here.
    <b>Distress beacon should cost team resources.</b>
    If marines have several observatorys in base, they have infinite beacon. With no regard to how the team is doing economicly. Stalemates.
    Also, observatories around the map are really powerful compared to their cost.
    If you can hide an observatory near a hive location, the whole team can get teleported there for free. This is what the phase gates are for.
    Distress beacon should be a last resort to save a base against a rush, not a mass teleport device.
    This really is a problem and it should be fixed.
    And I believe it's a quick task for the devs.
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