Spore Trail

CannonFodder100

<div class="IPBDescription">I'm -not- asking for cloud back</div>In the secondary view mode of the Aliens (flashlight key), spore trails are completely invisible, which has the benefit of allowing the player to see the enemies clearly but the deficit of not seeing the spores' coverage. It would be nice if you could get a mostly transparent spore trail with the same sharp outlines that we see on the seams of the world geometry and on all objects and units.

Floodinator

Not needed. Alien Vision has not only Pros but also Cons. And not beeing able to see Spores, Fury, Umbra etc are the Cons.

Just de/activate it.

Twiggeh

<!--quoteo(post=1875988:date=Sep 21 2011, 02:06 AM:name=Floodinator)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Floodinator @ Sep 21 2011, 02:06 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1875988"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Not needed. Alien Vision has not only Pros but also Cons. And not beeing able to see Spores, Fury, Umbra etc are the Cons.

Just de/activate it.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

What he said.
Alien vision isnt supposed to be on at all times, just bind it to an easily accesible key (i use mouse4) and toggle it as needed.

konata

Prest F really fast.

stickyboot

It would be nice if infestation and spore clouds showed up in alien vision. I personally think that even fire should be shown in alien vision, or at least tried out at some point durringthe beta.

Smasher

I think the pros and cons of the alien vision are where they should be.

Asraniel

indeed. I'n my opinion even hive sight could be removed from alien vision, to make it a more specialized view.

LPC

Particles simply don't work yet with alien vision right now. I've read somewhere that UWE is working on a solution so that you can see spores, fires etc. in alien vision mode.

Asraniel ---------> disabling hive sight seems like a nice balance mechanism to me also!

NurEinMensch

I think it's balanced right now. If alien sight had no drawbacks why not just remove normal sight from them.

Max

<!--quoteo(post=1876157:date=Sep 21 2011, 12:54 PM:name=LPC)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (LPC @ Sep 21 2011, 12:54 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1876157"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Particles simply don't work yet with alien vision right now. I've read somewhere that UWE is working on a solution so that you can see spores, fires etc. in alien vision mode.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I personally think it's pretty good the way it is and wasn't planning on making particles work with it (though maybe other members of the team feel differently). Like the marine flashlight, I think there should be some significant drawbacks to using it, and this works ok with the fiction since alien vision is some sort of sonar. I'm not totally satisfied with the visuals, since it seems a little uninteresting and not quite as organic as it should, so I expect I'll tweak that once we're in the polish phase.

CannonFodder100

Fair enough. I appreciate the thought.

Atone

What if having alien vision turned on made your eyes glow, giving away your position if you didn't use it with some intelligence? With upgrades on the shade to decrease/remove the effect, of course.

Edit: Though that <i>would</i> go against the sonar thing. :(

CannonFodder100

It would make it a lot more like a cat's vision, which can't be far off the mark.