How To Let Your Teammates Know You Need Welding...

sender

<div class="IPBDescription">Turn on your flashlight.</div> I always try and get this going on servers I join. Basically if you see someone with their flashlight on it means they need to be welded.

SO, if yu see me running around in HA and I have my flashlight on please weld me! I was thinking maybe we could make this like a convention...if you need welding turn on flashlight. Whaddya think?

ianski

Some problems.
a) you glow something chronic, if i was an alien and was aware of this convention.. i'd target that marine first
b) by glowing ... you are giving away your position a fair bit

xBaD_AcCuRaCyx

<!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo--> hrmmmz...its a nice idea. i've turned on my flashlight occassionally by accident and thought about wat it could help me for and i never thought of this. flashlights would help with dark places but whats the use if it gives away your position cause they will see it and know your coming. and if this takes effect, aliens will know to attack marines with their flashlights on <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> but then we'll have more ambush scenerios where we can have a person turn on the flashlight and wave it around in an empty hive or sumthin and have a few teammates waiting then let any incoming aliens have it. and they thought they where smart? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Scenerio:
HA Marine: Turns On Flashlight and wonders/looks around clumbsily*
Skulk: "oOo...free kill" and wonders in*
Gorge: "aww man...to slow for the free kill...might as well watch the stupid marine die"

POW BLAM BABABAAB! one fried frontier style skulk*

Gorge: Note to self: Try and invade a less intelligent lifeform's base next time

Rezyk

I was thinking that flashlight is perfect as a signal for "I'm parasited", actually.

How about repeatedly ducking or jumping for "I need weld"?

xBaD_AcCuRaCyx

hrmmm....why not just say "I need wielding" over the mic huh? lol..ever think of that? along with typing it out AND jumping/ducking AND turning on your flashlight!? ultimate weilding request and if you don't get wielding from all that...i think you should join another server....

Rezyk

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Of course -- that's the first thing most ppl think of. There are a few disadvantages to that, though...

Other players have to look at the name that popped up and match it against all players in the room to figure out who said it.

The mic is not always reliable.

It's a needless distraction to marines in other areas.

Juji

Not only that, but if everyone is yelling over the mic, you can't understand what's going on. It can get confusing.

I forget how to mess with the gamma in HL console, so I usually end up using my flashlight to see in dark places. If I need a weld and someone is nearby I usually click my flashlight on and off, and they usually get the idea.

sender

Ya, i didn't mean run around with flashlight on. usually its this scenario:

You've got a base set up, but fades are attacking. You run up to doorway, pop a bunch of rounds off to kill the fade and then go back towards base to reload. So while you're in base with turrets to protect you you pop on yer flashlight and anyone who sees the GLOWING guy welds him.


I just hate sitting ther spamming "weld me" "need welding" "for the love of God could I get a weld" etc.

I play on fairly good servers too...Ra and lanvancouver. I dunno, SOMETHING to let other people you need a welding.

Oh ya and I don't have a mic so can't use that.

BlackRoc

yeah... its seems that turning the flashlight on and off rapidly is becoming the stadard for "i need weldin!!!!"

I play on Lanvancouver too. Nice server but by god I wish they would they would get rid of those damn laser-sights they added.

ianski

One problem with flicking your torch on and off. A limitation in HL is that you can't do two actions at once, so if you're mid-reload you can't turn your torch on/off. Just the same as if you're reloading, you can't build anything. Fair nuff i guess, but there's a limitation to the torch flicky thing in base right there... especially if you're an HMG+HA reloading.. you ain't flashin no one buddy.

TheGunslinger

I use the flashlight for finding my buddies.

"WHERE ARE YOU?!?"
"HERE!"

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

"Ah."

ogz

i usually start knifing the guy with the welder <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

Sredahf

I'm a wielder dude, some people just run up to me and get in my way to say 'I need wielding'. If I move away they persist in standing in front of me until they get wielded. Sometimes it's just concience and you have to do it...

Sredahf

Quazars

I'm all "For" the flashlight idea. Repeatedly turn it on and off, and us Greasemonkey Marines will know you need welding. I posted this idea last night, and already some players are doing it.

The mic is not helpful at all, when a large crowd of marines are jumping around and one yells "Weld me!" All you can do is turn on the welder and hope he/she wanders in front of you. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Discobird

I tend to weld people:
A) The first time I see them (except immediately after they've respawned)
B) Whenever we are so much as tickled by an errant Lerk spike

. . . whether they ask me or not.

I think that pub players are starting to weld each other more and more without having their arms twisted.

mwells

I just tap my voice comm button. I'll ask the comm for a weapon and then I'll tap the voice comm button

Tap, pause, tap, pause, tap, pause. Like that.

It works for welding too. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

supadupafly

ask if someone in the room have a welder and if they do they hopefully put it up and then just walk over to the marine that have it

Pika-Cthulhu

If ive managed to be lucky enough to pick up a welder (An I know of all its sues, especially in defeating enemy structures) Ill follow a group of HA (Even if in LA) and almost continuously weld them as soon as one starts to fire, ill run around behind them keeping them welded while they take out the Offense chamber, or alien that caught their attention. But if im in HA, and doing my welding runs, most ppl wont be kind enough to help me back, and I SCREAM for welding thru voice comm, sayteam, flash my light on off, run and dance, and try everything, but nobody welds (or the comms a total newb and only issued 1 welder, at chich I throw it on the ground and ask someone to pick it up and weld me or wont weld them anymore. They usually comply.