Turnin' Out The Lights

Kotau · February 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">a fun way to spook the marines</div> We had a suprise last night playing on Bast, when the aliens came into marine start near the end of the game and knocked out all of our lights. It got really dark... I for one had never seen this before, and now I'm wondering if this is the only place with lights that can be destroyed. Also, does it require acid rocket/bile bombs to do? This seems like an interesting psychological tactic to use, especially if there are other lights that can be destroyed. There will always be those people with their gamma jacked up to the max, though. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Anyone know more about this?

Silver_Fox · February 2003

I believe thats the only place/map that has lights that can be destroyed.

Kotau · February 2003

Darn... Well, to all of you mappers, add some destroyable lights! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

masterswordman · February 2003

Um , I never knew that. Hell if those lights are destroyable get a quick skulk to attack them. but it slows you down too, but WTF about the commander is the stupid marines don't turn on their FL SCREWED!!!

CForrester · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (masterswordman @ Feb 7 2003, 10:35 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> WTF about the commander is the stupid marines don't turn on their FL SCREWED!!!  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Uh... First, try making some sense. With what I could make out of that: If the marines don't turn on their flashlight, they're skulk bait. Not true. It only dims the light a LITTLE bit. Hardly noticeable. Sorry I had to spoil all your dreams of light domination.

T_RAT · February 2003

Didnt know that thanx .
Im going to try that later.

Would be sweet if level 1 aliens could knock em out 2.

c0bra · February 2003

It makes it kind like gloom, the maps were so dark that sometimes all you could see was a fleeting alien shadow move through your flashlight's pale beam.

hoju2 · February 2003

First it only dims the area a little, and second unless you have whatever never used Sensory Chamber Skill makes things brighter, Aliens suffer the same disadvantage in darkness as Marines so. . . <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>

masterswordman · February 2003

Enhanced Vision, the marines glow like aliens thing, yeah, that one.

Rabid_Llama · February 2003

The only lights that can be broken are the two work lights in the two adjacent corners (one to the left of the comm chair structure, one to the left of the elevator (when coming up the elevator). They can be broken by anything (parasite or gunfire included), but the ceiling lights and any other light sources are not breakable, so the light level is only lowered about 50%. Not enough for stealth movement.
Still cool <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

BlueGhost · February 2003

Propper gloom (as in befor people got fancy TNT's and such and started upping the gamma :\ )

was INCREDIBLY dark... Nothing in NS touches it really <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

Man that game rocked.. Infact the pistol in gloom was so similar to the pistol in NS.. Its just the same feeling 'omg I'm out of ammo!!! eeeeep *whip out pistol and nail skulk* RAH!'

hehe

BlueGhost

Wal · February 2003

god i loved that game <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'>
god i love this game <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

Kotau · February 2003

Gloom sounds pretty cool... I wish I had bothered to check it out back when I was playing Q2. Do people still play it much?

Well, it sounds like "lights out" tactics aren't too useful after all. However, it would be fun to go onto a server with a bunch of newb marines, break the lights right at the start of the game, and hang around chuckling. You know it'd freak them out. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

ElectroKiwiMonkey · February 2003

I'm pretty sure I've seen games where all 4 of the lights-on-a-pole in Bast's marine spawn got broken, lowering the light to nearly nothing.

masterswordman · February 2003

cool.

0range · February 2003

lol this sounds likea newbie thread! you can also break the pipes outside feedwater hive

Pika-Cthulhu · February 2003

I tend to break them when Im a marine. And then sit in a dark corner and wait for the skulks, and nail em as they run through. Also killing the lgihts makes some really dark corners to dro your key buildings (TF, Armslab, Protolab, Obs) So that if your base does get hit, they cant find your key buildings right away. But it really makes the marines scared, maybe the mapper should put in a nightlight for them ^_^ .

Rabid_Llama · February 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (ElectroKiwiMonkey @ Feb 10 2003, 10:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> I'm pretty sure I've seen games where all 4 of the lights-on-a-pole in Bast's marine spawn got broken, lowering the light to nearly nothing.  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
There's only two, unless I'm badly mistaken. I even looked at the .ent file to see if there were any more breakable lights, and I didn't find any (though it's not something that's easy to search for)

Turnin' Out The Lights

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