Overwatch?

MrPinkMrPink Join Date: 2002-05-28 Member: 678Members
edited May 2003 in NS General Discussion
For anyone that joined late, before 1.0 overwatch was where an afk player would "auto-aim" to some degree, but it was taken out in playtests because it was too hard to make it not over powered but not under powered and got shoved to the bottom of the priority list. I was just wondering if there are any plans to put it in 1.1 or a following version, or if it was totally scrapped.
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  • DarkFrostDarkFrost Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15154Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    edited May 2003
    Seems dodgy BUT if a commander set the AFK guy on overwatch and AS SOON as the afker moved his mouse or touched ANYKEY it would come out of it, it sound cool now <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
    oh oh and a 45 degree arc of fire only
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  • Iced_EagleIced_Eagle Borg Engineer Join Date: 2003-03-02 Member: 14218Members
    hmmm sounds interesting... i think that since an AFK player has neglected his duties then he shouldn't be auto aware of some enemies.... it might get spammed if it would allow u to know where a cloaked Kharra was.... maybe some1 could clairify
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  • Ph0enixPh0enix Join Date: 2002-10-08 Member: 1462Members, Constellation
    AFAIK it's not been ruled out from making a return at some point but i don't think you'll see it in 1.1.

    TBH I doubt you'll see it at all but thats just my personal reading of the situation.

    Darkfrost, the commander didn't 'set' it. A marine simply went into overwatch if he/she didn't input any commands for a certain period of time. The idea was people could stop to type in a message in teamchat without getting penalized for it.
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  • DarkFrostDarkFrost Join Date: 2003-04-03 Member: 15154Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    edited May 2003
    I included the commander, so that the balance wasnt harmed, skulks using team chat would go on total auto pilot? or just fire parasites? thats why i said, becasue it seemed apparent skulks couldnt benefit.
    oh yeah and i meant for future, not for past <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • DoADrunkMonkeyDoADrunkMonkey Join Date: 2003-01-05 Member: 11902Members
    hmmmm, i don`t think so.

    its your own fault ur afk, if u want to help ur team: play.
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  • MrPinkMrPink Join Date: 2002-05-28 Member: 678Members
    It's not a question of "balance", its a question of whether the dev's put it back on the list of things to do or not.
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  • FlyFlownFlyFlown Join Date: 2003-04-26 Member: 15847Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--{DoA}DrunkMonkey+May 17 2003, 09:36 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> ({DoA}DrunkMonkey @ May 17 2003, 09:36 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->if u want to help ur team: play.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Some people are waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more useful when they dont :/

    Tbh, I dont think we'll see that in 1.1. If it has been removed, there was a reason and I doubt Flayra would try that again. But its definitely a personnal opinion
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