Grenades and Glop

MonsieurEvil

Source has a ton of improved visualization options over HL1 (remember those initial tech demo movies that showed the luminescent and watery surfaces?). Maybe these could be used to more effect than just eye candy.

For example, right now the Marine grenade is fairly basic - just some high explosives. How about a 'bug bomb' that releases noxious clouds of gas that hurts kharaa but leaves a thick cloud of (volumetric?) smoke, giving it a bit of a downside to Marines. Or a napalm grenade that leaves a physically realistic flaming mess on surfaces, structures, aliens.

A new Alien attack might be, well, a loogie. Basically a giant phlegm wad that hits a Marine and distorts his view into a slimy mess that opens him up for a melee finish, but still gives him a vague view of what's happening so he gets a slim chance to defend himself. After a few seconds he can wipe it off.

Scythe

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A new Alien attack might be, well, a loogie. Basically a giant phlegm wad that hits a Marine and distorts his view into a slimy mess that opens him up for a melee finish, but still gives him a vague view of what's happening so he gets a slim chance to defend himself. After a few seconds he can wipe it off.
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A similar effect was suggested for gorge spit. It'd be a nice getaway mechanism.

--Scythe--

TheOriginal10Round

All sound good , I would like to see these things in game for NS2.

N_3

i dunno about you guys but vision distorters like conc's and flashbangs annoy me like nothing else

walliski

It would be nice if grenades would like destory the sc making parts of it visible.. But then if the sc gets healed by gorge/dc/hove/ selfheal the part of it that was visible should get cloaked again...

The idea about the new alien attack sounds good..

DumbMarine

All-purpose grenade launcher, taxing the limits of the source engine with newfangled grenades, sounds pretty awesome.

Like a grenade that turns into a 16 ton weight mid-flight, does the squishy part that comes next, then vanishes in a puff of smoke.

In all seriousness though, I want napalm grenades.

NEX9

yeah i have always liked gorge spit wading off sections of your secreen and HUD 4 hits should make you basicly blind and a 5th should seal the deal hum mulitple gorges

how about 12 HUD locations each spit has a 75% to applie a sprit across yoru HUD for 20 seconds, if sucess allpile sprite to any one of 12 locations, chossen at random