Umbra Location Question
TheGlow
Join Date: 2002-11-22 Member: 9650Members
Join Date: 2002-11-22 Member: 9650Members
<div class="IPBDescription">lil sumfin sumfin</div> Danyone know if theres an umbra between a marine and lerk, no one actually inside of it, if it stops bullets? I know for the lerk on the bottom it says umbra. So does the cloud itself do the bullet stopping or is it the effect of being in a cloud, In Umbra, that does the #'s?
Because I wonder what happens in the other 2 situations.
A) Marine inside umbra, not Lerk.
B)Neither Marine nor Lerk in umbra, But umbra placed between.
Id understand if B had no effect, but I wonder if A should, Because often when Im a lerk, since we dont have much precision flight in combat, that if I just fly by a marine and bust an umbra, I still fly to the end of the room. Shouldnt his being in umbra muffle some shots from hitting me across the room, not in umbra?
Because I wonder what happens in the other 2 situations.
A) Marine inside umbra, not Lerk.
B)Neither Marine nor Lerk in umbra, But umbra placed between.
Id understand if B had no effect, but I wonder if A should, Because often when Im a lerk, since we dont have much precision flight in combat, that if I just fly by a marine and bust an umbra, I still fly to the end of the room. Shouldnt his being in umbra muffle some shots from hitting me across the room, not in umbra?
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You were right that umbra won't work just between the shooter and target, and as i understand it, it will not work if the shooter is in it.
But I think perhaps a half power umbra effect on a marine if hes in it, ya know.
like its 5/6 if alien is in it, but perhaps a 1/3 or 1/4 reduction in rounds fired out of an umbra? I dunno about if one were to be in an umbra and a marine in one. Thatd make for a slight increase in protection <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->. Make that marine draw that knife baby.
From a programmer's perspective, I'm more inclined to believe that it'll only reduce hits if your screen says "in umbra". It'd be much easier to code the hit reduction if there's a parameter that's used to determine if the reduction applies to you or not.
Personally, I can't say which is true with 100% certainty, but I believe it's the second case.
I think.
Going through or shooting out of the umbra does not stop any bullets.
Only when the projectile hits any box inside the umbra cloud is effective.
Hope that cleared that up.
if umbra is between you and shooter, no effect
if shooter is inside umbra shooting at you which is outside the umbra, no effect.
AFAIK it's more accurate to think of umbra as as a floating gooey alien armor upgrade powerup zone than anything else.
anyways im pretty sure u need the 'in umbra' symbol for u to avoid 5/6 dmg <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
There's a symbol? Hmph, I've been playing since it came out, and never seen it.