C4 Mines?

DEMIURGO · November 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">Pheraps a possible exploit...</div> Was wondering... now mines are phisical objects that can blast if damaged enough.
What prevents a rine from polacing TONS of mines in a black corner of a hive (exaple, behind viaduct) and then bloving the first one up... and having the others blow at the same time destroying the hive?

And more importantly... wont rines be able to use them as ladders to build in "strange" places?

RaVe · November 2003

Its been thought out, and I think the PTs are actually having fun with it....I mean, cmon, the mine really has no explosion radius as big as a nuclear warhead, and you finally dont have to use human ladders at the expense of res

Besides, if they managed to get enough mines, they culdve just used shotguns to save res.

Ph0enix · November 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DEMIURGO @ Nov 28 2003, 02:07 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Was wondering... now mines are phisical objects that can blast if damaged enough.
What prevents a rine from polacing TONS of mines in a black corner of a hive (exaple, behind viaduct) and then bloving the first one up... and having the others blow at the same time destroying the hive?

And more importantly... wont rines be able to use them as ladders to build in "strange" places?  </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> 
Well, if they could place tonnes of mines then without the aliens hearing the armoury being built or the constant mine activations, sure they could do that.

And yes, you can use mines as climbing aids <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'> I think the best example is being gettin in red room without jps.

Amped1 · November 2003

I'm gonna miss my 7 mine death traps that look like just 1 mine to an onos. Instant Onos killer. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

EDIT - You can damage your own mines? That kinda sucks. Wild firefight + nearby mines = kaboom.

Linkkill · November 2003

Posted on Nov 28 2003, 09:15 AM
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QUOTE (DEMIURGO @ Nov 28 2003, 02:07 PM)
Was wondering... now mines are phisical objects that can blast if damaged enough.
What prevents a rine from polacing TONS of mines in a black corner of a hive (exaple, behind viaduct) and then bloving the first one up... and having the others blow at the same time destroying the hive?

And more importantly... wont rines be able to use them as ladders to build in "strange" places?

Well it hink this idea is gr8 and it will be fun to paly with good thought! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='asrifle.gif'> <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tiny.gif'>

Phin · November 2003

Skulks could also parasite the mines to blow them up, so you need to be careful around them. I imagine quite a few TKs will be caused by marines running over someone elses mines and the skulk blowing them up just as they pass over it.

Warrior · November 2003

I doubt it can be exploitable. The mines dont have that big of a blast radius to be a problem.

Amped1 · November 2003

Do mines still autoblow while sitting on a hive? Mines + jetpack + nearby armory = <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'>

taboofires · November 2003

Mines are expensive (at least much more than bullets are) and extremely close range. There's no real benefit to using mines offensively except just for fun.

pardzh · November 2003

I'm going to try this next time I play an ns_ map in 3.0, hehe.

Daxx · November 2003

Yes you can do both with mines. However the number of mines it takes to kill a hive outright <b>will</b> crash a server if they are all detonated at once.

Belive me. I tried <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Using mines as a ladder is great too. Helps the marines get into places they can't normally without jets. As there is a resource trade off, and they are destroyable, I don't see it as being a problem.

Hologram0 · November 2003

Welcome changes in my opinion.

I loved those ladders you could make with the HL trip mines, you can even skywalk in some parts of the maps if you know how to...

Vents might not be just alien teritory as, a nija marines could use them to get past OCs

C4 Mines?

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