Shooting through vents

barbarossa

I think that, given the correct type of vent, marines should be able to have bullets sometimes go through the bottom side of vents to wound skulks hiding in them. Now hear me out:

1. Vents obviously can't be transparent to bullets for gameplay reasons, so it'd have to be based on probability - maybe the bullet pierces, maybe it doesn't. And it'd have to be for reduced damage.

2. Yes, it would suck to randomly get popped by marines who hear you coming, but maybe you should have been moving slower in the first place

3. Motion tracking poses problems for this suggestion

I'm imagining a room with several vent points in the ceiling. The marine can hear the skulk, but he doesn't know what direction it's coming from. He fires several bullets toward the vent exits, maybe a little droplet of green blood falls, accompanied by an alien scream. Encouraged, he unloads on the rest of the vent, spraying bullets wildly... click click, he runs out of ammo and hurries to reload. Just then, the skulk drops out of the vent behind him...

schkorpio

vents aren't usually going to be sticking you like they do with office vents anyway, so for the small places that it does (if the mapper allows) then why not :)

same with fences and similar I guess


but what about catwalks? should aliens be able to bite or slash through them? could they be breakable with enough force?

barbarossa

I guess my question is more of an engine question - i.e., do bullets pierce certain materials?

It'd make sense to me if a skulk could bite through a certain strategic catwalk to prevent the marines from taking the high ground to the hive - but only if the marines could weld it back together.

RobB

Yes, there are. It'd be redicolous to fire at a mesh wire fence to see only recochets.

Racer1

Will material type (probably determined via texture) and/or "thickness" affect permeability?
Or will there be a flag on a face to determine this?

RobB

we only know when the editor is final. and it isnt.