Barriers

Lepock

I know its kind of what welding doors are for, but what if (also or instead) you could construct barriers. Structures meant to do nothing but block doorways and sink damage. I mean its already being done with the armory, just make an official structure to do it.

Main problems would be barrier spam and commanders screwing over their team i guess.

You could make it a force field that only lets the marines pass, then its actually better than welding a door shut.

To prevent spam I guess it would need to be expensive or take a long time to build or they can't be placed close to each other.

Just throwing it out there, could be a real game changer.

louis cardinal

good idea, my thoughts:

Make it constructable by macs... marines can help of course.

This barrier will have 3000 health, an IP is 2500 and a command station is 10000 so this is okay i think.

this barrier will be a cresent shaped object, it will be about 2 meters wide and 10 CM thick.

the barrier will be made of soild metal matierials, it will have a opening in the middle at marine eye level for seeing and shooting out of.

this barrier is rotatable?

i dont know but the idea of a barrier is good against those stupid gorge spammers (hydras)

Harimau

I guess if you made it thin, like a wall, and maybe slightly wider than the armory, but about the same or more cost, and about the same or more durability, it'd be good. I mean, considering you're using the armory for that purpose anyway.

schkorpio

i always thought it would be cool do to garry's mod style welding. so you could for example pull out a grate from the floor, and then weld it across a vent so skulks couldn't get through.
or weld a few tables together and block a hallway.

maybe for NS3 :)



as you mentioned in your post though, i think it would be more annoying for marines than the aliens (does it really add anythign to the gameplay?)- althought perhaps a great way to "encourage" marines to go the way you want as commander LOL :D


basically i really would love the idea for marines to have more of a construction role when it comes to making a base - not quite minecraft, but sorta

T_RAT

To me it already feels like theres enough things in the way, skulk at your feet, armory in the way, hydra spitting at you . + corridors are quite thin.
More of a construction role would be good though.
Maybe a item needing 2 marines to build, could be interesting. a lot harder.

schkorpio

for sure.

and for example a commander doesn't magically drop buildings, he drops a crate which is full parts that need to be put together.

even turrerts, the commander drops and undeployed turret and the players need to move it to a suitable location and then build it - kinda like hl2.

Sugar70

More of a construction role would be good though.
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