Kharaa Communication Menu

Draugluin

<div class="IPBDescription">What does it do besides a sound effect?</div> As an alien, when you use "Need Healing" or any of the other communication choices on your menu, does it just make an unintelligible sound or do you show up on the hive sight with something special? Has anyone tested this?

Vicentegrad_II

it'll show up on Hive sight

like, normally you would see a white circle with a name and a location

if you use a comm it you will see the white circle with the name and location plus an action

example: Vicentegrad chuckles; Hera Reception -or- Vicentegrad needs healing; Horseshoe

porp

Not enough people have paid attention to the fact that each sound <b>is</b> a distinct sound (eg, need healing), so using the commmenu with gorges is hopeless right now. You still have to stop and type 'HEAL ME PLZ'. If it's adopted on a wider scale then it would certainly save a lot of time to grunt it out rather than type it.

Larofeticus

the only one i ever see used is the healing one. 99 out of 100 odds it's flarya with a straw that recorded that sound <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

SoulSkorpion

They really should make the sound (or a sound) audible over hivesight (or a voice saying "creatures need healing" <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->) so that your attention is actually drawn to it.

Most people seem to use voicecom for that kind of thing.

localhost2600

Or highlight the alien in a different color, like blue or something, a la being attacked....

just so people realize the alien used comms. Althou i would not have chuckle triger this

Teufel_Eldritch

I use the aliens comms a lot. The ones that seem to be the most effective are the "I need backup!" and the "I need healing!" ones. I have found it is even more helpful if you attach a chat bind with the impulse bind.

bind "[" "say_team HELP!! HIVE IS UNDER ATTACK!! ; impulse 9"
bind "]" "say_team HELP!! RESOURCE NODE IS UNDER ATTACK!! ; impulse 9"
bind "b" "say_team I need backup! ; impulse 9"


bind "i" "say_team Incoming at this location! ; impulse 10"
bind "j" "say_team Enemy behind us! ; impulse 10"
bind "k" "say_team Enemy ahead! ; impulse 10"

bind "m" "say_team I need healing! ; impulse 8"


Altho I have noticed you cant have 2 impulse commands bound in the same bind together. Such as...

bind "p" "impulse 12 ; "impulse 91" ; say "I am building OC's here."

impulse 12 being the "I'm building here" Khaara comm.
impulse 91 being the command for the building of a OC chamber.

This was prolly instituted so ppl couldnt abuse scripting/binding to achieve a unfair advantage over others or whatever.

Vahn_Paktu

Maybe you should but the wait cmd in <!--c1--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>CODE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='CODE'><!--ec1-->bind "p" "impulse 12;wait; impulse 91; wait; say I am building OC's here."<!--c2--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--ec2-->

SoulSkorpion

Speaking of which, my BFCAS script does all this and more <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->. See the link in my sig.