Proposal For A Change For Silence

Archzai

<div class="IPBDescription">I have a pretty good idea</div> Maybe this has been mentioned before.. im not surpised if it has.. because my idea isn't anything spectacular.. but.. here goes

i heard somewhere in the forum before about people talkin about silence and how it is no obsolete becuase if marines get motion tracking, then it is useless..

well how about boosting silence so that it does not only make an alien SILENT but also not detectable on motion tracking? i think that may improve silence <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

Freemantle

I use silence....

Silence can be used in any phase of play. A constantly moving Kharra will be harder to track. Keep in mind a marine can only scan about a third of the level at one. That means that you have a 66% chance of being outside that marines sight when you round the corner and tag his ****.

Mercior

This should probably be in suggestions & ideas forum, but I like it

SoulSkorpion

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ditto

BoufCatt

good idea. They'd have to change it to 'stealth' skill or something similar cause being silent wouldn't stop a motion scanner.

Geronimo

I think you could morph silence and cloak into "Stealth" or something...Its impossible to survive as a stealth, silence skulk without celerity or as a fade/lerk without adrenaline...I try to be silence as much as possible but without the combat ability you will have to camp to use it and then you dont make sounds anyway...

Morph Cloak/Stealth or make attacks soundless to...maybe a bit to good, but I think it needs a boost

Morph Scent of fear and hive sight(then it might be used more)

Make new movement upgrade...something like increased attackspeed(it has uses?)

New sensory upgrade, maybe a clone ability, so the enemy sees two kharaa instead of one...every upgrade increaes similarity and it follows you around like any other babbler...(would be nice eh?)

Alien_Bob

Maybe motion tracking could be changed so that it only displays those aliens in the direction it is facing? (Perhaps upgrade it again to show everything?)

Pege

The original idea sounded real good, especially now when the motion tracking will be fixed in Linux servers (in 1.04, right?). About 90% of the servers I play in are Linux and motion tracking doesn't work, so it's not used at all.

Error404

GOOD IDEA!!!

hoju2

I think another solution to the Motion Tracking inbalance, would to make it work like Radar does in submarine movies: a big circle with a green bar rotating around the center so the Motion Tracking is only updated for each area ever 30 seconds or so.

Dadden

grrrr silence really sucks

Pika-Cthulhu

Its been brought up before in suggestions and ideas but never really went anywhere, I dont know why, its a fantastic idea (And even well documenetd on why it would deter motion tracking (small vibrations being picked up, not motion as in seeing, but motion as in hearing, like sonar) so silence should block it out)

but as per usual, the whiner marines complained about it and I guess it was just too controversial to implement.

Would make a better choice for movement.

Error404

Silence is one of the best upgrades you can get as a skulk and certainly makes the game more interesting, maybe the developers can make it so Motion Tracking detects a silenced skulk later than an unsilenced skulk, given more time for a skulk to close in on its prey?