Mines In 2.1

Pustulio

I asked some of the cri. members to playtest mines for me but none of them have gotten back to me on my question. So ill ask everyone <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> ... Can you use mines to elivate yourslef higher. Example: Place a mine on a wall and use it as a step. If you can use the mines on the walls like this have any of the playtesters attemped to crouch on the wall-mines to test the hitboxes (makeing the mine impossible to hit with paracite). I have not had the chance to playtest yet so im just asking those who are. How are the mines looking in 2.1?

ANeM

Yes, you can make mine ladder on walls. You can also make mine stairs off the floor, mine walls, mine houses.. and no, crouching while on a mine on a wall doesn't make it impossible to hit.

im_lost

How much would I have to pay to get one of those mine houses? <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

ANeM

a large sum of money... a large, large sum of money. like.. a couple thousand res, and mines now have chain reactions.. so one goes off, you have no house. Also, I can forsee a bit of TKing with mines (ie: people parasiting a mine till it explodes while their teammate walks through a mine feild). I know I've done it a couple times already <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

Talesin

Actually, the chain reactions only happen if you nail a mine that another mine is sitting on... the one hovering in mid-air decides that it was imporperly placed, and explodes. Which has led to some interesting setups, making long chains of mines that explode for literally no less than twenty minutes, leading around the whole level... then setting off the bottom one of the 'stack'.

The only thing I really worry about is a Marine becoming dedicated to walling things in... like making little bunkers out of mines for other Marines to hide in and blast at passing Kharaa, using staggered 'brick' lines so the whole thing won't go up from a few Parasites tagging one mine on the bottom.

im_lost

Maybe you should steal res from teammates for killing them with a mine (as an alien). j/k, although it would make for interesting situations where multiple skulks are trying to get to onos, if they were really stupid.

ANeM

No, the res for the kill goes to the marines, and the name shows up as the person who dropped the mine. The TK aspect comes in when you realize that they never would have died had you not blown up the mine with parasite or something.

eediot

hang on... mine houses?

are these the same mines where 20 of them crashed the server? :|

also, do they have that stupid red 'trip wire' beam thing? cos thats probably what caused it, and its pretty stupid.

im_lost

<!--QuoteBegin--eediot+Nov 13 2003, 01:31 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (eediot @ Nov 13 2003, 01:31 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> hang on... mine houses?

are these the same mines where 20 of them crashed the server? :|

also, do they have that stupid red 'trip wire' beam thing? cos thats probably what caused it, and its pretty stupid. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Apparently you haven't played in a while. Mines no longer have a trip wire, they are proximity only, plus in the next version you will be able to destroy them with damage. It is probably possible to crash a server with mines, but if you want to crash a server you are better off using turrets.

How does skulk bite range and mine proximity range compare? Which one is longer? How about lerk bite or fade swipe?

Nil_IQ

Ah yes, the old trip-wire mines from 1.04.

I remember on one memorable occasion I got into an arguement with someone as to the correct spelling of "turret" (I insisted it was "turrent" just to annoy him).

To end the argument, I decided to write "TURRENT!!!" on the wall in mines.

I got to the second R before the server crashed <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

ANeM

So far in 2.1 the only mine related crash I've seen was having a massive amounts of mines explode at once... Mines themselves don't crash them, but inviting a skulk into your mine house will.

Benaiah

could you try re-explaining how they work.

i didnt understand about the mine bunker.

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like this?
do you mean that they will stand up a middle brick is knocked down?

Lucid

eediot your icon rocks. I know where that came from.

oohhh ummmm, mines are cool

Firespirit

we have gone far from mines only boeing exploded by fades and suicidal skulks to para kill mines <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo-->