Flashlight Uncloak Kharaa

TheGunslingerTheGunslinger Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8126Members
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That's what I heard in the Kharaa forum. Thought you guys would find it useful.
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  • MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
    As far as I know this is entirely untrue.

    However, if it is true, it's a bug.
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  • coilcoil Amateur pirate. Professional monkey. All pance. Join Date: 2002-04-12 Member: 424Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    What it *will* do is reveal a partially cloaked Kharaa (if it only has 1-2 levels of cloaking) who is hiding in a dark corner.
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  • RuriRuri Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4709Members
    In case of a misunderstanding....

    Ur Kharaa.
    U turn on flashlight.
    U see cloaked Kharaa.
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  • TheGunslingerTheGunslinger Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8126Members
    So, activating the flashlight as Kharaa shows cloaked teammates.

    Activating flashlight as a marine does nothing but make you glow like a lightbulb.
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  • MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
    Exactly.
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  • UndertakerUndertaker Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8447Members
    yep untrue or bug take ur pic <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::asrifle::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/asrifle.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='asrifle.gif'><!--endemo--> vs <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tiny.gif'><!--endemo--> = death
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  • natenate Join Date: 2002-11-12 Member: 8321Members
    a wide range of people seem to think u can so your own team while cloaked, while the others disagree, from my experience i have seen my own kharaa dissappear. this should be changed so that u see cloaked kharaa as white ( how you see yourself while cloaked )
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  • BiTMAPBiTMAP Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7685Members
    nate when you see them dissapear hit your flashlight key, you'll see them white like your self.
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  • RueRue Join Date: 2002-10-21 Member: 1564Members
    if u press your flash light at any time as aliens u can see your buildings very well , like hive sight
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  • FunkTheMonkFunkTheMonk Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4933Members
    or prehaps the people who says its showing cloaked teammates actually had hivesight
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  • YoshimoYoshimo Join Date: 2002-08-19 Member: 1195Members
    edited November 2002
    that's very well, and I'd hope that Kharaa seeing Kharaa by "turning on the flashlight" as you say is actually an intended feature, and not a bug.

    However, I've been hearing that if a Marine SHINES A FLASHLIGHT AT A CLOAKED KHARAA - then it'll appear, ghosted, like with level 1 Cloaking or something.

    Anyone care to shed some light on this?

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  • ThrakaThraka Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 4227Members
    If you are a Marine and you shine a flashlight at a lvl 3 cloaked Khaara, you will see nothing. I had an argument with a guy about this over a server in a public game. To prove my point, I tracked him down, cloaked, and hid in a corner. He proceeded to walk by, shining his flashlight all the way. Since I was in the middle of the hallway, he walked right up to me, staring at where I was hiding, flashlighting all the way. Then I uncloaked and slashed him to death. He was awfully quiet the rest of the match.

    I can't vouch for lvl 1 and 2 cloak, however....
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  • RokiyoRokiyo A.K.A. .::FeX::. Revenge Join Date: 2002-10-10 Member: 1471Members, Constellation
    For the record:

    Kharaa flashlight - gives off no light, allows you to see all friendly units and buildings equally well regardless of lighting or cloaking, allows you to partially see through chambers and the like, so you can watch marines
    running around on the other side of a wall of lame.

    Marine flashlight - plain old ordinary flashlight from every halflife game/mod out there.

    Kharra cloaking - Has 3 levels of cloak, depending on whether they have 1, 2 or 3 sensory chambers (any extra wont have an effect). At level 1, they are only half transparent. They still stick out like a sore thumb under lighting. At level 2 they have a faint outline, allowing the to possibly get away with sitting on a roof or high wall but any marines who is actually looking for them/runs into them will see and shoot them. Lvl 3, I can stand in the middle of your base spamming the chuckle command and you will never see any part of me no matter what you do (the only person capable of stopping me from doing this is your commander, who should be smart enough to place an observatory in every base/hive.
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  • SlycasterSlycaster Limited Edition Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 24Members, NS1 Playtester
    Adding a bit to this, upgrading the 'Advanced Hive Sight' Sensory upgrade allows your Kharaa flashlight to see everything marine related. (buildings, marines, HA on the ground, etc).
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