Laser Sights On Guns
Agent_Orange1
Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8375Members
Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8375Members
I was playing on one of the beta test servers, and they have the laser sights activated.
Now I was playing Aliens and the Lasers really do help us out. It was quite easy to tell how many and from what direction the enemy was coming, the lasers gave it all away. I think they look cool, but tactically they are really quite a hindrance to the marines.
When Playing the marines we would usually run to the waypoint with the knife activated so as not to give our position away.
Switching to a gun quickly after a suprise attack is a pain though.
Now I was playing Aliens and the Lasers really do help us out. It was quite easy to tell how many and from what direction the enemy was coming, the lasers gave it all away. I think they look cool, but tactically they are really quite a hindrance to the marines.
When Playing the marines we would usually run to the waypoint with the knife activated so as not to give our position away.
Switching to a gun quickly after a suprise attack is a pain though.
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Flayra seemed to suggest the lasers where specific to the lanvancouver servers, not NS's main code.
It was on the lanVancouver server.
And I hope the lasers don't stay around.
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It would be good if that ment that Flayra is not inclined to put them in officially.
ps. if they were gonna stay, maybe make them reveal cloaked aliens... or something usefull.
I can see how a laser would be useful if NS was REAL... when you wouldn't have a crosshair besides the iron sights and you could aim with just your arms and not your whole body. Of course, if NS was real you'd have a lot more to worry about than being picky about your aim. I can also see how a simple dot and an HUD crosshair would be useful in the game, because it would allow you to judge distance (and to some degree movement) in dark areas. However, the pistol is the only gun thats really dot-accurate (who in his right mind would put a laser sight on a shotgun?) so as an aid to actual accuracy it's useless.
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Of course the laser lags dude, it's server-side, not client side like the crosshair. Where the laser is is where (to the server) you're really aiming.