[NS/NS:S] Kharra Burrow
Zenzou
Join Date: 2005-01-07 Member: 33462Members, Constellation
Join Date: 2005-01-07 Member: 33462Members, Constellation
<div class="IPBDescription">Enables some aliens to dig into the ground and await ambush</div>Instead of actually burying the player in the ground (I'm sure this can be done with the HL1 engine as well). The player becomes 100% invisible, noclip enabled and their vision turns either black or a bitmap similar to the onos' digestion screen. This can include muffled hearing and breathing sounds.
At first the player can rely on sound, but to be more effective they can see SOF and parasited players.
For balancing issues, the buried player can only "see" in the direction they were facing when they were buried. Also, a very faint alien breathing sound can be heard for marines to know there's a buried alien or a scan will reveal them on the map.
At first the player can rely on sound, but to be more effective they can see SOF and parasited players.
For balancing issues, the buried player can only "see" in the direction they were facing when they were buried. Also, a very faint alien breathing sound can be heard for marines to know there's a buried alien or a scan will reveal them on the map.
Comments
that's could be intersting to hide alien on infest area (hide gorge for protection... or skulk for attack intruder in the hive room)
And even burrieing (spelling! :o) in steel planks is viable, because of two reasons.
a) Aliens are Bacterial clusters (at least the manual states that), that are even able to decompose and pop up on the other side of the map. So why shouldn't they be able to decompose and go through a wall of loosely welded / rotten steelplanks?
b) they might be more strengthfull then they look, so it would be easy to punch a hole in the wall to hide in it, and the bacteria hinders the nanites to repair that 'till the alien goes out of that hole again or w/e.
while it may be a spaceship, where the current map plays, wouldn't be a hull be several meters thick to shield against different environtment? if the bacteria emits acidic products pretty much like the *******s on your teeth, wouldn't it cause corrosion on that steel, too?