Comm Items

Wormtail · January 2003

<div class="IPBDescription">maybe sumthing you didn't know</div> Okay comm items are stuff that the commander can activate. This includes elavtors and maybe doors. Anything on your map (as commander) is orange, that means you can click on it and sumthing happens (elavator goes down/up)

some maps contain special items.

On ns_tanith, in the research labs, there is sumthing you can activate which makes electric come out and shock anything touching the electrics. (cool, but too bad the electric that comes out is very short ranged, and most aliens won't bother going near the thing where the electric comes out.)

SO this answers the question : CAn commanders make elavators go up and down? YES!

Sirus · January 2003

I have a hard time believing the commander has the ability to kill things from the chair.

Lightning_Blue · January 2003

I can confirm the electric bolt!

Tried it, as comm, you click on the green box in the reasearch labs.

XHydralisk · January 2003

i think i walked into the lighting as an alien but it didn't do any damage.

of course it might of ended before i got there. I had no clue what it was at the time.

Sirus · January 2003

Lightning blue from the brotherhood?

Lightning_Blue · January 2003

Yep...! I'm in bd.

Time to make my siggy, lol...

Urza · January 2003

Heard of a comm that had a gun... he could shoot aliens too on the map, something like an ion cannon

littlewild · January 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Urza @ Jan 5 2003, 10:33 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Heard of a comm that had a gun... he could shoot aliens too on the map, something like an ion cannon</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
That is an exploit and will be fixed in 1.04

Actually mappers can take advantage of this feature to add certain comm-triggers to the map, it will be interesting to see how this affects game play.

verbose · January 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Wormtail @ Jan 4 2003, 10:40 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>On ns_tanith, in the research labs, there is sumthing you can activate which makes electric come out and shock anything touching the electrics. (cool, but too bad the electric that comes out is very short ranged, and most aliens won't bother going near the thing where the electric comes out.)</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Tested with a buddy. No damage. Only sound and fury.

T_RAT · January 2003

Im going to try that. I didnt know all this time that u can do things like that.
I have commanded alot and never seen anything like that.
What about lighting and that? i heard some 1 say that u could but.....<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'>

Advisor · January 2003

Ion Cannon? Is that from StarCraft? What version is that... this I got to see

Kitsune · January 2003

Unfortunately, ns_andromeda, the only map I know of offhand with a lightswitch, doesn't have a lightswitch that can be operated by the commander. I tried, I was clicking all over that panel, but the lights never came up. Something of a shame. But anyways, yeah, the commander's hacking power is very useful in some situations, and at the very least you can really confuse some aliens when doors and elevators operate themselves.

The trick is to click on the object being affected, not the control panel or button. Click on the door, elevator, or airlock directly to control it.

MutantMFM · January 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Advisor @ Jan 25 2003, 08:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Ion Cannon? Is that from StarCraft? What version is that... this I got to see</td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Its from Command and Conquer as well as CnC Tiberian Sun. I didn't know commanders could do that now thats pretty cool I must try pushing every button from now on. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

Urza · January 2003

I even had i knife once as a commander.... It happened when errrrr holding the use key and then walking into the cc... not too sure though <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

Cyberfunk · January 2003

You can kill aliens doing this sometime. I once got the last alien on ns_bast by closing the door in Aft on him. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'> Needless to say everyone had a good laugh.

Geronimo · January 2003

This looks cool...I will try it the next time noone wants to command and I need to save us all from total annihilation...

ULTIMATone · January 2003

Ive had the gun in the cc, its weird u can just shoot at everything but it flickers and blocks ure view. Of course, when it happened to me i didnt realise what it was so i didnt exploit it <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'> woulda been fun. Not sure how i did it either, maybe i was reloading and pressed cc at same time...

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