Why Do Mines Have Lasers?
Madjai
Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2986Members
Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2986Members
Hey, I'm wondering why do the mines have lasers? It can't be to warn marines because they can't trigger mines themselves... so its only use is to warn the aliens, which no sane marine would want to do. It's kinda like having those laser sights on the marine helmets, they're useless other than to warn skulks a marine is aiming that way.
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2) Presumably the mine is using a laser sight of some sort to act as a tripwire, setting it off if a sensor in the mine sees that the other end of the laser is blocked from its view and there isn't something saying it's a marine. As for why you can SEE the laser, just assume that there are dust particles in the air making it visible. Problem solved.
But if you want the Explanation for the way it is in NS, it's for balance.
Well marines can put mines on the floor...
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They make sense.
They're a visual indication of mine placement, which is useful for aliens as they can try and avoid them, and in the same sense their useful for marines because they can be used to physcogolically block access to certain areas because aliens in general will avoid a passage with 4 horizontol lasers spanning it.
It just makes sense really... gives the marines some nice variety in that floor placed mines dont show a laser where wall mounted ones do. You can use this to your advantage, just use your imagination and pay more attention the very specific placement.
That's a reason it doesn't make sense to have the lasers in the first place.
Hey, I got an idea...to be a little more realistic, let's take the aliens out too!
summing up:
on the walls: saying to aliens "dont go this way for the moment"
on the ground: catch unaware aliens.
If you want stealth mines put them on the floor. (no laser)
If you want them as a deterrent put them on the walls. (laser)
Two different tactics, as is stated in the manual.
normally lasers cant be seen in clear air. You'd only see the dot at the end. It's like if laser sweep burglar alarms were bright red. Would that be of any use?
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#2. It's not too hard to think up a reason for the light to show up. The alien bacteria floating around everywhere and the nanites that are battling it for control are good enough reasons for me.
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