Add Tracer Ammunition

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Add Tracer Ammunition

Post by Hyperio » 04 Jun 2017, 15:39

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): Add tracer ammunition magazines that produce light when fired, do less damage than standard ammunition and have a very slight chance (1% or 0,5%) to put the target on fire.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): Implement a new combat/gameplay mechanic for marines providing them with bullets with a lighting effect when fired. For instance by shooting briefly in dark areas to scout or just because you saw an alien run in a dark area. The lighting effect will allow marines to catch a glimpse of the alien trajectory. It could also add a nice cinematic effect when you shoot in a direction and discover in a flash that two or three aliens are charging you. Just like in movies when a lighting strike lit the area and the characters realize how fucked they are. Finally, it would create a new tactical opportunity both for marines and aliens. For marines by cooperating in pairs, one marine with tracer bullets to lit the dark areas (do less damage) and another with standard bullets to hurt the targets. For aliens by going for a marine more easily after seeing him/her using tracer bullets (he/she will do less damage).

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): Putting in the vendors tracer ammunition magazines. Either full tracer ammunition or only a ratio, one bullet out of two is a tracer round for instance.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): Add a lighting effect on the already existing bullet entities that you see when you shoot. I don't know if adding that kind of dynamic lighting has great consequences on server performance.

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Re: Add Tracer Ammunition

Post by Challenger » 04 Jun 2017, 15:45

Light tick processes wouldn't be fast enough for speeding bullets. Also

>1% or 0,5%

Fucking come on dude. Have you ever played XCOM? Do you not know what happens when you give things a <5% chance of happening? They'll happen, and then everyone will get mad that they happened.
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Re: Add Tracer Ammunition

Post by Nicboone » 04 Jun 2017, 15:53

-1. We can allready see the bullets firing, may be a little too much for beyond to handle anyways.
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Re: Add Tracer Ammunition

Post by Sleepy Retard » 04 Jun 2017, 15:58

-1, not exactly needed and increases performance demand
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Re: Add Tracer Ammunition

Post by Dirty Old Harry » 04 Jun 2017, 16:00

I can't see why we would need this, bullets travel slow enough for us to see where they go and we can't see very far anyways so kinda pointless.

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Re: Add Tracer Ammunition

Post by Snypehunter007 » 04 Jun 2017, 16:36

This is 100% pointless. We can already see bullets travelling and it would serve NO practical purpose.

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Re: Add Tracer Ammunition

Post by Bmc777 » 04 Jun 2017, 16:59

All the light flying around would not look good with our current lighting system. Too performance heavy, light would lag behind the bullets. Denied.

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