Appearance change for melted walls.

[TopHatPenguin]

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary): When an alien melts a wall it completely disappears which from at least from my viewpoint doesn't fit in too well. So the proposal of this suggestion is to change a wall once it's melted to a variation of the thermite 'hole in the wall' sprite.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole): Makes it look more 'alien' instead of a wall suddenly disappearing.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc): Changing sprites.

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it): Sprites and perhaps some coding.

[EstangaJr0830]

+1 yeah, good idea

[BobaFett07]

+1 yeah that would really make aliens look more like aliens, hope it happens

[Kerek]

And if a marine uses two metal sheets on the wall it would repair the damaged bit after a few seconds. +1

[Heckenshutze]

Yeah it would be a nice addition +1

[TopHatPenguin]

Bump because it's still immersion breaking to see a wall just 'vanish'.

[TopHatPenguin]

Bump because it'll make wall melting pretty.

[Bob]

But what about everything else that melts?

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While we're at it, I had another idea. Can they melt holes in the ground to go to lower levels while on the ship or something?

[Karmac]

+1 It's basically a slower thermite, and having it actually use the super cool sprite Thermite leaves behind instead of *poof* ain't no more wall here bud, would break muh immershun much less.

[TopHatPenguin]

But what about everything else that melts?

Everything else melts you could say it just 'falls apart' at least with a wall It would seem morel likely xenos apply acid to a small area of the wall so they can get through it to their destination.
Effectively the suggestion here just wants to get rid of walls 'disappearing' and instead make it so they have the thermite wall hole look upon alien acid being done.
With walls it's a fairly quick fix/alteration to just use the thermite code for wall holes then ask Josh to quickly whip up some green looking acid around the already existing thermite hole sprite.

Can they melt holes in the ground to go to lower levels while on the ship or something?

In-game they can't.
In the movies they can and do so upon being shot.

[NoahKirchner]

should be as simple as changing a state or maybe a .dmi unless I am completely uninformed. +1 if it's just for changing the sprite to thermite

[TheMaskedMan2]

Don't see why not, but I can imagine it'd look a little silly if Xenos want to melt like an entire building only to have a ton of holes left.

Overrall +1

[Karmac]

Don't see why not, but I can imagine it'd look a little silly if Xenos want to melt like an entire building only to have a ton of holes left.

Overrall +1

I'd rather 'looks kinda wierd' to 'where the fuck did all the walls go'.

[TopHatPenguin]

Gonna give this a good ol'friendly bump.

[Crab_Spider]

+1 I must know if a wall was melted or if it was never there all along. It makes my paranoia intensify and my ability to recall even worse.

[Karmac]

What if there aren't any walls, and we're all just madmen.

[TheDonkified]

+1 sounds good