Drop Predators After Two Hours

[Steelpoint]

Summary: If a round lasts for more than Two hours (maybe with some divergence) then the game should automaticly drop several Predators into the game (pulled from applicable people who are whitelisted) to help speed up the game and bring it to a end.

Benefits: Many rounds that last for more than two hours are usually a result of the round dragging on due to one side hiding/being nearly dead and thus this can drag the game on for another hour or so. My suggestion (when the new Predator spawning system is implemented) may help in advancing the round by forcibly introducing several Predators who have the capability to end the round, or at least advance it.

Details: The Predators would, lore wise, appear due to the on going conflict drawing them to the battle zone.

There should also be a way for a admin to disable the automatic Predator spawning, incase there are already Predators in game and more would be a negative thing. Furthermore there should be a early warning for admins that the Predators are going to spawn in soon so they can take action if needed.

[Steelpoint]

To add you could mix it up with PMC/WY Commando spawns happening as well. Maybe have a 50% chance for Predators to spawn and a 50% chance for a PMC ship to appear with PMC's drawn from dead players. Who's job is to secure the colony and secure some basic Alien samples.

[TakashiX]

+1

This would be very helpfull, stops rounds becoming a long tedious watch for spectators and can make it more intense. Both sides with huge casualties, suddenly the OG predators show up to deliver an ass kicking.

On the rp side it would tie in with lore as said, and could lead to some pretty interesting RP.

[Morrinn]

I'm on the fence here. On one hand, round stalemate can be a massive pain after the 2 hour mark, pyrrhic conditions often occur after the xenos fail an assault on the Sulaco and fail to inflict enough damage to force a retreat. The rest of the round becomes a protracted bug hunt that takes forever to end. Introducing preds into the mix might expedite a conclusion but on the other hand...
It might backfire and cause a round to last even longer. Seeing as the predator spawning is on an arbitrary time mark, they might prolong a fight rather than swiftly end it.

[TopHatPenguin]

i won't lie that with a single pred currently for normal rounds, most aliens struggle to take it down... so with 7 everything will be wiped..( Mainly aliens due to pred Rp with humans, and alliances form often from the RP. I also know that sometimes this won't be the case and preds will just exterminate everything.)

If it will end up as predators don't drop 7 in... that is way too many especially as predator weapons are already powerful as it is, so having 7 predators running around firing the laser thing, ( Forgotten the actual name ) blasting walls apart and etc along with the wrist blades that make melee combat futile.I'm fine with them being hunters as they are currently but having loads of predators running around, doesn't sound like fun at all for any side besides the preds.In other words reduce the number that are sent in as preds to maybe 3 or 2 there really doesn't need to be that many.

First of all where would the predators be dropped in and would they all be working together or separately ?

On another note this just seems like a predator DS that comes every 2 hours into a round unless admin intervention.

I'm more in favor of something else to predators, maybe the CCP (If we get the go ahead from the Russian CM )would be better or something else..I'm not entirely sure.
If we do end up going with the CCP ( not entirely sure i got the name right but, oh well.) 7 members of it would be fine.

These are just my ramblings of how this may or may not turn out.

[Steelpoint]

Well I never said it had to be seven Predators, I just said a group so that could entail two Predators or even just one Predator.

I also think maybe throwing in a contingent of PMC's/WY Commandos as a possible RNG alternative to Predators might work, such as the company attempting to secure the sight and what not.

[Feweh]

Anytime a stalemate comes up this is suggested.

[Evilkyle24]

+1

Drop some predators. This is the perfect time to hunt, both sides are worn down so the weak have been weeded out, and the strong are alone. You can take on prey at will.

[apophis775]

Yea, I've been working on a list of stuff to do.

Right now the list includes:

1. Marine Reinforcement shuttle (ghosts have a chance to spawn a "fresh marines" that arrive on a shuttle)
2. Predator Deployment
3. W-Y PMC deployment to "contain" the situation


I'm always looking for ideas.

[Jeser]

1. Marine Reinforcement shuttle (ghosts have a chance to spawn a "fresh marines" that arrive on a shuttle)

I'm always looking for ideas.

OMG, this is awesome! But, then you have to do, dunno, random names on newcomers?

[Dea Tacita]

I rather like these ideas, especially the PMC one. I'd love to see WY PMCs involved in the game more

[Steelpoint]

As I said the system could be semi-random, so you might get a Predator one round or a PMC ship the next round.

[UnKuT]

Yea, I've been working on a list of stuff to do.

Right now the list includes:

1. Marine Reinforcement shuttle (ghosts have a chance to spawn a "fresh marines" that arrive on a shuttle)
2. Predator Deployment
3. W-Y PMC deployment to "contain" the situation


I'm always looking for ideas.

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So with Opposing Force being among my favorite games I don't know why this type of idea had not occurred to me before, but I'm glad it did anyway.

Basically, there could be a random chance of a round later developing into a "cover-up" situation of sorts, where Weyland Yutani somehow uses their Corporate expertise to manipulate the higher ups into covering up the entire incident down on their facility. What this means is that they wouldn't want any witnesses getting out alive and spilling the beans about what they were doing down there, unethically experimenting on the vicious, deadly Xenomorphs and using innocent human lives for this purpose.

So what does this mean gameplay-wise? Basically, Weyland Yutani/the higher ups would send a Black Ops team down to the planet to "silence" any witnesses, including the marines. Hopefully dead players in general could fill in these roles systematically, with the code prompting a pop up text stating "Do you wish to be a part of the Black Ops team?" much like how the HIT worked back on the Pre-Alpha.

I don't think there should be a need for the admins to prompt this event to happen, it should be, code-wise, be understood as a different gamemode overall, with a chance of occurring. Central Command would send a message to the higher ups (and only them) basically stating "We are ordering the containment of this incident. A Black Ops team will shortly be deployed" or something.

This would be fun seeing as how the marines would basically be stuck between surviving against the aliens, and the black ops. The latter would also have to deal with both the marines and the aliens trying to kill them. And if Predators join in on the fun, well, it becomes an entirely epic experience altogether.

EDIT: Either way all parties would have an objective. Marines would need to survive the Black Ops and get back to the Sulaco, after that proceeding to spread the message or anything similar. If no SLs or anybody were able to pilot the dropship/pod then they'd have to kill all the Black Ops so that CO would have a window to send them back.

Black Ops would need to silence any witnesses and head back home; depending on the admins they could also be given other objectives such as retrieving a live specimen or something.

Aliens and Predators would have the normal objective of killing everybody pretty much.

Just gonna drop this here...

[Lostmixup]

Yea, this could fix some of the slower games.

[johners12345]

That would be cool!

What would also be cool is if unKuT STOPPED using black text

[UnKuT]

Any text inside spoilers automatically goes black, blame Obama

[johners12345]

Any text inside spoilers automatically goes black, blame Obama

Alright.. #224 added to list of things I blame obama for

[apophis775]

Denied.