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squad leader tracker/what killed xeno hive message

Post by Siserith Vassada » 01 Feb 2016, 16:23

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):a tracker for you squad leader like the xeno queens, and a message that says what killed/put into crit a xeno.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):better marine and xeno cordination

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):a tracker like the queens for squad leaders,

Implementation (Optional, if you have an idea how to implement it):complex difficult to do code that i know nothing about

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Re: squad leader tracker/what killed xeno hive message

Post by Logi99 » 01 Feb 2016, 17:17

In all honesty this would be nice so I can come back from Rambo. Jk I dun do it. But in all seriousness this would help new players who aren't familiar with the map. New players guide. Gooo +1
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Re: squad leader tracker/what killed xeno hive message

Post by TheSlapDoctor » 01 Feb 2016, 17:27

Could probably be implemented with existing code.

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Post by monkeysfist101 » 01 Feb 2016, 17:56

I'd like it to display when any squadmate dies. It wouldn't say where or why, but it would send a message saying "Cpl. Joe Schmuck has flatlined!" It was in the movie and we already have code that could be loosely modified.
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Post by Fritigern » 02 Feb 2016, 00:27

+1, and +1 to monkeys idea as well.

Anything to help keep a squad informed and working together.

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Post by apophis775 » 10 Feb 2016, 23:42

This could be difficult/laggy.

Imagine, we'd sometimes have litearlly 80 trackers, each pointing at different things, constantly updating.

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Post by qsleepy » 10 Feb 2016, 23:45

Also to make it less laggy, you could use a tag that assigns the kill shot to a marine. However, The kill shot won't exactly represent who dealt the most damage. This system is too robust for byond, but overall a good idea.

-1 because apop is right, there is no way to make this not suck for the servers lag issues.
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Post by TopHatPenguin » 23 Oct 2016, 23:01

monkeysfist101 wrote:I'd like it to display when any squadmate dies. It wouldn't say where or why, but it would send a message saying "Cpl. Joe Schmuck has flatlined!" It was in the movie and we already have code that could be loosely modified.
I'd really like to see this in, just to add to the "Oh fuck" when suddenly you see that half your squad just died thanks to a error in firing the OB.

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Re: squad leader tracker/what killed xeno hive message

Post by Snypehunter007 » 03 Jun 2017, 17:08

Old, lack of continued interest.

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