Walls that do mirror damage Thread

In the movie Aliens, there's a scene where the marines are told not to fire their weapons, because it would damage the station's cooling system. They fire them anway, resulting in the eventual destruction of the colony.
This scene inspired the following idea, which discourages players from using ranged weapons in certain locations:
The mapper can set surfaces (ground, walls, ceilings, etc.) to do mirror damage. When a player shoots at such a surface, he takes damage. The amount of damage per shot can be constant, or it can depend on the weapon.
Touching the surface (walking over it, bumping into it, etc.) does no damage.

Possible uses:

The mapper can create a small labyrinth in the center of the map, and set all of its surfaces to do MD.
To get to the other team's base, you must go through the labyrinth, where you can only use ranged weapons if you're very careful.

The surfaces around each team's spawn/base do MD, but only to members of the other team.

- Edited By Fragvergnugen On Sun 18th, Jan 2004 @ 7:03:40pm

I suppose its and alright idea, but would need to be applied to bigger things than just a map like that. I don't have any real ideas for something though.

It has a novelty idea that could be incorporated into a much larger game. As it happens in Dh3, the last mission, marines are told not to fire their weapons if need be to prevent the nuclear warheads from recieving any form of shock. With a grand 4000 a side battle going on thats not easy

I really like this idea... perhaps you could make a mini-mod out of it some time with a few basic levels to demonstrate how it could be used, since I'm sure even that would be fun to play

-jEFF

make a mod where bullets ricochet off stuff.

BaD-cOmPaNy wrote: make a mod where bullets ricochet off stuff.

Why not just play rocket crowbar 2?

I never could find a description of what exactly rocket crowbar is... anyone care to explain?

Its a half life mod that makes half life a 1000 times better.
It has:
4 attack modes on all the weapons
A money thing (you can change attributes and buy stuff)
A jet pack
The abillity to transform into a few monsters (headcrab, houndeye, stukabat and assasin)

Thats a description of rocket crowbar 2 by the way, never played rc1.

Just go play it

that sounds alirght... never knew bout that mod