an idea for stepping on a landmine

(RayBan) #1

hey all you modders, this is just an idea… but you know when a player
steps on a mine, it smokes… and the player is calling for an engineer…

this happened in a game i player earlier, and the engineer walked past the
player since he didnt notice the mine, or the fact his teammate needed
help. so an idea came to me if a player steps on a mine that an icon would
appear over his head… something for his teams engineers to see that he
needs help. similar in the way the med/ammo icons appear over players
heads when they request it.

just an idea…

(stealth6) #2

omg love the idea,… happens to me sometimes, and then I’m just kinda standing there like an idiot

mind if I propose it on jaymod?

(Tyrlop) #3

i love the jaymods S mine, becaus its the real mine, but the fake ugly ET mine just smoke and explode, very ugly… :slight_smile:

(jaybird) #4

RayBan, great idea.

(RayBan) #5

thanks for the comments on the idea. you would know best how to
implement it jaybird, i was thinking if a player steps on a mine the icon
would appear above his head until that mine detonates… at least thats
the easiest way im thinking… EDIT: or… if the player requests an engineer
while he is on the mine… i dunno…

and if this is something that ends up in a mod, then id like to submit an
icon idea, something simple in the same style of the existing icons for
health/ammo requests of a skull with wrenches for crossbones… like this,

or something similar…

EDIT: got bored, so i alpha channeled the sample icon, named it for the
voiceammo as a test, planted a mine, walked on it and asked for ammo…
just a test to see how something like it would look ingame.

(stealth6) #6

its a great picture, but maybe you should like put a landmine being defused instead of a skull…

because all the signs in ET are simple and you can quite quickley figure out what they mean,…

(RayBan) #7

well, im just tossing out idea’s, im not married to it… if it does manage to
become part of a mod, i would think the mod maker would have their own
idea’s as to how the icon should look.

i checked the voice commands, and when an engineer is called, the obj
icon appears above the callers head. perhaps a simple new icon of a wrench
would suffice…

(ShadowAgent) #8

isnt there a vsay saying “disarm landmines!” maybe you could add the icon to that vsay instead.

(-SSF-Sage) #9

But “disarm landmines” are used on many other situations. I usually just jell need an engineer or something. You could make a new v-cmd which says something like “I’m standing on a landmine, please defuse it!” at the easy slot on v-chat (not like v56395). Then there could be that icon. However good idea would be that autom. if you stand on it, but I think that would be harder to make.

(nedd3h) #10

great idea!
i’d like to see this :slight_smile:

(stealth6) #11

if it happened automatically, then it would have to happen after 1 or 2 seconds, because otherwise it would make landmines more obvious, now you have to listen for “pssssss”, and if you hear that then you know you stepped on 1 and have to wait for an engineer

if it went “psssss, ouch I stepped on a landmine!” it would be alot easy to notice your standing on 1 :smiley:

(RayBan) #12

i think the automatic way is the one to go for, as the client… you would not
see any icon above your own head ( unless its a cheat enabled server and
your playing in 3rd person for fun ), so you would have no hint given by the
icon as to any landmine danger, and the only players who would see this
icon would ( or should ) be your teams engineers. like when a player is
injured and calling for help, you dont see any hint as to where his general
location is, unless your the medic… then it applies to you. if you play any
other class than engineer and you see a teammate trip a mine, it should look
the way it always does, the smoke… the explosion… but no icon to indicate
mines, and lets face it… you dont need icons for that since you know what a
mine being tripped looks like anyways. but as an engineer you would see
the icon as soon as the mine tripped… ect… it would just emphasize the
need for you to help if your teammate manages to stop on it and wait.

(macbeth) #13

did someone posted on shitstorms (Noquarter mod) ?
thay are still working on their mod so it will be cool if they can include that for their newest release

(Rudi) #14

I’ll be implementing this (with credits) into iMod if that’s okay.

([Cerberus]) #15

I think that this icon should be viewed by all player on a team, just because i’ve been standing a a mine before wating for a teamate to defuse and a engineer in fact starts shooting me in the face because I was not moving. This could happen to any class so I think its better if all players could see it.

Plus it would tell other teamates to watch there step.

(RayBan) #16

i think for that reason alone, it should be only viewable to engineers on the
same team, this little mod addon should add to the game, and not take away,
as it would be used if its viewable by all the teams players. mines should not
be detectable other than skills/battlesense lvl or what your eyes can see
( ie… you can see a mine a player stepped on if you look at where/what hes
standing on )… imo

as for teammates shooting in the face, pushing ect… i think that will always
be part of et unfortunately… theres always some player somewhere that
feels other players are not producing as much as they are, and start
barking out orders as if they were patton, or to the more extreme of
trashing players for not meeting their expectations.