First Strike Forums — Deflection Towers

Re: Deflection Towers

null@example.com (MrMonkey) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:34:04 +0000

And how hard would it be to code a barrier over the trench untill all towers are destroyed?

It would be a down right IDENTICAL to the way destroying Titan Consoles in vanilla open barriers and blow open the reactor door.

Re: Deflection Towers

null@example.com (BirdmanGA) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:14:55 +0000

Actually I think when I load up yavin it does mention something about destroying deflection towers. Though it's only one sentence and most noobs don't really read the fine print now do they?

Re: Deflection Towers

null@example.com (FSDev| TALON) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:05:45 +0000

I don't know why there is all this confusion regarding Yavin, you get a clear explanation of the objectives in the loading screen above the tips text.

Re: Deflection Towers

null@example.com (CRAYOLA) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:25:10 +0000

Robbiesan wrote:

Sorry to those I managed to TK while flying/shooting around like a madman. Not intentional.

Ya... thanks btw and welcome to FS

I would definitly like to see a health bar on objectives like there was in GC it realy helped me to know i was doing something other than making pritty screenshots for my frinds of shooting big gray towers i didn't know the purpose of.

Re: Deflection Towers

null@example.com (Luke SkyRaper) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:28:58 +0000

Make them have pin-ball machine bells and boops when-ever your hit a tower... "ching ching ching , bong, bong, bong , ding ding ding ding ... "

Re: Deflection Towers

null@example.com (Irichanu) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:38:44 +0000

Imo, there shouldnt be any hit detectors in FS. Its one of the reasons space phails. Other ones are space lag and noobs.

Re: Deflection Towers

null@example.com (Alreech) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:15:27 +0000

BirdmanGA wrote:

actually, as RSF said, there's between 1 and 32 people shooting at those towers... which is really hard if it's a map with only 6 people on your team...

Nice point, but thats a bad server set-up.

Good server setup:
Smaller Map in MapRotation, vote for the bigger / smaller if needed (or switched by admin to next map.)

Re: Deflection Towers

null@example.com (BirdmanGA) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:13:23 +0000

actually, as RSF said, there's between 1 and 32 people shooting at those towers... which is really hard if it's a map with only 6 people on your team...

Re: Deflection Towers

null@example.com (Robbiesan) — Sat, 24 May 2008 16:50:12 +0000

Thanks Imperial. Wouldn't ya know it, played the map last night as the Imps and the Rebs ended up destroying the death star. Heck of a fun map, but I gotta stop running into friendlies. Sorry to those I managed to TK while flying/shooting around like a madman. Not intentional.

Re: Deflection Towers

null@example.com (Imperial) — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:53:59 +0000

Once you destroy the towers you have to go for the exhaust port.

Re: Deflection Towers

null@example.com (Robbiesan) — Fri, 23 May 2008 18:50:31 +0000

Hi gang.

Silly question about this map. So, from what I have read we need to destroy the towers. Is that #1, then go for the trench run? Or just towers?

Just wondering because I remember the first release for 1942 way back when there was a nice little portal at the end of the trench that was the main target.

Cheers,
Rob

Re: Deflection Towers

null@example.com (Alreech) — Fri, 23 May 2008 09:00:43 +0000

How about to add some smoke and flames (or lightnings running over the Tower l?) after 75 / 50 / 25% damage is dealed ?
It would look more "realistic" and will also mark damaged Towers in Game.

Killing a Tower also needs working squads, a squadleader who is placing a "Attack" (or for the imp "Defend") order on the Tower.

Other Thing...
Would it possible to make the Trench a dead zone (visible with a shield ?) until the last tower ist destroyed ?

Re: Deflection Towers

null@example.com (Slimshiesty) — Fri, 23 May 2008 04:52:53 +0000

Why not put damage meters above them like ships or vehicles.. you could still see a visual clue to if your hitting it or not, just by the bar going down. If the damage meter stays on screen even after destruction.. who would care, you would just see that it has no health left.

Re: Deflection Towers

null@example.com (RSF Angel) — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:58:23 +0000

hm. I guess you could put static images on the map, but they wouldn't dissapear as the towers blew.

A conundrum indeed.

Re: Deflection Towers

null@example.com (Imperial) — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:38:23 +0000

We can make them respond to hit indicators, but the problem is then you will not see them on the minimap.