Manually Opening Doors

[Strygun]

I found this thread on the OF's and thought I'd start up a discussion here about it. Maybe we can get some more stable opinions.

http://boards.station.sony.com/ubb/p...ML/033665.html

You should have to press G to open doors. Automatic doors in defensive emplacements is really really stupid. No military strategist would design a door fit for wallmart on the front of his base. In PS, all you do is get close enough and a door opens. This means that the towers are constantly taken by people unintentionally opening doors and letting the enemies in.

Ditto fro bases. They should have to hack and take the risk of hacking. the hack tool is the modern day battering ram and people dont just open the door if you show up with 10 guys carrying a tree.

Yes, people would have to think and open doors. Yes at first people would run flat into doors (and that would be funny to watch) but base defence would be a hell of a lot easier if the enemy had to actually breach the door.

PLEASE read the whole thread on the OF's before replying here... many ideas have been discussed over there already.

[SecondRaven]

When I run out of AP rounds and I'm running away from a AI max i want thoes doors to open in a hurry..if i have to open it by pressing G that means thats 1 more second that i dont have to spare.

[dscytherulez]

Yeah, this is good and bad in ways. As secondraven stated thats one extra sec that you dont have, but it would be nice if the doors in a tower wouldn't just automatically open when some n00b strolls by. I hate it when people walk that close to the doors when they KNOW theres 50 tanks out there just waiting to start a fucking nuclear war on the door.

[TheRagingGerbil]

I think this is a great idea.

If they put enough of a buffer zone to allow you to press "G" then the delay that people are worried about wouldn't be a problem.

[Peacemaker]

Briliance... sheer briliance. Give the guy who came up with this 10 cookies! No more atomo shelling of death from vanguards!

[Black]

Sounds like a good idea

[BadAsh]

I like this idea too, but honestly (self aggrandizement I told ya so time) I like my �force door� suggestion in another post here on PSU better� it would replace the Star Trek sliding doors with an opaque force field. Friendly troops bring it down for a few seconds by actually passing through it, not by passing near it. To enemy troops it�s a barrier that must be hacked to take down. This would allow you to flee from that MAX and at the same time prevent accidental opening by passing too close and letting woe and suffering in.

Oh, and because force fields work differnetly in the game engine, no more "stuck door" bug!

Damn I�m good, but you fewls don�t listen :P

[dscytherulez]

Originally Posted by BadAsh

I like this idea too, but honestly (self aggrandizement I told ya so time) I like my �force door� suggestion in another post here on PSU better� it would replace the Star Trek sliding doors with an opaque force field. Friendly troops bring it down for a few seconds by actually passing through it, not by passing near it. To enemy troops it�s a barrier that must be hacked to take down. This would allow you to flee from that MAX and at the same time prevent accidental opening by passing too close and letting woe and suffering in.

Oh, and because force fields work differnetly in the game engine, no more "stuck door" bug!

Damn I�m good, but you fewls don�t listen :P

That sounds like a solution that works for everyone...I like that idea

[dscytherulez]

Which is why I said the forcefields are a good compromise. Everyone gets what they want.

[Jagd]

Leave em alone... Are you guys still getting the door bug? I haven't seen it in months.

And BadAsh, didn't you steal your idea from cavern doors anyways? LOL!

[noxious]

I don't mind the doors opening automatically, what I absolutely can't stand is doors opening automatically when you're not moving next to one.

[Majik]

Originally Posted by Jagd

Leave em alone... Are you guys still getting the door bug? I haven't seen it in months.

My guess you are not on Comcast then. My connection is tedius at best through those morons. Running in place at doors waiting for them to open is a nightly event for me.

[Jagd]

Naw, but I am with a fairly shitty cable service. My lag is more like lag though, choppiness, lost packets. Doors are fine, unless I am slideshowing but then it's obviously a slide show and not the door's fault.

[Lonehunter]

Think about this. Occasionally when your running to a door it takes a couple seconds to open. Add that delay with pressing your Use key and you can have some shit to handle, like that AI MAX coming up behind you.

[DDSHADE]

i really like SmokeJumper's choice from today, of all the ideas, it would work well