Blowing the gen or spawn tubes

User58 · 2003-09-18, 08:38 PM

I tried shooting them with armor piercing rounds with a Gauss. It did nothing. I guess I need some sort of High Explosive, right? Grenades or some such?

:-)

JetRaiden · 2003-09-18, 08:42 PM

Generators are as strong as tanks. use Anti-Vehicular weapons or Spec Assault.

NNY · 2003-09-18, 08:51 PM

how do you know when a spawn tube is distroide???

what dose it look like?

JetRaiden · 2003-09-18, 08:58 PM

you have to look on the map and a little icon next to the base name will indicate if the tubes are destroyed. and this point they're no obvious visual effect that lets you know.

Headrattle · 2003-09-18, 09:09 PM

There is another visual que.

First.... if it doesn't have the blue stuff around it, it isn't powered. Second there is a ring along the mid section. If it is apart the base will not be powered. Repair it and when the gen goes online, the ring connects.

Sometimes, however, it won't be powered but the visual ques show that it is working. This happens when the Gen has been repairing it's self for a while. But the base still won't be powered.

Another thing is that if don't blow the Gen completely but get it very close, the map will show the gen symbol, but the Gen won't be destroyed.

Strange things, but they don't bother me much.

321 · 2003-09-18, 09:11 PM

I suggest using a MAX.

Headrattle · 2003-09-18, 09:14 PM

Any sort of massive damage weapon will work. They have almost as much armor as a Tank and the same weapons can't work on the gen as a tank.

4 Decimators or ten boomers do it for me.

NNY · 2003-09-18, 09:17 PM

the GEN is easy to tell is it is destoryed buy the spawn tubes it that i want to know about.

so far i have not been able to tell is a spawn tube is down just by look at it???

is there a light, smoke, sparks like on a termnal that lets you know the it is broken just by looking at it?

Headrattle · 2003-09-18, 09:20 PM

Nope. It used to explode. But it doesn't anymore.

A screwed up door, or the lights turned off would be cool. Hopefully they will work on it.

shadowseed · 2003-09-19, 03:23 AM

Originally posted by NNY
the GEN is easy to tell is it is destoryed buy the spawn tubes it that i want to know about.

so far i have not been able to tell is a spawn tube is down just by look at it???

is there a light, smoke, sparks like on a termnal that lets you know the it is broken just by looking at it?

Ive seen sparks flying out of fully repair terminals...

User58 · 2003-09-19, 07:14 AM

I don't recall if this is their normal conditition but this chick blew the three of them up and smoke was comming out from near the top of the tube on either side.

gonnagetyou · 2003-09-19, 11:48 AM

Spawn tubes used to have an animation for when they blew up. It's been gone since a few patches back. Grab a Decimator and put all 3 rounds into a tube and it will be destroyed. This is the fastest way to take them out.

When destroying the generator completely, don't be standing in the same room when it goes off. It has a very strong explosion.