Linking Boomers

[EarlyDawn]

I posted this on the official forums, want input.

Originally Posted by LNS0388

I know this has been suggested before, but to my knowledge, not in this form... Let's see what you think.

When you deploy a boomer, the detonator is placed in your hand as usual. However, the detonator has a secondary mode. When activated, the standard tiny deploy circle appears on the reticle, and you can lay additional boomers without equipping more ACEs. Boomers placed in this way are assigned to the detonator that you use in secondary to lay them. Thoughts?

[JakeLogan]

No thanks last thing I want is 3 boomers going off in the spawn room at one time.

[EarlyDawn]

So use jammers to disarm them. Clear the room. Don't spawn there to begin with.

[noodles]

i like it... but then again i'm a cloaker w/ CE.

The best use i could think of is setting a bunch of boomers in the room or hall right outside a spawn room of a base that you are defending and right as the enemy starts trying to push in the spawn room..... kill 'em all!

[scarpas]

me likes.

[Ait'al]

It definetly needs something like the first post to give it more use. The mines arent exactly meant for taking out infantry. I walk over them in rexo 4 at a time to take them out sometimes.

[Jaged]

I like it only if there were some restrictiones. Like for instance you can only place one this way every 10 seconds so infls couldnt surge in, lay a full inventory of boomers across a crowded spawn room and get ~30 kills. Also, there should be a restriction on how close together they can be placed. I son't know what the distance of the restriction would be.

[HawkEye]

i like that idea.

[Ait'al]

Remember though, an infiltrator can only hold 5 devices at once, unless he has a wraith. And i thought you could ony have like 10 devices at anyone time like that.

[jsloan31]

yes.

it would also make gen blowing easier...

[Rbstr]

Thats a good idea i liek it

[SuperSixOne]

ive already talked to you on aim about this =P we had a rather heated discussion on how this would be good/bad for the game. We did come up with the idea to have a "digital" detonator. Once you eqip the boomer you have the detonator and you can either hold it like you can now or do a secondary fire mode which puts it into a digital screen. In this screen you click them to detonate but there is a delay between which one you set off. The delay would be aslong as it takes to holster/unholster an item. If you digitize them you can not put them back how they origionaly were, and if you keep them on detonator you keep them how they are now. I would like to add making them digital removes it from your inventory so you saves room. If a boomer is destroyed or defused exc. it will simply disappear from the digi sceen.

--i think this was a fair point to settle on. Keeps people from infiling in and planting a hallway full of them ++gatgod++ cough cough but it also alows the CEs to keep track of them and keeps them handy.--

ideas??

[TheN00b]

Originally Posted by Jaged

I like it only if there were some restrictiones. Like for instance you can only place one this way every 10 seconds so infls couldnt surge in, lay a full inventory of boomers across a crowded spawn room and get ~30 kills. Also, there should be a restriction on how close together they can be placed. I son't know what the distance of the restriction would be.

/signed, except that the 10 secons should be five.

[SilverLord]

I don't like the idea...maybe it's because I don't know exactly how it works. Does the secondary boomer have to be close to the original or anywhere?

[EarlyDawn]

I thought standard boomer rules. The difference is you're circumventing putting your trigger away and taking out an ACE, and you're slaving all your boomers to a single trigger.