Errr...

Spinnaker · 2003-04-14, 10:25 AM

Hey I was wonderin, (just got back to school from spring break) if you launch a missle into a wall will a chunk of a wall explode... and if so could you have the potential to decimate an entire base? i mean if you can't get in it for a hack, blow the poo out of it

Squick · 2003-04-14, 10:28 AM

No, bases do not get blown apart, nor does the land, trees, etc.

That would be murder on the lag front if you had to get the status of every square inch of land everywhere you went.

Squick

Dharkbayne · 2003-04-14, 11:10 AM

and also with all of the crazies (I thank you) running around with their boom boom sticks, all the bases would be blown apart within 2 days,

unless they reset the servers every day, which would be UBERGAY so you see.... Don't eat babies.

JonnyK · 2003-04-14, 12:05 PM

along those lines, are there good particle effects? that's one of my favorite things too see in a game, you shoot the dirt and a little pice will shoot up or if you shoot water you can see the bullet hit and a little splash. does ps have cool ones?

Squick · 2003-04-14, 12:35 PM

Originally posted by JonnyK
along those lines, are there good particle effects? that's one of my favorite things too see in a game, you shoot the dirt and a little pice will shoot up or if you shoot water you can see the bullet hit and a little splash. does ps have cool ones?

Hmm... sometimes yes, sometimes no... The effect of hitting loose dirt or sand with bullets is pretty neat, expecially with a shotgun since you do see the buckshot hit all around.

The effect of tank shells is VERY cool... I am sure I will botch the description, but basically it hits the target, explodes in an expanding ring, then kinda plooms up... I am sure someone knows of a screenshot showing what I am talking about.

The beam weapons have really neat tracer effects. Bullet guns do have tracers mixed in with their normal rounds, they leave a tracer track of whatever color their team is.

The smoke trail of rockets is very cool too, expecially with the Pheonix since you can see the trail left behind when someone makes a sharp turn for example.

Squick

Spinnaker · 2003-04-14, 01:45 PM

that sucks man, well i guess it's all good but it would be pretty neat to have 5 vangaurds demolish a tower wouldn't it?

TheGreatCarbini · 2003-04-14, 02:06 PM

The explosions remind me alot of virtual on, anyone played that game? You know what I'm talkin about.

Dravz · 2003-04-14, 02:12 PM

Originally posted by Spinnaker
that sucks man, well i guess it's all good but it would be pretty neat to have 5 vangaurds demolish a tower wouldn't it?

No, it wouldn't.