A BETTER Translocater idea

[Lee_Shagwell]

I've got a better idea for the translocater.

How about this, you can pick up somebody elses TL and then redeploy it and it wont kill them they'll just TL to the new location.

You could have lots of fun by redeploying their TL's next to your own sentinals, down cliffs and all sorts.

If they try to TL why their TL is in your possesion then it would kill them.

It's would be just another little touch, I love little things like theese they really polish an already good game.

[Mort_Q]

Meh. That said, I don't much care for the xloc anyway.

[Boksha]

How would you know which translocator you're throwing? This would quickly make things convoluted.
I think being able to just destroy a dish is plenty.

[Lee_Shagwell]

How would you know which translocator you're throwing? This would quickly make things convoluted.
I think being able to just destroy a dish is plenty.

Because an icon would appear on the screen to say you have an enemies TL, the next time you throw it will be there TL that gets chucked.

[booshack]

Meh...

It's already destroyable, and yes you can punt it off a cliff with the impact hammer too. This is a bad idea.

[utzBluesman]

My idea of a key combination launching the T/L disk as an ripper blade was more funny

[Henrik]

I like the idea. I mean, if you really want to play a prank on them, you just put their TL in a place that doesn't kill them but makes them confused about where they are. if they think they've tl'd to a spot in your base but it's an identical one in theirs, that could be humorous. Ideas like this add to the randomness that can occur in the game. Selecting the TL could be a simple matter of a simultaneous LR click, etc.

[utzBluesman]

I like the idea. I mean, if you really want to play a prank on them, you just put their TL in a place that doesn't kill them but makes them confused about where they are. if they think they've tl'd to a spot in your base but it's an identical one in theirs, that could be humorous. Ideas like this add to the randomness that can occur in the game. Selecting the TL could be a simple matter of a simultaneous LR click, etc.

But someone using the T/L camera could see it being carried and do the teleport, making a telefrag (I suppose that they're close enough to that)... or switch to a flak, since the one carrying the T/L wouldn't use any gun (like a BR ball carrier).

[SleightOfHand]

Lots of people don't even know how to use the xloc camera, so adding more functionality probably won't work out well. It might have novelty value, but in real gameplay I would just damage the enemy disk and be on my way, to do something of value.

[!PaRaNoiD!]

Bad idea. Since the translocater is still working fine, they could just left click and have the translocater back in their hands.

[B1tchkilla]

Well, don't have a tunnel vision here, you could still let them be killed if they want it back with left click
I kinda like the idea but I agree with SleightOfHand to be more interested in doing something of real value during that time. If you can collect it you should be able to throw it very far like the grenades in UT2004 atm - this would add some more sense to that feature since it would also not waste that much of time to get it to a better position.

[Darude-Sandstorm]

This is something that would be a fun mutator for about fifteen minutes. I'd hate to see it in the game.

[theeDEATHMASTER]

sounds like fun, but a color beacon is all you need anyways, not some annoying message.

[magnum_]

the best translocator idea is not having one :x

[iron12]

At least make it so you can hammer launch them.