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DoomRL => Requests For Features => Topic started by: Valkeera on December 09, 2006, 11:30

Title: New Feature: Non-exploding Barrels
Post by: Valkeera on December 09, 2006, 11:30

Please create non-exploding barrels to replace some of the exploding ones. The non-exploding barrels would be colored red, and would be destructible by normal ranged or melee attack, but don't hurt the player and don't destroy everything in their vicinity.

Title: Re: New Feature: Non-exploding Barrels
Post by: Kornel Kisielewicz on December 09, 2006, 11:39

Hmm, wonder what the tactical use of them would be... Maybe they could sometimes hold items? (Diablo-like, I know :-P)

P.S. I knew the Kerrigan avatar would have some use ^^

Title: Re: New Feature: Non-exploding Barrels
Post by: Blade on December 09, 2006, 11:52

Can you imagine people on Phobos space base hiding plasma rifle or supercharge in red barrel? Maybe monsters and marine that are next to it can fire through it, but monsters and marine that are more than 1 square away, cannot ,so they will hit the barrel? It will be like defensive point, behind which you can hide from monsters(especially from sergeants in melee mode on first levels).

Title: Re: New Feature: Non-exploding Barrels
Post by: Valkeera on December 09, 2006, 11:55

Well, the possibilities are endless ;-)

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For example blocking a corridor which you may want to unblock later without having to destroy everything in sight; or hide behind the barrel from enemy's fire if you need to reload or change armor; or hide behind it, then approach an enemy oblivious to your presence by pushing the barrel right nex to him, then jump from out of it and decapitate him with your chainsaw - definitely useful for melee characters.

Though I must admit that bottling a hell baron with exploding barrels and then blowing them all up has its charms too, heh heh :-D

Title: Re: New Feature: Non-exploding Barrels
Post by: Kornel Kisielewicz on December 09, 2006, 11:59

Those would need the barrel to have high damage resistance, and make the block sight...

Damn, the vision code needs an update :/

Title: Re: New Feature: Non-exploding Barrels
Post by: DaEezT on December 09, 2006, 13:15

Maybe you could add some sort of barrel formation combos and turn DoomRL into DoomTetris ;D

Title: Re: New Feature: Non-exploding Barrels
Post by: Valkeera on December 16, 2006, 14:06

Quote from: DaEezT on December 09, 2006, 13:15

Maybe you could add some sort of barrel formation combos and turn DoomRL into DoomTetris ;D

Yeah, Doomtris :-D

Though I'd still stick to the idea of just normal non-exploding barrels with normal characteristics like their exploding counterparts. I'm not entirely convinced you should be able to "shoot from behind them".