Ideas on ep. 3?
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Irksome
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How are you going to know where to throw the paint if they're invisible?
And if Valve gives hints as to where they are - ie. foot prints, shadows, cloak flickers, knocking objects over, etc - it would instantly nullify the need for 'painting' when you can just open fire on those visual cues.
Besides what happens if you run out of paint? You die? Because thats a pretty lame game mechanic. "Cake or death?"
And if Valve gives hints as to where they are - ie. foot prints, shadows, cloak flickers, knocking objects over, etc - it would instantly nullify the need for 'painting' when you can just open fire on those visual cues.
Besides what happens if you run out of paint? You die? Because thats a pretty lame game mechanic. "Cake or death?"
The problem is, of course, the paint, and the fact that the invisible thing will eventually run out of shit to knock over
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Perhaps, but if say, they had a cloak flicker that only cut in very rarely, the paint would be a very viable tactic as a more permanent marker of where your foe was.
The existing paint pots last forever.
Alternatively, there could be paint grenades, or explosive cans of paint that simply bathe the room with paint. All you'd need was a little prompting from Alyx.
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plus you can use the ol' valve favourite, where a problem causes difficulty early on, but when you get a certain weapon or ability later, it is now easily dispatched (see: manhacks)
gives the player a rad sense of progress and getting back at those dudes who were annoying them so much earlier
because when you first encounter the invisoguys, you'd have to rely on paintpots to see them... later on you can catch them out with your handy flamethrower
did I mention the flamethrower yet? flamethrower.
my paint can idea was less ambitious and infinitely less cool... some sort of lasers you'd need to melt doors or whatever, but to hit the doors you need to reflect them off of shiny or brightly coloured surfaces... then as you run out of those surfaces, you have to make them with paint cans
gives the player a rad sense of progress and getting back at those dudes who were annoying them so much earlier
because when you first encounter the invisoguys, you'd have to rely on paintpots to see them... later on you can catch them out with your handy flamethrower
did I mention the flamethrower yet? flamethrower.
my paint can idea was less ambitious and infinitely less cool... some sort of lasers you'd need to melt doors or whatever, but to hit the doors you need to reflect them off of shiny or brightly coloured surfaces... then as you run out of those surfaces, you have to make them with paint cans
Flamethrower in an arctic environment... I don't think that's going to be very good, because to be realistic you'd have to have some melting effects, and I don't think Source is capable of that. Flamethrower in HL3? That, I'd like.
Still working on my mega-concept, it's hard going. I've basically got an intro and a few chapter titles.
Still working on my mega-concept, it's hard going. I've basically got an intro and a few chapter titles.
You know, if it weren't that not everyone can use shadows, it'd be cool if there was a very pronounced shadow on the "invisible" enemy, that could be magnified by your flashlight. Very difficult to do though, and, as I said, wouldn't work with all video cards, I think.
