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Szlat

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Joined: 05/18/2005 18:32:41
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I find it difficult in-game to distinguish between healing, piercing and penetrating weapons. They all look blue to me.

Since the healing weapons are now so important, would it be worth giving them a different skin colour so they can be easily identified?
Shantara

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Piercing and penetrating weapons look the same because, well, they are. They have exactly the same skin.

I've personally never had a problem identifying healing weapons, but I'm open to hearing about this. Generally when you see them nowadays, tho, it's because someone's shooting at you with one, so I figure that's a big clue. Then again, when I heal new people, they often shoot back, some sort of retaliatory measure I guess.

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320

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Shantara wrote:
Piercing and penetrating weapons look the same because, well, they are. They have exactly the same skin.

I've personally never had a problem identifying healing weapons, but I'm open to hearing about this. Generally when you see them nowadays, tho, it's because someone's shooting at you with one, so I figure that's a big clue. Then again, when I heal new people, they often shoot back, some sort of retaliatory measure I guess.  


Or perhaps, like the pets, a red cross above healers when they have their medic weapon equipped? Kind of like how it turns green when the link gun is equipped in ONS?
v0rTeX

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If Druid is willing to look into it, I found a nifty blue skin that is much more vivid to use for my version of Medic weapons. It could be swapped in to replace the healing weapons or used singly for the medic weapons that medics can make.

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Hobo_Joe

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320 wrote:

Shantara wrote:
Piercing and penetrating weapons look the same because, well, they are. They have exactly the same skin.

I've personally never had a problem identifying healing weapons, but I'm open to hearing about this. Generally when you see them nowadays, tho, it's because someone's shooting at you with one, so I figure that's a big clue. Then again, when I heal new people, they often shoot back, some sort of retaliatory measure I guess.  


Or perhaps, like the pets, a red cross above healers when they have their medic weapon equipped? Kind of like how it turns green when the link gun is equipped in ONS? 


I like the idea of a red cross. I think that would help a lot, people are always asking who a medic is or where they are. That would help them stand out and be spotted easily.

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KohanX

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Yeah, take the 'Health Pack +25', make it a blazing Medic red, and have it hover over Medics' heads, with a particle effect to boot (like monster halos). That's what I'm imagining, and it sounds like a very good idea.

We really need to make The Healer as a weapon... It would solve a few problems...

I am reminded of my 'Medic Sense' ability I thunk up a while back. It would play One-Winged Angel at a given volume depending on the health of and proximity to wounded players around you. As you healed them, the constant music would diminish. I dunno; to me, it's just a functional version of a 'spider-sense'. A 360-degree I-know-what's-going-on-around-me thing. I think it would be very cool, and even cooler since it's One-Winged Angel .
 
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