Maken Tosch
OPERATIVES OF THE GOAT
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Posted - 2013.04.17 19:20:00 -
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Just check the objectives before you hack. It's not that hard. People have learned to check since they were first introduced during closed beta. And just because another game had it, it doesn't mean Dust has to have as well. Of course, some things in other games can work well with Dust, but there is such a thing called "making it too easy" and your idea will just make it too easy to the point where remote explosives will be dismissed by players as useless tools. This is based on human nature as we humans have a tendency to avoid things that are considered useless.
What's the point of planting an explosive if everyone will be able to see it from a few yards away and just shoot at it?
This is what peeves me off when it comes to explosives. Halo and Call of Duty come to mind as examples of terrible concepts for explosives.
In Halo 4, you see these giant pads that are supposedly land mines but they are so huge and obvious that it makes you wonder who in their right mind would ever design a land mine like this if the point of the land mine is to surprise the enemy? I can see these discs from almost a quarter of a football field away. Anyone who gets killed by these things has to be a complete moron to not look at where they're going.
In Call of Duty, you can spot a claymore behind a wall long before you even see the other side of that wall. That is just unrealistic because real-life detection is nowhere near like that. The modern day military's way of detecting landmines and claymores is to actually get near them with a small device that relies on detecting metals. But a smart land mine producer can simply avoid that by replacing the metal contents with wood or hard plastic laced with high explosives. Call of Duty makes it seem easy but in reality it's not.
And assuming 20,000 years into the future we create technology able to detect such bombs, wouldn't that also mean that in 20,000 years into the future bomb makers will be able to adapt just as quickly? Remember, for every new countermeasure there will be an equal or greater counter-countermeasure.
EDIT:
@Takahiro
If you want my advice, then I recommend adding an equal counter-countermeasure to your countermeasure. Give explosives specialists the ability to train up skills to reduce the explosive's signature and add higher-tier explosives that are less likely to be detected. |