Engineer tool disintrigates enemy infantry

As the title says. Aside from obvious the coolness factor, I would have thought this useful for Engineers caught with their pants down, so to speak.

Perhaps the ability is only active when you take the healing or repair upgrade?

Disintrigation effects could be that of the combine ball FX from HL2.

 

*Stamp of Aproval*

 

totaly insane but what if the tool could disintregrate corpses so they cant be revive.

 

That would be great in a ticket war.

Plasma should have a similar effect, as well...

REVIVE THAT, BITCHES!

 

Now that's a good idea.

 

Make sure the model and texture changes into burned smoking corpses if people are hit by Plasma or disintegrated by the Engineering tool

 

+ add a resource, burning bodies should give heat, and heat = resources, since we all know heat is the primary component of tanks

 

The idea is to make the bodies disappear, making them unrevivable and shortening tickets wars, not providing freshly toasted corpses.

 

What about a calculator that turns infantry into useable resources?

 

Nah, that should be used for enemy buildings/vehicles. Infantry should just either give you more tickets or just increase your ranking, counting as a kill. Also, if they have ammo you can use, maybe you could take it.

 

For some reason, something like this reminds me of Doctor Who.

I think that people should be able to shoot at dead bodies to finish them off, so they can't be revived. Perhaps dead bodies take a certain amount of damage before gibbing? Excessive damage gibs the body as usual. If Empires is not heading towards the gibbing aspect, then we'll just count it as really dead if shot a few times while dead or dead when over-killed.

 

1.) shooting dead bodies, as a gameplay mechanic that helps your team, is just sick. The idea that it's "good" to shoot the dead or greviously wounded really is wrong.
2.) nice tunnel vision guys. sure it's a little bit irritating when the enemy gets revived and you have to kill them again. but consider instead what happens when YOU are down. you either have "wait for the opportunity to get revived and join back in with the fun" or "wait up to 20 minutes for the end of the round because there is no way that you're getting revived". One of those options sucks.

 

also, if you die, you suck

 

So don't do it.

Hey now you can advertise empires as having a moral choice aspect and sell millions.

 

it's not really a moral choice, any more than "should i shoot bad guys in this game or should i be a pacifist in this wargame i installed" it's "here's something to do to help your team", and given that it's only a computer game i don't think anyone will have difficulty over the decision.

it just softens people to the idea that it's okay to shoot the dead, really.

 

Isn't it OK to shoot the dead? I mean they're dead, so it's better than shooting the living.

Also it's a game, who gives a shit?

 

No one cares.

I don't either, I just thought I might ya know...point it out to you so you stop wasting your time

 

yes, but corpses should only take dmg form explosives ... a new task for grenadiers.

engineers should get a lawn-mower to deal with the dead. or a big meat grinder to turn them into useable ressources.

this thread is ... madness.

 

Honestly, If you manage to decon someone your enemy deserves to get hardcoded....

Wouldn't THAT be fun?

hmmm.... go AFK or get deconned...