Team Weapon - Automated Defence Unit

[avp2501]

The ADU is an expensive item that can be bought at the traders. 70% of your team must agree to having one or the trader will not sell it to you.

The ADU is armed with an LMG so it has a fast fire rate and tons of ammo but doesn't have very good accuracy.

This would be ideal to guard a rear passageway. Once set it cannot move and ONLY shoots in front of its general direction. Will ONLY shoot if target is within an accepable range.

The support class can pick up the ADU to reposition it but is unable to use any weapons or items while carrying it. If others attempt to carry it then they will walk like a slug.

Money from the kills it achieves goes to no-one.

The ADU is excellent at killing the weaker ranks but does almost NO dammage to massive units or long range units (Husk).

The ADU can run out of ammo and so at the traders you have to click "Buy ammo for the ADU" - anyone can buy the ammo.


The ADU has a set ammount of ARMOR which can be repaired in the normal way you repair your Vest. However the ADU is very weak from the rear and is unable to attack any units that appear outside of its field of view. This makes fast units such as stalkers and crawlers its worst enemy.

The ADU also CANNOT see stalkers.

You can ONLY have 1 unit on the map at a time no matter how much money or votes you got.
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[Tom_hr]

70% of your team must agree to having one or the trader will not sell it to you.

How would that work, there is no interaction between players besides chat, which is gameplay-external.

Anyway, I think this is a very nice idea, and if animated properly(like deployable turrets in Battlefield 2142) it would be very enjoyable indeed.

Also it would be crucial on suicidal difficulty.

 

[avp2501]

On the trader menu when you click to view the ADU a vote button will be displayed. Clicking once will add your vote for that round.

This vote will be displayed on everyone's trader menu screen but in a non-intrusive way.

So if you have 6 team members you will need 4-5 votes + the money to buy it.

 

[DrNasty]

It should have a health bar and a weak shield (50% of health value, perhaps), and welding it should repair the shield, but not the health.

 

[Ihmhi]

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This might be going a bit too far for KF... I mean, robots? What are we gonna have next, UAVs flying around and shooting Hellfire missiles at Stalkers on manor?

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Okay actually that would be pretty *****in'.

 

[Tom_hr]

It is a nice idea, you don't need to ridiculously exaggerate....

 

[Bio666]

If 70% team agree, who's gonna pay?

Again, who'se gonna first set it?

And again, it the kill money goes to no-one, I'd rather not having it.

 

[avp2501]

you click a button at the traders to chip money in - once theres enough the unit will spawn outside the traders you bought it at.

Its a team game decide who and where - its most likely whoever is support.

as for the kill money why do you deserve to get it? It's acting like another team member without the downside of multiplying the zombies.

It's a very useful tool that helps you to survive the rounds. Besides you get more money from surviving rounds. not racking up kills and dying.

and also you can't sell the unit since this would make things awkward.

 

[Ihmhi]

It is a nice idea, you don't need to ridiculously exaggerate....

I always have to ridiculously exaggerate. It's what I do.