New Game Element: Caches
Jan 29, 2016 21:52:09 GMT -5
Post by Lamron on Jan 29, 2016 21:52:09 GMT -5
You'll see something new in random places around the stock maps:
These are Caches. They contain a Healthpack plus either a Perk or Weapon. Simply walk over them to pick up. Each time one is picked up, it will move to a new random location on the map. Multiple Perks can be picked up if you can find more Caches before dying. The weapons are ones not normally selectable, such as Special Class weapons and a few that only show up in Random Weapons Mode.
Some important notes on how these work:
- The Healthpack will always fully restore your health.
- If you already have the Cache item and full health, it will ignore you.
- Special Class players can not pick up Caches.
- Cache types alternate. I.E. if you pick up a Perk Cache, the next one will be Weapon.
- To prevent Caches being stuck on something you have no use for, they will rotate (without moving) to a new item every 60 seconds.
- When you receive a Cache Weapon, it does not replace anything in your inventory. You still have your primary/secondary weapons. You can use it until it runs out of ammo, or you switch weapons. If you switch weapons, it is GONE. You can still use Killstreaks and Lethal/Tactical Devices without losing the Cache Weapon.
- I'm using a location list that the game already had for another gametype we don't use. There are 10+ locations for each of the stock maps, so it is impossible to predict where they will be. I don't even know were they are. Fortunately, they are very easy to see.
These are Caches. They contain a Healthpack plus either a Perk or Weapon. Simply walk over them to pick up. Each time one is picked up, it will move to a new random location on the map. Multiple Perks can be picked up if you can find more Caches before dying. The weapons are ones not normally selectable, such as Special Class weapons and a few that only show up in Random Weapons Mode.
Some important notes on how these work:
- The Healthpack will always fully restore your health.
- If you already have the Cache item and full health, it will ignore you.
- Special Class players can not pick up Caches.
- Cache types alternate. I.E. if you pick up a Perk Cache, the next one will be Weapon.
- To prevent Caches being stuck on something you have no use for, they will rotate (without moving) to a new item every 60 seconds.
- When you receive a Cache Weapon, it does not replace anything in your inventory. You still have your primary/secondary weapons. You can use it until it runs out of ammo, or you switch weapons. If you switch weapons, it is GONE. You can still use Killstreaks and Lethal/Tactical Devices without losing the Cache Weapon.
- I'm using a location list that the game already had for another gametype we don't use. There are 10+ locations for each of the stock maps, so it is impossible to predict where they will be. I don't even know were they are. Fortunately, they are very easy to see.