POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : I miss this : Re: I miss this Server Time
11 Oct 2024 09:17:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: I miss this  
From: Phil Cook
Date: 22 Oct 2007 05:50:55
Message: <op.t0leyhjcc3xi7v@news.povray.org>
And lo on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 20:15:39 +0100, Jim Henderson  
<nos### [at] nospamcom> did spake, saying:

> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007 08:40:06 -0700, Darren New wrote:
>
>> You forgot "It shoots through walls", altho I must admit I never really
>> learned to take advantage of that feature, given the difficulty of
>> *aiming* thru walls.
>
> I liked the approach taken in Perfect Dark with the gun that could do
> that - there was a sort of "X-Ray view" that could be used.
>
> It took a little practice to figure out how to use it, but it worked very
> nicely once you got the hang of it.

Red Faction 1 & 2 had an thermal vision rail gun which was very cool;  
one-shot kill, but slow to reload if you missed. Oh and some of the bad  
guys had them too ouch.

-- 
Phil Cook

--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
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