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Changes LV-624 tfort's landing floodlights to colony floodlights #5694

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@Vicacrov Vicacrov commented Feb 10, 2024

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This PR changes the landing floodlights found at LV-624's tfort to the colony floodlight variant.

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This is not going to be popular, but please read the reasoning:

LV-624 is the only map that uses the "landing floodlight" variant outside of the actual landing zones (namely, at tfort) - these floodlights are unslashable, unmeltable, and unmoveable without any visual indicator (that is, they are not near LZs indicating their game-critical importance). This PR changes these landing floodlights to colony floodlight variants.

  • Why colony floodlights: Colony floodlights are the exact same floodlights that you can find around this map (even southeast of tfort itself): these ones cannot be melted (ever), and they cannot be slashed until they were turned on, after which they are still not despawned, just a comtech has to fix them.

  • Why not regular floodlights: Regular floodlights can be slashed. Every LV-624 round would start with xenos slashing/melting them immediately and marines would lose their light source on tfort. I feel the pain of every hivelord/drone who ever had to build around these light sources, but they have a strategic reasoning to be there.

  • Is this a marine nerf: Yes and no. Yes, they no longer have infinite, undestroyable-by-xenos floodlights at tfort and they actually have to set up power to have light here. No, because 1) marines usually CAS/OB tfort immediately, removing everything, and 2) colony floodlights have 150 health as opposed to the landing lights's 100, so they are slightly more resistant to marine fuckery.

  • Why is this good apart from map unification: It gives marines one more reason to properly fortify tfort: they have to protect their light sources. (Also, maybe stop OBing/CASing a strategically good place :P)

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maptweak: LV-624 tfort's floodlights are now colony floodlights.
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harryob commented Feb 14, 2024

CleanShot 2024-02-14 at 09 42 45@2x

CleanShot 2024-02-14 at 09 42 51@2x

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@Nanu308 Nanu308 added the Mapping Approved adds 500 new dict keys label Feb 14, 2024
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@Nanu308 Nanu308 added this pull request to the merge queue Feb 14, 2024
Merged via the queue into cmss13-devs:master with commit b1ffddb Feb 14, 2024
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