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These are
not the vicious little turrets you may remember from ChaosDM. These are
the big brothers of those turrets. In fact, these are so big they have
to be beamed in when needed. The following excerpt from the users manual
explains the basic concept:
"Chaos
Inc. Military Equipment, Advanced versions, Defense Turret Gamma2.21 'Chickengobbler',
User Manual. Page3:
(A)- due to transportation problems the soldiers will only be equipped
with a one-time-useable coordinate-submitter, also known as 'beam-beacon'.
(B)- The beacon has to be placed manually, and will not work anywhere
but flat enclosed areas (this is because military insurance won't pay
for any more dumb soldiers who get crushed by their own turrets due to
ill-conceived placement, e.g. on weak overhangs)
(C)- The beacon has to be placed in 'suitable space' (according
to guiding principle Din4.11c) which means around the beacons location
should be at least 6 feet of space to each side and 12 feet towards the
ceiling!
(D)- Once the beacon is placed, the turret will be beamed in within
the next FOUR seconds, by your support team from outside the battlefield.
Please keep a secure distance!
During this phase the beacon can still get picked up again, so although
it won't be useable anymore, make sure enemy players don't capture it,
cause it will interrupt the beaming process.
(E)- If the surrounding space shouldn’t fit as described in point
(C) the turret most likely will become stuck in its surroundings and will
initiate a self destruction sequence. If this situation should occur,
please retreat to a more distant location and expect the cost to be deducted
from your soldier's pay. (Do you think our special equipment grows on
trees?)
(F)- The turret can choose from either standard Exotec(tm) rockets
or high-speed energy bullets (source: normal energy-weapon's ammo) to
terminate the enemy. (Note: switching between ammo types takes about a
second, because only one of these weapon systems can be deployed at a
time)
You can also manually force the turret to switch the weapons. (Therefore
you need to bind a key in the ChaosUT menu to the "turretchangeweapon"
feature)
(G)- Either weapon can be refilled manually by stepping behind
the turret. (Security note: don’t leave empty turrets unguarded, the turret
uses the last re-filler as its FFP, [FriendFixPoint] so if an enemy refills
it, he will own it. If this happens, say goodbye to your pay [one turret
+ extra costs for possible team member funerals])
(H)- Hint: Don't shoot at your own turret out of boredom, if this
occurs you may trigger the automatic defense system.
Note: Turrets shoot first, and then may try to find out who shot at them
by analyzing the smoking piles of flesh that remain.
(I)- Future advancement note: Turret version Gamma2.3 will contain
an extra shrink stasis field and teleport functions, so you will be able
to use manual steering abilities from inside the turret.
(J)- Don't spit into the exhaust pipes!
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Well...you should try it for yourself :)
Don't forget: you have to set one key in the ChaosUT mod menu for making
the manual weapon switching possible!
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