Mines and Misery Difficulty

[Alex Heartnet]

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Why yes, how very dangerous in this land of one-hit kills.

[keith.lamothe]

Ok, I'll order new warheads for them.  Do you prefer fission or fusion?

[Hearteater]

Honestly, mines are just things I hope bots step on. Unless there my mines, in which case I make sure they get stepped on . I agree that mines in missions are too weak (and a bit too common, I'd prefer other traps instead). Player mine damage seems fine.

[Alex Heartnet]

Perhaps mine damage should scale upwards with difficulty?  For player mines as well?

Mines are difficult weapons to use, so if it takes less mines to kill a robot then if you used lasers then that's fine.  Even on Misery.

And as always if you step on your own mine then you have no one else to blame

Ok, I'll order new warheads for them.  Do you prefer fission or fusion?

Antimatter.

[Hearteater]

What if mines weren't visible until you got within X spaces. That number could vary by difficulty (or not). Then at least you have a chance of getting yourself stuck between bots and mines. Once spotted, they should remain visible even if you move away.

[Misery]

Mines to me have always meant to be dangerous in a different way:  It's not that an individual mine will kill you (or the enemy).   It's that there's ALOT of them.  Usually blocking a path entirely.

This also affects player mines, and is the reason why I'd be against this change.   The current implementation of player mines is pretty much done right, as I see it.  You can do incredible damage with them.... but it takes time to set them up, and you have to choose the right places to do so, to get your intended target (usually a very high shielded bot) to run over many of them.

Change them up, and they'll be too strong.  Or too irritating, in the case of enemy mines. 

That being said, if you're playing on Misery, alot of the time you have little shielding to work with in the first place...