So i know for a fact that BARRELS are everywhere, but goddamn, they are never useful when you need them…so how to supplement this epic commodity?
Maybe
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Add leaking fluid trails that trail towards the barrel, shoot those and it ignites the barrel even though the leaky fluid trails several meters away. EXCHANGE fluid trails that have bigger yeild with dry leaves which can ignite.
1.a On that note, make Dry Leaves a thing that can be lit on fire but highly controlled. See how that fairs as dry leaves can slowly burn and have a 4 second effect but fluid has a quick turn around. Also make lighting dead leaves a distraction for stargazer units so that you actually have a means of distracting them and not engaging. Right now everything you do near them is an alarm. So maybe an interaction on existing leaves (DUST THE LEAVES INTERACTION) so that these can be FT created leaves. -
Make Barrels leaky to begin with and add fume leakage so that you can shoot literally 4 meters around it to make it explode.
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Make the damage of barrels much more literal *LEATHAL in the radius that it encompasses. (just a thought but once they are made useful it need not be made more leathal) . To clarify, the manmade barrel triggers are less lethal than those you blow up intentionally.
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Place more of them everywhere. I’d say they should be peppered liberally, because they certainly need them in the jungle and to pile them everywhere makes it a health threat, so them being more spread out is more logical.
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GIVE FT NATURAL DECOYS So that BARRELS can be marked as decoys either naturally or whatever to show up on a predators thermal at a light distraction. What can make barrels naturally thermal decoys? Mark it with your water bottle full of electrolytes?
Hey how about FT making a permanent light trailing thermal trail? An absolute but light distraction on top of the main ‘white’ thermal indicator. Maybe that thermal FT gives off needs to be refined and given distraction ALOT MORE!
The initial thermal FT gives off needs to give off an aberration rather than a definite location. I always thought that these have always been a give away right from the start. FIX THIS FOR REAL!
BACK TO THE BARRELS:
I think that a 5-10% increase and randomization around the map definitely be needed to have them actually be useful.
Remember: Sometimes we need these to fend of hordes of StargAzers so why the hell not?! At times there can be to many of them!
Thje whole baiting thing is a NECESSARY as the idea of traps for FT are hardly even a thing. SO lets see this!
ADD: So lets make secure barrels(barrels that just blow up) GREEN and barrels that can be baited (using said fumes or leakage trails or dry leaf tinder) ORANGE. That way you can make them realistic visually and intentful (Serviceable in terms of what can be baited and those that cannot).
The Correct thought of adding tinderized dead leaves need to be every where. Shot upon to ignite as a means to catch fire and to trail towards something. Intently towards a barrel. But then it would need to surround barrels with intent. Otherwise to place too much tinder everywhere is just non-sense.