Tripwire Triggers and Remote Detonators

#1

I have a suggestion for a couple of 1 point gear items.

Tripwire Triggers - Allow you too set simple boobie traps with any grenade type. Walk or run through the area of placement and trigger the effect, smoke, flash, noise, thermal cover or boom.

Remote Detenator - is a small handheld device that allows you to trigger any pre-placed grenade type. The placed grenades trigger at the same time but have a damage threshold to prevent stacking more than two.

Edit - I’d like to have more ability to plan and set things up as FT. I think these are simple ways to increase the number of things a FT player can do with our gear which I mostly don’t even bother using. I appreciate the extra gear point on the Scout but find I just have no reason to use any of it. If I could set traps, I would and that will slow the game a bit. It will also make players distracted for a second while they do place a trap, creating an opening for the Predator.

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#2

I like this but the one thing that comes to mind is the first movie. The fact that the Predator can basically see all the traps and tripwire the team laid out (except the “boy scout stuff” as Dillion) points it out.
Traps set for the AI and using them as a distraction is great, trapping the Predator? I dunno how to make that work honestly.

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#3

I think that they’ll be useful for AI but also Predator even if thermal highlights them ie. is that Tripwire a smoke or a flash? Should I blast it with my caster or just run on through and risk the blind?

Predator triggers a smoke hidden out in the foliage below a tree, now you know to look there.

Players will be creative, hide them around corners, spend time setting up traps at exfil’s. It not about adding something OP, just something fun.

Thanks for the feedback.

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#4

This sounds like the same thing I was talking about in one of my earlier post. I had said that they should implement stuff like this so the battles would be more like the movies. I love this idea and think they should add vines and ropes to use as well so the Predator’s vision display can’t pick up every trip line.

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#5

This is one idea I expect there’s been quite a bit of parallel thinking on. It’s Sunday and I’m bored at work.

If you remember having a different way it could work, rather than gear, you could repost it, 😁.

#6

The designers could always futurize gadgetry. It is after all 2025 and there is somewhat knowledge of the predator tech, so avoiding bringing detectable gadgets, instead bringing FT stealth tech might be the right direction. From what i gathered from FT equipment everything is rather old technology.

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#7

I’m definitely down if this idea worked to have better OWLF versions that are undetectable.

A perk that acts like Cold Blooded for traps might be simpler, call it Camouflage and call it a day. Probably 2 or 3 points.

#8

@Slasher_Clone To be honest i think both fireteam and predator needs more traps lmao… and i mean for predator to have hard time seeing them but being able to see them as mudded fireteams… fireteam wise… i think i want to see a tree net for predator or like a emp mine for fireteam…

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