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About stun rod and bloodspider in ufopedia

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Hertzila:
Maybe the reference should be switched so that if the player hasn't seen a bloodspider, the research article instead refers to an accident involving an UGV with metal armor installed, with the end result being a deeply fried internal computer. Then Dr. Connor would speculate that if the aliens would start to use robots in addition to organic troops, the stun rod would be able to knock them out too.

sotnikov123:

--- Quote from: Hertzila on May 10, 2010, 12:03:57 am ---Maybe the reference should be switched so that if the player hasn't seen a bloodspider, the research article instead refers to an accident involving an UGV with metal armor installed, with the end result being a deeply fried internal computer. Then Dr. Connor would speculate that if the aliens would start to use robots in addition to organic troops, the stun rod would be able to knock them out too.

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Too hard, may just have to mention that the soldiers would not use stun rod (accidentally) on the tanks because they are easily damaged, which implies the applicability of the weapons on robots when robots will have aliens

Prinegon:
Why so complicated?
If the storyline of a city being attacked at the start of all this happens to be actual at this dev, there is a quite easy way to modify the text to the bloodspiders.
The bloodspiders were most likely to be part of the initial alien attack on Mumbai, so these robots had been seen by humans (even if the player himself didn't encounter them).  So refer to this attack. Tell that there were these so called bloodspiders, mechanical terror units, involved in the first invasion and that they were vulnerable against overcharging (e.g. in contact to a high voltage power line), so the chances are quite good the stun rod may overcharge and temporaly disable their circuits, too. (All that has to be done is giving the player the idea, it could be effective to use the stun rod on a robot, and sugguesting this might work is enough to plant that idea).

weekendwarriora1c:
Does a scientist really have to hear a story from a grunt to understand what high voltage can do to a circuit board?

Prinegon:
It is not about what a scientist may have or have not to hear, but what the player of this game has to hear to even try it out.
Of course you could also only write: The electrical charge is most likely to overload electronical equipment theese aliens might bring along. But why not also write, that this electronical equipment is seen not to have sufficient anti em-shields?

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