Base defense cameras, spotting aliens.

[Anderty]

Idea simple as pie. Top-secret underground base MUST have observing security cameras. So - if simply put idea - when aliens attack, they all are always visible to PHALANX soldiers/defenders (thought, if stealth aliens will be, they are exception then), and by that, base defense should be great and appealing game-play experience, neither like searching for damn last one half an hour.

Nothing fancy, no modeling or hardcore overkill programming. Just as visible everything on map, which, kinda, will work.

Of course, nothing like that shouldn't be on other maps, as it won't be interesting, but for base defense - I think, it should be great implementation.

[Hertzila]

This has been asked a lot of times. The most recent answer seems to be "someday" which is open source developer codeword for "when somebody goes and does it".

[H-Hour]

*cough*commit 324c442f01fa7ea1d0215644654f9d9974dbb4a6*cough*

These things are already working, but we're still figuring out just how to display the feature to the player in a clear way. They will likely be connected to a command center somewhere, and you will have to keep a soldier in the command center (watching the screens) in order to see what they see. But those details are still being worked out.

[ShipIt]

For testing some cameras were already placed in the base map.

[Snowblind]

Maybe the aliens zapped the cameras with an EMP device on their ship, or they jam the signal with their ECM, or they shut down the power to the whole base or something. Anyways, who is watching the camera feed anyways?

Anyways, I don't even like that there is a surface level to the bases, surely there is at least a few armed security guards on the surface to chase off ufologists and documentary filmmakers and the such, if not an entire brigade of UN army forces with tanks and everything topside, if that was the case.

I'd think such secret bases would be deep underground and if everything is so sensitive, there would not be many security cameras anyways, just at the entrance and a few hallways. Not everywhere. So maybe the brigade of soldiers topside keep out most of the aliens, but a handful, (like the 5 losers you typically get early game) are enough for your elite dudes to handle, make it into the underground base entrance and that's where the player comes in?