Units controlling certain panels/consoles etc..

[FlamingMERC02]

Howdy everyone, my name is Flame and today I would want to share an idea that has stuck with me for a long time. Now I know this might be a little hard to do, but it might possibly be a good idea. (In your mind it might be, to me it is a great idea). Throughout Half Life 2 (And the Episodes) you see Combine Soldiers using control panels, maybe closing doors, activating shield generators, or just plainly sitting there with their gun pointed in the air typing stuff in a console.

Now, this might be a really hard thing to implement in to the game, but I think people would really like the idea. Now in my mind I can already picture what could happen with the consoles. On certain maps (or on all) you could have houses with consoles or control panels in them, (I have already seen houses with consoles/control panels inside them, just there is no way to interact with them). After you get inside the house or houses you can send some men over to the control panels and let them active the panels to activate a Shield Generator or a Combine Door. (or any door really).

Now, lets talk about a Combine Bunker. As you see in the map d2_coast_12 there are Combine Bunkers almost every where. I would really like to see these implemented into the game as well as the consoles going to shield generators and other stuff. And I know that this is a lot to ask, but these would actually be a good idea, because as a Combine you could build I Combine Bunker on a cliff, and then build control panels inside it leading to something outside the area.

Thank you all for reading this and I hope all of you have a great day!

~Flame

[toasty54]

This seems like a great idea for a type of gamemode, perhaps one where a Combine team has to hold off a series of checkpoints from the Rebels, although, I think if the machine were to be destroyed, the items requiring power from it are off completely. Let's say the machine has 30 health.