I have MAJOR issues with the current whistler. Motion-detection my tookus! Those things are proximity detectors! They detect thieves through walls up to 8 feet away, no matter how slow the thief is going! And it makes no difference which way the whistler is pointing!
I propose a line-of-sight whistler, with a viewable arclength of 180 degrees (the front of the whistler, in the direction it is facing). For balance purposes, detection radius can be double the current radius. It should not work through walls or ledges. And an added feature: the steam-powered whistler should give off some kind of quiet broiling sound when it's idling. Since whistlers are now out in the open, perhaps it should take 2 water arrows instead of one to disable it? And maybe the first water arrow makes the whistler half as loud when it goes off. Since whistlers won't work through walls anymore, they will be placed at corners of hallways and other places that will work well.
These are my suggestions. I am pissed off to no end that a whistler that I had no idea was there goes off on the other side of the wall (a wall that doesn't even have a door or window, nonetheless!) while I'm trying to creep up.
FYI, in Bourgeois, if a whistler is placed on the 2nd floor stairs, I can set it off by crouching in complete darkness on the back door steps under the permanent whistler. Messed up? Yes. (Although, in this particular example, it annoys the heck outta the guards and is quite funny!)
I propose a line-of-sight whistler, with a viewable arclength of 180 degrees (the front of the whistler, in the direction it is facing). For balance purposes, detection radius can be double the current radius. It should not work through walls or ledges. And an added feature: the steam-powered whistler should give off some kind of quiet broiling sound when it's idling. Since whistlers are now out in the open, perhaps it should take 2 water arrows instead of one to disable it? And maybe the first water arrow makes the whistler half as loud when it goes off. Since whistlers won't work through walls anymore, they will be placed at corners of hallways and other places that will work well.
These are my suggestions. I am pissed off to no end that a whistler that I had no idea was there goes off on the other side of the wall (a wall that doesn't even have a door or window, nonetheless!) while I'm trying to creep up.
FYI, in Bourgeois, if a whistler is placed on the 2nd floor stairs, I can set it off by crouching in complete darkness on the back door steps under the permanent whistler. Messed up? Yes. (Although, in this particular example, it annoys the heck outta the guards and is quite funny!)
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