Goka Falls bridge collapses...

[Hacko]

None of the merc's can swim, they sink to the bottom faster than a rock. ;D The merc's must not have been paying attention in swim class. ;D

Funny stuff happened yesterday. I was scanning the GP at NE Bowa, the one by the lake. Mercs didn't know I was there so I could watch their natural behaviour. One of them was by the lake, slowly walking... walking... walking into the lake to sink and never be seen again..... huahuahuahuahahuafhehufasçrohg... what an AD moment  ;D ;D

I had something similar happen to me awhile ago.
I was checking out a GP across the river from me, sniped one of the mercs with the dart rifle, causing the rest of the mercs to start searching for me. One of the mercs started heading for the river banks looking. As he got close to the edge of the riverbank, he failed to notice the overhang he was standing on, and promtly walked off the overhang, straight into the river. He sank like a stone and never surfaced. I was laughing hard after that one. :-X

[Art Blade]

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just burnt down the police station bridge :)

[PZ]

Excellent - I thought the two bridges were similar enough so that both should collapse - good find!  :-X

[Art Blade]

cheers :)

Only I never knew how RedRaven managed to collapse a flight of stairs back then. Red, if you read this, remember that? How you did that?

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[PZ]

Cool new avatar  :-X

[Art Blade]

teehee :) cheers

[Dweller_Benthos]

What set of stairs is that?

[Art Blade]

Red, do you remember? Those stairs? I had hoped for an answer as I'd like to do it myself :)

[mandru]

I'm drawing a total blank with those stairs Art. Do you have any idea where they are located?

[Art Blade]

No. The only stairs I know that look somewhat like that are in Leboa, Private Property. But for some reasons, Mr Red doesn't answer our calls  :)

RedRaven, heeeeeelp!  ;D

[RedRaven]

At the moment I'm struggling to remember where that pic was taken ::) .

If it is the Goka Falls bridge, then I have a very dim and distant recollection of it being done by an IED or three ;D . (but don't quote me on that !, will try and get clarification on it)

  - not that it helps much, but its Andre with a Dragunov SVD :)

[Art Blade]

you originally tried to post that pic there: omg RUN

[Art Blade]

The "problem" is, you called that screenshot "stairway" -- that's what made me think those were stairs. But reading on in that link above, you refer to Goka, apparently... so it's a misunderstanding, most likely, and it IS the bridge :)

[Art Blade]

found one more topic: "stairway to heaven" where you used it.

[Art Blade]

I believe I know how you did that, Red. :) See this:

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[RedRaven]

That looks like the one, it was night time when I did it, hence the dark picture. Nice one Art :-X

[mandru]

So what was the sequence of events that caused the bridge to snap back onto the shoulder of the crevasse like that instead of falling down into it?  Did you do something special t get that effect or was it just a weird bit of game physics?

Also, cool new avatar Art.  :-X

[JRD]

An IED set in the middle of the bridge, maybe?

[RedRaven]

It involved at least 2 IED's, pretty sure was trying to stop guys coming over the bridge, not realising it was destructable terrain, but cant recall exactly what I did as was under heavy fire at the time. Think was unintentional, just happened to pause for a second to take the image then back to ducking bullets ;D

[mandru]

 ;D :-X

Ah, thanks for the reply RedRaven. Your comment reminded me of a poster one of my bosses from long ago had hanging in his office.

"When you are up to your a$$ in alligators, it's sometimes difficult to remember that your original objective was to drain the swamp."

[Art Blade]

thanks for the comment on the avatar, something I created playing around with irfanView :)

Thanks for the comment on the screenshot :)

It is simple, and indeed "a weird bit of game physics" -- first I torched the bridge (by the way, never managed to blow it up with IEDs, as far as I know one end of the bridge "needs" fire to collapse, if the ropes catch alight) which cracked and fell down as expected. Then I saved the game because I wanted to experiment with the mercs (merc war) and everytime I reloaded, the game created yet another form of weird bridge sculpture :)

[RedRaven]

"When you are up to your a$$ in alligators, it's sometimes difficult to remember that your original objective was to drain the swamp."

hahahaha :-X

[Art Blade]

It involved at least 2 IED's

I was just thinking, IEDs can cause fire (if you blow them up in dry grass, a fire will spread) so maybe that happened there in the right spot :)

[PZ]

Either that or a fire somehow started in the lodge which then started the collapse of the bridge, and as the ropes broke, the IEDs simultaneously detonated which threw the planking up into the air.   :-X

[JRD]

You guys are quite amazing...
Once I tried to set the bridge on fire with a  molotov but never been successfull  :(
Else, I'm always in the middle of a nasty firefight and killing everyone around is always the objective, so everytime I try to collapse that damn bridge its no funny at all!!!  ;D ;D ;D ;D