Holo-cubes

[MessiahofMelons]

Is there a way to make fake blocks not bedrock? Trying to hide them but they are pretty damn clear as bedrock

[Trichouette]

I asked the same during beta, because I am certain I saw a dev outpost with holo-cubes that weren't bedrock blocks.
But I don't think we can right now.

[Horrow]

Currently you can't.

I don't use them myself now unless my base happens to already have a lot of bed rock touching it.

As people get more experienced, this trap is going to become increasingly useless, unfortunately.

[Loot]

Originally posted by Horrow:

Currently you can't.

I don't use them myself now unless my base happens to already have a lot of bed rock touching it.

As people get more experienced, this trap is going to become increasingly useless, unfortunately.

Second wave gives them a bit more use. That's about it, though.

[Horrow]

Originally posted by Loot Repeat:

Originally posted by Horrow:

Currently you can't.

I don't use them myself now unless my base happens to already have a lot of bed rock touching it.

As people get more experienced, this trap is going to become increasingly useless, unfortunately.

Second wave gives them a bit more use. That's about it, though.

Eh, I'd disagree. I've come across bases that did this and it was still quite clear to me that the blocks were still Holocubes lol.

Bedrock typically doesn't just appear as single blocks sprinkled throughout the base. They're usually bunched together.

The more you play this game, the more you understand what is likely a natural bedrock cube and what isn't.

[L3goury]

The only way right now ? Build your outpost using bedrock as floor or wall. Like that, some badrocks are fake, others are not. I did it in of my outpost and it works well ;-)

[Nani!?!?]

Originally posted by Horrow:

Originally posted by Loot Repeat:

Second wave gives them a bit more use. That's about it, though.

Eh, I'd disagree. I've come across bases that did this and it was still quite clear to me that the blocks were still Holocubes lol.

Bedrock typically doesn't just appear as single blocks sprinkled throughout the base. They're usually bunched together.

The more you play this game, the more you understand what is likely a natural bedrock cube and what isn't.

Yeah, sadly holocubes only work if you put them amongst bedrock. 1 bedrock cube way up in the top of a base by itself is so immediately suspicious.

[MessiahofMelons]

Originally posted by L3goury:

The only way right now ? Build your outpost using bedrock as floor or wall. Like that, some badrocks are fake, others are not. I did it in of my outpost and it works well ;-)

Thats what I wanted to do but haven't found a layout that works for me yet.

[Horrow]

Originally posted by MessiahofMelons:

Originally posted by L3goury:

The only way right now ? Build your outpost using bedrock as floor or wall. Like that, some badrocks are fake, others are not. I did it in of my outpost and it works well ;-)

Thats what I wanted to do but haven't found a layout that works for me yet.

I've only had one base so far that I could get away with such a thing. Other bases weren't as lucky.

I'm hoping they just give us a way of choosing the holocube's appearance. Its a really fun trap that's really held back by how awkward it is to utilize the bedrock texture.

[Ghost]

Place second wave lava cubes/holocubes. They will appear as bedrock until the second wave so you can effectively make real fake bedrock blocks to hide the holocubes better. Only downside is that it only works on disguising first wave holocubes.

[Redmacinton]

Originally posted by Ghost:

Place second wave lava cubes/holocubes. They will appear as bedrock until the second wave so you can effectively make real fake bedrock blocks to hide the holocubes better. Only downside is that it only works on disguising first wave holocubes.

That gets rather expensive.

[OldWhovian]

Yeah they need to make it so you can make Holocubes look like any block of any shape. Until then they're regulated to really specific base builds or simply useless.

[Trichouette]

Holocube is, in my opinion, the hardest trap to use well (beside the exploit) with the highest gain.

[King Whiff]

Originally posted by MessiahofMelons:

Is there a way to make fake blocks not bedrock? Trying to hide them but they are pretty damn clear as bedrock

Sadly not. They come in only bedrock which stand out, i find distracting away from them helps though.

[Horrow]

Originally posted by OldWhovian.TTV:

Yeah they need to make it so you can make Holocubes look like any block of any shape. Until then they're regulated to really specific base builds or simply useless.

Seems some people use it for really cheap kill setups, which is unfortunate.

They surround the genmat with holocubes and mark them as '2nd Wave' with 1st wave traps behind them. So when you pick up the genmat, the holocubes trigger and the traps behind them immediately go off.

[OldWhovian]

Originally posted by Horrow:

Originally posted by OldWhovian.TTV:

Yeah they need to make it so you can make Holocubes look like any block of any shape. Until then they're regulated to really specific base builds or simply useless.

Seems some people use it for really cheap kill setups, which is unfortunate.

They surround the genmat with holocubes and mark them as '2nd Wave' with 1st wave traps behind them. So when you pick up the genmat, the holocubes trigger and the traps behind them immediately go off.

Oh nice; I didn't think about doing this around the genmat but at least they have some effective use anywhere.