A flashlight, a flashlight! My kingdom for a flashlight!

[Garrett]

I saw so many of them in that game, like an oasis for a dying man in the desert. Two of'em were even turn on, but i could never pick them up... Darknes. Flashlights.

[Incia3000]

Camera, night-vision.

[JocularJosh]

Originally posted by Incia:

Camera, night-vision.

Still doesn't make sense though.
There are TONS of flashlights...TONS of them. Instead of picking up one or two Blake COMPLETELY ignores them.

[Garrett]

Originally posted by Incia:

Camera, night-vision.

Oh, and yea, i do aware for the camra and the night vision feature in the game.

[Infected Voice]

Yeah, why Blake uses this stealthy night-vision? Better take one of those nice and shiny flashlights and immediately unmask himself.

[Beard]

LOL Let us pick one up, shine it at one of the bad guys and yell "ITS THE OUTSIDER" in that back red neck country accent, those kill happy culties will run at him and kill him, it would be a perfect distraction!

[Garrett]

Originally posted by Infected Voice:

Yeah, why Blake uses this stealthy night-vision? Better take one of those nice and shiny flashlights and immediately unmask himself.

It is a good point, and i was thinking about it after posting the the thread. Though i do think that, under the circumstances of pitch black darkness, battery drain dependant night vision, and light for survival, a flshlight might still just might be handy.

[JocularJosh]

Originally posted by Infected Voice:

Yeah, why Blake uses this stealthy night-vision? Better take one of those nice and shiny flashlights and immediately unmask himself.

Stealthy night vision, yeah...no.
Realistically, people would still see the light from the screen of the camera. So they would still see him.
A flashlight would have been useful in some areas where no enemies are patrolling and come on, if you see a flashlight you take it.

[anarchy]

Yeah, I question why they don't catch you when your whole barrel is lit up with weird green light.

[Infected Voice]

Originally posted by anarchy:

Yeah, I question why they don't catch you when your whole barrel is lit up with weird green light.

No one can see infra-red lighting through his eyes ))

[Prett]

Simple. It's a game mechanic. They don't want you to use a flashlight, they want you to use night vision. In the first game, they had cameras lying around near batteries, but it wouldn't make sense to have cameras in this game (Pretty sure there weren't any besides the one you used), so they replaced it with radios and flashlights.
You have to remember, this is a video game we are playing. It doesn't necessarily abide by the rules and logic that would apply in real life situations, it follows the rules and logic of the developers who developed a game with night vision in mind. I suppose it's a bit like how people always split up in horror movies etc.
I'd just class it as video game logic and leave it at that. :)

[JocularJosh]

Originally posted by Prett:

Simple. It's a game mechanic. They don't want you to use a flashlight, they want you to use night vision. In the first game, they had cameras lying around near batteries, but it wouldn't make sense to have cameras in this game (Pretty sure there weren't any besides the one you used), so they replaced it with radios and flashlights.
You have to remember, this is a video game we are playing. It doesn't necessarily abide by the rules and logic that would apply in real life situations, it follows the rules and logic of the developers who developed a game with night vision in mind. I suppose it's a bit like how people always split up in horror movies etc.
I'd just class it as video game logic and leave it at that. :)

Sure, sure.
Just makes no sense to hear all fanboys saying how amazing the game is for being realistic and all when stuff like that is in the game.
Funny.
You are right though, game logic.