Hidden Door Intents - "What's The Password?"

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

Discovering hidden doors is as easy as running down a section of wall and clicking each tile before one reveals itself. There are other obvious tells (like they are not pressure sealed) but those seem like a fair trade off.

This suggestion is to have hidden doors be 'locked', and they are only opened if you match the intent needed. This is assumed to be finding the particular way to trigger the secret door to open.

For example, you set the door to 'disarm' intent. Someone clicking on the section of wall while on help would believe they just clicked on a regular wall. This leaves three different scenarios:

You open a door the first time by a lucky coincidence,

You have to pause to switch through intents to discover the 'key' to open it,

You fail to open it the first time and believe no door is actually there, so you leave none the wiser.

It is not a complex or otherwise 'secure' solution, but I believe it is 'enough' to give a basic level of subterfuge. Even if everyone creates a new habit of hot-keying intent cycling to rapidly investigate each wall tile, this still slows down the investigator and buys time for whoever created the door in the first place. Even if you are actively chasing someone and they close a hidden door, you have to run into it, and curse and fumble around with it to figure out how to open it for a few seconds.

[Butterrobber202]

Seems good enough to me. I like it, it would make traitoring abit easier for secret murder rooms.

[ajstorey456]

Walking down halls spamclicking is super metagamey anyhow, isn't it? And I thought hidden walls were pressure sealed, every time I'm on a merc team that's our method of entering, two hidden walls.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

Sometimes it can be, sometimes it isn't. In any situation though the antag would still gets a few extra seconds unless the person chasing them gets a lucky first guess.

It may have been changed recently, but unless I was gaslighted I stg they are not pressure sealed.

[Kaed]

I am about 99% certain they are pressure sealed Jackboot. A closed hidden door is effectively a normal wall for all intents. I have literally used them like aj up there said, to infiltrate the station by using double walls as a makeshift airlock.

[Butterrobber202]

I am about 99% certain they are pressure sealed Jackboot. A closed hidden door is effectively a normal wall for all intents. I have literally used them like aj up there said, to infiltrate the station by using double walls as a makeshift airlock.

 

they leak pressure, not vent it. You wouldn't notice for a long time.

[Guest Marlon Phoenix]

That explains the confusion, thank you. I think my suggestion can still stand.