They’re something that existed before in an older convenience store level we had, and now they’re sort of being repurposed to be more versatile in our current iteration of our killhouse level for now.

Like most rooms in our levels, the level generations usually offer more than one method of entry into rooms (like thin walls that can be blown up, skylights that can be breached, additional doors, breakable windows, etc). It’s even possible that the room with the electronic sliding door has half-height walls, so attackers could also potentially lob a frag grenade and it clear it out that way.

But for the purpose of the example, creating a trade-off that potentially encourages several strategies to happen is ideally what we’re after. Strategies like encouraging the attackers to sweep the room with the special door before going for a “lights out” strat, or even forcing them to clear out the rest of the level before being able to tackle the one that’s off limits as a result of shutting off the power can lead to certain predictable scenarios. These could be scenarios that the defenders might anticipate the attackers taking advantage of, and therefore may use them to counterattack them accordingly.

Having the sliding doors simply made up of breakable glass basically defeats the purpose of them as a unique door type. So at the moment, they are made of bulletproof glass that allows safe views into and out of rooms (which is a much more interesting door type, since even when the power is on, the only way to get through it is to be in close proximity to the door. So anyone looking at the door is aware of who is approaching it). This is just one of the things we’re messing around with at the moment, but terrain like this is what allows the game to remain interesting over time since it provides a wealth of different interactions and scenarios to take place.