Weapons Cold

"Weapons Cold" is the initial state of any mission, where weapons cannot harm anyone. This state persists during the entire Briefing stage of the mission, as well as the early portion of the players' transportation into the battlefield. Once the Game Master feels that the players are sufficiently ready for the mission at hand, he will switch the mission into the "Weapons Hot" state, where weapons can and will hurt players.

So long as the "Weapons Cold" state is active, a message box indicating this is constantly visible in the top right corner of the screen. Once the "Weapons Hot" state takes over, the message in the box is briefly replaced with the "Weapons are now hot!" message, which will disappear shortly afterwards.

"Weapons Cold" is used to prevent players from accidentally injuring one another while preparing for the mission. This prevents any unnecessary delays in having to reset injured (or dead) players due to such accidents. Since there is no enemy presence whatsoever during this stage of the mission, there should be no reason to use weapons anyway.