The Whistle is a miscellaneous utility in Centaura. It is standard equipment for the Officer class.
Description
When used, the whistle will produce a shrill shriek. If used with 6 (1 Officer and 5 others) or more teammates, it will cause the user to call for a charge, while all nearby soldiers will roar. It can be useful for orchestrating coordinated attacks or defenses, although the screaming will certainly give away your position if you're trying to be sneaky. It is generally used for enthusiastic charges.
Officers are not equipped with the Whistle in Kelson Village due to the fact a whistle would not be usable while wearing a gas mask.
The whistle currently provides many temporary buffs, this includes a 20% damage resistance, 10% increased walk and sprint speed (including increased bayonet charging speed) along with immunity to suppression for 10 seconds. Whistle effects stack if 2 Officers blow their whistles in the same group.
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Trivia
- Back before the CENTAURA overhaul (when the game was still called GRIDLOCK), players would get the whistle randomly. This is because the officer class had not been added yet.