Some Weapon ideas

[wipp]

Hi guys
I have some ideas:

Weapons

• Another laser fed by an energy buffer which can maintain the beam up to - don't know - 2 sec?
• Guided missiles
• Proximity mines
• Antimatter gun / thrower
• Graviton gun (to sqeeze the enemy vehicles by the impact of gravitational waves )

Vehicles
I want a flying saucer!

Other features
Some relativistic effects.
Perheaps a level where a big ship is escorted and some objects are passing with near lightspeed.
Or a canyon level where the action takes place with high speed
relative to the canyon.
Or just an intro sequence, where the noxons enter our solar system.
I thought of something like http://lightspeed.sourceforge.net/
(Gentoo: emerge lightspeed)
But perheaps this goes too far! Just a thought!

[beni]

I like the lightspeed idea and checked out the effects they show on the paged you linked to. Interesting, we should take a look if the effect is useful for our game.

We do have guided missiles already, but we could make them cooler.

And yes: We definitely need more weapons of any kind. Thanks again for the ideas.

[patrick]

I especially like the idea of long laser beams. They really rock. Also some fancy rocket with trailing smog and so on...
We can make this thread into a weapon systems thread, where everyone can suggest new, cool weapons.

• - Lasers (beams) all sorts of colors
  - Many, many rockets (auto aiming)
  - Projectile guns
  - Plasma guns

I'm sure I will find some more guns later

[silvan]

- Railgun

Railguns are very common in SciFi games. They have a scope that allows you to see through walls and they shoot their projectiles so fast that they can penetrate walls to a certain extent. I suggest that railguns should only be available in single player mode and should be very hard to get.

[beni]

I've watched "The Chronicles of Riddick" the other day (the movie, not the game).

I wasn't really paying attention to the movie and the story, but I loved the weapons of the Necromongers:

A blue ray with a width of about a hand. The air around the ray gets distracted and the objects behind the ray get distorted for a about half a second. When the ray hits, the target gets blown away furiously.
It might be similar to this graviton gun, wipp already wished for.

[nicolasc]

Loads of nice ideas...

But I think we will start simple with a few simple blasters and one missile type ...see here

The rest will be taken into consideration or could be used as Noxon weapons...

BTW: Is there somewhere a tech list around, which contains what should/will be available. I am especially interested in Shields, Powersources (Fusion, AM), Engines (Iondrive, FTL?)

cheers
nico

[beni]

Loads of nice ideas...

But I think we will start simple with a few simple blasters and one missile type ...see here

The rest will be taken under consideration. Or could be used as Noxon weapons...

BTW: Is there somewhere a tech list around, which contains what should/will be available. I am especially interested in Shields, Powersources (Fusion, AM), Engines (Iondrive, FTL?)

cheers
nico

You talk about story elements I think. There should be (still the old version) a technology page in the wiki: see here. I think I covered up a lot of stuff there we need.