Some Weapon ideas

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Some Weapon ideas

Post by wipp » Fri Oct 06, 2006 1:16 pm

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 :twisted: )
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!

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Post by beni » Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:55 pm

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.

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Post by patrick » Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:20 am

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 :D

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Post by silvan » Wed Oct 11, 2006 7:49 am

- 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.

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Post by beni » Wed Oct 11, 2006 4:51 pm

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.

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Post by nicolasc » Sun Nov 19, 2006 8:57 pm

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

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Post by beni » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:16 am

nicolasc wrote: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.

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