New weapon ideas

[cxong]

Track all the new weapon ideas here; create separate issues if they will be implemented.

• Medium-range melee weapon (Medium-range melee weapon #32)
• Shields (Shields #31)
• Vehicles/turrets - will include manned gun emplacements (Vehicles, turrets #30)
• Unimplemented guns (Add unimplemented guns #93)
• Explosives with shockwave - includes pushback but small damage, invisible particles
• Stun/concussion weapons - makes the victim's screen fade to white or some other effect

[cxong]

A note: the bullet graphics can be reused by colour blending. Change the weapon stats and they can seem like totally different bullets.

[ghost]

How about:

• Chain lightening gun (the arc jumping from character to character, this could of course hurt NPC as well)
• Triggered explosives (the next keydown triggers the explosive)
• Ball gun (low damage, but bigger push-back than the sniper rifle)
• Bouncing swarm cannon

[cxong]

@sauer2 what's bouncing swarm cannon? Is there an example from another game?

[ghost]

A weapon that shoots smaller projectiles, which fly more or less random.
For example, see swarm missiles from GUIMO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1yi4AOuM1w (3:53)

Sorry for the late reply, BTW.

[cxong]

• Suicide bomb (just blows up around the player; could be good for enemies)
• Sub-machine gun (shotgun range, slightly less spread than shotgun, rapid fire, powergun-speed bullets)
• Pistol (short range, powergun speed and damage)
• Smoke grenade (releases gas clouds that block and limit vision)

[cxong]

There should be at least three categories of weapons; weapons that work well for players (and moderate difficulty enemies), weapons that only work well for enemy "grunts" (and too weak for players to use), and weapons that are very powerful and work well for bosses or temporary power-ups for players.

Some weapons already fall into these other categories. The browny gun (random flying blue dot) works well as an enemy weapon; molotovs on fire-proof enemies are difficult as bosses.

For the grunt weapons:

• Slow-moving bullet that goes straight towards where the player was when fired
• A slowing weapon
• Pistol

Boss weapons:

• Rocket launcher (slow moving, long range projectile, explodes on contact)
• Heat seeker
• Pulse rifle
• Laser (Hitscan weapons #47)

[cxong]

closing - no point adding new weapons if there is no campaign to use them in