Arc-Gun! OMG!
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Join Date: 2009-07-03 Member: 68024Members
Join Date: 2009-07-03 Member: 68024Members
dude.... change the taser to something almost exactly like the arc-gun.... AND CALL IT THAT.
Your right about explaining it as the arc-gun would give you a better response. I definitely found myself in pure confusion when I was reading that article. To know something like that is actually floating around in the black market, is pretty unbelievable. It makes me want one, just so I can point it to my cat when it's being the ######tiest cat that she is.
Question to flayra and the dev team: Is this where you go your idea from? If so, how the hell did you guys stumble upon this thing.
PS: I like the taser idea. Pretty cool. People say that there was no problem with knifing, but to be honest.... I've played the game for a very long time and it didn't take me long to realize how retarded it is to see a bunch of marines huddling around a chamber of some sort knifing it to death.
One question to that: People kept asking about welding on it, even though you said nothing about the taser being able to weld. Did I miss something? Oh yeah, I got the impression from maybe some article you wrote, or someone, that we will have welders at all times. If so, you should definitely rethink that idea, because the marines would be way overpowered with them.
Being someone who played a lot of NS1, when any friend and I had a welder, I would make sure we weld each other after every bite, and would usually dominate. If everyone knows there is a welder they can use all the time, this is going to quickly become a common-sense thing to all players, and the aliens are going to get screwed. Especially if we have something like a taser to kill off their structures with less time being consumed.
Your right about explaining it as the arc-gun would give you a better response. I definitely found myself in pure confusion when I was reading that article. To know something like that is actually floating around in the black market, is pretty unbelievable. It makes me want one, just so I can point it to my cat when it's being the ######tiest cat that she is.
Question to flayra and the dev team: Is this where you go your idea from? If so, how the hell did you guys stumble upon this thing.
PS: I like the taser idea. Pretty cool. People say that there was no problem with knifing, but to be honest.... I've played the game for a very long time and it didn't take me long to realize how retarded it is to see a bunch of marines huddling around a chamber of some sort knifing it to death.
One question to that: People kept asking about welding on it, even though you said nothing about the taser being able to weld. Did I miss something? Oh yeah, I got the impression from maybe some article you wrote, or someone, that we will have welders at all times. If so, you should definitely rethink that idea, because the marines would be way overpowered with them.
Being someone who played a lot of NS1, when any friend and I had a welder, I would make sure we weld each other after every bite, and would usually dominate. If everyone knows there is a welder they can use all the time, this is going to quickly become a common-sense thing to all players, and the aliens are going to get screwed. Especially if we have something like a taser to kill off their structures with less time being consumed.
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Interaction between humans and non-humans is usually frowned upon. Better make sure MNU doesn't notice your 'interest' in illegal alien weaponry.
On topic: anything that looks better than the original concept would be A+ in my books, although the arc-gun looks a bit too... alienish... something more blocky would probably fit the 'grit' bill.
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Ya it looks like a flamethrower...
And everyone keeps bringing this up but ...NS is not about energy weapons!!... the aliens have blades and goo and gas... the marines have bullets, explosives, and flamethrower.
So if energy weapons are so damn powerful then why are they reserved for our backup guns... why don't we have BFG9000??? why not some laser guns!!
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They could of just removed the marine pistol... give the marines a SMG as a backup weapon... and make their primary weapon, from the very start of the game, to be the HMG... that's more then enough firepower for killing stuff without resorting to weird non-ns-universe weaponry. And it makes sense that the NS marines don't mess around anymore with little (the NS1 lmg) guns as the initial weapons because now they know the aliens get very big and very hard to kill in 1 on 1... and the marine-central-command is trying to make 1 marine capable against 1 alien regardless of how big it is.
Don't cross the streams!