Lack Of...

BigBull

<div class="IPBDescription">Hmg's Shottys</div> Ok. I have noticed over the past maybe 4 months. That only a couple of shotty's and maybe 2 hmgs have been produced. Calm down on the lmgs we have enough....all 50 of em. And the Pistols...bah

If you really want to be original convert/make an hmg or shotty. Or evena nade launcher. Because the lack of all these wepons makes me think twice about NS modeling. All we have are lmgs and pistols?

I just thought i should post this since there hasnt really been a very good hmg, shotty release lately.

Just my thoughts.

Chubbieboi

just give em time man <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

its not that easy to make weapons i mean ppl should start small and work their way up <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

SkinnY

i think its because they make bad-**** models... and we wanna see them as often as possible... and hmg / sg isn't the most used guns... :/

BigBull

This was directed toward the expirenced modelers that keep makling that same thing


Just a friendly suggestion.

Burncycle

What you must understand is that just about any pistol can work for the pistol, and just about any gun can work for the LMG. But you must have certain special qualities to qualify for a HMG, shotty, or grenade launcher.

You need high ammo capacity to really be considered an HMG. An M-16 wouldn't cut it-
You pump action requirement of the shotgun limits what we can use to replace it. And after a while the shotguns start all looking the same.
In many ways, a magazine fed grenade launcher was more flexible. But now that you individually load each round, even in the middle of firing when your not out of grenades yet, its difficult to create a model that incorproates this that doesn't look like just another default grenade launcher clone.

They will come, it's just less common.

Owen1

u could make a breech loaded four barreled gl. like a dirrenger (spelling?)

Necrosis

Actually I've a bit of paper lying about with a GL design that works as an automatic shotgun would.

IE you load six grenades into the chamber, pump it, and fire. Add in some technical mumbo jumbo and a fancy stock and it would fit in with the near future theme.

Well I liked the idea.

The HMG I cobbled up looked pretty much like a big Bren only held more like a smartgun. Fitted in with the retro look of the LMG in my eyes.

Fox_One

Problem is...there remain very few unique (modelers like to be unique) designs left...Minigun? Done. SAW-Type? Done. It's hard to find something that works..

Necrosis

Well since the GL can be adapted to be more like a shotty, I suppose there's nothing stopping someone turning a shotty into a giant revolver scattergun.


Or another idea I was toying with - using a "charging" whine like one of those cardiac machines. Basically having the shotty as some sort of static electricity gun. Explains the short range, and the amount of spray. Thinking hand held Predator plasmacaster style effect?

The charge cycle would explain the incremental ammo increase.

I don't know so much about "unique" since there's only so many ways to draw a gun - and no matter how original you think it is, there's probably a similar one elsewhere.

TBH I thought a short tri-barreled minigun/RtCQ venom style weapon would make sense. Tho the big Bren gun makes me smile, hehe.