VKhaun

Why would it have to be done? My swords swing through things, my mace goes through things, my bullets don't ricochet, but whip needs realism or we can't put it in?

Where did you hear that?

What horns are we missing? o.o
We have oodles of horns!

Dual Pistols called, they said that you're off their buddy list.




I don't think we need a power you have to do over and over to do the red hot shell casing deal. We've already seen how damage can come late in an animation or be delayed after it. It seems like it would be possible to have each attack fire suddenly, impact and deal it's damage to the target suddenly, but have a long animation like ejecting a shell and putting a new one in making you wait for the next attack.

Your double shot 'build up' could be even less complicated to program than TW momentum, in that it would not have to make damage come faster like TW does, it would just have to speed up the animation for a while and the character would reload at a frenzied pace.

The character reloading it could be tricky regardless, since multiple weapons would reload differently. Break action could be done, you just need all the weapons to break at the same point, or maybe shotgun style loaded from underneath could work, again you'd just need the bottom edge of the weapons to be roughly consistent.


EDIT--
I bet, if they have it in mind from conception, they could even do customized shell casing color on ejection. When you go to power customization, you just pick 'default' for brassy colored shells, 'bright' or 'dark' for glowing shells done like the glowing melee weapon blades are done, or 'metalic' for a metal color pallet of what color the shell widgets are coming out.
Program them like spines rather than like burst/slug, where it calls up a model. The shell would always be there, just hidden inside the gun you're holding. It would be neat when you're see-through in stealth you could see it! XD

You do realize this thread is about being a dev and doing BAD things, right?
Things to make players HATE you...

Good because my brute is going to need that...

1) FlashToo for president 2012...


2) Have you tried playing with head sliders to make the hairdoo fit? - I have had to adjust my cranium a few times for costumes now.

Apples and oranges IMO.
We're not looking for weapon effects, just costume parts.

Nothing says the pistol on your side is 'THE' pistol you pull out with dual pistols, or that it has to be used by dual pistols characters. The official belt for example lets you have a pistol and nightstick on your AR character. He would never use them, but his character might carry them 'just in case' or as part of a uniform.





Some can work with power sets even while static, like a samurai style belt with two swords stuck in it.

One version with both swords, one with an empty long scabbard, one with an empty short scabbard, and another one with both empty. You could get the samurai look to go along with any given weapon set of choice, even if you were Katana using a mecha beam saber or TW using a giant Nodachi (which I'm sure they'll put in soon... >.>), you would still want to carry your regular swords.

If you were dual blades and ran around with them out, you might like seeing the two empty scabbards. You can even fake an animation with macro for a costume change emote + build-up to start fights with, that changes to a costume version missing the appropriate swords and also perhaps adds an aura like glowing eyes, burst into flames, whatever you do when you start fighting.

For superior?