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Official: Custom Weapon Request Thread

Bitt_Player

By Bitt_Player,
Posted on: 2007-11-29 15:01 in Developers' Corner

 

Posted

Back Alley Brawler and the Art Team have requested an Official Custom Weapon Thread.

So here it is with some things to keep in mind regarding your suggestion.

1) This is an official suggestion list, any suggestion could be considered for future development, pending time and resource availability.

2) Keep your suggestion concise and detail oriented, if you have multiple suggestions it may be better to make multiple posts, or link to another area on the forum where you have a thread in progress.

3) This is not a discussion thread, if you see a suggestion and you wish to discuss it on a community level please link to the suggestion and open a topic in the appropriate forum, do not cross post.

4) Pictures are worth a 1000 words, if you have illustrations and examples of images please link.

5) Remember that our goal is to continue development on an amazing game, not all suggestions can be added at once, but we do aim to please.

6) Please search or look through this thread for previous suggestions, we know duplication is inevitable but multiple suggestions about the same item is not helpful to this process, see #3 for ways to get a popular viewpoint for one specific suggestion.

7) There are no stupid, wrong, or dumb suggestions, please do not refer to other's suggestions as such!

8) Presentation is important, please take the time to properly prepare your suggestion, including proof reading for spelling errors and to check links to make sure they are working.

9) If you need any help or notice any issues with this thread please notify your Community Team via PM or email.

Additional things to keep in mind as suggested by Obsidius:

<ul type="square">[*]Weapon models only - things like grenades and Medicine devices can't currently be changeed per character (that would be Power Customization)[*] Weapon affects (bullets, beams, shell casings, etc.) and weapon animations cannot be changed per character (that would be Power Customization).[*] Good suggestions should use weapons that can be used with existing animations since animations can't be changed per character (see above).[/list]Hope this helps with creating more effective suggestions.

Thank you for taking the time to make a suggestion, we appreciate all the feedback we get about how we can improve the game for future Issues.

Regards,

Ex Libris

 

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FIRST!

1) Keep It simple
2) Picture Reference
3) No opinions, stories, signing, quoting

 

Posted

Please bring the loa bone back as an option for mace tanks. It was originally there and removed to keep the loa bone as a unique weapon, but tanks will never get the loa bone and no villains can wield a mace, so technically you'd never double up on it.

Also a street sign (stop, yield, speed limit) on it's little pole would be a pretty cool mace/axe option, able to give the look of a thug from the street.

First after the sexy one!

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Guitars as weapons. They could be used in melee for War Mace, or at range for Assault Rifle.

What more do we need?

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I have a suggestion that would apply to the current Weapon Customizations...

The Bow customizations seem to follow origin - you have some conventional (natural) bows, an arcane (magic) bow, and a compound (technology) bow.

I am very interesting in seeing Origin become more meaningful (even if its just by appearance at first), so I suggest adding a 'Mutation' bow customization.

Basically, this would be a bow/texture that looks like a living organism; It would be a recurve style with bone handle and tips, but the limbs of the bow would resemble raw muscle tissue. You could blend the red fibers to the bone parts with white ligaments, and maybe graft an eyeball into the front part of the handle, kind of where you put the laster sight on the tech bow.

That would be interesting not only as an option for real mutants, but may also look nice for zombie masterminds or dark/archery combo.

 

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tsk, tsk, even the rednames are getting the "FIRST" disease...

On topic, though, I want a Wild West AR set: Lever-action Winchester, TNT for grenade launcher maybe?

(Do I *really* need to post a picture of a Winchester?)

 

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Suggestion: Paired Kama (with head spikes)
Powerset: Dual Blades

For Dual Blades I suggest the addition of the Kama. A typical asian martial arts weapon that has alot of moves that seem similiar to the motions in dual blades. For some of the thrust moves you can add a spike off the top of the shaft to do the pokey moves.

Some examples of Kama:
http://www.karateshorinryu.com/images/KAMA_pic.jpg
http://www.blackbeltworks.com/Photos/Kama%2011X8.jpg
http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/m...iser/21401.jpg
http://www.blackbeltshop.com/images/..._Kamas_Red.jpg
http://www.paragonmartialarts.co.uk/...phite_kama.jpg
http://www.weaponsconnection.com/s_kama10.gif


This most likely be one of many suggestions I add to this thread. I like hand to hand weaponry.

x Jeremy M.

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Posted

Another AR weapon: Laser beam guns (think the old original Star Trek phasors that had a beam instead of a "laser projectile."

 

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Woo!
Ok, I pushed it hard when weapon options were first announced- I want a guitar. During closed beta, there was a lot of support for this idea, I'm sure it's still out there.
I know you guys have a rule that a weapon has to look like it does the appropriate damage type, so I guess that would make it a Mace option, but try to keep in mind that the common slang term for a Guitar is an "Axe". Maybe you could rig one up to look like it's got blades on the sides of the body.

Here's what I'm talkin about.

FLCL for the win!

 

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I would love to see Elven Lord of the Rings style blades. Especially if we could tint the markings on it to a colour of our choosing.

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I would like to see a 4 claw option. Looks just like the 3 claws we have now only add one =).

 

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A few more examples of real-world assault rifles would be great:

Heckler and Koch G36/G36E:

http://world.guns.ru/assault/as14-e.htm

Steyr AUG:

http://world.guns.ru/assault/as20-e.htm

If you need to "generic" the name of the weapon (I noticed that one of the weapons was renamed from "M14" to "Military Assault Rifle"), you could probably say "European Assault Rifle", "Bullpup Assault Rifle" (for the AUG), or even "Export Assault Rifle" (especially for the G36). All of those would fit.

-Kirov

"To be violent at first and wind up fearing one's people is the epitome of ineptitude."

-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

 

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1) Halibut
2) Soft Comfy Pillows
3) Bone (Femer)
4) Sea Bass
5) Butcher Knife
6) Dead Parrot
7) Pitchfork/Trident
8 Police Nightstick
9) Flashlight
10) Trout

 

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Dual Talsorian Guitars

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Fixed and seconded &gt;.&gt;

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The Impervium Katana weapons, for Dual Blades, look very nice, but seem overlarge to dual-wield. Perhaps a smaller version of them should exist, the way the Tanto is a smaller Ninja Blade and the Wakizashi is a smaller Katana?

Additionally, if the Main Droite and Main Gauche could have second versions added, uncolorable and skinned so as to match the filigree on the Rapier, that would be excellent.

And perhaps smaller versions of the Rikti Broadsword for Dual Blades as well?

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