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Thread: can rocket launchers be sliced?

Azzoi
Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:10 am
#1

I bought a few RLs, I wondering if they can be sliced?



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Hellshot
Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:11 am
#2

Yes, they can be sliced for speed or damage, much like any other weapon.



Ancient weapons and hokey religions are no match for a rocket launcher in your backpack.

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garvin
Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:20 am
#3

Yep...Grenades can even be sliced (from what I've heard) but I'm not sure I'd ever try it...personally I only get a Consumable sliced if the slicing price is right...


This is one of the reasons I push for the actual RL housing to be on consumable...just have the ammo run out and need to be "re-loaded" via rocket packs...that way we could get our RL sliced once and then just buy additional ammo from WS's...





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Hellshot
Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:22 am
#4






garvin wrote:

Yep...Grenades can even be sliced (from what I've heard) but I'm not sure I'd ever try it...personally I only get a Consumable sliced if the slicing price is right...






You can also get an artisan with engineering 4 to make grenade powerups, though you would probably want to get a MA or WS to do it (not sure which has the mods).




Ancient weapons and hokey religions are no match for a rocket launcher in your backpack.

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Azzoi
Tue Apr 27, 2004 10:39 am
#5

Thanks for the info...



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thepunisher286
Tue Apr 27, 2004 11:38 am
#6






garvin wrote:

Yep...Grenades can even be sliced (from what I've heard) but I'm not sure I'd ever try it...personally I only get a Consumable sliced if the slicing price is right...


This is one of the reasons I push for the actual RL housing to be on consumable...just have the ammo run out and need to be "re-loaded" via rocket packs...that way we could get our RL sliced once and then just buy additional ammo from WS's...









Posted the same idea once, but slightly different.



Rocket housing would be determining speed. Ham costs ( Not disposable, has condition )


The ammo/rockets would be damage. Wound chance. ( disposable, like power ups )



I think without any serious coding, just make every laungher by default, 0 dmg. Make heavy weapon power ups increase by hard numbers, NOT percentages.


So it would look like:


Rocket Laungher:


Dmg 0-0


Speed 5.4


The powerups would simply be


+1253dmg


The beuty of that is, the "ammo" would be able to go into any of the tubes, like the acid launcher, heavy lightning, or the hpbc. That would make things simple, easy, and IMO, would be much faster to develop than any other method we might want.



Housing probably should be slicable, but theres a chance for a dmg slice. "Hey, congrats, you got a perfect damage slice! 0dmg! Have fun kid..."

Message Edited by thepunisher286 on 04-27-2004 11:39 AM

garvin
Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:02 am
#7

The key thing to changing the Rocket Launchers from a straight consumable weapon to a reloadable weapon is that the programing is already in game (or is going in)...the programmers have proved they can do it...Check out the information on Stim and Trap Droids...they can be reloaded wtih items to be used over and over...And the Trap Droids can throw traps on command, then be reloaded when they run out...If that is possible, then RL's should be able to be reloaded when needed...just give us basically a trap droid that looks like a Rocket Launcher and throws Rockets up to 64m...





Garvin Lansdowne
Retired Commando Correspondent - Current Blue Glowie

Master Commando / TKM || Architect / Shipwright / Master Droidsmith

ShadowStyrkeGuild.com: A WoW Guild Website

Hellshot
Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:03 am
#8






thepunisher286 wrote:



Posted the same idea once, but slightly different.


Rocket housing would be determining speed. Ham costs ( Not disposable, has condition )


The ammo/rockets would be damage. Wound chance. ( disposable, like power ups )


I think without any serious coding, just make every laungher by default, 0 dmg. Make heavy weapon power ups increase by hard numbers, NOT percentages.


So it would look like:


Rocket Laungher:


Dmg 0-0


Speed 5.4


The powerups would simply be


+1253dmg


The beuty of that is, the "ammo" would be able to go into any of the tubes, like the acid launcher, heavy lightning, or the hpbc. That would make things simple, easy, and IMO, would be much faster to develop than any other method we might want.



Housing probably should be slicable, but theres a chance for a dmg slice. "Hey, congrats, you got a perfect damage slice! 0dmg! Have fun kid..."


Message Edited by thepunisher286 on 04-27-2004 11:39 AM





I like this idea.



Ancient weapons and hokey religions are no match for a rocket launcher in your backpack.

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LuapLink
Wed Apr 28, 2004 12:53 am
#9

Yup me too, this would also make it easy for more types of rounds to be added at a later date as they would need to have a generic design (no new art)to fit into a standard launcher.



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