Weaponsmith Archive
Thread: Scopes, stocks, and barrels in the Combat Upgrade
From comments made elsewhere, I obtained permission to share this info with you guys (since you'll be finding it out shortly anyway). Essentially, visible stocks and scopes on crafted weapons have been disabled entirely as a part of the next major publish, the Combat Upgrade. Helios details why this was done:
Helios_SOE wrote:
Unfortunately, as you know, the customized barrels/scopes had issues with other people seeing them as well as some issues with factory crafted weapons that had visual customization on them. In addition to those legacy issues, the crafting changes introduced in CU (aimed at ensuring balanced weapon crafting) caused more non-trivial breakage with the scope/barrel customization system. A decision was made to disable weapon customization for now - in favor ofcompleting a working & balanced weapon crafting system within the scope of CU.
It wasa hard decision because we all think that customized weapons definitely add some good flavor to weapons, but one that had to be made for the time being. Unfortunately, fixing customization the "right" way is out of the scope of CU so we'll have to look at it again afterwards. The flip side to this is that we now have some pretty good variety in weapons (new and old) which might make you want to use different weapons at different times, so perhaps we'll at least see people carrying a wider variety of weapons.
Now you know why, so there's no need to /bug this change when you see it. It is intentional, and we know why. =)
Seilyn_Nox wrote:
Felton, any word on whether it will effect custom weapons built before the CU patch goes in?
I'm betting that it means custom scopes/stocks on all weapons -- new and existing -- will not show until they can get things sorted out. They'll still be there, of course, enhancing the weapons' stats. You just won't see them.
That's my guess, at any rate.
And what about already crafted materials?
Ragnaat wrote:
What does this mean for all of the themepark rewards (form fitted stocks, projectie pistol barrels, etc. etc.) and other loot items?
And what about already crafted materials?
This just means you wont SEE them. Customized means as in you SEE the component. eg. the stock on a T21. As compared to the normal T21 that just looks like a MASSIVE handgun.
Ragnaat wrote:
apologies if that's the case... just read like there was more then just the visual issue.. that these parts were being removed to make thigns easier to balance
Helios_SOE wrote:
Ragnaat wrote:
apologies if that's the case... just read like there was more then just the visual issue.. that these parts were being removed to make thigns easier to balance
Scopes, stocks, barrels and the like are not being removed as components. Only the customized visual appearance that some of these components provided will be disabled for CU. This will also affect previously customized weapons/components.
Message Edited by dirlook on 04-01-2005 01:27 PM