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Soldat Talk => Game Improvements / Suggestions => Topic started by: DeathPickle on June 13, 2006, 11:20:37 pm

Title: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: DeathPickle on June 13, 2006, 11:20:37 pm
Wouldnt it be awesome if there was a secondary weapon that disarmed your oppenents?

I was thinking of something like a boomerang(or some object) that is thrown and causes the other player to drop their weapon, giving you time to move in and make the kill. The weapon would do little or no damage to your opponent.

The "Boomerang" would not come back, but like the knife you would be able to pick it up and use it again.  It would probably have a similar trajectory path to the knife or a grenade.

The boomerang would have a higher % chance of disarming an oppenent for light weapons like
Desert Eagles, Knife, HK MP5, USSOCOM and chainsaw and a lower chance to disarm the heavier weapons. (IE Law, M79).  ;D

OR MAYBE their could be a exteremely small probability of causing a grenade to explode on your opponent.

This may add a different aspect to the game, changing the tactics of players and it could even be a different way of taking the flag of your opponent in a CTF game. (maybe this could be worth one kill, and you could then kill the player, giving you 2 kills from one player).

Meh, its an idea, feel free to build on it, change it or critisise it.  :-\


Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: Sotija on June 13, 2006, 11:35:11 pm
I dont like the Suggestion
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: Eagles_Arrows on June 14, 2006, 01:08:21 am
The boomerang does not sound like a worthy implementation.  Does not sound fun imo.
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: DeathPickle on June 14, 2006, 01:39:13 am
Hmm if you say so. I just think there needs to be more ways of killing, other than direct shooting the crap out of each other. Make the game more tactical. (i was gonna say "tacticious" but i dont think its a word...)

It would put even more skill into the game.
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: The Bone Collector on June 14, 2006, 02:11:54 am
I always dreamed of soldat being tactical, with more weapons and such, but if you want tactical, then play realistic. you can sneak up on your opponents (if they are stupid enuff to stand there) and stab/saw/nade/snipe/punch them...good realistic bot matches ^_^
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: T-Bone on June 14, 2006, 04:38:52 am
in real life a bommerang would just hurt, and not disarm somone....plus, it's a freaking boomerang.it shouldnt be able to do anything Vs. a real gun
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: Mr. Domino on June 14, 2006, 04:50:45 am
1) They've stated before that the weapons will not change.
2) Why use a boomerang to disarm when you can just use the knife to kill them?
3) Why wouldn't the boomerang not return? If it doesn't, then it's just not a boomerang, is it?  ;) The way you describe it, it sounds just like a non-killing knife, which is useless compared to what's already available.
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: T-Bone on June 14, 2006, 04:55:29 am
3) Why wouldn't the boomerang not return? If it doesn't, then it's just not a boomerang, is it? ;)

that, my friend, is a stick lol
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: EnEsCe on June 14, 2006, 05:02:08 am
NO
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: DeathPickle on June 14, 2006, 05:16:06 am
hahaha, couldnt have put it more plainly. You sound a bit angry EnEsCe, cat got your tongue?  :P
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: KamikazeCow on June 14, 2006, 09:31:26 am
Nah.
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: AaaaaaaahhhHH!!! on June 14, 2006, 11:24:55 am
2) Why use a boomerang to disarm when you can just use the knife to kill them?

yea why?
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: Zegovia on June 14, 2006, 12:21:08 pm
in real life a bommerang would just hurt, and not disarm somone....plus, it's a freaking boomerang.it shouldnt be able to do anything Vs. a real gun

Ever seen Road warrior, that feral kid had quite a nasty bumerang of metal with sharp edges, he used a baseball glove to catch it again tho!

He sliced of the fingers of one fella (disarming...) and nailed it across the forehead of another....
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: Fraggy on June 14, 2006, 02:59:17 pm
omg?? this is not a very good suggestion.. btw u can already disarm you oponent by punching him..
but how fast do u actually think it shoudl go? i think you'd be dead  before you have even thrown it..
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: AaaaaaaahhhHH!!! on June 14, 2006, 03:17:59 pm
2) Why use a boomerang to disarm when you can just use the knife to kill them?

yea why?


WHY WHY WHY WHY????
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: Meandor on June 14, 2006, 05:27:22 pm
You can use the WM to make a weapon able to disarm and/or damage. Just set bullet type to fists. Just, it won't come back.
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: AaaaaaaahhhHH!!! on June 14, 2006, 05:45:41 pm
2) Why use a boomerang to disarm when you can just use the knife to kill them?

yea why?


WHY WHY WHY WHY????

ok...seriously, this is horrible idea.
from what i understand, this new wep would be used exactly  like the knife...throw, hold down..range..arc.
so what's the point of disarming them and risk the chance for them to pick the weapon back up than just kill them?????



however..i do have one suggestion. make the weapon be able to reload or more ammo. so at least you can either choose to use 1 chance killing knife, or 3 disarming bomberangs. or better yet, if possible, a 1 time throwing weapon that can return to you.
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: DeathPickle on June 15, 2006, 01:13:27 am
lol, sorry if you dont like it. It looked good in my dream.... At least you know what you dont want.

oh yeah, whats the point of the boomerang returning to you if its only going to be thrown once?

Well maybe some sort of other throwing/melee weapon? Their just needs to be some different kind of weapon, something that stands out from the rest.

I remember from the game Worms 2/Armageddon you could dig tunnels and stuff with a jack hammer.
Dunno if it would work for soldat though.....hmm maybe      EDIT* Actually no.....

Maybe a new type of grenade, maybe that slows your opponents for a second or so? or disables your opponents weapons for a very short time? It would be best for a bonus, because frequent use of something like that would be annoying.
 
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: Mr. Domino on June 15, 2006, 03:52:26 am
Well maybe some sort of other throwing/melee weapon? Their just needs to be some different kind of weapon, something that stands out from the rest.

There's currently fists, knife, chainsaw, flamethrower (sorta), grenades, cluster grenades, and the Rambo bow. Any other projectile would be redundant or out classed by an existing weapon. Then again, we have all the auto variations, so who knows.
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: AaaaaaaahhhHH!!! on June 15, 2006, 01:10:57 pm
omg do you not understand logic????


what's the point of using a weapon with the same ammo, same arc, same speed, same everything, even the same holding down throwing controls as the knife just to disarm the opponant, when you can just use knife to kill them!!!!

there's no advantages of this weapon over the knife!!! it's not like this is easier to be thrown, longer distance...then it'd be a good idea.

but to make it identical to knife except it can't kill but disarm, that's just useless.....


you have to make some atribute stand out
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: DeathPickle on June 15, 2006, 07:03:03 pm
i wasnt saying that it has to be EXACTLY like the knife, its just an idea. Things are thrown in this world for a variety of reasons. ;D
Title: Re: New weapon: Boomerang/disarming weapon
Post by: Mr. Jenkins on June 15, 2006, 07:48:59 pm
I thought at first that it would be good cause long range disarming would be cool. But then I realized that the knife would be far superior (duh) and would make this weapon completely obsolete, even if it was homing, which btw does not have to be a boomerang.

So then I thought, "Hey, how about a powerup (like berserk/pred) that enables you to disarm ppl just by looking at them?"
Well, its not great, but its something to talk about. Not sure what it could be called. Then again, it would only be slightly useful cause when you drop a weapon in soldat it drops a couple of inches in front of you, and the disarmed person could just pick it up again. It would be gold in auto fights cause just 1 second ahead of the other person makes you win.

Anyway, you can debate over it.