Harpoon/Dart Pistol (Suggestion)
Nukesnipe
United States Join Date: 2015-05-10 Member: 204370Members
United States Join Date: 2015-05-10 Member: 204370Members
So, I'm sure we've all had that moment where a peeper bobbed and weaved and juked out of your grasp, or when a bone shark had a nark on for you and just wouldn't leave you alone, right? Well, I suggest a cheap, multirole dart pistol.
Excuse the roughness of some parts of the model, Sketchup throws a massive hissy fit when you try to add curves of any serious complexity and I can't use Blender to save my life.
Anyways, this would be a rather early weapon that you could get with no fragments required (or at least, an easy to acquire one, like the Seamoth's functionally unnecessary fragment) that would use just titanium, silicone and a battery (no need to recharge it, though, uses barely any power).
Ammunition for it would vary, but you'd, of course, have your cheap titanium darts that do damage. It'd kill small (catchable) fish in one hit, scare off aggressive predators like the stalker or the bone shark, and the like.
Then you'd have the real advantage of the dart pistol, the other types of ammo. A tracking dart to follow a Reefback, or keep an eye on where the Reaper Leviathans are. A venom dart to slowly kill small predators or, with several shots, to kill large creatures slowly. Lots of different uses.
Excuse the roughness of some parts of the model, Sketchup throws a massive hissy fit when you try to add curves of any serious complexity and I can't use Blender to save my life.
Anyways, this would be a rather early weapon that you could get with no fragments required (or at least, an easy to acquire one, like the Seamoth's functionally unnecessary fragment) that would use just titanium, silicone and a battery (no need to recharge it, though, uses barely any power).
Ammunition for it would vary, but you'd, of course, have your cheap titanium darts that do damage. It'd kill small (catchable) fish in one hit, scare off aggressive predators like the stalker or the bone shark, and the like.
Then you'd have the real advantage of the dart pistol, the other types of ammo. A tracking dart to follow a Reefback, or keep an eye on where the Reaper Leviathans are. A venom dart to slowly kill small predators or, with several shots, to kill large creatures slowly. Lots of different uses.
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Speaking of tools, having direct weaponry might not sound too great, but having things like spearguns or other tools that effectively work as weapons may benefit the player.
As long as the weaponry is sluggish enough it shouldn't matter anyway.
The dart pistol could be used as a tool, like I said and you suggested in your last post. In fact, there'd be more "utility" shots for it than directly offensive, and it couldn't do much damage to a large creature, due to the spring action, as well as the small darts.
@Ahglas
Then it's just a cheaper stasis rifle, no? And the idea is that it'd take several seconds to reload, pop the slot open, slide a dart in and push it back down. This would keep you from going and pulling all the aggro ever, and keep it good for hunting single targets at range. I'd imagine that a titanium dart to the face would scare a Stalker or a Boneshark away, while not killing it.
i agree. but i think things should be able to go leathal. say a APS rifle style weapon that applied debuffs like poison, slowness, parralisis. but only being able to go lethal with things like a spear gun, slow, single shot, long reload, slow travel speed, has to me charged ( drawn back to full power) and limits your mobility greatly while aiming
Read this thread, specifically the quote from Flayra, UWE founder and designer of subnautica. No violence.
Not a lot of non-violent games feature hostile creatures that bite the player's head off.
Ergo, I would take things the Devs claim about non-violence with a grain of salt.
Thanks! I'm not the best modeler and I wanted to try for something nice and sleek that'd fit the aesthetics of the game, glad to see someone thinks I succeeded.
@Tryst is right. I believe that the devs mean "no violence in a 'go on a massacre' context". We already hunt, we already carry a knife that can and will kill things, there's aggressive fauna, all that stuff. Hell, even if you don't want to "no shoo go away" titanium darts, I can just turn it into a tracking pistol. I'm thinking a rack on the side of the back of the 'stock' (that rounded bit behind the thumb hole) where you put darts, as well as a little screen that shows, with a simple UI, which direction whatever you tagged is, and the tags last for some certain duration? Maybe a larger version with bigger darts/harpoons could be used for tracking longer. Hey, we might even get a map module that'd show where tracked stuff is, in a 3D space?