Welder
Pi_Gi
Join Date: 2002-03-16 Member: 324Members
Join Date: 2002-03-16 Member: 324Members
<div class="IPBDescription">weapon still?</div> Remember back in the days of yore, when the welder was a feasible weapon?
as in...it was effective at destroying alien structures...and torching skulks?
erm....is the welder still doing damage? any? because it seems to be a lot easier to kill structures with a knife now.....
so...basic question....does the wleder still do damage?
as in...it was effective at destroying alien structures...and torching skulks?
erm....is the welder still doing damage? any? because it seems to be a lot easier to kill structures with a knife now.....
so...basic question....does the wleder still do damage?
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as in...it was effective at destroying alien structures...and torching skulks?
erm....is the welder still doing damage? any? because it seems to be a lot easier to kill structures with a knife now.....
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It still does, but the thing is, it's not an offensive weapon, and shouldn't be used as such. Think of it more as a tool than a weapon.
And hasn't the knife always been more effective at taking down alien structures?
*tries to remember the 1.04 days*
I think a welder should do more, I dont see why not...
As for buildings, the difference, in my opinion, is too insignificant.
Also, why exactly did they change the welder in 3.0 (it sorta burst-fires now). I just can't figure it out...it's been driving me nuts.
No, the ammount of energy needed to vaporize water is <i>huge</i> thus you'll only scorch the skin a little, especially if you don't make direct contact but rely on air to transmit heat. A knife on the other hand, one good slash to a human is lethal, more so than getting shot as long as the head isn't involved.
There's a reason you don't see any lethal welding accidents in the news.
Knives in the other hand, are weapons. As such, they should be able to do more damage.
In fact, it won't make sense when Tool > Weapon. Heck if it was, might as well put in bulldozers :/
Good times.
No, the ammount of energy needed to vaporize water is <i>huge</i> thus you'll only scorch the skin a little, especially if you don't make direct contact but rely on air to transmit heat. A knife on the other hand, one good slash to a human is lethal, more so than getting shot as long as the head isn't involved.
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Not to mention pushing a hot torch into wet flesh will either cool it down very fast, or require massive amounts of energy to keep the heat up. And a little hand torch couldn't do that.
Try welding a watermelon, see how far you get before it sputters out, or you electrocute yourself.
A knife is far more lethal than a welder.
I don't think a reason was given in the changelog, but the benefit in my eyes is that it nerfs the JP fly-by welding; now if you fly full speed at a web with your welder out you'll often miss it between welder bursts and get webbed. It was ridiculous when you could clear them that way, especially since webs became hive 3(and nerfed in every other way).
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but since im no coder and not very smart when it comes to different damage attributes I dont know if you could make it do a certain amount of damage to one thing while doing a certain amount to another. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
IIRC a welder is simply a device which dispenses nanites to repair structures/armour. So its not much like a MIG welder really.
Variable damage is already in. Turrets and OCs do 1/2 damage to Onos/HA respectively.
so...if we just assume that the welder dispenses little fixer robots I'm content. But then why is it called a welder?
Nomenclature aside...I'd like to see the welder do more damage to structures. I mean....I know it's ridiculous to whip out the welder when an onos is charging in...so I'd at least like to use the welder to destroy kharaa res tower. But I will concede that the point is valid that the welder was designed to be a repair tool and thus should do nil to no damage. However...if that were the case...why not just make the welder completely inoffensive?