NS:S Gravity Gun

WorthyRival · November 2006

<div class="IPBDescription">What could NS2 do with it ?</div>The Gravity gun in HL2 was a new and fresh look on a weapon, i pose the question what could NS2 do with the Gravity Gun.

Marines could capture skulks or lerks out of mid air, if close enough to shoot easily, maybe if skulks have leap they can get out of the gravity guns grasp and it cant capture lerks their speed is just reduced. if skulks are captured marines could drop them in a cage a commander could supply for medical analysis to get a medical upgrade of some sort like a cure to parasite.

Marines could suck up spore gas and then shoot a smaller concentrated cloud that effected aliens as well as marines.

Marines could warp web, move it to one side so team mates can pass, and like an rubber band it snaps back in place without destroying it.

Gorges could pick up chambers that they had placed, and move them to a better or worse area or a gorge could walk around with an OC the whole time. Imagine a team of gorges each holding OC's, A walking wall of lame bahahahahah <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pudgy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::gorge::" border="0" alt="pudgy.gif" />

Maybe Gorges could pick up things to camouflage the hive

When an Onos swallows a marine he could fire him out of his Mouth ? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tiny.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::onos::" border="0" alt="tiny.gif" /> to do damage to marine fired and anything the marine hits

Please post some new ideas no matter how outrageous or chop my ideas to bits or rework them.
How NS2 could utilize the gravity gun ?

TheOriginal10Round · November 2006

Well worthy, some one already talked about team physics ideas with moveable objects a bit but it would nice to have a device that could be used to move a object that would take many marines to move. Such as sliding a TF against a wall if a comm could drop it into a proper spot or lifting a box to plug a vent near the ceiling.

aeroripper · November 2006

Why not a crowbar? It would probably work better on skulks than the wimpy knife.

TheOriginal10Round · November 2006

That's not the point he is trying to make...........maybe i'm wrong but I believe he wants people to toss ideas around as to what could be applicable in reference to the grav gun in HL2.

Hyperion · November 2006

Lag up the server REAL good.

WorthyRival · November 2006

10thRound is right. that was the point i was trying to make.

As for latency, the netcode for HL2 two years from now will likely be far superior. Servers will be far more powerful and clients computers will be too, Im sure most people will get a computer upgrade over the next 2 years that can handle HL2 more than effectivly, but this is getting away from the topic this thread is about.
Throw around some ideas to what the gun could do ?

DumbMarine · November 2006

This doesn't feel like it should go into NS or NS2 to me. =\

glimmerman · November 2006

NS2 + gravity gun does not really mix. We already have a welder to join things together (other thread). Apart from throwing things it has no other use and doesnt fit into the theme.

Ebayle · November 2006

I highly doubt the gravity gun will be brought into NS2, there might be a modification to add it, somthing like amxx or somthing. but most likely not official. I love WorthyRival's onos idea tho. XD
anyway i'm going to thow some ideas in:

Catch bilebombs midair, and toss them where they wont obliterate structures.

Catch OC spikes, and shoot them back!

Capture a gorge and make it your happy pet, AND LOVE IT FOREVER.

Drag equipment towards you, like if a ally dies and drops his hmg in a very dangorus spot.

Block a passageway with corpses! <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />

If gnomemod is ported, pick up a gnome and throw em at a skulk! (or a marine, building, ...Wall)

Gorges capturing nades, and tossing back.

And to be really insane, pick up multiple things, such as a gorge with 5 oc's. a marine holding 8 grenades, etc etc.

And that's all the ideas I have (that will never happen).

Someone else contribute some stupid ideas!

WorthyRival · November 2006

I really like 2 of those ideas

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'>1. Catch bilebombs midair, and toss them where they wont obliterate structures.
2. Drag equipment towards you, like if a ally dies and drops his hmg in a very dangerous spot.</div>

They would be really help full abilities.

Just to pick at the ideas
If far away you didn't catch the bile bomb but warp its flight path, If really close you could capture it.
I see nothing wrong with dragging weapons that would be awesome.

This is a absolutely ridiculous idea but ill throw it in.
Pick up built equipment e.g. the res node at spawn pick it up already built, run and place it on a res point. rebuild the spawn res node in safety <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />

DumbMarine · November 2006

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ebayle @ Nov 23 2006, 02:31 AM) [snapback]1579932[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'>

Someone else contribute some stupid ideas!
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Picking up the hive and crushing marines with it.

Picking up yourself and flinging yourself at people.

Catching bullets and then eating them.

There should be these pair of large hairy legs on every map that you can pick up, attach to the hive, and have a hive with legs walk around and stomp on marines.

Carrying an observatory to cancel out cloaked skulks for your team.

Being able to pull weapons off of the marines.

Carrying an electrified advanced turret factory.

Use it to zap skulks.

Carrying around a phase gate.

Carrying around the admin.

glimmerman · November 2006

ROFL

I could not stop laughing..... great ideas there!

But seriously though gravity gun + NS = lose.

Garet_Jax · November 2006

What if 2 marines try to zap a lerk and they cross the beams?

WorthyRival · November 2006

Bahahahahaha they were very funny.

I dont think ive got my point across about the gravity gun. Im not talking about seeing the gun itself more like the way code for the gun can be used to effect the environment and gameplay.
An example.
A skulk Chomps into a barrell it finds lying around, its now firmly in his mouth, it then uses the barrell as cover while running down a long corridor, A bunch of marines are at the end of the corridor firing madly at the aliens feets as its all they can see. The skulk drops the barrell then starts chomping on marines with minimum damage inflicted while travelling the corridor.

I dont want to see the alien drag the barrell over to himself from a mile away ( like in HL2) nor fire the barrell. But i think it would be stupid not to see the gravity guns code used in the souce environment. it would be crap if you couldnt manipulate items in NS2.
so seriously gravity gun code in NS2 = Win.

glimmerman · November 2006

Oh... the code..... that's completely different, and quite feasible. A do think a skulk should be able to grab objects ie a barrel but would move much slower, depending on the weight of the object etc. I think picking up/biting and object is for the use key. So when a skulk presses <use key> on a physics object, i.e a barrel the normal chomp sound and animation occurs but he grabs the barrel instead. Obviously there would be some viewing issues there, seeing skulk see out of thier mouths and all.

ikir · November 2006

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Ebayle @ Nov 23 2006, 01:31 AM) [snapback]1579932[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'>Capture a gorge and make it your happy pet, AND LOVE IT FOREVER</div>

Best idea ever <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/marine.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::marine::" border="0" alt="marine.gif" />

Krad · November 2006

Lmao. This just reeks of a marine 'devour' ability.

"Har har, I've got you now, Skulk! Now to stick you in the nearest stuckspot!"

TheOriginal10Round · November 2006

Well what about an onos smacking a barrel into marines?

That or he sucks the barrel into his tummy , squats, and fires a big stink bomb at any passerby?

NEX9 · November 2006

hum gravity gun.. stops onose dead in celarity charge picks him up tips him upside down while your 7 comrades fill hims with unranium depleted nanite enhanced slugs = not good

grav gun code to intereact with pyhical game word non nailed down objects = ish yeah

Era_Jorma · November 2006

If there was no comm, everyone could pick up one alien player and just keep it in air. For thousand years.

You could also be very mean, and rip off RTs and throw them into some pits or just places where they don't produce res.

Ebayle · November 2006

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ikir @ Nov 23 2006, 11:36 AM) [snapback]1580061[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'>
Best idea ever <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/marine.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::marine::" border="0" alt="marine.gif" />
</div> Y TANK U GUD SURZ.

One more to throw in, kill your enemies with corpses; Imagine a group of skulks, gorges, and lerks getting squished by a onos carcass :3

WorthyRival · November 2006

This was mentioned in another thread <span style="color:#CC0000"><u>A humble ns fans "would it be cool" list</u></span> but i thought the idea would belong here also.
<span style="color:#009900">Idea Originally by Scrap</span>
A skulk could chomp on an HMG lying on the ground and run away back to the hive with it.

WorthyRival · November 2006

Ever seen the film the matrix you know when they pull that parasite out of Neo in the car with that crazy looking gun

Reminds me a lot of the gravity gun in HL2 znd i would love to be able to get rid of parasite after getting it

NEX9 · November 2006

hum id sulks can run off with guns and dump them i would say weapon pick up time need sto be adjusted acordingly tho this could course some lag issues

hum and random guns that only seek to achive one or two thinks like welders i think are great and tottaly wanted, as long as there cost and time required to do there job is relatively balanced with the benifits they provide

NS:S Gravity Gun

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