Add distance/timing setting for Grenade Launchers
PersianImm0rtal
Join Date: 2010-12-02 Member: 75414Members, Constellation, NS2 Map Tester
Join Date: 2010-12-02 Member: 75414Members, Constellation, NS2 Map Tester
<div class="IPBDescription">Like a dial so you can adjust the distance the grenade will go</div>Just and idea but it would be cool to Add distance/timing setting for Grenade Launchers....Like a dial so you can adjust the distance the grenade will go
Sometimes you want to shoot a long grenade some times you want a short fast grenade....
Sometimes you want to shoot a long grenade some times you want a short fast grenade....
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Perhaps you can hold it down to make it bounce around a little, like in unreal 2. That nade launcher was awesome..
<!--quoteo(post=1869999:date=Aug 19 2011, 06:13 AM:name=Taxen0)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Taxen0 @ Aug 19 2011, 06:13 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1869999"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->explode on impact takes away the ability to lob them on walls/beams etc to hit things outside your LOS.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
I would be 100% satisfied with what jergodz proposed, but for those people that like bounce I propose a merger of these ideas:
1. min-arming damage to prevent the grenade exploding within 15-20ft of shooter.
2. Explode on impact with anything (walls, crates, aliens etc) as standard mode.
3. Alt-fire proximity detonation mode. Grenade explodes in flight when it is within range of an enemy structure or alien. If no alien/structure is encountered then the grenade bounces + delayed detonation.
On-hit before bounce = explode
Timeout = explode
While grenade in the air hold down right-click/alt-fire, after a slight delay grenade becomes explode on impact
This. The only way "explode on impact" (be it on impact with organics or anything) should be implemented is with full damage for everything in blast range ie/ shoot an Onos in the face point blank and you blow yourself up. Grenade launchers to me should be a support weapon, good for area denial and indirect fire (so bouncing off walls is a good thing!) not for beserker-mode run around spamming explode-on-contact grenades at everything that moves.
We're asking for a minimum arming distance to accompany explode-with-everthing-on-impact. What that means is it's not possible to blow yourself up or shoot anything point blank. The idea is, if the player shoots the GL at close range (regardless of what it hits, whether it be a wall or alien), that all you see is a dud-grenade fly out of the barrel... hit the wall/alien/anything and just sit there (<b>no explosion at all</b>). Alternatively, the freekin future-space-marine weapon should be smart enough to NOT FIRE if the range is too close. Their's plenty of games with 40mm grenades that feature this safe-arming distance... no excuse for anyone to not know what it is. In fact NS2-early-beta was the first game i can recall that had both explode on impact, NO safe arming distance, and NO friendly fire, which is probably why everyone has this "omg we tried this... it was so badd" reaction where explode on impact must always mean: "<b>beserker-mode run around spamming explode-on-contact grenades at everything that moves</b>".
I say we add hand grenades to the game so all the players that want bounce-back-in-your-face fun grenades get what they want. And everyone else can get what they expect from a grenade launcher. Perhaps give the current maximum shooting range of the grenade launcher to the hand-thrown grenades, and give the 40mm grenades a flat trajectory.