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What's the difference? Really?Dan wrote:I would like to see energy weaopns as long as they are like the plasma rifle or pulse pistol and not like the pulse rifle, for example.
Try saying that three times fast : )Dan wrote:Fallout has a special setting. It's a retro-futaristic post apocalyptic world.
There's definately room for raiders, but I've always been a bit dubious of the shotguns. Obviously modern realword shotguns like the CAWS and Pancor don't fit the setting, but would the traditional double-barrled or pump action shotguns still be around in such quantity when WWIII broke/breaks out? I'd like the majority of the shotguns replaced with homemade post-war affairs, sort of blunderbuss type weapons.Dan wrote:Yeah, there is room for raiders and shotguns, but much of the fallout setting is based on 50's pulp sci fi comics.
And Giant Ants, they must bring back the giant ants. Ants the size of the Robot Behemoths in FOT : )Dan wrote:This means there is room for things like funny looking ray guns or half man/half zombie cretures that feed on human flesh after being mutated by radiation (Ghouls).
I agree with you partly there, the pulse pistol is the most apt one for the setting, followed by the laser pistol, but the plasma pistol (while one of my favorite weapon designs) doesn't really fit the whole Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers kind of feel.Dan wrote:I would like to see energy weaopns as long as they are like the plasma rifle or pulse pistol and not like the pulse rifle, for example.
Hmm I'd of thought that the Pulse Rifle was more in keeping with the 50's Sci-Fi theme than the Plasma Rifle. The Plasma Weaponry looks too technical, and most 50's stuff is very sleek with fins etc.Dan wrote:About the difference between the energy weapons.
If the game wants to keep true to its setting, the weapons should fit the setting.
I used the plasma rifle as an example because of it's design. It looks like a funny ray gun, not an uber-l337-gatling-laser-that-cut-oppenents-in-half-with-cool-partical-effects.
The Gausss Rifle artwork would of made a great laser rifle, the barrel looks like it's has several lenses in a row, which is kind of how I always figured a laser rifle would be built. The Prongs on the Plasma Rifle are what put me off the most about the weapon visually. When I talk about fins, I mean the ones that they always had on their rocket ships, helmets etc in the old B&W serials, and old American Cars : )Spazmo wrote:The plasma rifle had some sort of hook-spikes at the front that looked like fins.
I think that the Gauss Rifle really looks good for the setting, it's barrel in particular.
I hate them aswell, I also hate the miniguns. But like them or not they are part of the fallout universe.Kash wrote:So? I don't think energy weapons belong to Fallout-universe in the first place. I've always hated them and there's no way I'm playing a game where I "can" have 'em from the start. No way.
Actually, I never liked the plasma pistol either. I wrote rifle. :Drequiem_for_a_starfury wrote:I agree with you partly there, the pulse pistol is the most apt one for the setting, followed by the laser pistol, but the plasma pistol (while one of my favorite weapon designs) doesn't really fit the whole Flash Gordon/Buck Rogers kind of feel.
I liked the plasma rifle for a few reasons.Hmm I'd of thought that the Pulse Rifle was more in keeping with the 50's Sci-Fi theme than the Plasma Rifle. The Plasma Weaponry looks too technical, and most 50's stuff is very sleek with fins etc.
: ) I know you did, in hind sight I should have made the one reply after your two quotes. : ) I actually like the plasma pistol, I just don't think it's very 50's sci-fi.Dan wrote:Actually, I never liked the plasma pistol either. I wrote rifle. :D
Got to love green weapons? I'll have to take that under advisement : )Dan wrote:I liked the plasma rifle for a few reasons.
First of all it's green, you just got to love green weapons.
Hmm I've been talking about the inventory sprite for the weapons not their effect : ) But horses for courses as they say, or to each their own.Dan wrote:I liked the plasma energy globe it hurls at your oppenent.
I don't know about the pulse rifle, something always distrubed me in that gun, maybe it's the damage field.
Not just green ones, colored weapons (be them yellow, blue or red) are funny and look like some plastic toy.requiem_for_a_starfury wrote:Got to love green weapons? I'll have to take that under advisement : )
Well, I also liked the plasma rifle's inventory sprite :)Hmm I've been talking about the inventory sprite for the weapons not their effect : ) But horses for courses as they say, or to each their own.
For the beginning of the game, with a weapon that has indefinite charges, I would think that it would be much less powerful. Probably more along the lines of the 10mm pistol, a substitue in case you run out of ammo.Sirgalahadwizard wrote:Beginning Energy Weapons:
* Pulse Tazer - A small handgun capable of regenerating electrical charges indefinatly, but requires a full turn to recharge. Does moderate damage (ie, like the Fo1 shotgun), but is short range.
Or if you're a cheap bastard like me, who doesn't like to waste the expensive ammo on pathetic little creatures :)For the beginning of the game, with a weapon that has indefinite charges, I would think that it would be much less powerful. Probably more along the lines of the 10mm pistol, a substitue in case you run out of ammo.
