Making the crylink useful

[kozak6]

I thought a smokebomb (or something like it, it doens't actually have to be a smoke bomb) might add an interesting element to CTF.

You know, just some sort of tool that could be used for concealment, distraction, evasion, causing confusing, creating a diversion, or other general trickery. A smoke bomb was the first thing that came to mind.

Meh.

[C.Brutail]

ABout the name change, it's not ok, I'm used to the crylink, and I'm not confused with the electro.
And the plasma fountain is a good idea too, tho World of Padman has something similar too

[Psychcf]

awww you guys are no fun. The lighning gun can be unbalanced. Say on facing worlds you have the other team on a flag run. What do you do? Grab the crylink and start clearing out the feild!

So, if it is a lightning gun, why not have my idea for secondary fire?

[k0jak]

I thought a smokebomb (or something like it, it doens't actually have to be a smoke bomb) might add an interesting element to CTF.

You know, just some sort of tool that could be used for concealment, distraction, evasion, causing confusing, creating a diversion, or other general trickery. A smoke bomb was the first thing that came to mind.

Meh.

Yea i thought you meant CTF as well....but remember it has to be used in other game-mode's TDM, LMS, DM e.t.c.....and i just can't see it working in those one's.

[k0jak]

and before i keep banging on about a lightning gun.

Will the crylink be changed for something like this...fullstop? please say yes

[Bnonn]

ABout the name change, it's not ok, I'm used to the crylink, and I'm not confused with the electro.

You might not be confused, but other people obviously are. I have no problem with the name of the crylink, although obviously if the weapon becomes something else the name would likely change along with it. But how is the electro in any way related to electricity? I know that plasma is comprised of high-energy atoms in which the electrons have broken their valences, but that still doesn't make the name electro an obvious choice. "Electro" implies electricity—I assumed when I first started mapping keys to weapons before starting playing that it was a lightning gun of some sort (and I think that's a reasonable assumption still), so I mapped it to the key that I usually map the lightning gun (or equivalent) to. But it's nothing like the lightning gun, and doesn't seem remotely electric, because it's actually a plasma gun. The primary fire is obviously a plasma bolt, and the secondary fire is some kind of weird solid plasma containment spheres. The weapon just doesn't do what its name says it does.

I don't mean to be aggressive in disagreeing with you; I just think it's a dumb and misleading name. And I realize that it doesn't really matter (I mean, c'mon, it's just a game!) But still though :P

[C.Brutail]

You know, it's simply your imagination, how you think about it. Iirc the weapon names and the description were not created at the same time. So I'm realy ok with the "electro" name, and becouse I'm playing Nexuiz from 1.0, maybe I'm just too much used to it.

[tZork]

tractor beem like wep is sorta doable with just config changes

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g_balance_crylink_primary_animtime 0
g_balance_crylink_primary_refire 0.1
g_balance_crylink_primary_shots 1
g_balance_crylink_primary_spread 0
g_balance_crylink_primary_damage 2
g_balance_crylink_primary_edgedamage 2
g_balance_crylink_primary_force -200
g_balance_crylink_primary_radius 200
g_balance_crylink_primary_ammo 0.25


Kinda fun, but not to kind to the network (as is spams lots of projectiles)

[k0jak]

Well i still think a lightning gun style weopen would be the best option.

[GreEn`mArine]

yep, it would