New Weapon Concepts

[Shoe]

actually i like the differences in the weapon styles, it makes sense:
the different races in Nexuiz: cyborgs, mutants, various aliens, etc....

or do you think there should be one major intergalactic arms manufacturer? the Electro already has the "AT Corp" brand. i wouldnt mind nice new polished weapon models.

btw, wasnt there someone writing a Nexuiz story?

I made a thread a while ago, I can't remember if I actually pitched my story idea or not, but I definitely brought up the idea of having a cohesive backstory. But I got promptly turned down by some people who didn't think the story mattered

[The mysterious Mr. 4m]

i didnt bother much either, but im starting to like that idea and i dont think theres any reason not to. and it could help focusing on a consistent style, so modders and mappers have a better understanding whats "nexuiz-ish".

[Ivan]

Having a story can really help in the design process. I think the first thing we should do is establish whether Nexuiz is an intergalactic war or a gladiator type death game. If we have a coherent story then modelers might become more interested, because then they can imagine the possibilities.

[Shoe]

I'm going to start up a separate thread for us to discuss story ideas, then

[Doc-Pyton]

I think modeller's and moders should be most interesstet in the game right now ... cause there isnt any real story and other things ... the imaginations are free at all ... Map, character and weapondesign are free of limmits ... Sure some story would be a nice thing ... but nexuiz is some deathmatchgame in its base ... and this kind of games dont need a story in my eyes ... with the game in its state everyone can imagine by himself ... i think thats a good thing ...

I hate games that fix everythin for the player ... Most of today games are showing somethin to the player ... and this is ever limmited ... the room for self imaginations is to small in most of cases ... in nexuiz there isnt that kind of corners ... everyone can feel free at all ... modding mapping and jumping around in the game ...

[bengreenwood]

I don't think it really matters about a story, as long as everything is cool.

As far as weapons, I'd like to see a couple of current-day weapons, an M16 that feels powerful and a shotgun basically. Those weapons have been popular since Action Quake. They're always fun, and could just replace the models for existing weapons in Nexuiz.

Alternately something I've always thought would be cool would be like a nail assault rifle, that sort of looks a bit like the front of the plasma rifle from Doom combined with the rear of the hyper-blaster from Quake 2. And it would pump out massive nails that did loads of damage and you could see sticking out of the walls etc.

[ai]

As far as weapons, I'd like to see a couple of current-day weapons, an M16 that feels powerful and a shotgun basically. Those weapons have been popular since Action Quake. They're always fun, and could just replace the models for existing weapons in Nexuiz.

The thing about Nexuiz which people like is that it doesn't have any weapons that are too similar of the current-day weapons. And such ones wouldn't fit the style. If you want an example look up Doc's "Nex" gun for is mod (somewhere on this forums ), it's more realistic but wouldn't fit the style of Nexuiz.

Alternately something I've always thought would be cool would be like a nail assault rifle, that sort of looks a bit like the front of the plasma rifle from Doom combined with the rear of the hyper-blaster from Quake 2. And it would pump out massive nails that did loads of damage and you could see sticking out of the walls etc.

I do like the idea of the nail gun idea. Would be nice if Crylink was replaced by such a thing. If I recall correctly, Aliens versus Predator had similar gun which I loved to use.

[bengreenwood]

Yeah, a little bit like that meaty futuristic assault rifle in HL2, except with heavy duty nails, that would be great. And if when the nails hit they made a nice gruesome sound and spat blood everywhere that would be fun.

[torus]

Sounds like the nail gun in FEAR- the 10mm HV Penetrator

[ai]

Yeah, it also reminded me of the FEAR nail gun. Although I never played the game I've seen the weapon in action.