Game lacks a realistic sniper rifle

[nexbender]

I'd love to use a realistic sniper rifle in Nexuiz - not a hit-scan weapon, but an actual rifle round that deals damage somewhat in excess of the hit-scan Nex (one should be rewarded for being able to properly track a moving target).

[Mr.Carlyle]

What's different about that from the current nex besides the damage?

[nexbender]

What's different about that from the current nex besides the damage?

Hi, Mr. Carlyle! Are the same Mr. Carlyle who played/plays UT99? I remember a Mr. Carlyle who was something awesome and played a lot of CTF, IIRC.

As for the difference from the current nex, I'm dreaming of a round that has a speed and follows the game physics for other projectiles. From the little I've gathered by playing, other projectiles inherit velocity from their point of origin (with a calculation for force transfer?). It's probably a long ways off, but it would be so neat.

[:)]

So, a high-damage laser

[Mr.Carlyle]

What's different about that from the current nex besides the damage?

Hi, Mr. Carlyle! Are the same Mr. Carlyle who played/plays UT99? I remember a Mr. Carlyle who was something awesome and played a lot of CTF, IIRC.

As for the difference from the current nex, I'm dreaming of a round that has a speed and follows the game physics for other projectiles. From the little I've gathered by playing, other projectiles inherit velocity from their point of origin (with a calculation for force transfer?). It's probably a long ways off, but it would be so neat.

No I've never played UT.

That's interesting. It would indeed be harder to hit people on those many large open CTF maps.

[nexbender]

So, a high-damage laser

I think you get what I'm getting at. The projectile should equal/approach real-world-like velocity for a high-powered rifle, say, 1200'/sec for the first hundred game-yards (some scaled number), quickly reduced to 1000'/sec past that (or however the formula best works out in game physics). As for color/appearance, this is Nexuiz, and while I've never quite grasped the "look" thing of it, I think something like a small purple blob would look spiffy. Not an instant giveaway line back to the shooter like the Nex, but a garish enough tracer to allow tracking origin with some effort. Or maybe purple-blue. And it should make a sound that is a bit wooshy like the Nex, but more like a warble and ominous. As for the gun itself, I am not a mapper or modder by any stretch of the imagination. However, an airsoft-rifle look would probably work nicely - I was thinking of http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/3297/icdpbnationoh5.jpg. I like the idea of a big cell cartridge thing sticking off either straight down or cocked forward, away from the shooter. Not that it shouldn't look mean and scary...it should look like the twisted future-vengeance of a paintballer. Death by Airsoft! Argh!