standalone tremulous game

[mehere101]

My dreams were shattered on this topic a while ago. Chainsaws get jammed with soft fleshy tissue, so you only get one hit then you can't use it anymore

[razor-wind]

what about a disk cutter then? the type used to saw through concreate with *drewl* dimoned hardended cutting blade.

also how would you know they get jammed?

[mehere101]

uhhh.... just let me... you didn't hear anything!

*starts up chainsaw*

[kozak6]

Ah, but in Tremulous, it's not a chainsaw. It's a Painsaw! There is a difference, you know.

[mehere101]

Bad puns don't count.

Nexuiz would be fun with a melee weapon.

[Shoe]

My friends and I were saying the same thing one time.

"Is there a knife or something to embarass people with?"
"There's the laser."
". . . oh."

[esteel]

At least the laser is useful, unlike the thing quake 2 had. Yeah a melee weapon would be nice but its just very much work. You first need the model, and then you need to add new animations to all models. I'm not even sure all the model sources are still available so this might get very hard to do in a nice way.
I think it would be easier to add some secondary attack to the laser. A sort of shockwave. But on the other hand does really every game need a melee weapon? I think right now most weapons are more useful then just 1% of the time.. a melee weapon would be less useful with the general speed in Nexuiz.

[Vermeulen]

adding a melee weapon would actually be pretty easy, but I've never thought it would work in Nexuiz.

[esteel]

I think the axe in q1 or the gauntlet in q3 'do not work' too but i think its more about humiliating your opponent
So if its really that easy i would love to see a melee weapon in Nexuiz. But i guess thats then an other weapon with only one useful attack and thats something i do not like. I think the laser, nexgun, crylink and hagar should first get useful secondary attacks before adding a new weapon to Nexuiz..

[Lardarse]

I'm not sure there's enough design space for 4 more weapon functions...