Make Havoc mode laser the default one

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Should Havoc mode laser become Nexuiz weapon too ?

Yes
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No
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Total votes : 34


  • Havoc laser is so awesome. Try it.

    It has secondary fire that does damage, and faster than default primary fire that is used for laserjumping.

    But faster fire rate on primary mode allows for incredible pushing around against walls and ceiling and stuff.

    In general havoc laser is superior to nexuiz laser in every way. The only possible drawback is that currently laser secondary does weapon switching, but since we are going to have Q button for default weaplast, it is just fine to ditch that feature.

    Please vote to make havoc laser default in nexuiz too.
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  • It would be great if you could make a non-biased poll.

    Given opinions by many nexuiz players in the past, most know that it is possible to bind weaplast to a key, and still prefer to have that feature on laser secondary. So such a change would be game breaking for a lot of people...
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Tue May 05, 2009 12:13 pm

  • I voted no, because many people are just too used to this, including myself. This would also make the laser more powerful than it already is. Since the player spawns with it and it has unlimited ammo, it does not need to be made stronger IMO.
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Tue May 05, 2009 12:55 pm

  • I also voted NO as the havoc laser has almost half the refire time of normal Nexuiz, meaning it would not only have a possibly confusing new mode but also change the balance of the laser a lot.
    Besides i find the split into push/damage a bit strange given how the laser worked the last 3+ years :P
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Tue May 05, 2009 1:57 pm

  • I voted yes, because:

    1) Sec. fire - last weapon switch is illogical and if someone wants to be serious he keybinds rl and nex and uses that instead.
    2) Making laser stronger would be another reason to get rid of shotgun as starting wpn and make it proper separate weapon.

    Yet, as estell said, splitting push and damage is weird.
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Tue May 05, 2009 2:25 pm

  • I voted no, too. Because we allready have a very strong starting weapon with SG and the normal laser is good for what I need it in tdm/ctf/1v1.
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Tue May 05, 2009 2:37 pm

  • We don't have ssg.
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Tue May 05, 2009 2:42 pm

  • SG? fixed :D
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Tue May 05, 2009 4:41 pm

  • no, because a laserkill wouldn't be as humiliating as it is now if we made it stronger :/ :P
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Tue May 05, 2009 5:25 pm

  • For the love of something cute or holy, NO plox!

    I put faith in mah laser the way it is.
    You can have faith in your laser to!
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  • One could be pretty sure how it ends considering previous polls of changing laser secondary.
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  • I voted no because I see no use for it and it's inconvenient to those who use the secondary to go to last weapon. (And A LOT of people do this)

    And I won't make it default for 2.6 because a lot of people agree with me.
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  • I voted no since i really dislike laser secondary in havoc mode. It's basically just a workaround for the laser behaviour being an artifact of another timing bug in nexuiz.. But i do agree that secondary laser should do something else than just switching to last weapon. What i would really like would be something like HLAC secondary on laser secondary.. Something with more spread (more projectiles), less push and a little more damage than primary, so it can be used as a close range weapon and even as the only starting weapon..

    I do think nexuiz has too many weapons and these could be slimmed down a bit.
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  • I agree with lda17h.
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