Halo 3 "Battery Ammo" on HCE.
Hello, i'd like to know whether it is possible to use the battery ammo like Halo 3's Energy Sword uses. By this i mean that it does not waste ammo\battery when you fire at nothing, but use ammo\battery only when striking a successful lunge. On the top left of the next image is somewhat of an example of what i want, which is as stated above, and for it to show on the HUD properly.

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I think Sigma's done it, I'm not sure.
Other than them though I haven't seen anyone try it. Energy Sword isn't exactly a popular weapon in CE.
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ODX
I think Sigma's done it, I'm not sure.
Other than them though I haven't seen anyone try it. Energy Sword isn't exactly a popular weapon in CE.
no sigma never did that as far as i know
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Impossible. You can't modify the ammo of a weapon unless it has a scripted name and even then it would be impossible to script a hit/no-hit check.
Unless someone has a better idea of course.
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Aren't there hit effects? Can't you translate that to ammo use?
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Swords are pretty pointless in CE tbqh.
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Hunter
Swords are pretty pointless in CE tbqh.
Eh not so much in SP.
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Dwood
Eh not so much in SP.
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Unfortunately, making a weapon like that by tags only isn't possible. Age and ammo decrement at a fixed rate, whenever the weapon is fired.
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well what i did was give it the first-person ammo function like the needler, i had all frames the same except for the last frame was when the sword was gone, it worked.
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Is it possible to give the weapon such a large weapon charge that it would never be used up in one mission? I haven't looked at weapon tags in forever but I'm not sure.
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Geo
Is it possible to give the weapon such a large weapon charge that it would never be used up in one mission? I haven't looked at weapon tags in forever but I'm not sure.
I don't see why, instead of obsessing over having a lunge, people don't just make Halo CE energy swords with a 1 shot kill melee attack that has good range. :\
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because it wont play like the REAL energy sword.
and most of them are thrown into shotty remakes of halo 2 and 3 maps (some are good so no offense to the mappers) and will change the gameplay.
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Well I suppose i will leave it as an infinite ammo type weapon.
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azjesse
Well I suppose i will leave it as an infinite ammo type weapon.
No dont. Just give it a larger ammo reserve than most weapons, and make the ammo for it battery packs or something like that.