Weapon thoughts

[teh lag]

I don't want to see another thread in this section stoop down to what just happened here.

(For those wondering, there was a fairly heated debate over religion and/or Nazis.)

are there ANY plans for the plasma pistol? It has always been mediocre and sort of useless. Are you guys gonna make this a weapon I may wanna pick up?

Personally, I've thought about that as well, but the only 2 I could think of were :

- Increase melee damage significantly... but I can't think of a very good canonical explanation for why this would be so.
- Increase single bolt damage... this works the best, but would require tedious testing and editing to reduce Grunt AI's damage modifiers so they don't become swarms of death.

[WaЯReN]

....but swarms of death are good.

[Jay2645]

Oh, and the melee could be improved because Spartan's bare fists can kill with one hit, combine that with steel knuckles (Armor plating), and BAM!
See? I can be on topic, too.

[Masterz1337]

- Increase single bolt damage... this works the best, but would require tedious testing and editing to reduce Grunt AI's damage modifiers so they don't become swarms of death.

Or we could edit the damage modifiers silly goose.

[WaЯReN]

while still making the bolts fired strong in the players hands?

[Masterz1337]

Damage modifiers modify the amount of damage something does againt a material ID.

[teh lag]

Or we could edit the damage modifiers silly goose.

I never thought of that...

[3xDistilled]

Alternatively, you could increase the speed of the punches rather than the power of each punch.

Fists of Fury??

[t3h m00kz]

It always confused me why a spartan could only melee only one way: with a gun. I mean, come on. They're military trained ubersoldiers, you'd think they'd know a little kung-fu or some shit

[Archon23]

Or have a harder punch. You know a 7 foot tall genetically enhanced human in power armor should have a punch strong enough to bust through an elite. But alas gameplay issues