I drew up some concept sticky nades, I know they arent anything special, but they work thematically, and could probably be implemented (if a model were made) with almost no animation tweaks to the actual player model. I know some of you modelers like to make little things on your down time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_24_grenade Not that the similarity is a problem, just thought I'd throw the link here if you haven't seen it before. Personally, I think it could work, but I worry about the implementation. That is to say, modelwise, and how it COULD work, sure, but knowing the way things are done, I can imagine this sticking out of the ground at weird angles and stuff, a problem we don't have with the current nades. I also don't know how the mid-air animation would look. In other words, if implemented properly, it could be awesome, but I don't know if it would ever get done the way it deserves to be done.
yeah im aware of those, I have one in tf2 I dunno, the NF one wouldnt have any awkward sticking....angles... but yeah I get ya on the BE one.
I think the original world war 2 sticky bombs used a glass ball on the end of a stick filled with an adhesive substance, you throw it at the tank and it smashed, sticking the bomb to the tank. Would be a good model for empires ones I think, you could have the impact make a distinctive noise and particle effect so you (and the enemy) know if you managed to land the hit.
oh that's super cool chris. i didnt know that, that would be sick. that would work for the nf one, and the be one could have some kind of magnetic "clank".
I'm going to cut in here. I don't like the idea of the enemy knowing whether you hit their tank or not. It's the difference between you destroying an enemy attack or having a bunch of guys leave an apc at the last second, tearing you and everything in range up.
You forgot the wire and the plug at the end. And which country you want the plug to be from, US, EU, UK, AUS, etc. Can only really fit one socket. Also, what bulbs are you going to put in it? I think the energy efficient ones are pretty poor.
lol it does look like a lamp k anyway the idea is that there is a cloth/metal covering that blocks the magnetic plate on top, when you pull the pin the cover pops off and the magnet is active. alternately, you could just say fuck all that stuff, and put a button on it: push button, electromagnet go. also note the grip, and the display, kind of like on the BE rifles. idkwtf is displayed on it. maybe a simple timer.
I know there was a doctor who episode where he jams a spoon under a door to 'block the magnetic field locks' or somesuch, but that isn't actually how magnets work. They don't stop working when you cover them.
itt: dp looks dumb just scrap the cover part, and have it be activated by pushing the button. that doesnt violate any laws of magnetism does it?
No not with anything, magentism is like gravity, you can't block it by putting something in the way. Electromagents work by running power through a coil to produce a magentic field, rather than ferromagnets or other naturally occuring magnets which are always on.
How about when you hit the button, it turns on the magnet, and the head of it turns blue. Then you throw it, and it sticks.
Maybe it was a spoon made out of a room-temperature superconductor. ...And they thought epileptic trees were reaching.