Yeah, it sounds kinda wierd, but bear with me for a bit... (rawr) I was thinking that awesome if there was a type of hardpoint (where you mount the weapons, for those who do not know the term) that can mount any weapon. or something like that. It would be nice if you could mount a chain gun on a medium tank instead of missiles, or two chain guns on a heavy tank. etc. -Sheepe
I know what he is talking about, it was used in the Mechwarrior games. What he is suggesting is a weapon slot that isnt limited to a certian type of weapon (ie. Cannons, machine guns, missiles, etc.) but can hold any weapon that fits in the slots avaliable so the amount of customization (sp?) is higher. Obvoiusly it should be restricted somewhat, (imagine having two HE arty cannons on the BE heavy tank) but i rather like the idea. Would be nice to actually fit the three slot machine guns on anything other than the apc! I also second the mounted machine gun for 2nd rider on a tank.
Yeah, like Noble Dragon said, he means that you don't have specific slots, you have areas that fit X ammount of weapons and each will have a limit. Like you could take a (Imp)Heavy tank and put two salvo missle launchers on it instead of the cannons. Of course, limit it so that Arty tanks are the only ones that are restricted to *cough nothing cough*, Arty cannons.
yeah, noble dragon got what I was after. I figured it would be pretty confusing the way I said it, but I could think of how better to say it... Mayhaps an "Omni-Truck" that can mount either missiles or machine guns or grenades. It'd be useful but difficult to code. -Sheepe
well, say the omni-hardpoint only covers grenades, missile, and machine guns, does that work? Possibly even cannons... -Sheepe
Well, that would be a lot of model changing, what would happen to the BE Heavy tank without the dual cannons? would that model disappear? I personally think the current system is pretty good (just fix the second slot for armour)
erm, what i got the impression he was on about was a weapon on the top of the vehicle for passngers to use. a heavy tank with two chaingunners would be so much fun.
maybe replace (for example) 2 cannon slots of the heavy tank to omni bu in a way that they OR overlap cannon slots to grant the big cannons OR have a small cannon + something extra
Actually with the heavy I was thinking that the Cannons stay as is. The Missiles and MG is merged into one Omni Slot, so dual chain guns or what not... -Sheepe
lol wowsers, yea good thinking, i want to get into 1 tank with at least 1 other friend to both controll a part of that tank
yeah, that would be awesomer, because I hate shooting at something while trying to run away, only to fall off a cliff or something... -Sheepe
First, some people are confused as to what Sheepe meant by omni-mountable. It doesn't mean a gun for the person up top (although I would like that very much so). It means weopon slots not restricted to a certain class, so you could have 2 Missle weopons instead of 1 cannon and 1 missle. Personally, I think that would cause a quite few problems balance wise and model wise, as knighttemplar stated. What I feel that would be cool though, is to see a Omni-Tank or truck like Sheepe also said. Then, that truck could become a missle salvo, an anti-infantry mg truck, or a nade throwing, mine laying utility vehicle! Yay for implementing mines with vehicles..
