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General => Feedback => Topic started by: Supa on June 05, 2004, 03:09:50 am

Title: Idea that might be useful later on
Post by: Supa on June 05, 2004, 03:09:50 am

I know Trem is now in beta stage and thus feature complete for now, but I'd like to get some discussion on this. I have an idea for a weapon that might be interesting - A Tesla gun. It would become available at stage two (Same stage as the Lucifer Cannon) after a Tesla tower has been built. What it would exactly do I'm not sure, I have multiple ideas.

Variation A: Medium ROF with a 5 - 10 degree cone of auto aiming.

Variation B; Somewhat faster with no auto aim.

Variation C; Medium ROF, No auto aim, the energy bolt spreads ala chain lightning with a smallish radius - shoot alien A, bolt appears from alien A and hits alien B, lightning stops as no other aliens are in range of the bolt.

Variation D; Medium ROF, shoots multiple bolts in random directions to make it a sort of energy shotgun.

Discuss.  :D

Title: Idea that might be useful later on
Post by: SUPAMAN on June 05, 2004, 03:52:39 am

yea, it would be pretty cool to see that telsa/shotgun style of effect and the electricity traveling through units around it, that would be nice to see in trem.  :D

Title: Idea that might be useful later on
Post by: Crylar on June 05, 2004, 09:15:05 pm

Teslagun sounds cool. thought I don't know wich variation would be the best.

Title: Idea that might be useful later on
Post by: Norfenstein on June 06, 2004, 02:43:10 am

It's a neat idea but it kind of steps on the toes of the chimera's upgrade ability. How many electric attacks does one game need? And aside from the graphical attractiveness, Variations B and D are awfully similar to weapons humans already have.

Title: Idea that might be useful later on
Post by: Timbo on June 11, 2004, 12:57:32 am

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It's a neat idea but it kind of steps on the toes of the chimera's upgrade ability. How many electric attacks does one game need?