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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0004714 | Valley 1 | Suggestion | Oct 8, 2011 8:10 am | May 12, 2012 9:01 pm | |
| Reporter | paramime | Assigned To | Chris_McElligottPark | ||
| Severity | feature | ||||
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 0.521 | ||||
| Summary | 0004714: Guns and Gadgets for the industrial age | ||||
| Description | When playing the beta i was disappointed to see spells instead of guns. World creation should allow the player to start as someone from the industrial age and those characters should have guns and gadgets as a unique difference to people from the ice age. I was thinking something along the lines of grappling hooks and steampunk guns, and a greater emphasis on crafting using the available materials. This will aid the player niche that want guns instead of spells. Industrial areas will have parts for crafting weapons and items giving players a greater motive to explore those areas. The majority can decide if spells can be learned or if the gameplay should have a completely different feel. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | New | ||||
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No guns, swords, or similar are ever coming for the game -- it's a magic theme. This is just not what the game is about, sorry. We're replicating a lot of the FEEL of those sorts of things, but using magic. Guns and so on require lots of character animations and aren't that exciting to look at otherwise, whereas magic is a lot more flexible and interesting and can have cool particle effects, etc. The player niche that wants guns instead of spells is looking at the wrong game -- like going to Magicka and wanting a shotgun. ;) |
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To be fair though, x4000, Magicka DOES have pistols, machineguns, and rocket launchers. ;) I admit it's kind of a shame that it's magic only, because I think the various characters from different periods would have more incentive to be used if they had access to their own, unique abilities. That said though, given the scope of what would need to be done for this to work, I can understand the decision. |
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Farm some sulfur and charcoal. Don't need literal guns - A cannonball attack would be hardcore, especially if after it hits a wall it rolls down hills and stairs via physics for a short time and then explodes. Plus there are spells with physicality like Throw Rock and the Summon spells Clearly fire element. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Oct 8, 2011 8:10 am | paramime | New Issue | |
| Oct 8, 2011 8:27 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Internal Weight | => New |
| Oct 8, 2011 8:27 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0016205 | |
| Oct 8, 2011 8:27 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | new => closed |
| Oct 8, 2011 8:27 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Assigned To | => Chris_McElligottPark |
| Oct 8, 2011 8:27 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Resolution | open => fixed |
| May 12, 2012 7:55 pm | RetroNutcase | Note Added: 0024164 | |
| May 12, 2012 8:07 pm | RetroNutcase | Note Edited: 0024164 | |
| May 12, 2012 9:01 pm | Lokarin | Note Added: 0024168 | |
| Apr 14, 2014 9:28 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Category | Suggestion - General Idea => Suggestion - General |
| Apr 14, 2014 9:30 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Category | Suggestion - General => Suggestion |
