Makeshift weapons

[Vuk Farkas]

if i can do any touch-ups on the sprites to make them easier to put ingame please tell me so

for simplicity's sake, the wrench club could even be considered complete at the "wrapping the head in coil" stage - the nature of the coils and insulation would already provide slight cushioning effect and were all willing to suspend a little disbelief here and there

my greatest concern regarding the slamfire shotgun is the simple fact that i dont really know anywhere besides the syndicate listening post to source fresh shotgun ammo from, and without ammo sources such a weapon would not see much use at all. maybe i should do the rounds to the various traders again

as pointed out by others, an option to manually pump the air pressure gun using a handcuffs-like timer would be good, but it would also require a check that the room it is being pumped in actually has air to pump into it rather than bare vacuum, so it would be fine to leave that detail out of initial release for the sake of ease. flamethrowers already work well enough with needing to have both their air and fuel tanks topped up, so i do not see an airgun needing similar as being a great weakness.

For the shotguns we could either put blank shells in a hacked general fab list or make them craftable (by hand or via nanofab). In case of blank shells they would need to be filled with objects like chemicals or metal, or some other "bullet".

That way we can customize our own ammo, make for example a "dragonbreath" shell which spits volatile fire, but only forward, as a "safe" and short lasting alternative to flamethrowers, or fill them with makeshift stun rounds, which can be recharged and reused, or just plain lethal shards of glass or metal...

If we use the blank shell type of ammo, it will allow even positive use of the weapon, but will make the ammo production slow, and not worth the time for any griefers and such.

On some servers i played there were even EMP shells to (almoust) oneshot borgs and AIs (altho bots would certanly be oneshot) and blanks could be filled with anything, so medics used them for healing and implanting, engineers for metal foam to seal the breaches or to extinguish fires, security well for their job, scientists even had them in case somethin went wrong (usually wicked mobs running amok in the lab).

Security especially liked the custom ammo, they would usually start with non lethals, and then after each shot a more serious shell would be chambered (example started with a stun round, then rubber round, then chemical round (be it a chem spray or metal dipped in a chem), then a weak but wery dangerous round that caused a lot of bleeding that was hard to stop, and rest of the rounds were usually many forms of lethal from dragonbreath and EMP to the classical buckshot and slug. I even used acid shells to melt off syndicate gear hahaha.

With blanks (custom shells) we can even make flares, and hopefully make flareguns available on the station. From experience in game, flareguns are basically short range one shot pistols (chambered in shotgun shells), and their standard ammo is weak, i mean killing someone with it would be possible with several shots, or splashing fuel onto them and then shooting them... and wait till they burn to death, in which case flamethrower or a well mixed chem in a beaker is far more effective.

Flareguns should be easily available in engineering, EVA and telescience (as on most servers) basically wherever peeps might need to go off station (there should also be a chance for them to spawn with fire fighting gear) or have signal communication. Even buyable from traders, and QM should be able to order them, they may be scanable by mechanic?

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if i can do any touch-ups on the sprites to make them easier to put ingame please tell me so

for simplicity's sake, the wrench club could even be considered complete at the "wrapping the head in coil" stage - the nature of the coils and insulation would already provide slight cushioning effect and were all willing to suspend a little disbelief here and there

my greatest concern regarding the slamfire shotgun is the simple fact that i dont really know anywhere besides the syndicate listening post to source fresh shotgun ammo from, and without ammo sources such a weapon would not see much use at all. maybe i should do the rounds to the various traders again

as pointed out by others, an option to manually pump the air pressure gun using a handcuffs-like timer would be good, but it would also require a check that the room it is being pumped in actually has air to pump into it rather than bare vacuum, so it would be fine to leave that detail out of initial release for the sake of ease. flamethrowers already work well enough with needing to have both their air and fuel tanks topped up, so i do not see an airgun needing similar as being a great weakness.

I think hacking certain vendors or manufacturers will give you new 12g rubber slugs.

If ya know where do share cause as a mechanic i hacked the everliving shit outa everything and didnt find any (altho if i remember correctly barman has a shotgun, so he needs ammo for it)