BRILLIANT! Such a simple mechanic, but effective. I like it! =)
Also why you need a good Techie. They can make most any ammo, except for the truly exotic stuff. I mean they may be hard pressed to make you a APFSDS 30mm round but if you just want some 30mm ball or even AP ammo it should be no problem. Even an RPG-7 round would be fairly easy to make, but of course none of these would be cheap, or legal for the Techie to make.
Also would require cross discipline skills, math, chemistry, weapon tech, basic tech, demolitions, etc. Hence why I said a good Techie.
Also would require cross discipline skills, math, chemistry, weapon tech, basic tech, demolitions, etc. Hence why I said a good Techie.
I look at it like the mini-nuke launcher in Fallout 3. Or, the unique mini-nuke launcher, that launched EIGHT at a time. FANTASTICALLY awesome weapon, but it'd be MAD overkill if you could just endlessly spam mini-nukes.
I didn't mean ALL ammo, just the specialist stuff for the big toys. That way people can have their toys and there will probably be cheats to get more ammo, but the serious players will have to use it sparingly, thus preventing over-powered run-throughs.
Console Cmmd: TGM - Toggle God Mode - invincible and unlimited ammo. I used it ONCE with the 'Tiny Tots'. No need to reload so I spammed about 50 volleys into a valley... That was about 450 mini-nukes...
I just didn't have the heart to use that thing ever again.
I know Wisdom would be happy if laser based weapons never existed in 2020, but they do. So what are other peoples opinions of them in 2077?
Should they still be viable wepons?
If so, should they have been improved to the point where they are more effective, if less efficient, than firearms?
or
Should they be unreliable, expensive and generally a waste of time?
Should they still be viable wepons?
If so, should they have been improved to the point where they are more effective, if less efficient, than firearms?
or
Should they be unreliable, expensive and generally a waste of time?
I like the idea of laser weapons. And you can even add ammunition to them if you say that the tech has been invented to efficiently store the population inverted element is a chemical matrix. Meaning that you could have throw away cartridges for a chemical laser instead of having to plug in your solid state laser to recharge it. Or perhaps you carry a battery that can store more than 6d6 worth of damage. I don't remember off the top of my head the rules for lasers and damage but as we used them in the PnP it was halve the armor SP and full damage on what got through.
I would put their availability at uncommon or restricted and I don't think that they should be concealable.
I would put their availability at uncommon or restricted and I don't think that they should be concealable.
This form of "Inspiration" for weapons is not needed. The PnP game has hundreds of weapon in it already, ranging from pocket knives and .22 derringers to orbital laser artillery and nukes. A lot of the weapons used in the real world are also available, (at least the ones that were developed by the time the books were written.)
A big part of firearms tech in 2020 was caseless ammunition. It was in development since the 1960's and there was a lot of about this technology in the 1980's and into the 1990's. The ammo could weigh as little as 1/3 of the same calibre in the cased format but the issue of fouling the weapon made it too unreliable. There hasn't really been much progress on it since, but at the time it was the next big thing.
Lasers in 2020 used Capacitor Batteries and they could provide a variable amount of damage. They had a base 'pool' of ammunition (as an example, the ACPA "Photon" Laser Cannon had 30D6 worth,) and they could deplete a variable amount each time it fires, (in the case of our example it could fire 1-10D6 worth each trigger pull.) All lasers were counted as AP, meaning all armour was halved, but so was the damage.
Laser weapons in 2020 were tempramental and unreliable. Not to mention expensive and were often out performed by standard ballistic technology. They were a niche weapon, normally used in space conflicts.
My main question is do we think that laser tech would be abandoned, the same way caseless ammo development was in the real world, or would it be refined and honed into a more practical format?
Nha i meant balance wise, because some shooters pretty much explored what can be done in different modes while dev's can put whatever they want in single player modes.
Well, as this is a confirmed single player game with multiplayer elements, the devs can do that, yes.
I didn't explain myself properly. Idk how's PvP fighting in C2020, so i' ll take the rocket launcher bit as example. Limiting ammos does prevent players from using it, but it doesn't limit the power. While everything is fine for single player modes, multiplayer modes should be balanced: it means that if i find myself facing a rocket in a corridor i should be given options despite my items (as if snipers don't turn people into gods). Things like vents, fast dodging, tossing a granade, natural cover, shoot something explosive or whatnot. I could shoot the rocket, but that's again poor balance if shooting is the only tactic at disposal.
I'll try this again.
NO MULTIPLAYER PVP. IT IS A SINGLEPLAYER GAME.
NO MULTIPLAYER PVP. IT IS A SINGLEPLAYER GAME.
I don't think you'll find a legitimate source that says PvP is confirmed.
They've confirmed MP will probably be there, they haven't said whether it'll be PvP or Co-op.
