No more weapons :-( ? (lots of ideas) (Page 2 of 3)

The problem with Plasma Gun/Machinegun is the amount of ammo it would require. Right now all weapons have 10 ammo. This seems to be pretty standard. But having only 10 ammo for this weapon means you'd out of ammo in a jiffi after using it. Therefore you would need to think up a way to display how much ammo you have at the top left part of the screen, as the current system wouldn't work for this weapon.

Swap Teleporter and a lot of the other powerups described would be simply inefficient, ineffective and therefore useless. Why would you use this weapon instead of a weapon which deals damage? I would safely assume that in 90% of situations, you would be much better off using another weapon, like the rifle or grenade launcher.

Cool stuff! Although I really can't see that heart/health trick working. Everybody would know where the health is, and only noobs would fall for it, and get fustrated. It would only work if you fired it onto of another heart.

Sadly, fake hearts are not going to fool anyone except utter newbies. Heart positions are fixed...

Even so, I appreciate it :-). Thanks. Do the players keep their momentum after swap, is it reset or also swapped ? I think it would be much more interesting if it swapped momentum of both players, so you could trick people with it. For example, to escape, jump away from your pursuer and hit him while in mid-air. He'll be flying away from you.
I wonder what happens if you use it while your grapple is attached to something. It could be quite amusing if your grapple remained attached in that spot. More potential that way.
But why not in mods ? If you've already implemented it, why not release the code for others to play with ?

I suppose it would be awesome in CTF maps (As long as its one-use). It could help to take the flag out of a heavily guarded spot, especially with the help of a teammate. It could be used in the opposite scenario, too -  to stop flag carrier from escaping. For example

Red(flag) Blue(swap teleporter) Blue
*swap*
Blue Red(flag) Blue

Flag carrier gets ganged on...
One extra suggestion
I think it should be single use, but not use ammo if you miss. Otherwise I think it may be too punishing if you miss, and too unreliable. I guess this may depend on your point of view, others may see it as 'rewarding skill' ...

You could make it fire bursts per ammo unit, for example 2 or 3 rounds per ammo unit. Even DooM did that with chaingun, they just displayed double your ammo number for some reason ;-).

See above. If nothing else, it would be awesome in CTF. In CTF it would even be overpowered if it had more than 1 ammo. It would totally wrap the game around it unless it had 1 ammo.
Another scenario: someone is going for the katana (or any other weapon) and he's going to make it. Swap your position with him and use the katana yourself.
Just try to think about any situation where an enemy has better position than you.

Sure, it wouldn't be of much use in regular combat and certainly NOT as a main weapon. That's why I'm suggesting that it's a disposable, 1-use device. It's a situational tool. However, to keep it more fair, perhaps make it not use ammo if you miss ? I mean, just 1 ammo would make it very easy to waste.

The laser is really overpowered in gamemodes with few players(1on1,2on2,3on3), and really underpowered in gamemodes with many players(huge ctf, huge dm etc.). Balancing will ofcource as always be looked at and finetuned before next release, as always.

i think that to keep teeworld originality there should not be so many weps because it would become like lerio or worms.. also that question mark idea was nicked from warcraft 3 random item and the swap teleporter is nicked from the swap location spell from Nox xD

the fake heart weapon would be tottaly imba in ctf o.o
and i dont like the idea of mines (the hearts are like mines)

I like the Vacuum Cleaner!
Maybe to make the laser a little less weak make it infinite or very long range and either make it bounce off of tees or go through them (rail gun).
Random weapon would make things more fun due to less predictable results.

The only problem with it, is that it could make aim bots a real problem. Imagine on that ctf map lost (or whatever it's called). People would get raped from the other side of the map.

Although i'm not sure if teeworlds doesn't broadcasts information of players if they are x units away from your tee (as in you cannot see them, they are that far away). So if it does, that voids my above arguement, which is a good thing.

I too think the rifle should go through players like in Quake 3 (or 2?).

I don't think the rifle is any more over powered than the grenade. The least useful weapon in teeworlds is probably the shotgun. The hammer owns, and the pistol really isn't that bad of a weapon. It can be used a bit like the lg/shaft in quake, if you can them cornered, because you can shoot the weapon so fast.

Yeah. But gun, shotgun and grenadelauncher are okay :3

No, listen.... It's a GRENADElauncher.... not a ROCKETlauncher...
The grenades explode at the moment when someone does touch them...
but real, small grenades are tactical useful and does it make difference if they explode or if they explode after 3 seconds?

sorry for my english! i'm just a bit sleepy right now *.-

But you don't actually see any sharp hot metal pieces piercing him. You just see a cartoon explosion with some puffy smoke.

I don't understand?

I dont think u could manage to use the shield effectively with such parameters. It would be like trying to hit the laser approaching u, with ur own. ( 0.3 sec + aiming in the direction where the laser comes from ) I know lotta people are having such problems with the laser rifle, so im not against the idea ( having something against laser ).

Have you ever played Quake, UT, or any fast paced FPS? There are always weapons (with some exceptions) that you can't avoid if your opponent got a good aiming.