New Weapon Types Discussion

This is a thread to discuss new weapon types

 

Have their been new weapon types introduced? Or are you asking for suggestions? Probably belongs is suggestions if so.
http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?forums/suggestions/

 

I want a lightsaber

 

Flamethrower
Tron Discs
mountable minigun
Leafblower (no damage, but knocks enemies away without causing agression)

 

They are in the game already.
I'd like one-handed maces and axes.

 

A pole with a mechanical cat duct taped to the end, diamond-tipped claws extended, that meows with every hit.

 

I'd be pretty mad if some dude came up and start pushing me around...

 

So I would like to formerly say this game is very fun, to me it is a mix between borderlands (which i wish you could go to different planets in) and Phantasy Star Online wrapped up in an awesome 2D adventure'er game!

Now, on to the discussion.

Fist and foremost, I would like to petition to make the Bow (one of my favorite weapons to use) be a certified weapon class. You can still do cool ammo types with it, explosive tips, poison tip, electric tip, fire tip, teleport arrow (it is shot and then teleported to the closest "thing" in its fireing line of sight), murve arrow (the arrow is shot and after a short delay it bursts into "x" amount of arrows that reign down), Boring arrow (arrow that looks like a "drill tip" it is shot and can Bore through objects), sticky explosive delay arrow, Tomahawk arrow (the arrow is shot like a javelin missile where it immediately flies upward "looking like a bell curve" and slams down exploding in an area), and i can go on and on but you get the point

Second Class - I have noticed through playing that the work put in with the particle and illumination system is great, the glowing, the effects are awesome and i thing they can make this class type very "beautiful." The class is - "Spell Gauntlets" (high rarity and use energy). So they can basically have the same targeting system as the matter manipulator (the line and the targeting "blue hue" up to a certain distance). So, some examples of what i am talking about are fire gauntlets that when you click the "fire" button, the character snaps its fingers and after a brief delay, engulfs the blue hued area with flames, lightning can work the same way except that a lightning bolt violently strikes down at the target area, you can make this work with alot of different things, Earthshaker gauntlets lets you shoot various spikes of earth up from the ground at enemies (only works on targeted ground, not mid air), let your mind run!! The reason this is cool in my opinion is that this style of weapon allow you DEVELOPERS to take advantage of your beautiful particle and lighting engine and make amazing weapon effects and visuals. To get a better picture of what im talking about, imagine Roy Mustang from Full Metal Alchemist and the way his gloves work, visual link -> seconds 18 and on.

I hope you guys find what i have written interesting and that the DEVELOPERS see this to have a couple new ideas to add to their awesome world.

Thank you all,
Michael

 

bump

 

Would you rather him shoot you dealing damage and still knock you around? It'd only work on anything you'd normally be able to attack, which would go through your allies.

 

heh I'd be happy to see them cover all the Secret of Mana basics. Think they're just missing the whip and knuckles at this point. Whips would be sweet. Start with leather, work your way through chain, and get crazy energy whips towards the end game.

Would be nice to see way more weapon types become craftable; I rarely ever come across any of the throwing weapon types.

 

1. One-handed maces
2. One/two-Handed wands that shoot projectile magic effects
3. Fist weapons that change your character's animations to punch and kick combos

 

Fists and martial arts would be excellent

 

It's not about what I'd rather he'd do, it's about what is aggressive. And throwing people around is unambiguously and act of aggression.