Yes, you guessed it, we all love the portal gun, I haven't met one person yet which doesn't think the portal gun from Portal and Portal 2 is pure awesomeness. So I'm making this thread to "enhance" if you may, the idea of this being in the game. I will only lay out a few basics of how I think this would be cool in the game, the rest is up to the Starbound community to figure out how this would function in order to be totally awesome in the game. Portal Gun (Probably has to be renamed for copyright reasons, so let's make a new name for it guys! ) Functions: When you shoot with this gun, it will create a wormhole / "portal" where you were aiming, which anything can travel through, be it yourself, your pet, or your other weaponry. The next shot will determine exactly where you end up if you travel through the wormhole / "portal" - So, logically the second shot will also create another wormhole. Ideas: My idea is that this gun could be upgraded to be able to create 4 wormholes on the first upgrade, on the second upgrade it would be able to create 8 wormholes, and on the third upgrade (final upgrade) it would be able to create 10 wormholes. Which ultimately means you could have 5 different locations to travel to by using your wormholes. Now, imagine if 2 players had a third level upgraded "Portal Gun", you would be able to get to 10 different locations, and with 3 players you would be able to get to 15 different locations, etc. Imagine the possibilities that comes with this gun! OKAY GUYS! - Let's discuss this :whistle: I made some example of how this portal gun could look in game, hope you like it: Section of possible changes: If the "portal gun" which might need to be renamed to something else is seen as OP (OverPowered) by a big number of people, and also the devs of course, then the following ideas are very welcomed in this section, to better see how this could work in the game. All your ideas about how this would work in the game will be placed in this section when the starting post is updated. Idea by [Serp] The portal gun should probably be limited to some types of blocks, in which it can only take place on certain block types, and not on others.
yo dude are you friggin with me! aint you read the rules for forums posts u have just stole my idea you need to take this down man come on think of your own idea mate!
Man I didn't take your idea, I made a suggestion about the gun, you made a suggestion about placing a portal, it is not entirely the same ... Either way, I hope you agree that the functions would be the same, so we shouldn't argue, we both want this in the game. And the idea itself comes from other places, I made this thread in the hope to see if many want this in the game you see.
I totally approve! but I think it should be limited to certain blocks,saaaay blocks covered in ground up moon rocks?
Yeah, I'm not sure how much is done in the game right now, but if it seems OP (OverPowered) like KuraiRyuu mentioned then there should probably be a limit like you said, to which bricks it can be used on.
That would be totally epic if the devs think that it wouldn't be too OP Surely has to be tested in PvP before knowing though, it could turn out to become the most epic fight ever. Imagine being chased through your own made portals by the other player, and you keep running away, man it would be so epic.
Hi would just like to say an official apology to you mate I'm new to the forum thing and didn't realise that people could share the same ideas my bads and I like the pvp idea with the portal system that's cool dude, peace out!
It's okay man, we all have our first times in forums. Sharing is the most important thing in life, it would be stealing if I copied everything you said and pasted it into a new thread though, that wouldn't be acceptable. But I wouldn't do that, I just thought it would be nicer if you could use a gun to portal your way around difficult areas, and would even be totally epic in PvP fights in my opinion, maybe too awesome. Thanks for your apology dude, it's nice to see that you understand.
So you could like get 2 portals,one on the ceiling and one on the floor,and drop 100 boulders and they'll keep going until the speed of light,lets just say anyone who tries to pass that,isn't gonna look so pretty afterwards
Hahaha yup! Although I could see glitches happening with that method, would have to program a collision detection on boulders, so that if one boulder hits the next, the physics of the boulder would slap the other boulder around, to the point that it wouldn't hit the portal anymore, in that way this would work. Could make many insane traps by using these portals.
Never ending waterfalls where you just have to dump some water in would be great . Although that would be more like having little portals other than from the gun.
That's true, of course the portals from the portal gun wouldn't be permanent. It would be like, you could switch to other items and the portals would still be there, although you can reset your portals by switching back to the portal gun and then pressing another button which would be for resetting the portals / removing all the portals you set out. If you leave the server, or save and exit your world, then of course the portals would automatically be reset / removed. So of course, if we wanted permanent endless waterfalls then we would need another tool which would act as a permanent portal, that would be epic.
I personally see it as a very popular mod, simply because the physics involved with the Portal Gun are a bit... messy. Might screw with all the things that the devs tried before, leading to unforeseen problems 'n' all that.
