Ideas I facepalmed when I found them are in BOLD CAPITALS. You know how weapons are procedurally generated? How about making vehicles manually, procedurally? This means you could build a certain vehicle with ___ _________ bars, ______ blueprints and a vehicle weapon. You get the point. Weapons: Laser cannon- Shoots lasers in the direction of the cursor. lasers do TE (terraria equivalent) 20 avg dmg per laser. shoots fast. Rocket pods- You can have up to 2 on small vehicles, 4 on medium and 6 on larger ones. everytime you press a button, It shoots a rocket that does terrain damage and TE 50 dmg every time you shoot. For every empty rocket pod, it takes 10 seconds to reload, reloaded one at a time Melt laser- This shoots a constant laser that damages enemies more and faster the longer it's constantly on them. It will start at 3 TE twice a second, and every second it stays on them, it either doubles damage, or damaging speed. That is decided randomly. It will reset when it goes off of them at all. Leech beam: shoots a beam every second that does 15 TE dmg to the target. Also heals your vehicle 10 TE hp per hit Leecher launcher: Shot with a pre-set key. Fires a leech that latches onto a target. Does damage equivalent to 5% of the host's current health every second. Heals your vehicle 50% of damage done. Leech recepticle (not really a weapon, just awesome) Heals your vehicle 3% per damage done by non-leech weapons. Effects are stacked for your personal satisfaction LANDMINES: Drops a mine on the ground that does 40 TE damage + Decent terrain damage. Perfect for defences and chases. Force field: Kind of like my contest submission, equipping this on your vehicle creates a shield around your vehicle of a random color. The generator is the only vulnerable thing to normal attacks, and it has 50 hp and is rather small. Can't be put on small vehicles. Signal flare: This is shot slightly above your mouse and travels slowly. Gravity affects it, but only half as much as it effects you. On contact, every weapon on your vehicle will shoot there for one second, along with firing at it's target. this doesn't affect or is affected by reload times, and signal flares are not shot by a signal flare. A different key would be used for this, and it has a reload time of 20 seconds. *New ideas!* Sun Beacon- fires a little stick-looking thingy on the ground. The stick thingy just sits there, being a stick. After 4 seconds of being a stick, a red-yellow (I refuse to say orange) laser comes down from the sky and does 50 te damage once a second for 5 seconds. It also spawns lava and explosions and stuff. 2 minute cooldown makes it not as OP. Virus- Shoots a little creature that looks intentionally glitchy and will climb into a vehicle (with an 100% chance). The infected vehicle will now have 0% accuracy and have all of it's movement controls scrambled. After 10 seconds of glitching out, the next shot will be the virus, which has a 50% smaller chance of infecting a vehicle than last time. Anchor cannon- This one is pretty simple. Shoot it at an airborne enemy or vehicle, it will now have 400% gravity. The projectile itself is shot with double the normal force, but flies with quadruple gravity. It also takes anchors out of your inventory, which cost about 3 iron tier bars each. Last resort- shoots a large piercing laser that does 350 TE damage. The catch- It doesn't fire every time, the chance of it shooting is the percent of health your vehicle is missing. If your vehicle has 46% health it will have a 54% chance of firing. It also has a 10 second cool down, or 90 second if it fired. You can only have one of these on your vehicle at a time. Kamikaze!- A big bomb strapped on the back of your vehicle. When detonated, it does 1000 TE damage minus the amount of pixels away from it you are (balancing needed). It also has a 20-block terrain altering explosion. Yes, It's OP, but none of the destroyed parts are salvageable and you die alongside your vehicle. Not really recommended for hardcore gametypes. Ideas from Alpha_Squad (Get ready for a wall of text ) MACHINE GUN: Just like you would guess, this shoots towards the mouse 5 times a second, dealing TE 15 dmg per bullet. Pretty simple. Oil slick: Drops oil on the ground that stays on the surface for 10 seconds, making any enemies slip helplessly around. Additionally, It will have the same effects as oil. Combustible. good with following weapon: Flamethrower: A constant beam of flame comes out of this devastating, inefficent weapon that does a good amount of damage, TE 40 dmg every half second. Also ignites flammable everything. Auto-weapons: Pretty much any weapon listed above (not melt laser though, too good) with a 3% damage decrease. the catch is it automatically fires at the nearest enemy. The crafting would be 1 motion sensor and 1 weapon you want to modify. I will add more, and add suggestions in the comments if I like them. Alpha squads more recent ideas will be posted later
Sounds good to me! maybe not only the option to add weapons, but stuff like thrusters more wheels and bumpers, to increase handling, speed and resilance!
So complete customization? I like it. You would be able to customize your vehicle to your very will! Maybe for air things, the more you put on it, the more it weighs and you are effected more by gravity.
Yes, there could be hybrids, so some people would put a lot of thrusters on their car, and turn them into almost-planes and others would arm them with spikes and metal coatings, to make them behave like tanks! Just imagine the multiplayer battles...
Would be completely awesome, but i hate vehicles cause you put alot of effort of them and them they just blow up...
well, you could create blueprints for them, so if they get blown up, you just need to recollect the parts, and it's done! Or, you could make them repairable, so they are never completely lost! the possibilities are endless!
THEN WHY U NO LIKE MY POSTS!?? just kidding, you're right. If I put much effort into a vehicle, and then someone stops by just to blow it up with a rocket launcher, it would kill me!
thanks, and of course it can, if it's a huge electric rocket launcher of dooom! (Also, if you shoot it like 50 times, it'll blow up eventually)
I imagined that you would be able to salvage damaged parts, repair them, and make the vehicle all over again. If the combination didn't work for you though, you could always try a new vehicle weapon or add different parts to your ship. You don't use up blueprints for making vehicles!
You can't forget about the classic weapons like machine guns, oil slicks, and spikes. Obviously there needs to be auto-cannons, flamethrowers, artillery cannons, plasma base weaponry, bio-weapons, and really any weapon that would too cumbersome to wear on a person and more.
Hmm, what about the use range of those vehicles? Would they be usable in boss battles? I could imagine them bursting up in flames after 2 seconds then. And another thought: What about enemies, who have such vehicles? You could beat them, and loot their parts, and take blueprints for their vehicles! There could even be questlines, involving such things!
I think we could use vehicles in boss battles, but yeah they would get destroyed pretty fast. So, these machines are more of luxury to use when you are generally foraging rather than trying to attack others. Though they would be plenty viable in defensive situations. It would be awesome if some of the more intelligent enemies had vehicles in the same way Megaman X did.
Well this would be nice, and Madmarlon's idea would be nice as well, kill an enemy, loot it and use its vehicle parts for your own! Mwa ha ha ha!
Hey Alpha_squad you genious! We need to talk about... This: Yeah... Gonna need some details about this epic geniousness. I'll do what I can and consult you about unknowns
I'm thinking of series of platforms able to fit a varying amount of weapons/tech/equipment to them. Like, you get the chassis and a drive system (wheels for flat planets, legs for the difficult to traverse planets, and buoys for liquid-y planets), then you decide what to slap on it for the mission (Add a radio for reinforcements and a Heavy Machine Gun, or swap that for a targeting computer and a gauss cannon that fires head-sized grenades?).
Mwah ha ha ha ha! MWA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!! But, Yes this would be a good idea. Thinking of new weapon...
