Bulska wrote: ...the Warhead from Siege2004... man that explosion is the best I've ever seen! Obviously you didn't see the Unreal4Ever Nuke, then. The Siege Nuke ist great, but you can clearly see that it is more a mushroom-model than a realistic explosion, while the U4E one consists entirely of particles. Plus, it has great light effects (blinds you for a sec, then the whole sky turns red and you see a particle-mushroom rise). You can see the explosion by either launching one of the walking dolls (better run if you hear a machanical "Mama, Mama") or by typing "summon u4e3.kaboom", which gives you a nuclear grenade launcher, a weapon that was used to test the effect. If RuneStorm would deliver something like that, or even improve it further, it will be a total jaw-dropper.
The third way you can experiece the U4E nuke is by collecting a special arrow for the bow, which brings me to an idea how a nuke could be handled for BW:
No need to create a special weapon, all we need is a special rocket for the G5 (so the redeemer gets replaced with a special ammo pickup). I think this would be the best way to reduce redundancy, I mean, why create a special weapon that has the same functionality as the G5, only with different ammo? Just leave it to the G5.
That way you could either direct the nuke with the laser or use the mortar function, just like you can with normal rockets. Since the G5's "switch firemode" button isn't used, it can be responsible for changing between normal rockets and the nuclear one. When the nuclear rocket is in the loading chamber (takes some time to put it in and out, for balance reasons), you can't lock on to vehicles or players, the mortar rocket will only fly to where you were aiming. A third function (press "change firemode" once, special rocket is loaded into the chamber, press it again, the special rocket's mode gets switched, press a third time, load normal rockets again) could be to prevent the nuke from detonating. Instead, it sticks to wherever it hits, polluting an entire area with radiation, until someone destroys it. When the nuke is set to detonate, the explosion is devastating enough, adding radiation to it (without a chance to remove the effect) would be too über, better to keep the explosion and the radiation separate.
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