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| Author: | Shingen [ Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Cryon Gravbomb Cannon |
Hey all, first post, although I've been following the mod for a while. Love it! Anyhow, I'd just had this idea for a weapon in my head and wanted to put it down... although it seems we have quite a few big energy weapons at the moment ^_^;;. Excuse me if I'm not accurate with the Cryons, only read a bit about them and the Skrith, but I wanted to add some flavor text. Cryon Gravbomb Cannon The Gravbomb Cannon was produced as a heavy auxiliary fire support weapon for Cryon soldiers, to fill in the gap of anti-vehicle/assault weapons in a manner similar to the G5 rocket launcher used by the Terrans. However, its functionality is radically different. Although it could be compared somewhat to a giant grenade launcher, the Gravbomb Cannon is unique. The "ammunition" is twofold, the delivery system and the payload. The delivery system is a small device called a mag-grav generator, about twice the size of a baseball, which curves magnetic fields around its surface trapping any nearby energy until the generator hits a solid object, whereupon all the field deactivates and all the energy explodes outwards with tremendous force. The Cannon itself produces the payload, in effect charging up and putting energy into the barrel. The energy is trapped by the generator. The mag-grav generator has an alternate setting where the field does not deactivate until it hits an enemy (the generator contains a small computer which can read IFF signals) or 11 seconds pass. This causes a peculiar effect when the active mag-grav field hits a solid object however: the "bomb" bounces like a super ball off any surface it hits, bouncing up exactly 3 meters. This weapon was used to max effect by Cryon soldiers in clearing out enemy installations, as the secondary fire would annihilate any Terran soldiers trying to defend a building's corridors. I based this weapon off the Shogo grenade launcher and Kato grenade launcher, if anyone's ever played that game. The weapon would be held on the shoulder, and look somewhat like a plasma cannon from WH40K, except a symmetrical cylinder with short arms (even shorter than those on the lightning gun) on the front of the barrel which would move backwards as the weapon charged up. Primary fire can either be tapped once to fire a gravbomb which would explode with the force of the assault rifle grenade, or can be charged up, which at max power would explode with the force of the G5, but probably with a larger, 1.5x blast radius. The gravbomb would fly in a very high but short arc, no matter how much it's been charged. Secondary fire is the same as primary fire, except the projectile will bounce like a super ball until it hits an enemy or a certain amount of time passes. It would bounce up and down the same amount always (so it doesn't follow gravity), about 2 or 3 meters, and if you fired it indoors, it would bounce like crazy all over the place. I've got a few other ideas for it, but I'm not sure if they'd be feasible. For instance I'd like it so you could have two firing positions, one where the cannon is on the shoulder and one where it is held in both hands: if it's on the shoulder it's slower but the shots can be charged, if it's in the hands it cannot be charged but you can move quicker. Anyhow, just another idea among many, but I loved the weapons in Shogo so much, and this is a good version of it without actually copying it, I think. |
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| Author: | Mr.UglyPants [ Sun Apr 29, 2007 6:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Cryon Gravbomb Cannon |
1.5x larger blast radius then the G5, man that huge. Might need to be changed. Overall, good weapon idea. Is the bomb an explosive or something else? |
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| Author: | Bjossi [ Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:16 am ] |
| Post subject: | Cryon Gravbomb Cannon |
I like this idea, but why is it called a grav-bomb? And what form does the blast energy have? Heat? |
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| Author: | Shingen [ Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Cryon Gravbomb Cannon |
Heh, it's called a gravbomb because it's an energy bomb which uses a gravitational field to keep the energy in: the grav field also propels the bomb and makes it bounce. You could probably call it something different, that's just what I thought sounded appropriate. The bomb's not really an explosive, when it "explodes" it fries everything within the radius with plasma. It'd look sorta like an expanding sphere with similar effects to the railgun, I think. The explosion would happen really fast though, like the sphere would appear and disappear in about half a second. Here's a video of the Shogo energy grenade, to give you an idea of what I based this on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJax1SwPnO8 Reason why I wanted the explosion to be 1.5x the G5 when it's charged is because unlike the G5 you have to waste time waiting for it to charge up, and the range of the weapon is a lot less than the G5 (and can't be guided). It doesn't have to have a larger explosion, I suppose, but if you have to charge the weapon up it should do more damage or be a bit larger explosion than the G5. |
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| Author: | Mr.UglyPants [ Sun Apr 29, 2007 3:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Cryon Gravbomb Cannon |
Looks pretty cool. But man that game is odd. |
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