When BW does get Weapon mods, Here is an idea

A menu which can select different mods. There are 6 categories.

Calibre/round upgrade = this ups the damage and armour resistance. May negatively affect recoil. Design changes include the barrel largening

Stability upgrade = reduces chaos and weight, may negatively affect recoil. Design changes include a lighter, more streamlined gun appearance with added plastic parts

accuracy upgrade = reduces recoil, may negatively affect damage. Design changes include larger stocks or a tweaked firing mechanism

ammo clip upgrade = changes clip size or replaces it completely, may negatively affect chaos or running speed. Design changes include a different clip and mechanism for holding it

feature upgrade = unlocks a weapons alternate fire, special ability or firemode. EG: effective abilities such as the railguns thermal scope could require an upgrade so people cannot go wall spamming right away.

Addons = Adds additional abilities such as attached grenade launchers, shotguns, flashlights and other cool toys that the weapon would not normally have. This allows you to create combination guns but may negatively affect size, wheight, recoil, chaos and damage. It's also the most expensive upgrade.


The menu can be a circle, showing the gun with three smaller circles with the 6 categories with quicklists for each one of them. When you add a mod, the gun changes and the money you earn will be lost unless your put it back to nothing.

I will put a list up of the mods later.

Nice idea!

I have to nag, though: a .44 frame can't fore .50 bullets. They just don't fit

Darn.

The list will be up after i'm done with school and get home.

I think i get home at 4.

Is that additional ammo increases (like having more than 180 rounds in reserve for the M-50), or more akin to Larger magazines/ tanks/ belts?

Clip increases like SRS900 20 to 40 but it can be reserves too

doubling the size of the clip seems a tad crazy. (cause the whole mag would need to be doubled).

Besides that, sounds like a good idea.

The list-

X3-

Firepower- Poison
Tactical-Guiding reticule
Misc.- Engraved "Thorn" on it

A909-

Firepower- Poison dart
Tactical- chain
Misc. Camo

EKS43-

Firepower- Small dagger on hilt
Tactical- N/A
Misc.- Engraved "Yokelessence" on it

M806-

Firepower- Ricochet bullets
Tactical- Stronger laser
Misc.- Clip increase to 18

RS10-

Firepower- Anti-personnel bullets.
Tactical- Stronger laser
Misc.- Grey and black paint job.

AM67-

Firepower- Anti-Armor Bullets
Tactical- Longer flash
Misc.- New color

D49-

Firepower- Holy water/acid rounds
Tactical- Scope
Misc.- Engraved black rose

59-

Firepower- Spiked blades
Tactical- Fixed stock
Misc. Grey paint job

XRS10-

Firepower- Ricochet bullets
Tactical- Reflex scope
Misc.- Engrave thorns

XK2-

Firepower- Grenade
Tactical- Scope, Fore grip
Misc- Silent sneaker

that's enough for now.

Uhh... whut...?

Someone has got an ego.

Before anyone else wonders why, It dosen't mean the User Dk, Just the monkey DK...

Crap, I'll change it.

Edit- List 2-

A42-

Firepower- Red plasma
Tactical- Blue laser
Misc.- Clip increase to 375

MRT6-

Firepower- Exploding Shells
Tactical- N/A
Misc.- Engraved slug

M763-

Firepower- Grenade rounds
Tactical- Quick clip
Misc.- Paint job.

M290-

Firepower- Electric Buck
Tactical- Quick Clip
Misc.- Enhanced cocking speed

MRS138-

Firepower- Needle rounds
Tactical- Sticky shocker
Misc.- New paint job.

M50-

Firepower- Shotgun
Tactical- Scope and foregrip
Misc.- 60 round drum

A73-

Firepower- Plasma grenade launcher
Tactical- Scope
Misc- Engraved "Fury"

SRS900-

Firepower- Bayonet
Tactical- Laser sight
Misc- Clip increase to 30

M353-

Firepower- N/A
Tactical- Scope
Misc- Engraved "Razor King"

M925-

Firepower- heavy armor piercing rounds
Tactical- N/A
Misc.- Engraved Flask of holy water

XMV-850-

Does it really need any upgrades?

R78A1-

Firepower- Armor piercing rounds
Tactical- New scope
Misc.- Clip increase to 10

M75-TIC

Firepower- Quantum Exploding Bullets
Tactical- X-ray scope
Misc. New paint job

G5-

Firepower- Napalm rockets
Tactical- N/A
Misc. Engraved "Howzy"

RX22A-

Firepower- Liquid Nitrogen
Tactical- N/A
Misc- new paintjob

HVC-

Firepower- Double damage, triple heat-up rate
Tactical- EMP - disable all vehicles nearby for a short time, say, 10 seconds
Misc- Plays Chorus to the "Mr. Roboto" song

"made by tyster"

I take offense! I do not have an ego. Just really high self-esteem issues...

What's the difference?

DK is a VG Star.

*Nails BJ into a wall.*

While I don't really get what holy water would do against a marine or anything like that, an X-Ray scope on the M75 would be pretty neat.

I see you borrowed a couple of the ammo types from Bioshock. Electric Buck, anyone?

Holy water bullets could do extra damage to aliens.

Idea:

HVC-

Firepower- Double damage, triple heat-up rate
Tactical- EMP - disable all vehicles nearby for a short time, say, 10 seconds
Misc- Plays Chorus to the "Mr. Roboto" song

I'll add it to the list.

Water bullets wouldn't live long enough to leave the barrel, let alone hit their target.

Darn.

They'd be encased in something that shatters upon impact, Bjossi...

But anyways, if holy water was to do extra damage, don't you think it it should do extra damage to the things that actually, you know, seem like unholy abominations? Thats right, I'm thinking the Nightmares should be weak to Holy damage.

Repent!

I might change it back to holy water, but i need more opinions.

yes give the xmv 850 mini gun homing bullets so the rounds follow its target lol

I love the idea, and taking some things into consideration, it kinda makes sense (them outworlders are superstitious folks ), but it kind of seems a bit odd too.

What about the holy water is actually some sort of highly caustic acid, but shipped with kind of a tongue and cheek name of holy water? Heh, the acid could even be blessed for added insurance.



Heh, going Serious Sam on us?

I'll change it back to holy water...

and NO homing bullets.

List 3-

R9-

Firepower- Bayonet
Tactical- 4X scope
Misc.- Engraved "ranger"

S-AR 12

Firepower- Bladed Stock
Tactical- Reflex Scope
Misc.- Engraved Atom

I'll have to say, i do like the Ranger addon, but doesn't the S-AR already have a reflex scope?

But it'd also be pretty neat in giving the Ranger some kind of scope.

i think...

but it's like the one in crysis.

Ah. Well that one should work great so i guess i'll agree.

I request that that Katana has the word "YOKELASSENCE" painted down its blade for its misc upgrade.

After thinking of the things that could be upgraded, we could expand the upgrade catagories to look like this:

Calibre/round upgrade = as already mentioned, this ups the damage and armour resistance. May negatively affect recoil. Design changes include the barrel largening

Stability upgrade = reduces chaos and weight, may negatively affect recoil. Design changes include a lighter, more streamlined gun appearance with added plastic parts

accuracy upgrade = reduces recoil, may negatively affect damage. Design changes include larger stocks or a tweaked firing mechanism

ammo clip upgrade = changes clip size or replaces it completely, may negatively affect chaos or running speed. Design changes include a different clip and mechanism for holding it

feature upgrade = unlocks a weapons alternate fire, special ability or firemode. EG: effective abilities such as the railguns thermal scope could require an upgrade so people cannot go wall spamming right away.

Addons = Adds additional abilities such as attached grenade launchers, shotguns, flashlights and other cool toys that the weapon would not normally have. This allows you to create combination guns but may negatively affect size, wheight, recoil, chaos and damage. It should also be the most expensive upgrade.

Note that I also added what side affects upgrades may have, there should be consequences for whoring one upgrade aspect.

How do we earn "upgrade credits" anyway? Spend your own score points?

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Also if you want to add another dimention to this idea, we could have different upgrade levels

EXAMPLE:

standard SRS900 clip = 20

Clip upgrade 1: Expanded clip, + 10 rounds, +1 wheight
Clip upgrade 2: double clip, + 20 rounds, +2 wheight
Clip upgrade 4: Munition drum, + 60 rounds, +4 wheight
Clip upgrade Max: Belt feed, + 100 rounds, +8 wheight

To compensate for the added wheight you need a stability upgrade to balance it out so getting an overpowered gun wont be that easy.