Combat laser

[Weylin]

Could we have an alternative to the mining laser which is configured for combat rather than mining?

If any of you have tried to actually use the mining laser in combat, it's pretty difficult to do so without turning your landscape and surrounding structures into swiss cheese, and really only one mode is strong enough to be suitable for combat; Long Range

Perhaps the combat laser could have 5 modes:

-Light (high velocity, low damage)

-Heavy (low velocity, high damage)

-Scatter (medium velocity, multiple weak shots)

-Disrupt (medium velocity, low damage, highly draining to nano and quantum armor)

-Explosive (very low velocity, medium damage, high energy cost, doesn't break or mine blocks)

[Xylord]

Could we have an alternative to the mining laser which is configured for combat rather than mining?

If any of you have tried to actually use the mining laser in combat, it's pretty difficult to do so without turning your landscape and surrounding structures into swiss cheese, and really only one mode is strong enough to be suitable for combat; Long Range

Perhaps the combat laser could have 5 modes:

-Light (high velocity, low damage)

-Heavy (low velocity, high damage)

-Scatter (medium velocity, multiple weak shots)

-Disrupt (medium velocity, low damage, highly draining to nano and quantum armor)

-Explosive (very low velocity, medium damage, high energy cost, doesn't break or mine blocks)

What do you mean when you say high, low and medium velocity? For example, what is it compared to the present mining laser speed? Also, I think there should be a long range mode who has an infinite velocity, in other words, you click and there's just a laser that appears from the gun to the target. You know, a laser that behaves like... a laser.

[Weylin]

Might be better to call them combat/mining blasters, since they're not a laser at all, it shoots packets of energy.

As for the velocity, I'm thinking that high velocity would be something like a musket shot, and low velocity would be like a thrown egg.

[jakj]

Huh. Blasters and phasers. Star Wars and Star Trek in Minecraft.

Fuck me, that's an awesome idea. I wonder if it would be possible to implement at least some of this easily by decompiling and extending the existing mining laser's class. Wouldn't be too hard to keep updated, since IC2 releases on a comfortably-moderate schedule.

[okamikk]

you should totally do it, you have my support in most of the things you do. the only way you could be better is if you really were the 20-something year old gamerchick that your profile pick makes me think you are

[jakj]

you should totally do it, you have my support in most of the things you do.

I doubt I will. Right now, I'm focusing on Minecraft graphics, specifically the importation, display, and manipulation of arbitrary 3D graphics in Minecraft. I have all the fundamentals working: I can draw pretty much anything and texture it how I want, and I have an algorithm for generating texture coordinates for arbitrary meshes that acts like a true wrap-around (like clothes) rather than the usual projective methods.

the only way you could be better is if you really were the 20-something year old gamerchick that your profile pick makes me think you are

I can't decide if you're young, stereotypical, or absurd. Creepiness like that makes me thankful every day that I'm not female.

[Weylin]

that cute bunny princess just attracts all the guys

[Xylord]

I doubt I will. Right now, I'm focusing on Minecraft graphics, specifically the importation, display, and manipulation of arbitrary 3D graphics in Minecraft. I have all the fundamentals working: I can draw pretty much anything and texture it how I want, and I have an algorithm for generating texture coordinates for arbitrary meshes that acts like a true wrap-around (like clothes) rather than the usual projective methods.

I can't decide if you're young, stereotypical, or absurd. Creepiness like that makes me thankful every day that I'm not female.

Silly okamikk, how could a female rape creativity? Tssss.

[okamikk]

Silly okamikk, how could a female rape creativity? Tssss.

you clearly have no knowledge of strapons AKA attachable unicorn horns

I doubt I will. Right now, I'm focusing on Minecraft graphics, specifically the importation, display, and manipulation of arbitrary 3D graphics in Minecraft. I have all the fundamentals working: I can draw pretty much anything and texture it how I want, and I have an algorithm for generating texture coordinates for arbitrary meshes that acts like a true wrap-around (like clothes) rather than the usual projective methods.

I can't decide if you're young, stereotypical, or absurd. Creepiness like that makes me thankful every day that I'm not female.

hey, it's your fault for using that picture, i honestly don't know why it makes me think of you like that. also, try absurd.