Flamethrowers?

Purplehaze · 2003-05-05, 01:52 AM

What would you guys think about empire specific flamethrower type weapons? I think they could be cool.

Drex · 2003-05-05, 01:53 AM

too much video lag

Streamline · 2003-05-05, 02:09 AM

Yeah, and if you think a chaingun lags...

Sputty · 2003-05-05, 05:34 AM

Yep, same reason Flamethrowers are in very few games. BF planned on having one but it fucked frame rates. I like to call it the frameraper

PapaRoach · 2003-05-05, 05:40 AM

To Many Polygons to make it look good and even high end gfx cards would just go down in framerate it would be more of a LOD tool then anything else..

LOD = Lag Of Death

Peace
PapaRoach

MrVulcan · 2003-05-05, 06:10 AM

there was a flamethrower in this game a long time ago, but they took it out for many issues (lag being the main one) if you want to make it look good, you have to have a very high amount of stuff going on for it...

Sp3ctre · 2003-05-05, 11:40 AM

Flamethrowers usually suck in FPS's, maybe Napalm Grenades for the Thumper...?

�io · 2003-05-05, 01:19 PM

Originally posted by MrVulcan
there was a flamethrower in this game a long time ago, but they took it out for many issues (lag being the main one) if you want to make it look good, you have to have a very high amount of stuff going on for it...

Sucks too cause according to Briley it was very sweet looking.

MrVulcan · 2003-05-05, 01:40 PM

there are pics of it on this site, jsut look under the very very old ss section

TekDragon · 2003-05-05, 01:43 PM

All the reasons stated above are why we probly wont ever see smoke grenades and huge explosions ala Tribes 2 Meltdown mod (the annihilator).

Daedalus · 2003-05-05, 02:37 PM

The flamethrower in Team fortress classic doesn't lag people but it looks like stinky crap...

Destroyeron · 2003-05-05, 02:52 PM

lol, I'll stick with bullets

Sp3ctre · 2003-05-06, 11:43 AM

Originally posted by Daedalus
The flamethrower in Team fortress classic doesn't lag people but it looks like stinky crap...

lol, they do look crap, but they're great fun. Maybe thats what they should have in PS, crap lookin but great fun

Camping Carl · 2003-05-06, 11:58 AM

Perhaps when high-end computers become powerfull enough to handle them, we will see flamethrowers in a PS expansion?

Fuzz · 2003-05-06, 02:29 PM

If you want Napalm grenades, just use Plasma... same concept.