C4 vs Boomer

[ringring]

Originally Posted by Lorgarn

You guys are hilarious!

It looks great, the name C4 is something everyone understands, it sounds great. Now, let's find something else to argue and complain about just for the fun of it.

They could post a concept art of a constructionbolt and you would most definitely find something wrong with it.

No matter what you post there's always one critic .... did you ever use the term BangBus for Sunderer? If you did, how dare you!

[WildGunsTomcat]

barneys, fishheads, goggles, smurfs, sundys, lodeys, bangbus, boomer, libby or libs, mossies, ghost riders (cloaked atv's)....the list goes on and on and on.

If he uses nick names...be assured the guy next to you is a PS1 vet. ;0)

[Coreldan]

Well, Mossies are still is, so are Libs, Sundies as well.. New players are very likely to just shorten them the same ways

[Nalan]

Originally Posted by Bags

Guys, the boomer in PS1 wasn't called that originally, IIRC.*

Boomer is a nick name. Get over it.


*If someone can correct me or verify this, that'd be great.

It was originally called a "Remote-Detonated Charge"

[Redshift]

just call it the "NS12 boomer HE" if you want fluff for a name, everyone knows what HE is, and we can still call it a boomer

[Hmr85]

I could find worse things to complain about. This isn't really that big of a deal to me. Its just a name after all.

[Redshift]

Originally Posted by Hmr85

I could find worse things to complain about. This isn't really that big of a deal to me. Its just a name after all.

This is true, even though i have a hard time beliving they're still using c4 in the future.

The more important issue is it does look shit... :P

[Raymac]

All the cool kids will call it a Boomer.

[Pozidriv]

"Nanite Systems HNC-HE Demolition Charge"

Since the developement of stronger and lighter vehicle armour and construction materials, older more common explosive compounds proved inadequate in the reliable demolition of military targets. This in turn sparked the Terran Republic to commission the development of a new more potent generation of high explosive materials.

After a few years in development with a blank check, Nanite Systems managed a new breakthrough in molecular design. They had managed to synthesize a compound named "Heptanitrocubane" or "HNC".

Researchers believed that cubic carbon-based molecules could not exist, because the unusually sharp 90-degree bonding angle of the carbon atoms were expected to be too highly strained, and hence unstable. Nanite Systems proved this wrong by making a fully cubic nitro compound with an extremely high energy content and a highly stable crystalline structure.

This gives HNC a 40% higher yield than the current standard in military explosives. This increase in power is due to its highly expansive breakdown into CO2 and N2, as well as to the presence of strained chemical bonds in the molecule which have stored potential energy.

Heh felt like writing a story to this lil bugger .

[Saintlycow]

Call it the c5 boomer.

Any how, boomer is onomatopoeia. People know that things that go boom are explosives. Which narrows it down for newbies to rockets, nades or c4. And the square shape is a dead giveaway.

[QuantumMechanic]

"What's a Decimator?" "What's a Lasher?" "Why would we use a Jackhammer in a warzone??"

If new players on my team can't pick up new terminology, I probably don't want them on my team anyways.

It just strikes me as funny that we'd be using Vietnam-era technology on Auraxis. At the least, increment the name to C-24 or something :P

[QuantumMechanic]

But the nickname "Boomer" will probably stick (hehe) I think.

[Coreldan]

Originally Posted by QuantumMechanic

"What's a Decimator?" "What's a Lasher?" "Why would we use a Jackhammer in a warzone??"

If new players on my team can't pick up new terminology, I probably don't want them on my team anyways.

It just strikes me as funny that we'd be using Vietnam-era technology on Auraxis. At the least, increment the name to C-24 or something :P

Well, funnily enough, over a 100 years old pistol is still amongst the most popular pistols out there, not to mention just about every new pistol uses the breach technology originally patented for said firearm.

Or even further, current type of ammunition in cartridges is very old too, but why change if it works? Same goes for C4. It has so many good sides to it with very few bad sides to it. I'm not sure if much else except perhaps.. like.. the amount of stuff needed to make a big boom could be even improved from that

I do see what you mean and it's very likely that plastic (or similar) explosives will change in a 600 years and on a different planet, but hey, some inventions are just timeless

[Spoof]

Originally Posted by Saintlycow

... Which narrows it down for newbies to rockets, nades or c4. And the square shape is a dead giveaway.

This was partly my original point. The C4 concept is not Planetside: it's generic. And the reason it's generic is to strike a chord with a wider audience. It wouldn't surprise me if someone in marketing had suggested the idea because it's a direct link to Battlefield and its ilk.

A storm in a teacup it may be, but it's little things like this that are dumbing down Planetside into a modern-day shooter.

And on that note someone stated the design was "shit". They are right. I tried to make light of it with humour, but it really is a poor piece of work compared to the original PS1 design.

[Dreamcast]

Call it the boomer c4?..will fix all problems IMO

Then we will see what name becomes supreme.