plasmathrower (flamethrower)

[a pink punk]

i was thinking. we have gernade lunchers. we have rocket lunchers. we DON'T have a flamethrower. but, this is planetside. where we have all sorts of things. so a flamethrower would not fit in. but a plasmathrower would. one click would shot out a small "ball" of plasma. if you hold it down, it would shoot out a stream of these "balls". i think it would be pretty cool. what do you think?

also, some specs. am thinking a clip would last, if you hold down the trigger, about 6-8 secs. the total amout of damage out put would be around 200 HP. plus the "burn" plamsa gives you. so you could kill about 3 poeple with this before reloading. now, reloading would take about 1-2 secs. also, the the balls of plasma would move a little slower than the lasher orbs. so it would be a IN YOUR FACE type of gun.

am thinking this would a good gun to clear bunkers (if bunkers get guns in them), towers, spawn rooms, CC room, stair cases, lobbys and the like. now, a box of ammo would be the size of a pniex (NC anti ameor thing) box of ammo.



comments? suggjustens (i know that is not spell right)? (NO! i will not right "fl*mes?")

[I Hate Pants]

Now I could be wrong but from what I heard a flamethrower was already attempted in the beta stages of PS. But the devs removed it because of the lag issues it caused. Atleast thats what I heard.

[a pink punk]

really? well i was not in beta, so i would not no. but now that you bring it up ... lag could be a problem.

[xmodum]

yes ,they did have a laggy flamethrower(damnit wish i knew about PS then )
but just use the plasma effects for this weapon i mean , it is a PLASMAthrower,so , there go's the hole thing about lag , also, the boxes should be the same size as standard boxes, but only about 5-7 secs worth of flamage

[a pink punk]

the box size was so that the gun did not get over used. but i guess that could be the norm size.

[xmodum]

yes , i just said that becuz i hate the big boxes, they mess up my inventory space, if i have a weapon with a big box, then i always have space left over but with normal sized boxes im happy

[Rayder]

Think about the plasma effect that grenades throw off. Your telling me 6 seconds of that, in your face, wouldn't lag you? No, a flamethrower will never be implemented as long as everyone doesn't have the same system.

[xmodum]

then for the smaller systems , have a low,medium,or high cuality of plasma and flamethrower effects.Low would look like the flames in teamfortress
EDIT: also , i have no probs with the plasma effect , my computer runs faster when i am hit with 1 ,so nananananana

[BUGGER]

I personaly dont like it. Amagin the greif. Its like the Jackhammer on secondary mode that doesn't have a delay.

[321]

I don't like grief and this I know that plasma grenades give you a lot of it so I wouldn't use the weapon.

[Rayder]

It won't happen. Besides, your system is flawed, there would have to be damage degregation, balance issues, how many people would use it? what would it do against vehicles? I made a "what if?" thread about flamethrowers. If firefly comes by, maybe he'll say what he did in that thread, I forget.

[xmodum]

Originally Posted by 321

I don't like grief and this I know that plasma grenades give you a lot of it so I wouldn't use the weapon.

Originally Posted by BUGGER

I personaly dont like it. Amagin the greif. Its like the Jackhammer on secondary mode that doesn't have a delay.

Then make em take the damn grief off i know we'd all love it , man , id kill 3 times more cuz im not worrying about gettin grief from the guy infront of me

[Rayder]

Then you could zerg even more, grief will stay, flamethrowers won't come, end of story.

[xmodum]

[Indecisive]

It wont happen. Planetside will shut down before we have the technology to run realitic flames in a MMO environment.