King Arthur's Armory

Maybe a mechanical arm mounted crossbow similar to what Guts had during the opening sequence of Berserk.

Thanks, will do.

I still have my hands full with scripting and testing the Spear, however once it is at a playable state I will release a stand alone mod so you can play around with it and give me feedback. Regarding Archer weapons I have had a couple additional ideas rolling around in my head, they are as follows.

Weapons - your primary weapon

1. Javelin: Possibly move the javelin from the Knight to the Archer
2. Repeating Crossbow: A crossbow with a clip size, has shorter range and less damage.
3. Chain and Sickle: Melee weapon with short to medium range capabilities.
4. Hand Cannon: Ranged weapon used for anti structure/vehicle or defensive purposes.

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Armaments - equipment stored in your backpack that have quantity and limited uses.

1. Caltrops: Scatter caltrops that damage and impede enemy players and animals.
2. Bolas: Thrown weapon that attaches to enemy players and animals rooting them in place.
3. Booby Traps: Attach items to enemy structures (doors, workbenches, etc) and vehicles.
   • Incendiary
   • Explosive
   • Physical
4. Boomerang: Thrown weapon that damages enemy players that are struck by it.

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The next update will have the spear in some playable form.

 

Selected from your backpack, activated with spacebar. The boomerang would travel a set distance and return to you, if it happened to collide with a blob it would fall to the ground where it could be destroyed or retrieved. Think similar physics to the grappling hook with longer distance, faster travel and not affected by mass. Do note this is all conjecture without implementation or testing, so if it does get added it is always subject to change.

 

This is a really rough draft on what it could look like, I would probably change it to look like it had a lot of roll (upwards of 45 degrees). That would make it look more like a boomerang at first glance and would move more realistically. With that said, I probably wont spend any more time on the sprite unless it makes it through testing.

You can designate points using "@f32 verticesXY" to create a custom collision box. For instance the shark, catapult, ballista, etc all have unique collision boxes.

 

Most boomerangs are thrown vertically (or slightly tilted), not horizontally like a Frisbee. Regarding spinning, I would probably make a looping animation rather than script in rotation on a single sprite. Got completely sidetracked after messing around with the boomerang animation and came up with a goofy mockup for the HUD.


Back to scripting.

 

Thought I would post a quick update as to how the mod is coming along. The spear is coming along slowly but surely, I just need to script a couple more mechanics such as.

• spear-copter
• aerial down attack bounce
• bomb jab

Here is a little WIP for the spear-copter

I will let you guess to how it functions :)