Plasma Never Dies

[Ifafudafi]

You know it's too bad nobody plays Halo anymore because I've started working on the Plasma Pack again (finally.) Here's the Needler. No gameplay changes yet (may turn it into Halo 3-style uberweapon, may keep it as is) but all the visual aspects except the skin (shit's hard) are in place.

Everything is WIP, of course. Sorry for the dark video.



Also high-res screens:

Firing effect

Needles & Contrails

Single needle detonation sequence

Super detonation (three images)

"But what about the other two weapons?"

I've got two concepts working mechanically. Damage ratios are untouched and I have no idea what style I'm going to make the effects, other than knowing that one is going to be dark blue and another bright green. But here's what they do:

Eviscerator: Launches slow-moving, homing projectile which disintegrates with minimal damage on impact. If undisturbed for ~1.3 seconds, seperates into ~16 fast-moving needles, traveling in a straight line. 7 of these will supercombine.

Impaler: Launches hitscan-speed needles at ~1.8 rounds per second. Detonates with average AOE damage ~.4 seconds after impact. Neglible extra damage for hitting a target. 3x zoom. (Might make it so that it overpenetrates bipeds.)

Questions/comments/etc. welcome.

[Advancebo]

Impressive as always .

[hry]

Ohh good work!

[Good_Apollo]

Wow. I don't like the single needle explosions, they look a little pixelated to me. Everything else is fuckwin looking.

[Hunter]

Ifafudafi, your sexy :P

[teh lag]

Wow. I don't like the single needle explosions, they look a little pixelated to me. Everything else is fuckwin looking.

Agreed. They could use some more "depth" to them; they just look like pretty colors on a flat plane. I'm no master with particles so I don't know how you'd go about actually doing that, but it's something that I think you should look at.

I really like the super-detonation.

[n00b1n8R]

Agreed. They could use some more "depth" to them; they just look like pretty colors on a flat plane. I'm no master with particles so I don't know how you'd go about actually doing that, but it's something that I think you should look at.

I really like the super-detonation.

iawtp

[Inferno]

Make the single detonation last longer. It's just a little flash. Also add more smoke and shit coming off of them.

[Con]

That explosion is beautiful, and I love the contrails too. It's how it should have been.

[L0d3x]

I guess I'm the only one who prefers the original explosion over this new one...