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Discussion / Re: Voting for the Open Source Gaming Competition has Begun!
« on: July 06, 2010, 07:11:36 pm »
oh, bugger... we lost.
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ship some ICBMs up and intercept some ufos.
Once upon a time, I was just thinking about how awesome ugv's are going to be in-game when they are added, I thought to myself:
"Hang on, What kind of anti-armour weapons are the aliens packing other than particle cannons and plasma blades?"
I'm pretty certain the successes with UGV's in battles do not gone unnoticed by the aliens and so they would roll out some sort new anti-armour weaponry to combat them other than just particle weapons. after giving it a little thought, I came up with a few weapon ideas. but then I realised... "WHOA! theres nowhere for me, or anyone for that matter, to post their crazy weapon ideas!..."
And So, in a thinly veiled attempt to market my weapon idea, I made this thread as a sort of dumping zone for any crazy ideas anyone has and wants to post. Simple as that.
IIUC the aliens move their whole spacecraft fleet and the GIGANTIC deep space station (which could call Death Star as tiny, puny golf ball), which had their whole population, together.
Alien-based models of human weaponry
UGV particle beam -- no.
Regards,
Winter
Sir, Our research into powered armour and antimatter has come up with a new interesting research idea: Heavy Powered Battle Suits.
We stumbled across this idea while looking into larger powered suits, and, while originally we only intended to to retrofit our current armour designs to handle heavy alien weaponry with ease, it dawned on us that the same suit design could easily carry heavier human weaponry like the ones fitted to our UGVs and still fire them accurately. I'm sure that my team and I will be more than able create a larger suit to the ones we already have that are capable of carrying UGV weaponry while still remaining these suits much smaller and more manoeuvrable. We've already sketched out possible designs for a tri-laser module and a Grenade launcher for the suit as well as looking into modifying a particle cannon and a plasma blaster for the suit.
But, sir, there are two problem with this design, and the first is an all too well known one, antimatter. The suit would be fuelled on the stuff, using approximately half a gramme per dispatch. The second issue is armour, Armour would be considerable less than that on a UGV due to its size, the suit wouldn't be able to take much of a beating without field repairs and considering it's fuelled on antimatter, should it's fuel-tanks damaged, the chance of an explosion are high.
These things considered, sir, the prospect of creating something that's a cross between a armoured suit and tank has somewhat excited my team and, if possible, we would like the time and funding to look into this further, not to mention the fact that with a suit like this on the field, I think we could finally go toe-to-toe with the aliens in a fire-fight and WIN, and That's an opportunity we cant afford to miss.
--Cdr. Navarre