Melee weapons in Starmade?

[EpicFailLord123]

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?620022-Swords-in-Space-Why

Starting it off with that. Just want to discuss whether or not starmade should have melee weapons as a main weapons system. (as in used as much or more than guns)

 

[EpicFailLord123]

First off, think about it, imagine a person in a sheilded power-suit swinging around a 12-foot mono-molecularly-edged broadsword at inhuman speeds, performing manuvers like flips, helm splitters(look it up) and even jumping high and then stabbing the ground so hard that it causes an explosion. The sword would never dull until the sheilds went down and even then the extremely hard alloy the blade is made of.

 

[Viridis00]

Contrary to what I think most would feel, melee weapons could be fine. But I think that ranged weapons need to get fleshed out first before anything is done for them. For the most part swords just wouldn\'t be used in a hard sci-fi setting. There\'s almost no reason. Maybe combat knives since we still equip soldiers with them today.



Maybe some kind of lightsaber/beam saber analog. I don\'t think any fancy swordplay is needed, just 1 to 3 different swinging animations to make it seem not as repetitive. I\'m not against melee weapons, but I\'m not particularly for it either.

 

[darktoes]

I think that we could use some armor/guns/swords and whatever but I think that Schema should focus more on the whole ships part of the game, rather than waste time on adding new things, but then again that\'s the problem with all beta/alphas, you need to balance between adding new things and finishing/fixing that which is already there.

 

[Tacotown99]

um look at WH40K lore EVERY body firging carries a sword 41,000,000 year in the futer

sorry for spelling

 

[Lecic]

...is not starmade. I do think that some melee weapons would be cool, but just knives or short swords, for close range combat on ships and stations. I mainly think that combat should rely on ranged weapons.

 

[Florrible]

Melee weapons would be nice, but ranged should be the primay focus. Melee are really not neccesary atm

 

[EpicFailLord123]

This is how effective is would be in the game, assuming everything else is fixed and fleshed out. I want an arguement FOR THE EFFECTIVENESS of a sword in a sci-fi setting like starmade instead of \"swords shouldn\'t be in the gamee because blah blah blah\". Also, swords can include sheilds.

Imagine that swords are made of energy and you summon them from thin air using something like a big wristwatch. Same with sheilds. You would put away your gun, then simply press a button on two wristwtches to instantly summon a broadsword and a large, possibly projectile reflecting sheild. Your sword and sheild have their own sheild meter and when it goes down you have the possibilty of breaking your weapon next time it got damaged. The effectiveness of a sheild that just got blasted to dust is nil. You would use cover while your sheilds were recharging.

 

[MrNature72]

Here\'s why I think melee weapons should be in StarMade.



That is all.

 

[Florrible]

Or something that works like both weapon and gun(like Lightning\'s sword in FF13). Right click does one thing, left lick the other

 

[Captain Fortius]

Just let me build my own weapons from blocks.

First thing I\'ll have is an oversized two-handed chainsword WITH a disintegrator field. Large enough to use as a shield, or to cleave smal fighter ships in twain.

That\'s right. I. Will. Kill. Spaceships. With. SWORDS!

....will need a jetpack though, to catch up with them.

 

[MrNature72]

I WANT TO HIT THEM WITH MY SWORD



If Colonel Straken can do it, so can you.

 

[Master1398]

awsome! I mean just look at this

 

[Jacobm2002]

why one soul wepon option, why not have 2, ranged and malee. think about it, you in a fight, you fun out of ammo and you need to fight, pull out a malee or pistol whip some one

 

[Jacobm2002]

*run

 

[EpicFailLord123]

This is mostly for using swords and sheilds against people instead of guns.

 

[Jacobm2002]

i think guns and swords can share

 

[Jacobm2002]

both would be cool, but i think, a ship would kill them all

 

[Jacobm2002]

what about a gun with a baonet. that would be cool, shoot people and stabb them. or my favorite, pistol wipeing. pistol wiping sould be added, id pistol whipe a ship. grab my jetpack then pow right in the kisser

 

[EpicFailLord123]

SPAM.
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