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Underrail => General => Topic started by: newageofpower on January 03, 2016, 08:31:19 am

Title: Design Query
Post by: newageofpower on January 03, 2016, 08:31:19 am
Cool! Energy pistols!

Wait, why do no Energy PDWs exist? What about Energy Rifles?

Discuss.
Title: Re: Design Query
Post by: Mac Orion on January 03, 2016, 04:18:17 pm
Because of technical limitations, every weapon needs a sprite sheet for every char in the game, redoing animations and going back to older chars takes a lot of development time that we didn't have.
Title: Re: Design Query
Post by: newageofpower on January 03, 2016, 05:37:57 pm
Well.... Thanks for the honest response.
Title: Re: Design Query
Post by: player1 on January 03, 2016, 08:21:35 pm
Because of technical limitations, every weapon needs a sprite sheet for every char in the game, redoing animations and going back to older chars takes a lot of development time that we didn't have.

Actually, not every character would need to be updated. Just character models used by player and any enemy characters that would use such weapon.


Still, it is kind weird that energy weapons are limited to pistols.
Title: Re: Design Query
Post by: Elhazzared on January 03, 2016, 09:02:10 pm
Honestly I don't see this as a problem. Shotguns weren't put in exactly for the same reason I believe.

Still, I'm sure that new weapons, psi abillities, feats, and extra story content can easily be added later with either modding or DLC.
Title: Re: Design Query
Post by: player1 on January 03, 2016, 09:21:04 pm
I guess pistols could get away with regular pistol user graphics, while same would not fit for energy rifles, which just do not look like assault rifles.