What weapons would you like to see, and to take my own line, what OTHER means of hurting aliens do you want to have access to.

Shotguns, flamethrowers, machine guns, smartguns, autoguns, pulse rifles, the odd lead pipe, rifle grenades.

Sharpened tooth-picks for covert missions.

I want to be able to use the pointy tip of the tail of one alien, fashion it into a spear, and use it to stabulate other aliens. If it doesnt have this it will be Alien in name onl.....ah, screw it.

Some nice home made explosives. No research lab should be without the necessary chemicals. Booby traps. Step on this plate to be automatically jettisoned into deep space. Rod of Electrocution +2... Watch that Alien do the Lambada

Pulse rifle with a grenade launcher attachment, semi-automatic sidearm pistol, Smartgun and a shotgun. Because every game needs a shottie. FEAR's shottie was godly. Mimic all munitions from FEAR and you can't go wrong. That game does shooting best.

 

 

What else...? Well, I think some kind of alien weaponry would be great, maybe sound-based weapons or an electron cascade system to stun aliens' biologic systems, they run on a lot of bioelectricity right?. Weapons using alien skin density and composition to deflect or redirect the acid, perhaps. Another idea would be scrappling these weapons together from spare parts, using research and xenobiology skills and especially gunsmithing and modification skills. Something akin to SS2's system of Standard, Exotic and Energy weapons skills, some of which had you research them first, and use points to research skill to be able to, before finding how to use them. You can call SS2 "actiony" or "fps/rpg" however much you want, but that still doesn't change the fact that it's propably the best scifi-realisation of the rpg genre ever done.

 

What's keeping me on the edge is that Gearbox are making an fps and therefore this game is probably pretty far from that genre, so as not to collide demographics and that marketing doesn't clash. What this essentially means is that they can't use the tried and true fps/rpg-formula that worked so well in SS2 and Deus Ex(and in Thief to a certain extent as well) and to a lesser extent in Bloodlines. Instead, the exhilaratingly fast escapades and quick and exploding action is going to be changed to a retarded "realtime with pause" or aliens will be castrated so as to allow their entree even in the tutorial level and that number-breaking rpg-dudes and dudettes don't have a heart attack with "twitch"(who made that notion up anyway? I thought more during Half Life 2 than during the whole extent of Baldur's Gate 1). Bleh, give me action or give me death!

Edited July 28, 200718 yr by Musopticon?

I'd like to see Obs get creative with its weapons, but somehow all I expect is the run-of-the-mill pistol-shotty-smg-rifle-RPG-energy progression.

 

In a perfect world, guns would be a secondary concern, with the primary concern being containment and using the environment and the circumstances to your advantage (or, more likely, minimizing loss). I'd find playing through the planning stages of the marines' last stand in Aliens more satisfying than fighting the queen. I'm hoping they'll utilize the same kind of ideas they used in the Keep portion of NWN2. But instead of having to accumulate enough resources to max out your defenses, you only have enough power (and time) to cover half of your ass, and you have to decide which half to leave open to the elements. There wouldn't necessarily be a right answer to every problem, and mistakes would cost you lives, time and hope.

 

But failing that, I'm sure we'll see some ripping high-res explosions.

Edited July 28, 200718 yr by Pop

Would be great if we can use some sort of make-shift traps from a possible interactive or dynamic environment as weapons.

 

Even cooler if there is a degree of function similar to Dungeon Keeper laying traps method.

 

On equipable weapons, anything that is projectile based. Melee weapons against xenomorphs is quite unbelievable I think, without getting yourself killed.

What's keeping me on the edge is that Gearbox are making an fps and therefore this game is probably pretty far from that genre, so as not to collide demographics and that marketing doesn't clash. What this essentially means is that they can't use the tried and true fps/rpg-formula that worked so well in SS2 and Deus Ex(and in Thief to a certain extent as well) and to a lesser extent in Bloodlines. Instead, the exhilaratingly fast escapades and quick and exploding action is going to be changed to a retarded "realtime with pause" or aliens will be castrated so as to allow their entree even in the tutorial level and that number-breaking rpg-dudes and dudettes don't have a heart attack with "twitch"(who made that notion up anyway? I thought more during Half Life 2 than during the whole extent of Baldur's Gate 1). Bleh, give me action or give me death!

 

These are my concerns as well. An alien game without "twitch" isn't an alien game.

 

I mean, were I a colonial marine fighting endless hordes of xenos, I would be pretty twitchy too!

Edited July 29, 200718 yr by Lord Tingeling

Together, forever, that's how it must be

But what if an alien attacks you, armed with a banana?

Chainswords.

^Yes, and chainaxes.

Staff of Chuck Summoning

and bolt guns, including tactical and pistol variants.

And heavy stubbers, hellguns, chainfists, powerrapiers...

Agreed.

 

It should also be called 'Warhammer 40k RPG', with relevent changes to reflect this.

Yes, as a CEO, you should see this, wholly logical and marketing-wise, change of plans through. It's what Big Cheese would have done.

hmm, with Llyranor dead that WOULD make me CEO.

 

Right, that settles it, continue work on 40k RPG and get started on NeverWarhammer Nights 40k, Warhammer 40k of the old Republic and whatever other tie-in crap you can come up with.

 

Additionally, Chris Avallone, come by my office later. wink wink.

This was destined to happen. The CEO is dead, long live The CEO! I can see a bright era in the future of Obsidian Entertainment! And idea-royalties on my Swiss account.

'LOAD THE GUSTAAAAAAAAV!'

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gustav_recoilless_rifle

Edited July 30, 200718 yr by Accept

I like the notion of having dynamic environments as traps, and also non-lethal methods of neutralising the bastards. As has been said, use of electricity, fire hoses, you name it. Having some standard weapon progression would be just depressing. Obs can do better.

Do we get Dreadnoughts? Pretty please?

They have armnoured power-loaders in the pen and paper game. They're called HARDCORE or something iirc.