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Freezing damage
Spud Nick:
I like the idea of a freeze ray. Like a flame thrower but with shatter damage.
The Djinn:
--- Quote from: Riggatto on October 25, 2013, 12:56:36 am ---Was thinking in my chair, when I thought of this insane idea.
I was thinking, as an alternative to fire, components might get cold enough to the point of the steam inside turning to water and eventually freezing, a frozen water pipe is bad, bad news, however, since in real life coldness cannot build up, so freezing damage would wear off over time, but buildup stacks quicker than fire and maybe have a higher limit to stacks. What applies this damage and how you get rid of it I'm still working on, but maybe a gun that shoots a stream of liquid Nitrogen, and to put it away immediately maybe a blowtorch.
Just a thought. Completely useless? OP? Perfect? What do you think.
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I'd hesitate to introduce new damage types that require a tool to deal with, as otherwise we actually both nerf Engineers (as they can deal with fewer possible situations) and buff either Frost, Fire, or normal damage (as someone somewhere is sacrificing something to be able to deal with the new condition).
Richard LeMoon:
I was actually pondering something like this yesterday, only my thought was more along the lines of putting fires out on a target ship with a short burst, while a longer, sustained attack would start doing progressive component damage.
Severe cold actually does more damage to hot metal than cool, so I would make it damage mostly guns and engines. Extra damage could be done by alternating rapidly between flame and cold. I would not add any extra effects. As Djinn stated, that would add a lot of balance issues with new tools.
zlater75@hotmail.com:
Going a bit off-topic here but what about countering fires as an ally helping tool instead of weapon? having ships stay close, do teamwork and put out eachothers fires??
There's the flaregun and harpoon but no shipsize extinguisher.. This could be something similar and we know there's water on goi. :-\ hmm..
NoWuffo:
I think the whole problem with a freeze damage gun is that it just seems a bit too far outside of the "realistic fiction" of the game. Awkm posted about this kinda thing, where he didn't want the game to be realistic, of course, but he wanted it to seem believable. A freeze ray if you will would seem a bit out of place in my mind...
https://gunsoficarus.com/community/forum/index.php/topic,572.0.html
Now, a chem spray gun like Geno suggested... that's not too far fiction, I kinda like that idea!
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