Silenced weapons and you!

15 posts · 2006-04-22 20:13:23 to 2006-04-23 15:35:15

#35600001115 04/22/2006 20:13:23 Silenced weapons and you!
So, I'm pvp in mara and I get to thinking that Silenced weapons serve no benifit as it is.   I get to thinking and it would be really really cool if the silenced weapons would have a chance to keep you stealthed, what ever your method of stealthing is, Invis, Escape and evasion, Regular Stealth, Disguise, etc...

Now im not proposing this with out some cost, the cost could be damage or accuracy or recharge, either way, having a chance to stay concealed when using silenced weapons would be a great addition.

Thoughts? Keep it civil or i will pwn joo.
#35600001116 04/22/2006 20:15:17 Re: Silenced weapons and you!
that actually sounds pretty cool

#35600001117 04/22/2006 20:17:58 Re: Silenced weapons and you!
The purpose of the silenced weapons are that they keep your Agent meter down while shooting them in a restricted area.  When you shoot regular weapons in a restricted area, it increases the chance of an Agent showing up.


Not many people know about that.  SMILEY


~Fen
#35600001118 04/22/2006 20:19:11 Re: Silenced weapons and you!
well, thats a crappy purpose. Noone cares about agent meters these days as they are noobs and easy to avoid. We want real use from them!
#35600001119 04/22/2006 20:20:51 Re: Silenced weapons and you!
I like your idea though.  I'd love if silenced weapons gave you a chance to remain stealthy.  It makes sense.
#35600001120 04/22/2006 20:23:17 Re: Silenced weapons and you!
It makes too much sense for it to work.


EDIT: This is a great idea!!1 *RFalias takes the gun away from nospoons head*

Message Edited by nospoon on 04-22-2006 09:26 PM

#35600001121 04/22/2006 20:29:36 Re: Silenced weapons and you!
I like this idea.


Though I still want to make sex with Alias.


Message Edited by Roukan on 04-22-2006 09:33 PM

#35600001122 04/22/2006 21:12:47 Re: Silenced weapons and you!





Fenshire wrote:

The purpose of the silenced weapons are that they keep your Agent meter down while shooting them in a restricted area.  When you shoot regular weapons in a restricted area, it increases the chance of an Agent showing up.


Not many people know about that.  SMILEY


~Fen






That, and Ive noticed that silenced weapons carry their own brand of buffs as compaired to the enhanced weapon types. And they look cooler.



Anyone remember when silenced werent actually silenced? :smileytongue:

#35600001123 04/22/2006 22:31:32 Re: Silenced weapons and you!
Its why I load up sniper ability and shoot people from rooftops, no one can see it :smileyhappy:

#35600001124 04/23/2006 06:16:27 Re: Silenced weapons and you!
They're also good for keeping the mob aggro down, or the Zerg aggro down. SMILEY
#35600001125 04/23/2006 06:36:39 Re: Silenced weapons and you!
Well, it does have some kind of purpose in pvp. Personally, I use sounds to identify where someone is sniping from (whether it be guns or hacks) when I can't use my autotarget hotkey in a crowd of red names. Someone with a silenced weapon makes something like that pretty difficult.
#35600001126 04/23/2006 07:11:00 Re: Silenced weapons and you!
yeah the silenced guns are mostly about NOT attracting more mobs while youre out in the field. very useful when we were all level 29 and such. as for the OP's idea, good stuff. make no changes to dmg or accuracy tho, it makes no sense to do that and it would just cause more nerf drama. ask renesis all about nerf drama. hah =D


anyway, yeah, increase the reload on silenced weapons IF a particular ab is being used or if you are stealthed.. make it skip a reload, which will double it. thatll keep things nicely balanced cuz some of those sniper rifles are horribly slow and flip in like 5secs or more. so skipping a 'turn' will keep things sane. ta da. i should be a dev.
#35600001127 04/23/2006 08:42:31 Re: Silenced weapons and you!
Why should a silenced rifle shoot faster? Rifles seem pretty balanced to me.
#35600001128 04/23/2006 12:15:31 Re: Silenced weapons and you!
For balance, sniper rifles with this ability would more then likely have to be toned down in damage just a little bit. (a 50 gun with a 10-12 damage )

Plus as any FPS player can tell you, silenced weapons do less damage SMILEY (mostly cause of some speed loss)

AKA, this makes sense!
#35600001130 04/23/2006 15:35:15 Re: Silenced weapons and you!
Yeah, sounds like a good idea to me :womanwink: