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turbomagnus wrote:To paraphrase Optimus Primal, 'Sometimes uninspired works.' Besides think of all the "Sledgehammer" and 'MC Hammer' jokes that will be able to be made...

I believe an actual quote from Optimus Primal was, "Sometimes crazy works." [Optimus Primal, Episode 6, Power Surge]

Also, I agree with Burn that overly silly isn't the way, but come on. We could try to make it a little more interesting?

turbomagnus wrote:

Dragonslayer wrote:

Wingz wrote:

A few people wrote:Seismic Sledgehammer

It's so uninspired, though

Hey hey hey hey hey!



...you’re not entirely wrong

To paraphrase Optimus Primal, 'Sometimes uninspired works.' Besides think of all the "Sledgehammer" and 'MC Hammer' jokes that will be able to be made...

"Sledge. Sledge. Sledgehammer
I want to be....Your Sledgehammer!"

Well, that interesting enough for you, Wingz?

ThunderThruster wrote:"Sledge. Sledge. Sledgehammer
I want to be....Your Sledgehammer!"

No

turbomagnus wrote:Well, that interesting enough for you, Wingz?

Just no.




I can't run, can I...?

Do you not like Peter Gabriel?

ThunderThruster wrote:Do you not like Peter Gabriel?

All things aside, I like originality and a certain degree of irony "Seismic Sledgehammer" is extremely generic. There were a lot of good suggestions made earlier in the thread. Maybe we could choose multiple options and hold a poll? Or choose multiple options and then decide as a group?

Maybe, but we still need ideas to chose from, so even throwing out 'uninventive' ones doesn't hurt at the moment.

Some based on my own team...

• Shoulder-Mounted Charged Particle Cannons
• Head-Mounted Laser Turret
• Extendable Arm Punch
• Orbital Bombardment Cannon
• Variable-Ammunition Sniper Rifle
• Fighting Pike (Fighting Staff)
• Gravimetric Projector
• 55-mm Rotary Cannon

And some others...

• Low-Yield Tactical Nuclear Weapon
• Hold-out Blaster
• Arm-Mounted Welding Laser
• Neuro-Scrambler Tonfa
• Monomolecular-Edged Knife
• Sharkticon-Tooth Chainsword
• Infantry-Portable Mass Driver
• High-Pressure Waterjet Cutter
• Magnesium Gel Incendiary Grenade
• Nuclear-Powered Mouth Beam (name needs work, pardon while I go hum a Blue Oyster Cult song and think on it...)

turbomagnus wrote:Sharkticon-Tooth Chainsword

This seriously needs to be customised.

Burn wrote:

turbomagnus wrote:Sharkticon-Tooth Chainsword

This seriously needs to be customised.

You mean it's more of a custom weapon name than a general use one?

turbomagnus wrote:

Burn wrote:

turbomagnus wrote:Sharkticon-Tooth Chainsword

This seriously needs to be customised.

You mean it's more of a custom weapon name than a general use one?

No, I mean it needs to be physically customised.

I've been in the process of a kitbash for over a year, as with most of my customs he has his melee weapons, this would be a great fit for him.

turbomagnus wrote:Maybe, but we still need ideas to chose from, so even throwing out 'uninventive' ones doesn't hurt at the moment.

I think in trying to be inventive/original we'll also miss out on some classic mecha archtypes lick 'Rocket Punch' or 'Drill Punch'.

True, 'Rocket Punch' is a mecha classic from Sci-Fi to Anime and everywhere in between...

Another bunch of ideas;

• Electro-Static Shotgun (Or 'Torpedo', if any it's felt we have too many shotguns. I almost didn't remember there was actually a show where they had 'Electro-Static Torpedeos' until after I had come up with the shotgun idea...)
• Broadcast Energy Transmission Beam
• Improvised Melee Weapon (Another one that's technically a classic of giant robot combat)
• Dark Matter Warhammer
• Neutron-S Missile (*whistles innocently*)
• Omni-Directional Electric Discharge

Burn wrote:

turbomagnus wrote:

Burn wrote:

turbomagnus wrote:Sharkticon-Tooth Chainsword

This seriously needs to be customised.

You mean it's more of a custom weapon name than a general use one?

No, I mean it needs to be physically customised.

I've been in the process of a kitbash for over a year, as with most of my customs he has his melee weapons, this would be a great fit for him.

Sounds like we know where your vote falls, Burn, no matter which side wins...

"We've got to shut down the B.E.T!"
"Then let's do it soldier! YO JOE!"

Well, I guess that was too easy to figure out...

All this talk of hammers and POWs


Also Hammerman

Edit: How about a temporary weapon prize for our POWs:
The ball and chain.

turbomagnus wrote:Sounds like we know where your vote falls, Burn, no matter which side wins...

Whatever. I won't be voting, just implementing.

Well, we didn't win any weapons, guess we'll just have to wait and see what the other side comes up with... unless anyone wants to give them a copy of our suggestion list, see if there's anything they like on it?

Someone mention weapons?

Peacemaker (or Colt Peacemaker)
Lever Action Rifle
Falcata (melee sword, looks bad ass if you've never seen one)
Kukri (smaller version of the Falcata and from different people)
Shining Finger/Fist (G Gundam)
Aegis (Would technically be a shield, but shields can be used offensively)
Switch Axe (Monster Hunter weapon, also melee)
Bow and arrow (can't beat a classic, pathfinder rangers tear **** up with one.)
Kusari Gama (Chain and sickle combo, also melee)
Dual Daggers
Dual Lightsabers (Honestly surprised this wasn't there already)
Beam Rifle (Gundam again)
Mega Beam Rifle (Also gundam)
Windmill Shyruken (various ninja anime)
Hadoken (I'd kill for this)
Heat Axe
Heat Dagger
Naginata
Spear
Bastard Sword
Anti Material Rifle
Nerf Gun
Hook Sword
Strike Laser Claw (Zoids)
Cyclone Shooter
Black Blade
Snuggle Struggle
Bag Pipes (Have you heard those things?)
Scattered Legos
Fishing Rod (Good for sharkticons)
Funnels/Bits (another Gundam reference)
Deploy Minions (Like sending out cassettes to attack)
Angst!
MK1 Fusion Rifle
Mr Socko
Spark Overloader
CR Trip
Chain Sword (40k fans)
Boltor
Meltor
Gunblade
Gunlance (Another Monster Hunter)
Omni Sword
Transcendence Blaster
Flaming Fist
Celestial Blade
Transcendent Sword
Supreme Cannon
Mach Rush
Saint Knuckle
Thousand Fists
Power Knuckle
Infinity Cannon
Demon Blaster
Poop Toss
Flashy Boss Punch
Fist of the North Star ("You're already dead.")
Two Fisted Monkey Style ("I don't know what that is, but he better keep his pants on.")
Shoryukenripov
Healing Shiv
Atomic Knee
Anime Tears
Hent Fu
H Fist
Restraining Order
Dobber Gun
The Ugly Tree (For when fighting Bayformers)
Care Bear Stare
Whip Sword

Sorry, there's no rhyme or reason. And a lot of melee weapons. I can keep going, but time to play some monster hunter

Absolute Zero wrote:Two Fisted Monkey Style ("I don't know what that is, but he better keep his pants on.")

I miss 8-bit theater now.

Has AOE weapons been tried yet? What I'm thinking is grenades, rocket launchers, exploding disc launcher (G2 laser optimus prime), frag grenades, needles (halo), and other such weapons.

sumowrestler wrote:Has AOE weapons been tried yet?

I don't think weapons have been added since before the first (live action) movie.

In my mind, the easiest thing is to copy and paste the strafe code into the weapons section and replace a few words for it to work. The only question is how to keep track of ammo used. I can see that being similar to the recharge part.

sumowrestler wrote:Has AOE weapons been tried yet? What I'm thinking is grenades, rocket launchers, exploding disc launcher (G2 laser optimus prime), frag grenades, needles (halo), and other such weapons.

We had some turrets in a tournament a long time back that only targeted cons... I don't remember if they did strafe damage or not though. AOE weapons would probably require new code.