HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!!

Sunday, February 19th, 2012 6:14AM CST

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We're back again!

After a minor update to the game by Seibertron, the staff asked you for your ideas and suggestions for new weapons for the game.

You gave us suggestions by the hundreds.

After a very busy few weeks picking our favorite ones, arguing about them a bit, abandoning the whole list and starting over and arguing some more, we are finally able to announce the staff top 10, here's Burn with the details...

Burn wrote: So after going through all your submissions, the staff have sat down and come up with a list of 10 potentially new weapons that we'll be introducing into the game.

But to do that, we're turning things back over to you guys to vote on which one you'd like to see first.

So get voting as you only have two weeks to vote!

The list is:
Cosmic Rust Cannon
Cyber Potato Cannon
Quad Beam Cannon
Hellfire Shotgun
Magnus Hammer
Distortion Field
Shark Launcher
Eldrich Energy
Laser Burst
Restraining Order

This is the best of the players suggestions that were not already pencilled in for the game. There will more updates, more weapons (a small percentage of which many will have already seen) and more toys to play with over the coming weeks and months, so stay tuned to the HMW general discussion forums for more information, if you have any questions about the game or just want to brag about killing your foes. :twisted:

The vote for the winner is here, be sure to have your say in which weapons are added into the Heavy Metal Wars!

Credit(s): Psychout, Burn, Sustain, Crazyfists

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Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1349200)
Posted by #Sideways# on February 19th, 2012 @ 8:42am CST

Cyber Potato Launcher? Do I launch murderous AI Potatos at people where the AI's dry, sarcastic, twisted humor destroys my opponents?

Count me in!

Looks good guys!

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1349335)
Posted by Jack Hallows on February 19th, 2012 @ 3:10pm CST

i'm also pretty partial to eldrich energy.. i mean we've got:

elemental power

black magic

why not some of this too

just sayin

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1349376)
Posted by Bristleback on February 19th, 2012 @ 6:30pm CST

Ummm shouldn't Eldrich Energy be spelt Eldritch?

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1349381)
Posted by Psychout on February 19th, 2012 @ 6:37pm CST

Shhhhhh... We're not mentioning that.

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1349428)
Posted by Bumblevivisector on February 19th, 2012 @ 11:05pm CST

Heh, heh...Eldrich Farm remembers!

Sorry, that barely even counts as a pun.

Sorry I missed suggestion time. After that TFTM script was released in 2010, I was certain someone would suggest Laser-Chainsaw.

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1349456)
Posted by alldarker on February 20th, 2012 @ 2:06am CST

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1349601)
Posted by _Anshin_ on February 20th, 2012 @ 1:01pm CST

Distortion Field sounds great to me. Sounds very Transformish (Mindwipe/Soundwave) as well a small jab at outside world products (Fruit users will understand this very well)

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1349607)
Posted by Psychout on February 20th, 2012 @ 1:13pm CST

_Anshin_ wrote:(Fruit users will understand this very well)

edit: anyone know how the **** to get these Youtube tags to work?

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1349678)
Posted by UltraSteel on February 20th, 2012 @ 4:32pm CST

Hellfire Shotgun just sounds Badass.... ish. :twisted:

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1349847)
Posted by turbomagnus on February 21st, 2012 @ 7:50am CST

'Cosmic Rust Cannon' sounds good and brings back memories of the classic cartoon... but then we'd just have someone begging for 'Corrostop Coating' as a new armour after they get theirs handed to them a few times by people using the CRC.

I'm going to throw my vote in for the 'Hellfire Shotgun', though... we need some high-level shotguns in the game.

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1349948)
Posted by Autobot Megatron on February 21st, 2012 @ 12:26pm CST

Cosmic Rust all the way. Almost voted for laser burst out of pity, though. I feel kinda sorry for it.

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1354362)
Posted by Phaze on March 2nd, 2012 @ 4:44pm CST

Shark Launcher ftw whats not to like about throwing angry teef filled garbage disposal swimmers at fleshies and tfs alike

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1354424)
Posted by Absolute Zero on March 2nd, 2012 @ 7:09pm CST

Eh... Saints Row the 3rd has a better option on that. Fire chum and lure out street sharks.

I haven't paid for the DLC for it, but come on, Street Sharks were awesome. How could that not be a win? I wonder if Gangsters in Space will have Biker Mice from Mars...

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1354430)
Posted by Phaze on March 2nd, 2012 @ 7:36pm CST

Absolute Zero wrote:Eh... Saints Row the 3rd has a better option on that. Fire chum and lure out street sharks.

I haven't paid for the DLC for it, but come on, Street Sharks were awesome. How could that not be a win? I wonder if Gangsters in Space will have Biker Mice from Mars...

nah just big laser cannons you can't keep in the regular game

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1354475)
Posted by Absolute Zero on March 2nd, 2012 @ 11:05pm CST

Phaze wrote:
Absolute Zero wrote:Eh... Saints Row the 3rd has a better option on that. Fire chum and lure out street sharks.

I haven't paid for the DLC for it, but come on, Street Sharks were awesome. How could that not be a win? I wonder if Gangsters in Space will have Biker Mice from Mars...

nah just big laser cannons you can't keep in the regular game

Oh, is it out now?

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1354522)
Posted by Phaze on March 3rd, 2012 @ 5:09am CST

Absolute Zero wrote:
Phaze wrote:
Absolute Zero wrote:Eh... Saints Row the 3rd has a better option on that. Fire chum and lure out street sharks.

I haven't paid for the DLC for it, but come on, Street Sharks were awesome. How could that not be a win? I wonder if Gangsters in Space will have Biker Mice from Mars...

nah just big laser cannons you can't keep in the regular game

Oh, is it out now?

yeah come out in the last month sometime dunno when

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1354528)
Posted by turbomagnus on March 3rd, 2012 @ 5:56am CST

Uh... chainbreak.

*Points to the poll results*

Anybody know what happens in the event of a tie; do both of them get introduced 'first', do we go to a tie-breaker, what?

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1354533)
Posted by Phaze on March 3rd, 2012 @ 6:20am CST

turbomagnus wrote:Uh... chainbreak.

*Points to the poll results*

Anybody know what happens in the event of a tie; do both of them get introduced 'first', do we go to a tie-breaker, what?

high noon shoot out?

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1354552)
Posted by Psychout on March 3rd, 2012 @ 8:49am CST

We nominate female champions to wrestle in jello, and Sustain has to choose the winner?

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1354648)
Posted by Burn on March 3rd, 2012 @ 3:17pm CST

I think you and I should be the judges...

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1354658)
Posted by Psychout on March 3rd, 2012 @ 3:41pm CST

Challenge Accepted!

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1354665)
Posted by turbomagnus on March 3rd, 2012 @ 4:11pm CST

Okay, that's decided...

Now we just have to figure out which gelatin flavour we want to use...

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1354668)
Posted by Absolute Zero on March 3rd, 2012 @ 4:19pm CST

Hmm... Someone's gonna have to put on a bikini then.

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1355451)
Posted by Psychout on March 6th, 2012 @ 12:20pm CST

Well, its past the 2 weeks and as you all can see... the Hellfire Shotgun and Cosmic Rust Cannon won, which means that Phaze (HS) and Jack Hallows (CRC) will both win a personalised version of their suggested weapon.

Well done guys!

The rest of you will get to see these launched after we have statted then up over the next few days. The other weapons that got voted on will also most likely make it into the game, but wont be 'til after these have been released.

Thanks for all your help guys, and feel free to yell out more suggestions and ideas. We all know that what we can do to spice up the game is limited, but we will do our best to keep it as fresh as possible for you all!

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1355485)
Posted by Phaze on March 6th, 2012 @ 2:31pm CST

Cool beans can't wait to be dishing out the hellfire

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1355534)
Posted by Chaoslock on March 6th, 2012 @ 4:06pm CST

Quick question: What is this "AD credit slip" I stumbled upon in the weaponry?

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1355540)
Posted by Phaze on March 6th, 2012 @ 4:25pm CST

Chaoslock wrote:Quick question: What is this "AD credit slip" I stumbled upon in the weaponry?

Alldarkers last paycheck?

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1355560)
Posted by Psychout on March 6th, 2012 @ 5:26pm CST

Phaze wrote:
Chaoslock wrote:Quick question: What is this "AD credit slip" I stumbled upon in the weaponry?

Alldarkers last paycheck?

Its his dead Targetmaster. I hope you didn't buy it as it's about to be deleted so you'll have just wasted 100k.

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1356060)
Posted by Jack Hallows on March 8th, 2012 @ 4:48am CST

Psychout wrote:Well, its past the 2 weeks and as you all can see... the Hellfire Shotgun and Cosmic Rust Cannon won, which means that Phaze (HS) and Jack Hallows (CRC) will both win a personalised version of their suggested weapon.

Well done guys!

The rest of you will get to see these launched after we have statted then up over the next few days. The other weapons that got voted on will also most likely make it into the game, but wont be 'til after these have been released.

Thanks for all your help guys, and feel free to yell out more suggestions and ideas. We all know that what we can do to spice up the game is limited, but we will do our best to keep it as fresh as possible for you all!

ahaaa sweet! now i can let psychout's family go. lol i was sure phaze was takin this so i had to grab a lil insurance policy hahaha :twisted:

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1356072)
Posted by Psychout on March 8th, 2012 @ 6:29am CST

The mouth is moving but the words make no sense...

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1356076)
Posted by Phaze on March 8th, 2012 @ 6:50am CST

Jack Hallows wrote:ahaaa sweet! now i can let psychout's family go. lol i was sure phaze was takin this so i had to grab a lil insurance policy hahaha

funny thing i had forgotten i'd suggested the hellfire shotgun

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1356373)
Posted by Jack Hallows on March 9th, 2012 @ 1:19am CST

Psychout wrote:The mouth is moving but the words make no sense...

he tripped on his shoe lace. no big deal

moving along, lol.. i've got a question or 2 about these weapons.. i'll pm you though. :-$

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1379657)
Posted by steve2275 on May 14th, 2012 @ 4:16am CDT

i see i missed a good thing while i was gone

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1389215)
Posted by Archone on June 12th, 2012 @ 2:50pm CDT

I know the voting is over and all that, but I'm hopeful that in the future...well, two things. One: I'd like to see more swords/blades with higher requirements. A sword with a 10/10 firepower/skill requirement, for instance. But even more importantly, two: more weapons of all sorts that require more skill and less firepower. The majority of "dual requirement" weapons require far more firepower than they do skill, which means that there's no "intermediate" weapon to use if you build up your firepower to say, 5, and then want to start boosting firepower.

That being said: I love that the weapons roster has been increased since I started playing some months ago; thanks to the moderators for doing all this.

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1391017)
Posted by Editor on June 17th, 2012 @ 11:38am CDT

Seeing that this round of new weapons is all done.

Will we be seeing anything else new, anytime soon?

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1391089)
Posted by Burn on June 17th, 2012 @ 4:45pm CDT

Editor wrote:Will we be seeing anything else new, anytime soon?

Can't tell if serious or delusional ... you do remember what game this is right?

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1391103)
Posted by turbomagnus on June 17th, 2012 @ 5:28pm CDT

Editor wrote:Seeing that this round of new weapons is all done.

Will we be seeing anything else new, anytime soon?

If anything new does come up, we won't be seeing it - except for one or two 'background' types who'll suddenly find themselve prominent and full of awesome, we'll all be eliminated to make room for said 'new'...

Which is actually good for me - young, arrogant and stupid becomes the new Autobot leader, after all.

Re: HMW: New weapons for you kill your friends with!! (1391107)
Posted by Editor on June 17th, 2012 @ 5:32pm CDT

Burn wrote:
Editor wrote:Will we be seeing anything else new, anytime soon?

Can't tell if serious or delusional ... you do remember what game this is right?

Of Course I do.

HMW Rule 57, subsection F: During periods of inactivity, Players are encouraged to bitch and moan until references to HMW2.0 are used in response or Burn tells you to get off his lawn. :-B