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(Stupid) Idea: Throw Spade

Postby KevinLancaster » Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:00 am

Intro: Allow the spade to be thrown.

Details:
Basically if you are completely screwed, you can throw your spade for an instant-kill, but lose the ability to dig.
The spade would be affected by gravity and travel slightly farther than the grenade.

Could be implemented in a variety of ways, such as using the middle mouse button, a keyboard button, or even as a new weapon.

Benefits:
It would be a good last resort weapon that would fit with the theme of the game and be a substitution for a pistol.

Drawbacks:
Might make the game too close to Call of Duty for comfort.
I know throwing knives have been suggested before, and this was one of the arguments against them.
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Re: (Stupid) Idea: Throw Spade

Postby Moghard » Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:10 pm

This is not a stupid idea! It's awesome.
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Spades would stick to a block where they landed and can be picked up. Max 1 spade for one player.
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Re: (Stupid) Idea: Throw Spade

Postby Commodore » Thu Aug 16, 2012 5:06 pm

It should be possible to throw the gun too . Then a player could waste ALL his items.

When a player has no spade, he still should be possible to remove a block(but not to get one) with his raw hands. But that should take a lot of time.
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Re: (Stupid) Idea: Throw Spade

Postby KevinLancaster » Thu Aug 16, 2012 9:18 pm

I thought about allowing spades to be picked up, but I didn't include it because I was afraid that after a while spades might clutter the map, and also since the game doesn't have any weapon pick-ups right now. It would also make it less of a desperation weapon to use it if you could simply pick up another.

The problem with allowing the gun to be thrown is that after it runs out of ammo, the gun disappears. The spade is the only item that ALWAYS remains in your inventory.
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Re: (Stupid) Idea: Throw Spade

Postby rafcommando1 » Fri Aug 17, 2012 11:57 am

I really like this idea.
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Re: (Stupid) Idea: Throw Spade

Postby Commodore » Fri Aug 17, 2012 1:23 pm

Its just some code work to leave the weapon when the ammo runs out. Not a big thing.
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Re: (Stupid) Idea: Throw Spade

Postby lolpwned23 » Sat Aug 18, 2012 5:09 pm

This would be a fun concept

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Re: (Stupid) Idea: Throw Spade

Postby Tek2 » Sat Aug 18, 2012 8:12 pm

So throwing knives are bad... but freaking throwing spade is good...
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Re: (Stupid) Idea: Throw Spade

Postby Commodore » Sun Aug 19, 2012 7:42 am

No one game has that. But in every shooter(except AoS), you can throw a knife.
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Re: (Stupid) Idea: Throw Spade

Postby ChaosTLW » Sun Aug 19, 2012 3:43 pm

Commodore wrote:No one game has that. But in every shooter(except AoS), you can throw a knife.

So? What's the difference? That's like painting a dog to look like a wolf, and then treating it as if it was really a wolf.

Besides, every shooter? What about the Battlefield series? TF2? ANY CALL OF DUTY BEFORE MW2?
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Re: (Stupid) Idea: Throw Spade

Postby Venator » Tue Aug 21, 2012 1:27 am

i can imagine a lot of CoD-fanboys to do "1337uber420mlgpr0throwingspadetricksh000ts"
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Re: (Stupid) Idea: Throw Spade

Postby Sniper101 » Wed Aug 22, 2012 2:27 pm

ChaosTLW wrote:
Commodore wrote:No one game has that. But in every shooter(except AoS), you can throw a knife.

So? What's the difference? That's like painting a dog to look like a wolf, and then treating it as if it was really a wolf.

Besides, every shooter? What about the Battlefield series? TF2? ANY CALL OF DUTY BEFORE MW2?

Soldier of Fortune 2. ;)
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Re: (Stupid) Idea: Throw Spade

Postby ChaosTLW » Wed Aug 22, 2012 5:38 pm

Sniper101 wrote:
ChaosTLW wrote:
Commodore wrote:No one game has that. But in every shooter(except AoS), you can throw a knife.

So? What's the difference? That's like painting a dog to look like a wolf, and then treating it as if it was really a wolf.

Besides, every shooter? What about the Battlefield series? TF2? ANY CALL OF DUTY BEFORE MW2?

Soldier of Fortune 2. ;)

So? Still not every shooter.
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Re: (Stupid) Idea: Throw Spade

Postby Commodore » Thu Aug 23, 2012 11:44 am

Ok, not every shooter(but in TF2, the spy has a knife). Its just such a trivial thing and I thought every shooter would have this.
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Re: (Stupid) Idea: Throw Spade

Postby Sniper101 » Thu Aug 23, 2012 2:47 pm

Commodore wrote:Ok, not every shooter(but in TF2, the spy has a knife). Its just such a trivial thing and I thought every shooter would have this.

It's a bit like to ability to shoot in a FPS game or the ability to jump in a platformer game - it's just trivial.
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