X-post from a conversation in the HCS League forum. I did a quick search and didn’t see this mentioned on the forums before.
What are your thoughts on having the ability to drop weapons?
The conversation started when Antoniothefat made a post wanting to see more plasma grenade weapon launching, especially within the tournament scene. In essence, he likes the flashy moves in gameplay and wondered if that should be expanded on. I, then, offered the suggestion of having the ability to drop weapons as a means of “flashy” gameplay.
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> An idea to munch on would be “weapon dropping”. Where you can press a few buttons simultaneously and toss the weapon out of your hands. Using the general Halo physics, it could create some neat gameplay. Take plaza for example. Dropping the sniper into the lift at bottom nest to your buddy or tossing the shotgun from yard down to someone capping bottom mid in a game of strongholds.
Thoughts? Pros or cons?
It would be cool. I’m not sure what buttons your map it to but the competitive teams could make good use of it I imagine. Would be fun to watch
Throwing weapons should have the ability to stun enemy players upon hitting them.
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> Throwing weapons should have the ability to stun enemy players upon hitting them.
We’re talking about dropping weapons here, not throwing them.
Dropping weapons would be neat, though. Holding the Reload button should do it.
Kind of like in CSGO. I wouldn’t mind it. It would make for some interesting gameplay
it sounds cool and i don’t see it doing any harm. maybe hold whatever button you use to reload,pick up guns etc and hold down up on the d-pad for five seconds. (default controls hold down X and up on d-pad for 5 seconds) or something like that
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> > Throwing weapons should have the ability to stun enemy players upon hitting them.
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> We’re talking about dropping weapons here, not throwing them.
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> Dropping weapons would be neat, though. Holding the Reload button should do it.
How about this. If you try to re-load your weapon, but you’re out of ammo, it would be cool to automatically throw it. And get a medal if you get a kill.
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> Throwing weapons should have the ability to stun enemy players upon hitting them.
Might be a little excessive, but definitely an entertaining twist.
“Why aren’t you running the flag?” , “Some guy is standing here throwing a rocket launcher at me repeatedly”
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> > Throwing weapons should have the ability to stun enemy players upon hitting them.
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> Might be a little excessive, but definitely an entertaining twist.
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> “Why aren’t you running the flag?” , “Some guy is standing here throwing a rocket launcher at me repeatedly”
lol I can see allot of trolls doing that