i (as someone who is not a game developer) believe that a workshop weapons feature should be simple enough of a concept to add to the game, the question might just be “how?”, but i do have ideas, each weapon’s function can be assembled with sliders, toggles, and dropdown menus, while the model is supplied by our finest blender users on the workshop, i’ll elaborate below.
Weapons:
each weapon has very similar function, it activates on left/right click, and either shoots or swings, so i’ll make 2 subcategories for this one,
melee:
for this category we could use
. damage
. size/hitbox
. attack speed
. various cosmetic dropdown menus (SFX, type of damage similar to laser, glow, etc.)
ranged:
here we take all the same from melee, but also add
. ammo capacity
. reload speed
. cosmetic options could have projectile “style”, (lasers, bullets, bubbles, so on.)
. projectile weight and velocity
. accuracy
the issue here may arise in the fact these could replace milestone weapons if given too much freedom, and may cause game slowdown if permitted to be used in the plaza, so some restriction and limitation is required, cant give everyone firework miniguns after all, but i believe there is some way to make this work and have people be happy, even if it’s just allowing you to use a custom model on a pre-existing gun.
toys:
this section is very similar to weapons, and it much more open-ended. so i’ll leave it there i supposed, it’s as much or as little as the devs may decide to do with it.
RC:
this one might be really easy. im hoping
so the theory goes, we have accelerate workshop, and RC cars are basically the same as those, sooooo, the addition of using accelerate models in place of your RC car, might be a very easy update to make.
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i believe that allowing people to create custom models for things like this would allow for more fun anywhere they’re allowed, on the top of my head, i imagine they’d be great to add to SDNL/virus maps if weapon pickups ever become a thing, or if NPCs in condos get more advanced, you could make a whole zombie survival game in your condo with custom guns
thank you for reading - sleeves