New Weapons

I don't know, the S&W 500 has a molded grip, which looks pretty modern, where as I was going for more of a gunslingers look in the icon, I did think about using a pic of it originally but it didn't feel right.

The day is suffocatingly hot, the sun reaches its roofpeak and seems to stay there, as if the hours have been suspended. Below them is a long sloping field filled with great gray-black stone faces, eroded statues left by people who are long gone, and Grissom's men advance relentlessly amoung them as Roland and his final few companions withdraw ever upward, shooting as they go. The gunfire is constant, unending, the sound of bullets whining off the stone faces a shrill counterpoint that sinks into their heads like the bloodthirsty whine of mosquitoes.

model is way better than I hoped for tho.

 

Roland was a warrior from the Land of the Midnight Sun
With a Thompson gun for hire, fighting to be done
The deal was made in Denmark on a dark and stormy day
So he set out for Biafra to join the bloody fray

Through sixty-six and seven they fought the Congo war
Fingers on their triggers, knee-deep in gore
For days and nights they battled the Bantu to their knees
They killed to earn their living and to help out the Congolese

Roland the Thompson gunner...

His comrades fought beside him - Van Owen and the rest
But of all the Thompson gunners Roland was the best
So the CIA decided they wanted Roland dead
That son-of-a-bitch Van Owen blew off Roland's head

Roland the headless Thompson gunner (Time, time, time
For another peaceful war
Norway's bravest son But time stands still for Roland
'Til he evens up the score)
They can still see his headless body stalking through the night
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun
In the muzzle flash of Roland's Thompson gun

Roland searched the continent for the man who'd done him in
He found him in Mombassa in a barroom drinking gin
Roland aimed his Thompson gun - he didn't say a word
But he blew Van Owen's body from there to Johannesburg

Roland the headless Thompson gunner...

The eternal Thompson gunner, still wandering through the night
Now it's ten years later but he still keeps up the fight
In Ireland, in Lebanon, in Palestine and Berkeley
Patty Hearst heard the burst of Roland's Thompson gun
And bought it

 

OK, makes sense. I had originaly thought about going with a much older gun (a model 3), but decided to stick with the namesake.

@Lord_Spike: You're making me feel downright uneducated. With this and the Excitable Boy reference I'm obviously going to have to try to find some of Zevon's music.

@Heavydan85: It's the Smyth & Westrealm .30-.06 Bolt Action Rifle w/Scope right?

Cuchulainn.

 

Yeah we do. The model 500 is pretty big (10.5" barrel) and I do plan on making it slightly overscale in game. To me it appears a little too big right now though.

Cuchlainn.

 

I'd scale it to about 2/3 of its current size, give or take

 

ummm i think that was the name i gave it...haven't used it in forever...only when i teleport to places to check them out for something and need extra firepower

 

The model replacement for HeavyDan's rifle.

Cuchulainn.

 

damn that looks cool

 

Yeah it's a great looking rifle. I like it, but do we need it? I just gunned down the verbo-dragon with the pistol like it was a coyote. Seriously, all of my party members didn't even get to swing at it because the pistol did something like 150 points of damage.

Make it a bit more powerfull than a heavy crossbow and it'll be cool. I don't think that we need another weapon with which to kill Baylors in a single round.

 

Well the stock is textured in base brown with darker chocolate streaks and some lighter speckling. The metal of the gun is a deep blue/black typical of bluing on early 20th century military rifles, a slightly bluer shade than most sporting rifles (because of the nickle content in the steel). The scope is a slightly lighter grey/blue also typical of scope finishes in they early 2oth century.

But you're right, by the time you get it in game it's brown with some black bits.:shrug:

Cuchulainn.

 

Wow, that looks spot-on.

Cuchulainn, you think you could whip up a "phase plasma rifle in the 40-watt range"?

.

.

.

(j/k!) :wyatt:

 

I was thinking of redoing the code for the S&W.50 to make it like a ray - so it could miss, but I might never get around to it, limiting the ammo more isn't a bad idea in the mean time.

the rifle has been in the game for some time as well, it just seems that no-one noticed.