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[Ebonkosh]

Give me an axe or war hammer to hit some Clan mechs with since my cent and other mechs have some arms with no weapons. Can we have some of those blue orbs that Jar jar binks used in AOTCs? Give IS something cool thats low tech. Maybe a chain that we can pull lights in like in Mortal combat? it is late so I am out of my mind.



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Edited by Ebonkosh, 21 June 2014 - 10:04 PM.

[Levi Porphyrogenitus]

First step is adding punches for mechs with hand actuators. Give them a purpose! A better ramming damage system would be nice, too (or collision damage).

Once that's in, then PGI can look at Hatchets (and thus the Hatchet- and Axeman mechs).

[Nothing Whatsoever]

Yes!



Here is a table I came up with:



I know this kind of work for the game is going to be on the back burner, but once Collision Damage code gets worked on one can hope that this kind of stuff will be included.

What I figured is that any mech could Kick and Charge.

DFA would be available to mechs with JJs.

Punching would be available with mechs that have Shoulders and the Upper and Lower Actuators.

Equipping a melee weapon like a sword or hatchet and so on, would require a hand to hold the appropriate weapon, along with enough free tonnage and crit slots.

More thoughts in spoiler

Spoiler

To implement, could set one Weapon listed in the Arm Group for attacks with the arms and if the mech can hold a weapon for those types of attacks. The rate of arm movement to strike and range would be limited by the model.

Kicks could be listed in the Torso Group. It can be setup that the mech must be stationary or will moving stop to kick towards the cross-hair direction. When in motion, if a kick is triggered it could then be a charge strike.

DFA could be executed by kicking in the air. Would require JJs to provide more horizontal speed.

Animating the strikes seem as if they can be pretty straight forward. Where punches could simply be like straight punches or upper cuts moving towards the cross-hair, kicks could simply be a low forward kick (like kicking a soccer ball), for example. And the rest don't need too much animation variety either, once they can apply damage.

The main question I have is, how fast can these attacks be? And the range on most of these will easily be within 20 M of the attacking mech on most of these, which is also why this area is low priority.



Melee weapons should also have an amount of hitpoints as equipped items before being destroyed, could start with 20 to 50 and go from there after testing.

And knockdowns don't need to return, since that aspect seems to have too many variables to tackle anyway, and really isn't necessary to bring back once we are able to deal melee damage due to it's potential stun-locking ability.

[Tezcatli]

I would definitely like to punch the enemy at times. Especially a light that arrogantly runs in close to you.