Weapon Changes (or lack of changes, mostly)

[Ballsopt]

take your grenade fetish elsewhere :evil:

[wayfare]

@Ballsopt

take your grenade fetish elsewhere :evil:

They’re a blast!..

I have nowhere else to go.

[Dias]

I can understand not being able to do it in multiplayer, but why not in singleplayer?

[Dias]

Actually, I was referring to picking up grenades.

[Viewer]

Does it have to do with the alt-fire moving the handle? Given how forceful it was depicted in the sample video, I could see something it the weapon needing to be reset before it could fire again.

[Tom_caT]

@Raminator

It’s not like we nerfed the gluon, you can still unleash the fucking fury with it; you just have to be a bit more careful.

Sounds like your new method of controlling spamming is to hurt the player, like the tau cannon is you overcharge it?
Am I right?

[Tom_caT]

@Raminator

you are not

Brutal, but okay.

[PlausibleSarge]

you could already hurt yourself with the gluon at close range…by the way, is this still in?

[Tom_caT]

Well mate, Simple answer, one that’s been said across the ages,
“if it’s in Half-life 1, it’s in BM (most likely)”

[wafflewarrior7]

Awesome, thanks for the post. I hope they upgrade the Hivehand’s damage, though. In Half life it was terrible.

[Brother_Shrike]

@Pyro

You CAN pull the trigger really fast, you know.

Wait, I thought it had 8 in the magazine and another… somewhere, for a total of 9.

Edit: Wait, no, you’d have to pump it after you load everything in order to add the 9th, but Gordon doesn’t add the last shell. That sucks.

The standard SPAS has a 6 round mag, you can get an extended mag that holds 8 shells. You can put one in the chamber as well, so a total of 7 or 9, depending on which size magazine you have.

[AntiBeast]

@Grey Acumen

Now wait. Brilliant idea just hit me.

When someone clicks the use button on a satchel they place, it will automatically be added back into their inventory. This is provided they still have room for it in their inventory and haven’t filled up their max satchels by picking up another after placing one down

When anyone ELSE picks up that satchel, OR if the original setter of the satchel no longer has room to take the satchel back into their inventory, it will instead work as a regular physics object. This will allow the Satchel to be moved around by anyone, both by the original setter and enemies, but it won’t screw up anyone’s inventory and still will only be set off by the original setter of that satchel hitting the detonator.

This will also generally not affect the single player mode in any manner other than to allow the player to reclaim accidentally tossed or misplaced satchels(convenience factor = nice), and could allow for some hilariously embarrassing DM kills, when someone manages to move an enemy’s satchel without them noticing, so that when they hit the detonator, they blow themselves or one of their teammates up.

Equally hilarious would be the fact that a lot of people would make the attempt to pick up the satchel only to be instantly blown up as they approach it… I would love to see person after person be drawn to the satchels like a moth to a bug zapper.

[bigfan421]

it would be like
“hey look, free satchels”
“see ya!”
“say what?”
BOOM!

[intooblivion]

@Grey Acumen

Grenades
HASN’T been implemented - Grenades that have been thrown can be picked up with the “use” button and thrown as was possible in HL2. If this does get left out, I’m betting it’s due to the lack of gravity gun killing any of usefulness that this feature would have added. There’s just not enough time to grab an enemy grenade and toss it far enough away to be worth not simply running away from it. The only other purpose it served was to allow you to throw it after it had been armed since HL2 didn’t have grenade cooking, but since Black Mesa will implement this, it again becomes pointless.

Actually I used that feature all the time in hl2, grabbing combine nades with your hands was very effective. It was not available in hl2dm though because the gravity gun came out fast enough. I hope this is left in, because it would simply mean making the grenade a physics object light enough to be picked up like in hl2. Only thing I could see being an issue is changing ownership in deathmatch

[JamesKane]

@intooblivion

Actually I used that feature all the time in hl2, grabbing combine nades with your hands was very effective. It was not available in hl2dm though because the gravity gun came out fast enough. I hope this is left in, because it would simply mean making the grenade a physics object light enough to be picked up like in hl2. Only thing I could see being an issue is changing ownership in deathmatch

Grenades are fire and forget; you cant pick them up again.

[baconeggs]

What? So the only solution now is to run from grenades?

Unless we can still shoot them…

[JamesKane]

@baconeggs

What? So the only solution now is to run from grenades?

Unless we can still shoot them…

better off running then shooting em

Grenades are designed to flush you out.

[JeffMOD]

Why can’t you pick them up again, though?
I mean, just because the fuse is 2.5 seconds doesn’t mean it should be impossible- just unsafe.

[JamesKane]

@JeffMOD

Why can’t you pick them up again, though?
I mean, just because the fuse is 2.5 seconds doesn’t mean it should be impossible- just unsafe.

Grenades are designed to flush you out.

[Lord_Grievous]

Does that mean that the enemy AI can’t throw them back at you either?