Hello, everyone, I'm new to the RenegadeX community, so please forgive me if I botch this up somehow...
If any of you guys bothered to play through the Renegade campaign... you might've noticed the alternate pistol Havoc and Sakura use. To give it a little backround, it's Silver-matte, unlike the Falcon pistol, and the sound is rather loud.
I was wondering, if it wouldn't be too much of a hassle, if the development team would be willing to consider giving an alternate selection in pistol... somehow... or giving certain classes a different kind of pistol.
For example, perhaps there could be a small alternate buy screen in the purchase terminal with alternate weapon selections for certain classes. One universal choice, of course, being an alternate backup weapon. The functional difference for this weapon, asides from the asthetics, could be a longer reload time, less ammo, but stronger ammunition. Perhaps, if it's certain choices for certain classes, it could be free of charge and just match a person's playstyle. I don't know about anyone else, but I seldom use the Falcon pistol in regular Renegade because it's just too weak and short range. Maybe adding in different pistol(s) with different stats could make handguns more useful.
Maybe the Falcon pistol could be a 20-round silenced machine pistol while this other silver-matte handgun could be similar to a desert eagle.
That's just a thought.
Another weapon you see in the cutscenes, but not in the game, is an AR-15 with an attached M203 grenade launcher. You see these used by regular Nod soldiers transporting GDI POW's to a compact submarine, and you see them again being used to shoot Havoc when he's escaping aboard the same sub.
Now, I know it may seem like if you added this gun it would make the GDI grenadier obsolete. That's why I think it should be a compromise weapon.... say 30 rounds per clip, 70 short of a Renegade Raptor Rifle, with an alternate grenade special that's not AS strong as the GDI grenade launcher... and must be reloaded after firing. I'd like to see it in the Renegade X mod just for asthetic reasons... no one can deny how sexy an M16 with an M203 looks in real life, but I also think it could be a pretty awesome addition to the mod.
There a re a couple of ways to implement this weapon, but I'm not a designer, so I don't know what hassles would be associated with it. You could add in a feature, like I said above, to let the GDI/Nod soldiers change their main weapon, could add in a 5th 'free' class with this weapon as its primary. Those are just a couple of ways it could be done...
Well those are my comments/ideas. Sorry if I posted this in the wrong board or wasted anybody's time.