Arcalane, what's the chances of there being Psykers?

Dammit. Well, I'll keep trying and make a post if it works.

Seems awkward to implement, to be honest. It'd... probably have to be a unit with a bunch of key-trigger powers. Press Z to fire warpfire bolts from your eyes or whatever. Having it as a 'weapon' wouldn't make much sense, unless it had scripts on it to check the wielding actor. If it was, I suppose it could be a 'weapon' with a bunch of different firing modes or whatever; pie-menu to switch between warpfire bolts/lightning/etc.

Chances are probably fairly low. Lots of scripting involved. New sprites for actors and weapons, particle effects...

You could ask Coop to borrow his script/ Code for His S.A.W Heavy actor and the weapons that could only be used by them, And have it as the Staff be the weapon, and have a sorted amount of Warp powers, I could Give spriting a Psyker a go.

Anyway about my Sentinel , The example Picture was done from someone else ( i just put the Leg and Lasgun together- The correct colouring would be the Hull slots, i have Dull'd them, so unless they're still too shiney i could give it another go.

I recently been debating on my Tabletop Warhammer Models for my chaos army and as a result i may get back into spriting Chaos.

Depending on the outcome and what will happen later this and next week i May start finishing up a couple of sprites and putting them together.

Regarding the Valkyre I dunno the colour and shading seem fine to me it just seem too Jaggy, and I had attempted so many time to try and fix it up but once i just load it up on Paint i lose all motivation to do anything with it, So if anyone willing to fire up paint or photoshop and fix it up neaten it or add more shading, Feel free to pm me and i send you the pack, about Servo Skulls, What weapon should I give them? a mounted Lasgun or Boltpistol? (or autogun for that matter)


EDIT: I will most likely start on doing a massive weapon spriting considing of the whole Imperium armory, (maybe create edit of the Widow's and have them have them have larger weapons and Base structers, Of course if Arcalane is perfect fine with me doing so.

the link i will use.



EDIT 2: five new Weapons done in the space of an hour.

in order

Auto Pistol
Auto Gun ( Fire warrior video game version)
Exitus Pistol and Rifle (assassin's weapons)
Revamp Bolt pistol

reason why i redid the Bolt Pistol was simply because the current one is insanely small compare to the auto pistol and even the las pistol.

The bolt pistol magazine looks too small, but the autoweapons and the exitus pistol looks very, very good.

The short version is; work on whatever you want. I can't promise I'll use it, but don't let that stop you if you want to try spriting it anyway. It'll be good practice.

Some stuff to think about...

Artistically;

Autopistol; is that with or without a mag?

Autogun; I'd remove the side-bits from the bottom of the mag, and move the mag well forward slightly. That, or not associate it with that reference, since they differ quite noticeably in the mag and carryhandle. The grip needs more of a curve too.

Exitus Pistol; again with the grip curve. Barrel should probably be a pixel higher to better match the reference. I'd say it's too brick-y, but that's a flaw of the original design more than anything else.

Exitus Rifle; pretty good, but the stock needs more work. Scope probably doesn't need to be quite so obviously seperated from the main body. Mag should probably be a bit longer - just extend it forward by one pixel or so.

Bolt Pistol; looking good, but grip curve yet again. Maybe make the mag a little bigger too.

Of course, if you want better art feedback... there's a seperate thread for that.

Code/Gameplay-wise;

Take in mind we already have the Marine SR, the Guard SR, and Long Las. Unless the Exitus Rifle has some super-special features to differentiate it from any of those three (nevermind being tied to the Vindicare Assassins) then there's really no point to adding it. The Guard SR is the light marksman's rifle, the Long Las is a more powerful and more accurate rifle with good capacity but a fairly low rate of fire, and the Marine SR is the 'one shot one kill' rifle.

The features of an Exitus rifle aside from the others would be it's incredible range and poisoned rounds.

Not sure if worth including though.

fluff for the Exitus rifle has 3 types of rounds, one use for Organic material one to just punch through Shields and such and the other just to blast a giant hole in anything that moves.

Copy pasta from the Wiki.


it's a special type of sniper rifle, Much like how the WA-2000 is TOTALLY different to the PSG-1 (despite being made by the same country and company)

In short, the IG Sniper is your typical Semi auto, The SM is your Bolt action and your Exitus is the 50 cal Sniper, i would personally suggest for the four assassin temples unit just have their own unique drop automatic come with the unit and equipment but can't be bought else where, along with this it could have a use of a Multi use Sniper i would suggest having all three weapons in but with Limited ammo maybe (script/code can be taken/edited from the Shadow Echanion (spelling?) Mod)

As for the Exitus pistol, It's basicly a distilled version of the sniper, a more compact say 5-7 Round pistol while the sniper is say 15-20 round.

Incredible range is already covered. I'd considered adding poisoned rounds to the Marine SR, but it felt rather redundant since it's already got AP for punching through reinforced structures/heavy armour and HE for flat-out turning softer targets into chunky paste.

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Except in the current scheme it's more like;

Stalker Boltgun - the semi-auto rifle. (I forgot this one last time! )
Guard SR/Long Las - the bolt-action rifle.
Marine SR - the anti-materiel rifle.

Hence, why there's not much room for said rifle. Still, having them unbuyable normally might not be bad... but unbuyable and with limited ammo? That'd just be harsh. Especially if the actor was very expensive.

Also: Echelon.

I'd look into nerfing the Las-weapons.
Tried the Las-Carbine in the metagame, raped vanilla ships like nobody's business.
Addendum: Perhaps for a stationary brain you could have a Cogitator.

All the weapons damages are realistic hellevator, nerfing them wouldn't be true to the W40k lore. the imperium of man are supposed to be ridiculously strong.

The lasguns have never been represented as being stronger than an assault rifle. They should not be matching rocket launchers in firepower.

The thing is, vanilla ships and doors and stuff are just plain made out of cardboard.

If we're staying correct to the lore here, the lasguns are well balanced right now, if not underpowered.
If I recall correctly, the lasguns should be able to one-hit-kill most unarmoured humans.
They're just called flashlights because everything else in wh40k is so horribly tough and overpowered and ridiculously powerful.

In the Ciaphas Cain books, las weapons are repeatedly noted as being powerful enough to leave noticeable 'craters' on impact, and can handily destroy lighter bits of masonry/etc.

The pistol, carbine, and lasgun may all inflict up to 4 wounds per hit, the longlas 8, and the hellgun/hellpistol 3.

Short version is they don't match launchers for firepower, so don't blow things out of proportion, but yes, they are more powerful than assault rifles per hit. Taking in mind that - with the exception of the hellgun and hellpistol - these weapons have a much lower rate of fire than any other assault rifle in the game*, I think this is a reasonable balance.

*Weapon values, in RPM;

Laspistol; 150
Lascarbine; 180
Lasgun; 120
Long Las; 75
Hellpistol; 400
Hellgun; 600
Coalition Assault Rifle; 800
Ronin M16; 800
Ronin AK47; 590
Autocarbine; 750
Autogun; 720

Las weapons are immediately superior over long range due to their instant travel and lack of ballistic flight path - that is, arcing and bullet drop - and that's probably why they seem so effective against dropships. The low rate of fire doesn't matter when you can land every shot, right? The wound-causing particles are moderately heavy and very sharp, but are about half as fast as normal AR rounds.

So in essence las weapons trade bulletspam for firepower and accuracy, with the exception of hellguns which have pretty bad accuracy but laserspam and firepower.