Idea for a new weapon/tool: handheld harpoon

  • AcardboarcIbox
    Sailor

    I bounced this idea around with my friends for a bit, and I think it could be quite cool.

    The idea is that it's a shorter range handheld harpoon gun, much like the ones on ships, that can let players grab treasures that are out of reach, and maybe having some grapple and pull qualities, but I foresee that possessing jank, but it would be cool to water ski from the back of a ship

    I've thought about it both as a treasure item and as a weapon

    as a weapon, so one would need to sacrifice having a second gun or a sword for the utility, and picked up items enter the player's hands

    or have it be a treasure item like the trident of dark tides, so it needs to be picked up and carried, and the treasure picked up would either be dropped at the players feet, or stuck on the end like the old harpoons. Could also be sold to the hunter's call, or even purchased from them.

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  • JimmyDSpuffy
    Sailor

    If I had this and sword, Calypso help everyone. I have a stupid amount of hours in that titanfall tribute game and titanfall 2. I'm also something of a veteran engineer of Clang.

    I'll never use a boat again. I'll just fly across the ocean floor eating pineapples and batmanning Reapers.

    I'd love this addition but also, they should be very -VERY careful implementing a reeled grapple.

  • AcardboarcIbox
    Sailor

    Oh I know. Honestly if implemented, I wouldn't complain if there was no reeled grapple or player grapple at all, but if it were as slow reeling in the player as it is on say a rowboat it should be fine for the most part; though I do understand that introducing new mobility tools comes with a lot of jank.

    Even without the grapple function I think this would be a great solution to chests getting stuck in places just out of reach, like when dropped and stuck on a steep incline.

  • JimmyDSpuffy
    Sailor

    @acardboarcibox Reel makes it really powerful. Tension is also really important to swinging toward something when you don't wanna do the ground work of gaining height over your target. So without reel, we'd need to use ladders or crow nests to use them to board. Which is cool.

  • SOTsayhello
    Sailor

    The idea of ​​a new weapon. Just add some fist fighting

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