[WEAPON] Dart Rifle

[tuszek]

Well that is true!

[Jo5hua]

We could give it poison bullets. Still, it generally sucks as a weapon, it's only useful because of the stunning effect. I certainly would prefer a normal rifle over poison darts...

This would be awesome... A poison dart that slowly decreases health and ultimately kills the alien. Have a scout run around shooting things and watching them fall one by one randomly in different turns.

[Solarius Scorch]

This would be awesome... A poison dart that slowly decreases health and ultimately kills the alien. Have a scout run around shooting things and watching them fall one by one randomly in different turns.

Sadly, the engine doesn't support poison mechanics. Heck, even the bleeding effect doesn't work on aliens (which is kinda sad).
But yeah, it would be fun.

[yrizoud]

I'd love to see green blood pools which let you know which way the wounded sectoid went.

[Solarius Scorch]

A small update in the first post: fixed research that didn't work correctly (you could research Clip B and Clip C without knowing the Dart Rifle tech at all).

[Solarius Scorch]

I added a Polish translation. Since the site is temporarily down, I'm putting the update here.

[Aldorn]

French Translation (from 1.2)

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  - type: fr
    strings:
      STR_DART_RIFLE: Fusil à fléchettes
      STR_DART_RIFLE_CLIP_A: Chargeur de Fusil à Fléchettes A
      STR_DART_RIFLE_CLIP_B: Chargeur de Fusil à Fléchettes B
      STR_DART_RIFLE_CLIP_C: Chargeur de Fusil à Fléchettes C
      STR_DART_RIFLE_UFOPEDIA: Élaboré d'après les toutes dernières découvertes de la biologie alienne, ce fusil armé de fléchettes contenant un agent biochimique puissant, mais non léthal, est en mesure de neutraliser n'importe quelle forme de vie sur un champ de bataille, sous condition que la dose soit suffisante.


[Solarius Scorch]

Many thanks! Again, I'll update the mod when the mod site is back online.

[yrizoud]

Aldorn, one remark about your french translations : Normally alien is translated "extra-terrestre", everywhere.

[Aldorn]

Mensch !
You are right, I will take care of that, thanks (you could have corrected yourself, I would not have been offended )

French Translation (from 1.2)

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  - type: fr
    strings:
      STR_DART_RIFLE: Fusil à fléchettes
      STR_DART_RIFLE_CLIP_A: Chargeur de Fusil à Fléchettes A
      STR_DART_RIFLE_CLIP_B: Chargeur de Fusil à Fléchettes B
      STR_DART_RIFLE_CLIP_C: Chargeur de Fusil à Fléchettes C
      STR_DART_RIFLE_UFOPEDIA: Élaboré d'après les toutes dernières découvertes de la biologie extraterrestre, ce fusil armé de fléchettes contenant un agent biochimique puissant, mais non léthal, est en mesure de neutraliser n'importe quelle forme de vie sur un champ de bataille, sous condition que la dose soit suffisante.

EDIT : right word is finally Extraterrestre (no dash)

[Sectoid_Soldier]

If the spear gun graphics from TFTD work in OpenXCOM, so might other things...

[Solarius Scorch]

Fixed a manufacturing bug. Update in the first post, because the mod site is still down.

[niculinux]

Nice, but it' just the harpoon rifle from TFTD  no need for other ammo type, i think. 

[Solarius Scorch]

Nice, but it' just the harpoon rifle from TFTD  no need for other ammo type, i think. 

The different is, this one uses stun darts, so you have a stunning ranged weapon before researching the Small Launcher.
Sure, it pretty much sucks as a weapon, but it's better than nothing.

[AlienMuncher]

And even if it fails as a weapon, civilian market sure as hell would benefit from it - according to the latest survey conducted by the British Scientists on Darts Premier League aficionados...

How about Net Gun used for riot control? It could effectively surprise / immobilize alien for enough time to send party of fellow Stun Rod cavalry?