[WEAPON] Railgun 1.0 (with graphics!)

[robin]

So I patched together a Railgun, using the amazing Dart Rifle by Solarius Scorch (<--LINK).

*** EDIT: I made the graphics for the weapon:
- inventory (and ufopaedia) sprites;
- battlescape sprites, held and on floor.




It's intended to be a sniping weapon (basically uses the stats of UFO2000's Sniper Rifle).
Pros
+ very accurate
+ high damage (I use custom damages for the game arsenal, so you may want to tweak this value if using the vanilla arsenal)
Cons
- no autoshot
- small clip size (5 slugs)

Tested on OpenXCOM build: "openxcom_git_master_2014_02_15_1025.zip", and everything seems to work as intended. Let me know if cataclysm.

Credits:
Ruleset is rewritten on Solarius Scorch's Dart Rifle ruleset.
Ammo clip is recolored version of DartRifle Clip, provided by Dioxine.
Thanks Ryskeliini for the hints about how to mod.

[Solarius Scorch]

Many thanks for your nice words, but the Dart Rifle wasn't made by me. It's the Harpoon Gun from Terror from the Deep, and I wasn't even the person who ripped it (it was Dioxine). I just made the ruleset.

As for your rifle, at first glance it seems good. You're one of the few modders whose weapons aren't completely OP. I think it might actually be a little too weak, but it depends when you can access it.

[robin]

Amny thanks for your nice words, but the Dart Rifle wasn't made by me. It's the Harpoon Gun from Terror from the Deep, and I wasn't even the person who ripped it (it was Dioxine). I just made the ruleset.

As for your rifle, at first glance it seems good. You're one of the few modders whose weapons aren't completely OP. I think it might actually be a little too weak, but it depends when you can access it.

I know it's the Harpoon Gun from TFTD, I was crediting for the ripping and the ruleset 

About its stats:
Consider I'm using a ruleset which (or at least try to) re-balances the weapons, my Heavy Plasma for example deals 80 damage (instead of default 115), the intended drawbacks of the Railgun are: small clip size, lack of autoshot, and relative high cost. You can obtain it fairly quickly, and at this point you may think it is overpowered; but again my ruleset also makes several aliens resistant or more resistant to AP damage, so the Heavy Plasma with its lower damage is still a better "all-purpose" weapon. This is all on paper of course.

The only change I'm thinking, is to raise the Aimed Shot TUs cost to 75% (so the same as the rocket launcher; or maybe a little lower at 70%).

[robin]

Made the sprites. Download at the bottom of the first post.

[Solarius Scorch]

Very interesting look. Quite original!

[Angelus_EV]

Railguns and mass acelerator weapons isnt the gauss tecnology from tftd?

[robin]

Railguns and mass acelerator weapons isnt the gauss tecnology from tftd?

They both use magnetic force. The difference AFAIK is that Railgun pushes a sort of sled-bracket (which is the element susceptible to the magnetic force) that in turn pushes the projectile (which is magnetically inert); Gauss pushed directly the "naked" projectile (which is itself the element susceptible to the magnetic force). But I may very well be wrong.

[Aldorn]

Good job Robin

This kind of weapon is very useful in my own mod as I delay a lot laser technology and "banish" plasma technology

This railgun will take his place in my armament !

Thanks for your contribution of high quality


A remark : as you authorized a 3-shot per round (tuSnap: 31), it would perhaps a good idea to set clip size to 6 rather than 5


I tried a french translation if needed

Code: [Select]

  - type: fr
    strings:
      STR_ELECTROMAGNETIC_WEAPONS: Armement electromagnetique
      STR_RAILGUN: Canon electromagnetique
      STR_RAILGUN_SLUGS: Batterie de canon electromagnetique
      STR_RAILGUN_UFOPEDIA: Un lanceur electromagnetique propulsant ses munitions avec une fulgurance destructrice.

Version with accents, but seems to not work except if included directly in fr.yml

Code: [Select]

  - type: fr
    strings:
      STR_ELECTROMAGNETIC_WEAPONS: Armement électromagnétique
      STR_RAILGUN: Canon électromagnétique
      STR_RAILGUN_SLUGS: Batterie de canon électromagnétique
      STR_RAILGUN_UFOPEDIA: Un lanceur électromagnétique propulsant ses munitions avec une fulgurance destructrice.

PS : in case of any update, please do not forget to replace your attached file in first message of discussion 

[Mr. Quiet]

Awesome looking weapon, robin. I can't wait to try it out on my campaign. I'll have my Sniper use the Railgun 1.0 too

[essohbe]

You should re-name everything in this mod because it conflicts with the mass accelerator weapons mod since they are both named "railgun" for some reason. You'll have to re-write all this but it didn't work when I just tried to change the name everywhere it said "railgun" (even config too).

[Aldorn]

You should re-name everything in this mod because it conflicts with the mass accelerator weapons mod since they are both named "railgun" for some reason. You'll have to re-write all this but it didn't work when I just tried to change the name everywhere it said "railgun" (even config too).

I am not sure Robin would have to rename his railgun

In fact :
- why Mass Accelerator mod is an archive named Railgun_v2_2.zip instead of MassAccelerator_v2_2.zip
- why Mass Accelerator mod contains a ruleset named Railgun.rul instead of MassAccelerator.rul
- etc...

And I don't think this causes any interference, as rulesets are loaded separately, no files have same name, ...

But I agree it is not very clear for uploaders

[phobos2077]

Though weapon description is somewhat scarce, here is a russian translation, if you need it:

Code: [Select]

  - type: ru
    strings:
      STR_ELECTROMAGNETIC_WEAPONS: Электромагнитное Оружие
      STR_RAILGUN: Рельсотрон
      STR_RAILGUN_SLUGS: Снаряды для рельсотрона
      STR_RAILGUN_UFOPEDIA: Импульсный электродный ускоритель масс. Магнитное поле разгоняет снаряды до чрезвычайно высоких скоростей.


[Solarius Scorch]

And I don't think this causes any interference, as rulesets are loaded separately, no files have same name, ...

If the string is the same in both cases (for exmaple STR_RAILGUN, or STR_RAILGUN_CLIP), the game will still try to combine them and there will be issues.

[Aldorn]

If the string is the same in both cases (for exmaple STR_RAILGUN, or STR_RAILGUN_CLIP), the game will still try to combine them and there will be issues.

Yes but here are none

Mass Accelerators are RailRifle, ... but no RailGun

[Solarius Scorch]

Yes but here are none

Mass Accelerators are RailRifle, ... but no RailGun

Ah, it's fine then.