Thread: Attachments on Weapons

As most of you are aware in Crysis you can customize weapons with attachments (see screenshot)



I was thinking that this might cause problems for us with our kit system. Do we want our weapons to have attachments or do we want to pre-fix our attachments like in a game such as Battlefield. The obvious advantage with doing this is it means that if someone gets a limited sniper kit, they can't act like a normal solider by removing their scope, if they did do that it would be a complete waste of a sniper kit and deprive someone who would have used it properly from having the kit.

So what do guys think? Attachments or no attachments?

IRL, it takes a few minutes at least to re-attatch a scope. #I'd imagine it'd take less time, but still at least a minute to change various other bits on a gun.

So no, no attatchments.

I agree with you Zephy, it seams a shame to waste such a cool engine feature but I think it's a necessary sacrifice. Unless we want to make it's only silencers you can fit or something...

Bayonets I think should be made as attachments. We might find a way of putting in a small time delay to make it more realistic for them. Scopes should not be attachments though in my opinion.

Or, rather than scrap attachments, limit the options. OK, so you don't want snipers taking off their attachments, fine. But what if players could unlock a slightly better scope to put on? That'd be sweet.

Attachments open up a whole range of exciting possibilities; you've just got to think about what you do and don't offer players. Simply don't *offer* a "no scope" option on the sniper rifle. Similar applies to other instances of "we don't want players doing this" - simply don't make it an option. Doesn't mean you have to lose this kick-ass engine feature and massive opportunity for unlocks/customization.

Why would you want to be able to switch to a inferior scope? If you want to have less zoom then use a Marksman kit rather than a Sniper kit.

As far as I see it the best option to us currently (without unlocks) is the following:

Bayonet [Yes]
Scope [No]
Silencer [Debatable]
Ammunition [No]
Flash-light [Yes]

I dont see the point in having attatchments for the mod... mabye if we had the time later after a proper release we could trial them. But i agree with zephy's POV for now.

I agree for the most part, but bayonets and flash lights would be much easier to implement as attachments rather than separate weapons.

I agree. Cool as it is to have attachments its doesn't really fit in with the fluff for the most part (no underslung grenade launchers for me* )
But bayonets, flashlights and the like are fine.

Are you sure they'd have small enough batteries for flashlights?

Whoops. Forgot about that.
Maybe a similer sort of thing. Maybe gun-mounted lanterns that operate on gas? Although It would have to be a choice between flashlighty-lantern thing and bayonets since there wouldn't be room on a gun for both.