balanceFruit.cfg

Idea: Make mortar primary bounce, and allow remote detonation with secondary fire (after the first bounce to not make it too strong/similar to RL?). Holding the fire button longer means the projectile will get fired further as well. Also this way it can work exactly like the old mortar primary, if you keep holding secondary it'll explode right at impact.

This would not be a good implementation; old mortar primary must take precedence over the shitty nexuiz mortar secondary. The explode-on-impact functionality is what people really want, as seen earlier in this thread.

"Bouncy" grenades should happen when you hold down secondary or such, with the grenades becoming sticky as soon as you release secondary.

Sticky nades/mines and whatever ideas can be moved to Taoki's mine layer weapon.

Be careful not to add too many marginally useful "biorifles". That is, weapons that lay down lame traps that any moderately experienced players will never be dumb enough to run into. With electro secondary, mortar secondary and now a mine weapon, you'd have way more biorifles than a fast game with unusually wide corridors and few choke points could ever need.

Nex, HLAC, TAG Seeker, Fireball

Perhaps balance would be easier if these weapons really were separated from the rest, as super weapons. Maybe they could collectively have their own ammo type, called "Antimatter" or anything else that helps sell them as super weapons. Their power would be above the normal arsenal, and availability well below, so they wouldn't have to be so unique versus the other weapons, just different from each other

Fall damage kicks in faster for the same reason. Previously you'd need a gigantic map for fall damage to be of any importance at all, now it kicks in on sanely scaled maps as well. You can still fall from higher places than in the average fast shooter afaik.

Where is the collision damage now? I'd like to see it much, much, much higher than in Nexuiz. In Nex, there was never any thrill to high speed because you would bounce off of everything unharmed and only suffer at most, a pointless 25 damage.

I'd like to see damage start at ~10 m/s, and have a damage ceiling no lower than 100 damage, but better yet no ceiling at all. And this is would be general collision damage, not just fall damage. If you are hopping along and hit a wall flat-on at 20 m/s, you should feel it. Consequences are what makes speed fun and skillful.

Gotta have those "Oh Shit!" near-miss moments.