[SUGGESTION] laser controlled aimer

Something like this.

Would make it to easy to aim, so I dislike the idea. Maybe so guns could use that but not all guns.

It's almost same like a hack. So I don't support this idea - too easy to aim.

I do not think that in such a dynamic game, it will really help to aim. I thought it would be nice alternative to crosshairs.

Maybe as a training crosshair, but definitely shouldn't be enabled on pubs.

I don't really see how that helps (except for the bouncing crylink..) your crosshair also shows where you are aiming to

I don't like the long line from the gun, or the bounce indicator, but laser painting the actual target surface would be a nice option.

Hm.. do you realize what the blue beam will look like in action? You will probably don't even see where it will bounce off because of the game speed. I think people are interested to keep the screen clean, not to have beams on the screen.

The idea with the green beam is good only for training purposes and I think it will help a lot the new comers. It should be disabled for online games though.

The weapon you see on the screen is a effect, but has not *direct* relation to the origin of the shot. On some weapons the origin could be the center of the body mass, or somewhere "on the right", but not where you see the weapon. You can display a ray from the origin where some weapon will be shot, and where it will hit, but thats could result on a surprising experiments as the ray can be different to what you expect, and much probably not connected in any way with the weapon you have in hand.

It could be most weapons seems shot with a "Shoulder cannon", like in the Predator movie.

Hey
There's a weapon in "Area 51" (it's from 2005 and available as a free download) called "BBG-11 Meson Autorifle".

You can download Area 51 here if you wish:
http://www.chip.de/downloads/Vollversion...88478.html
Outside the US you need a patch:
http://www.chip.de/downloads/Area-51-Pat...72106.html

It's really nice and comparable to the CryLink in Xonotic (projectiles are reflected on walls). The interesting feature of that weapon is, that secondary fire cast a laser beam in the direction where the weapon points. That laser beam is green as long as you don't aim at an opponent, but turns red when aimed at an opponent. The beam gets reflected on surfaces and when you press primary fire the projectiles follow the path of the laser.

It's a really cool effect, what do you guys think?

I realized that there's a another thread with a similar topic called "laser controlled aimer". Could these threads be merged please?

Threads merged

And now we can accuse you of thread necromancy. Hurray!

Feel free, that laser aiming stuff rocks! I see the point that it's not really necessary, however, if that was the only thing that matters we'd still be playing pong!