Wait till PR3 and you can have melee weapons in invasion too. I've done some experiments and the magic weapons in UT2003RPG can work on melee weapons in Invasion, so you can have all kinds of cool stuff, like poisoned daggers, a lucky mace, or an energy hammer. It's almost like playing Rogue...
BTW: I've designed a map based on Roguelike games for PR3. It's a Chaos Invasion map designed to be used with UT2003RPG and most of the weapons are melee's. Once we get our Melee-enabled Invasion gametype finished, I'll be able to finish testing the map in earnest, and, with approval from the rest of the team, the public may be able to see it included in the PR3 maps.
ooohoooh.. this is what me and my mate are watiing to play.. should go down well at a lan too.. man.. haha.. drool .. FUNNN! . the invasion thing is scarey though.. melee weapons againt rocket launchers?.. just doesnt seem fair .. invasion is really a blast actually.. the game seems to handle all the action remarkably well too.. makes me wonder how many mosnters you can have at once and how large you can make your maps...
once all the melee stuff is in.. and wokring in multiplayer maps enough so that you can have more than 2 players meleeing.. is there then somwhere in the future a chance that a visable armor system will make it into the game?.
(yikes.. just realised a visable armor system would need model support .. thats a lot of work
Actually using melee weapons against monsters in Invasion shouldn't be too hard, except maybe the Skaarj. You can jump over the rockets from the brutes and behemoths, and a good melee smash (or two) can kill one if it's well aimed, and a melee weapon is great against things like the bugs and flies, since you could cut through a whole swarm at once if they were all around you, with a good slashing move. And imagine splattering those larvae with the hammer... It's going to be loads of fun, once we get all the kinks worked out. Of course, PR2 won't have melee invasion, but PR3 probably will, so hang on and you'll be well rewarded when the time comes
NuclearProxy A proxy that will radomly appear in a box of proxies and when you shoot it off u will be able to take control of it in a first person view. It will look a bit bigger and have a miniture nuclear bomb on it's back. It will be a bit slower then the other proxies and can't jumb as high either. The player controlling it won't be able to move your body unless it explodes. The explosion will be a bit smaller then a redemmer and have a big gas cloud after the explosion and does more damage then Posion nades
VortexProxy Samething as above but it will have a different devices on it's back and it will won't be player controlled and will jump into a room with more then one person. When it gets in the room with more then one person it will go into the center and jump up high towards midway and will cause a vortex
Here's one that could be fun. Alien blob Proxy This proxy makes a sickening sound when it hops, and does not explode. Instead, this proxy will swallow players whole, growing bigger every time. Also, it takes a while for the proxy to digest, and when it does, it will sometimes drop out a skeleton, and grow smaller. If stuck in a small place, it will swallow all players, then explode, dropping bio rifle blobs everywhere. Your health will slowly decrease inside the blob, and when swallowed, you observe the blob in 3rd person view. The only way to destroy this is to use an instakill gun, or wait for it to explode.(Instakill gun as gravity vortex, transdemensional disturber(Mr evil's mut))[/b]
BullProxies: Looks like a normal proxy, except it has wheels and doesn't bounce around. Instead, it zips along the map, chasing any enemy it sees. When it hits a bump and flies thru the air, there is a random chance it will sound the Dukes of Hazzard horn.
Also randomly plays that Lowrider song(hell if I know the name of it, all I know is a chunk of the lyrics "All... my... friends... love the lowrider")
For Invasion, if you're killed and a BullProxy is running around, you can control it and it will have a miniature RL attached to its head, which can be fired just like the bulldog's RL
If they crash too hard into the terrain or other surface, they explode and scream in some disturbing fashion
Retarded-Repopper Proxy: This is a very hyper proxy, so hyper, it rarely stays on the ground, instead, it bounces around like a crazed superball, bouncing off walls, ceiling, etc. During its bouncing it randomly self-detonates up to 5 times before it dies Alternate Version: Bounces around madly screeching and hollering, and randomly generates a small explosion on impact. Will keep doing so until it has either reached a certain number of self-explosions or spots an enemy, where it active hunts them down with insane glee
Vorhees Proxy: Symbolized by a hocky mask over the face and a machete on its right side. Also spouts out "Gonna Get Ya!" and "Gonna cut ya!" Hops around until it spots and enemy, wherein it dives at the enemy and slashes at them
(Melaneus) Dammit, don't you know Furrysound's actually this hot anthro cat goddess? Who does server administration?