Better Spaceguy's Weapon system

[Stratofortress]

Will it be better if it displays your ammo amount on the health bar? It would be like Halo. Also then people can use this for charging weapons.

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[Space Guy]

If this was used, the Fuel/Jump/Leap jet players wouldn't function correctly.

You could use GUI hacks and clientside code to make a separate charge or health bar, but people would have to download stuff.

[tommybricksetti]

In halo the ammo amount was displayed as a bar on the actual weapon. That wouldn't work right because no weapons have the scope that it would be displayed on. I would prefer if the ammo amount was displayed to the right of your head while in 3rd person. But in 1st person it would be displayed above your weapon.

[rkynick]

You could make it so that the weapon name at bottom of inventory displays the amuont of ammo prehaps?

[tommybricksetti]

But that would distract you from the gameplay.

[Space Guy]

From quarkenzyme's comic/suggestion, I thought this was a good way of showing your ammo. (Attached, full comic in his topic)

The only downside is that you can't have shared ammo, easily - you carrying a gun, a rifle and a minigun, they all do different damage and fire rates etc. but they all drain your reserve of "bullets".

[MrPickle]

Why not have the object hold it's ammo count instead of your player?

[tommybricksetti]

Dammit Space Guy why can't you just make a version where you gain more ammo when you pick up that same item? I realize this is a large bump but it wasn't worth making a whole new topic about.