LINKS:
TIER+TACTICAL 2
FROG'S WEAPONRYRemember Ostinyo's Nuketown Domination?
I'm going to flat out say that this server was one of the best ever hosted. Period. It's not even me having a nostalgia boner. This was some of the most fun I've ever had playing a game. It was an extremely hectic game booming with crazy weapons with not only a weapon buying system but a straight-up upgrading system, to promote weapon variety and reward patient players who could still murder masses using sub-par weapons. In four words: IT WAS THE stuff
The fact that this server used Tier+Tactical (and Frog's Weaponry, which is a spinoff expansion anyway) was INTEGRAL to the experience. No other set of weapons would have fit better.
Servers like this were, even then, few and far between. Don't get me wrong. Servers weren't necessarily 100% le-wrong-generation better back then, but nowadays the choice of weapons has definitely taken a big change that I think most would agree is pretty bad. People have always mixed weapon packs, but it's gotten extreme with the popularity of different packs today. We see people mixing Vulpine Vitality weapons, the BF3 pack, duelling weapons, and a bunch of other packs together like it's no big deal. These weapon packs might be flashy or realistic or just have a lot of weapons, but what they seriously lack is variety and fun - yes, duelling weapons are just inherently flawed mechanically, even though they're pretty unique and well-done. Blockland allows you to do all these things with weapons easily, yet people opt for straightforward weapons that get pretty gross - like the BF3 pack with its borderline un-playability and dear loving god,
this thing. All of the weapons in these packs just shoot normal bullets and reload. The bullets don't do anything other than damage and maybe shake your screen a little bit. Yet, people prefer these over stuff like the loving Tier+Tactical magnum which shoots a goddamn tank shell into people's faces. That thing alone has so much gameplay value to it just because of the size of the bullet and the critical headshots.
You guys might know that I make models and weapon add-ons. It's something I do for fun on my free time, sometimes aimlessly making models that I know I won't ever use but just make for the hell of it. Making an expansion to Tier+Tactical has been something I've always wanted to do, but I'm the type of person who can't really stay dedicated to a project if it's not completely thought out when I'm making it or if it becomes a drag. That's not to say I haven't completed things before. The Karbini Mk. 16 (
link) took a lot of time to figure out, and although I was losing hope, I ended up finishing it exactly how I wanted it to behave, except for this double grenade explosion thing but we don't talk about that. I feel like if I have everything thought out, I could finish a single weapon pack even at the scale of Frog's.
I want you guys to share ideas on what I (or anyone else who might like Tier+Tactical as much as I do) could make to add onto the weapon pack and hopefully bring it back to popularity. I also know that a lot of you guys also don't like the weapon pack, so you could share what you don't like about it. For ideas, I'm talking about weapon types that you think would fit in and their mechanics. I'm by no means an expert when it comes to coding, but I've found that I can make a lot of stuff work with what knowledge I have so the ambition on those ideas should have no bounds.
I actually already have some weapon ideas that I haven't fully developed into something I'd like, but being that I already have models for some of these weapon types I feel I'd might as well share:
- The Heavy Rifle. It fires tank-shell sized projectiles with a shotgun explosion radius. It is a slow full-auto that can headshot, which makes it range from a 5 to 3 hit kill. It has a first-shot accuracy increase as well. The magazine size is small, the base model having 18, and the reload speed is rather slow.
The other one is a heavy machinegun, which I might post later.
Anyway, let me know what you guys think!