SS2 Ball Lightning Rifle

[664905bf28093Yankee Clipper]

Tags: °weapon °dml °SS2

The Ball Lightning Rifle (BLR) mod is a modification of the EMP Rifle. While the EMP Rifle did EMP damage - affecting only mechanicals and half mechanicals, with this mod, the BLR does Electrical Damage, which in addition to mechs and half mechs, also affects humans and half humans. The BLR shares the EMP Rifle's weakness when it comes to the pure annelids (Reavers and spiders), in that it has no effect on them whatsoever. In addition, the BLR has no effect on SHODAN, which is one area where the EMP Rifle excels.

In addition to changing the damage type, this mod reduces the Maintenance level requirement. While the EMP Rifle had level 6 Maintenance requirement, the minimum Maintenance level has been reduced to 4 with the BLR.

The attached pics:
First up is the BLR mod loaded along with the R&R&R EMP Rifle mod. While the BLR mod changes the way the EMP Rifle works, the RRR mod does all of the work of making the rifle look great. The one in the screencap is their Rifle #3 along with LarkSS's materials addon.

Second is the BLR mod with the vanilla EMP Rifle. Uuugly!

Finally, a table from Prima's Strategy Guide showing the effects of different kinds of damage on the different kinds of monsters. Highlighted are the EMP and Electricity damages made relevant by this mod, as well as the Energy type, which is used by the Laser Pistol and Laser Rapier.

[664905bf2834cvoodoo47]

added tags. also, consider changing the name - "ball" is kind of.. lame? try spherical discharge energy rifle or some similar shocky mumbo-jumbo thing.

btw, good job with making this a dml mod, meaning it's compatible with anything out there.

[664905bf284b0Kolya]

Nice. If you really wanna change the name I suggest The Yankee Nutcracker.

[664905bf288b8miracle.flame]

"ball" is kind of.. lame?"

Guľový blesk je lamerina?

English:
As me and voodoo are both the same nationality I have pronounced the same meaning in our language which is very commonly used and not considered lame. Just as ball lightning is normal and serious expression I came accross many times.

[664905bf289bcvoodoo47]

I know, but it still sounds kind of.. non shocky.

[664905bf28ab1miracle.flame]

*aims ball lightning rifle at voodoo*
say that again pal and you will listen to the sound and feeling

[664905bf28beaYankee Clipper]

Thanks for adding the tags.  However, the Ball Lightning Rifle it will remain! 

The discharge looks like ball lightning. It even has its own Wikipedia entry (Ball lightning, that is; not the BLR):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

[664905bf28d52OmegaDEATH]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-PUjaG__9w
any of you guys actually pass science class? it's a mass of light caused by electrostatic flow.

[664905bf28e52miracle.flame]

Sorry, OmegaDeath, no... all of us here are dumb as f..., you look at us the right way. :thumbup:

[664905bf2914dOmegaDEATH]

Sorry, OmegaDeath, no... all of us here are dumb as f..., you look at us the right way. :thumbup:

ok now i feel bad.

[664905bf29252Moon]

The R&R&R EMP Rifle always reminds me of a phaser rifle from Star Trek, aha.

[664905bf295f9OmegaDEATH]

If we want to get all freaking technical.
-In real life
1. the gun would have to be mounted stationary and would not be able to move till done firing.
2. The pulse would not dissipate upon hitting a target. "only once the device is switched off"
3. the ball would emit a high pitched crackling and buzzing sound till it does due to the interaction with oxygen exploding.

-In video game life.
1. rule 1 does not apply as the ball lighting core contains nano bots moving at a incredible rate causing voltage potentials to rise no longer requiring the gun to emit it. "same can be achieved with psi" would emmit a tint of violet red-ish light same a a plasma ball.
 2. since rule 1 of VGL applies this no longer is a issue to rule 2.
3. rule 3 still appies.... but it's a video game in a sci-fi setting so bob is your uncle.


Oh yeah EMP is invisible.
But can be awesomely simulated using a warp post screen shader if you could map a separate render cam and texture to the depth map of the emp effects.

Basically re-render everything using the color 127,127,127 "neutral" then render the emp effect using a color higher that that for inward depth and the opposite for outward depth.

Emp also does not damage electronics... it "nullifies or overcharges" the charges in it.. DEAD.
:final ninja.

Sorry, OmegaDeath, no... all of us here are dumb as f..., you look at us the right way. :thumbup:

I'm a douche ok.

[664905bf29928Yankee Clipper]

Oh yeah EMP is invisible.
But can be awesomely simulated using a warp post screen shader if you could map a separate render cam and texture to the depth map of the emp effects.

Ok, but with this mod, the EMP Rifle is no more. It is now a rifle that shoots a ball of electricity. Visible electricity, as in ball lightning.
 

[664905bf29afeOmegaDEATH]

Just putting that out there.
The only place I find a ball of light "cough" threatening is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN8G9Wsnb6s#t=130 

I would have totally called it a "electron pulse rifle"

But pulse rifle was used by the aliens franchise. when none of it's iner workings really relies on a pulse really
"pulse used for wireless firing of normal bullets"

Anyway I liked this version of the emp rifle but wished that the little display on it was more functional.

[664905bf29c1eOmegaDEATH]

also.. omg I suck.....
The ball lighting would pretty much kill a human.

Like instant nervous system damage. "heart STOPS"
This is why the word here is.... EMP cuz that only effects machines and half machine humans.

And creatures with psi abilities have much much more chance of getting killed by it due to their more complex nervous systems.

[664905bf29dcfSystem]

Secmod 3 + R&R&Rs EMP Rifle SecMod compat + Ball Lightning Rifle  =  error

[664905bf29eadvoodoo47]

POST the error.

[664905bf2a1d8RocketMan]

Maybe "post" isn't the best word to use if he's using some sort of translator.  Maybe "give me a picture" or "explain" would do better.

[664905bf2a2eevoodoo47]

he knows what he is supposed to do when reporting a problem.

[664905bf2a3ceRocketMan]

True... one would hope so anyway.

[664905bf2a4b3Yankee Clipper]

Somehow, he seemed more amusing over in the SCP thread.

[664905bf2a7aaYankee Clipper]

Secmod 3 + R&R&Rs EMP Rifle SecMod compat + Ball Lightning Rifle  =  error

The only issue I can see is that SecMod has modified the damage that the Maintenance Bots do. The game calls it "droid spark" and it is electrical damage. It is what I used for the BLR. SecMod has added some splash to that kind of projectile. So, the BLR will also have splash damage in SecMod. Since the player is also vulnerable to electrical damage, you can hurt and kill yourself if you are too close to where the electricity impacts.

I see no difference in how the BLR operates in SecMod whether or not the RRR mod is loaded. RRR changes the way the rifle looks, and it does that the same way in SecMod, whether or not BLR is loaded with it.

[664905bf2a894System]

I pressed TAB button and then game crash

[664905bf2a98dvoodoo47]

post your shock2.log and crash.dmp then.

also, just for the record, this mod causing such a crash all by itself is extremely unlikely, if not outright impossible.