Has anyone else thought of some unique ideas to add as powerups? I was thinking a really cool one would be a "cloaking" powerup. Get the powerup and be invisible to all for a short period. Anyone else have some ideas?

Is taht for lighting from the sky?
Eagle

Not lightning, but it nues people.

NOOOOO Someone make lighting! O and anoather powerup and be a FLAMETHROWER! Then wehn someone get caught it can spread!
Eagle
(that would be t't the whole map on fire!) Like a hell battleground!

Hmm...
I am slowly learning C++ (gonna take a while)
but is this all that is needed for the demo popper?

                                        

                                        if(%client.namebase.strstr("DEMO"))

                                         %client.player.delete("DemoBGone Script 1.1 kicked you. Do not come back.");

                                        }

                                        

^^ I have made a fire emitter. I could just put them as nodes all over the map and on trees then voila ! Say hello to hell !!
ehehhehe...

A power-up that when you get it, it explodes! And poop goes flying! XD

Ok ok but seriously...

A power-up that when you shoot with your tank, it will create a sphere and trap the opponent's tank and you can just kick him into the foggy parts! %)
A power-up that brings the "Lag Monster" to life and when it is close to one of the tanks, it will cause a huge lag on them and have free shots at them! XD

Sorry I am feeling a tad bit crazy today!! :P

-ZeBoLoBoT

A scrum powerup that makes all the tanks within the distance of 4 tanks from the goal die. Camper doom!

I like ^ one. Also the flame thrower sounds like my kinda thing B) hehe. But this is my idea. I mine powerup. You know, you driving around and you get this p-up, than go and drop it in front of somebody. Sends them flying into the air with heavy damage, then, once you die, all the mines you laid automatically explode. Great for CTF. More ideas to come!!
-Dark

Ok, new idea. Tracking missle power-up. Get this p-up, keep someone in your sights for 2-3 seconds, and fire it off. It will automatically track that person, unless of course they get behind a rock or something, say....another tank? Maybe you could do something to the effect that you there is a strident beeping sound when someone tries to get a lock on you. Be fun if you could shoot them down. Lets see what else....bigger gun p-up?
-Dark

Nuclear Warhead=1/100 chance of getting it, launches quickly and destroys everything within a 100 meter radius with a great ball of light creating a gigantic crater with a radioactive aftereffect slowly killing your tank.
Flamethrower=1/10 chances of getting it, a quick stream of fire hitting everything within the line of fire and 5 meters of it still leaving burn marks and possibly burning the tank slowly over a period of time.
Suicidal Bomb=1/50 chance of getting it, causes yourself to self-destruct and destroying or heavily damaging everything within a 10 meter radius.
Homing Missile=1/20 chance of getting it, locks onto target and launches with great speed and heavily damages everything within a 10 meter radius, it won't stop unless hit by a projectile, rock, outmaneauvered, or hit target or different target.
Machine Gun=1/5 chance of getting it, quickly launches projectiles and hitting everything in its path.
Gattling Gun=1/15 chance of getting it, quickly launches laser-like projectiles and possibly able to shoot through rocks and land.
Laser Beam=1/25 chance of getting it, great beam of light shooting through any obstacle and able to vaporize any tank that is hit directly.
Motion Sensor Bomb=1/20 chance of getting it, sets trap under tank and activates after 5 seconds and sets off if something comes within 5 meters of it and heavily damages everything within 10 meters.
Sticky Bomb=1/20 chance of getting it, launches projectile and sticks to the first thing it hits and sets off once you decide to.

Smog Gun: When you shoot it fills the area with thick black smoke
Oil Slick PU: Throws out pools of black gooy oil. If you drive through oil slick you speed up
Mud Pit PU: Throws out splashes of thick mud. If you drive through mud you will slow down
Quick Sand PU: Makes a single large pool of quick sand. If you touch quick sand your tank will freeze in that position
Transporter PU: If you hit a tank with this PU you will transport them to another location on the map
Ghost PU: If you eat this PU you will be invincible/invisible for the duration timed
Poison PU: This looks like a normal PU but when you eat it you loose half life ( for all the PU only players )
Group PU: If you eat this PU your whole team will be instantly grouped together :P
Detonate PU: You eat it then type the name of the player you want to kill
DJ PU: Music and tank speed change eratically for all other tanks but yours
Halo PU: Adds a bright white arrow pointing downward at tank your trying to shoot and increases zoom

Hmmm...give me a minute I'll think of some more! (hehehehehhe)

DrSawbones(UF)

Air strike p-up. Fire at the place you want it to hit, and bombs will rain from the sky, blowing tanks to kingdom come. Muhahaha. Also, not really a p-up, but how about a "tank changer" gate. Drive through this and you can pick a different tank. Maybe a mortor launcher would be funner. Or some type of melee weapon, like a big old spike on the front of your tank -bump- XD
-Dark

I have some beautiful ones. The most conspicuous one is the first one below.

The time continuum , the time bender , or something like that!

Anyway. Once fired on any area, a [I|time sphere[/b] appears and the tanks that are kept within it will go in deep slow motion, plus, any tanks that drives into it will be affected as well. The caster of the powerup will also get slowed down, but his/her movement and shots are slightly quicker than the other tanks. Also, shots that come from outside of the time sphere are descellerating to the speed that things move within.

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Another one:

Temporary shields (rocks) . This powerup will give the one that gets it 5 shields that he/she can put up to make a protective barrier. The shields can be rocks or something similar. They are positioned where the wielder is shooting and stays in the game until every one of them have been shot with 5 bullets each. The wielder will also be unkillable for a limited time and he/she has to place them within that time, otherwise they will be lost.

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Another one:

Nitro . This powerup gives the one who gets it 3 or 4 nitro boosts. Explanation is unneeded, other than that it is triggered with the right mouse button and that it gives the user short boosts, say the same as when going on a normal speed pad.

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I could go on forever. I have many more ideas, but the importance when adding more powerup types will be to still maintain the balance in the game. That's the tricky part.

Last edited: Monday, April 04, 2005 at 6:40:15 AM

Hmm, I'm thinking on a Nuke p-up, you get it, Huge H-Bomb flies down, blows everything up within a 50 million light year radius (splash area of about 999'999'999'999'999'999'999'999'999'999'999'999'999'999'999 (nothing can escape it!) Chances of getting it, 1/1000000000000. The only thing left is you, and can even destroy tanks with armourscale 0 (that is, immune to bullets)

Last edited: Friday, April 15, 2005 at 12:48:00 PM

Freeze Ray!!!! For your fellow "Ice Punk" frezes the ground to make it slippier or freeze a tnak to slow it down or stop it completely while dealing damage constantly
Shockwave Amplifier gradually increases in power and once you fire it releases all of the power to make an earthquake on the ground or a burst of sound that scrambles the radar and knocks the tank around but have to wait before it regains power
Needler fires hundreds of tiny needles into the target and can cause the treads to jam your sight blinded your turrets jammed and if a weak opponent take them out without a huge struggle

Ok everyone!! I have a breakthrough!!!
It IS possible to turn someone invisible!
On a game called Realm Wars (it uses torque script, just like TT for those who dont know) that I have now started modding a little, there is a Cloak weapon. It doesnt turn you completly invisible but for all extensive purposes, it does a pretty good job at it.
some little minor adjustments and you have an Invisible Powerup!!

Can you see me??

Didnt think so!!

Last edited: Sunday, April 17, 2005 at 8:27:43 PM

Well, Warfare, I KNOW how to put a player invisible, and have known for 4 months.
Its not like realmwars tough, what they do is change player datablock so it uses the transparent.dts
I just use /invisi player to make someone invisible
Only downfault is that if somebody joins the game that person will see us, and if the game loops, everybody but us will see ourselves :P

Even if Realmwars way is much better, this way has no downloads nor.dts editing (wich I can't do :) )

Well art, I intend to make this without downloading if possible :P
and fix your bugs :P
neener neener neener

Well, bugs = impossible to fix (it uses a bug, and unless we worsen the bug, we cant fix it :P )
And when using a transparent.dts u gotta download
BTW: If you give me a transparent.dts for a tank, I'll do the rest!

Railgun: uses magnets to launch large projectiles and able to completely destroy a large hill
Zero gravity gun: Able to pull anything from anywhere and throw it at your enemy
Beam sword: Two photon blades attached to your sides able to cut through anything
Photon Chain: chain of light launches from your turret and hooks on to a tank or other object and can through or pull the tank or yourself(depending on the weight) causing blunt damage plus damage from the chain

Anti-Matter Beam a laser-like beam that hits and cahnges the matters polarity which causes it to self-destruct whatever it hits turns into dust :P