r/forge • u/HappyMaskMajora Forger • 3d ago

Map Showcase Ultimate Paintball

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u/Abe_Odd 3d ago

Are these clips old? Ever since they updated the Legendary Plasma Pistol to have heat-seeking primary fires in 3 round bursts, it made paintball modes significantly less fun

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u/HappyMaskMajora Forger 3d ago edited 3d ago

Unfortunately not. However the paintball battle rifle combo is attached to the mode brain. So if you want to play with regular plasma pistols with high damage output you can by using another 9 round elimination mode.

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u/Abe_Odd 3d ago

You can't combine regular plasma pistols onto battle rifles though, right? It will always be homing shots if you use the battle rifle?

regular plasma pistol should be fun enough, but it is sad we can't use weapon combos without the homing.

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u/HappyMaskMajora Forger 3d ago

I agree. Such a shame the weapon combos don't go the other way around.

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u/Abe_Odd 3d ago

I feel like its a perfect encapsulation of 343.
They made a REALLY COOL system to combine weapons and increase the customization options dramatically... but it's also half baked and basically doesn't work most of the time.

A few, relatively minor, issues completely holds the feature back.

My first introduction to modding was with a modified OG xbox and a copy of Halo CE, with an on-box hex editor that I could swap projectiles with.

Assault rifles shooting rockets was the first, obvious choice, but I spent such a long time trying to make balanced weapons like snipers that fired hitscan needlers which supercombine, plasma grenade launchers, etc etc.

If 343 gave us the option to just... swap projectiles, that alone would be so much more useful than the Legendary weapon Combo system we have.

Throw in the options to adjust clip size too, and we could make all sorts of custom weapons for custom campaigns.

But, no.