Manipulator basketball

[barnett]

how fun would that be? could have 5v5 and have it so the manipulator can catch aswell as fire out :cheers:

 

[DarkelP]

hmm....after much thought on the matter......I think this would be a brilliant idea! well worth one for the mods to work on!

 

[nw909]

That would probably be damn cool, I hate basketball but with manipulators it could rox my box!

 

[Marauder]

Basketball is great and all, but I don't play the sport. I wrestle instead.

Anyway, I would prefer manipulator football

 

[Feath]

How about Manipulator Chess for the interlectually inclinded?

 

[nw909]

Manipulator cock fight, ahha throw the roosters.

 

[JunkieXL]

Crowbar baseball.

 

[DarkelP]

how about manipulator pick up sticks!

 

[OCybrManO]

Manipulator Basketball... wouldn't that be a little hard to do well? You know, the manipulator only activates when you point at the thing you want to pick up... so if the ball is flying at you you will have to have quick reflexes and good accuracy to fire and hold right before it hits you.

It would probably be more fun and pretty easy to code if you made the ball a weapon that disappears when you fire it and launches another of the ball-weapon things. That way, you don't have to time a button press just right so that you actually catch the ball... it's automatic like picking up weapons. Also, it would allow you to hit the "drop weapon" button to do a quick, short toss (like with the gun gordon drops in traptown). I think this would work if you made the ball weapon bouncy somehow... because weapons are probably physically simulated in the world.

Don't limit it to just basketball. Code a goal trigger so that it works like a hostage rescue area... except only a person with the ball triggers it. Make another goal trigger that is only triggered if the ball itself goes through. Then, you could make a mod that plays differently depending on the map you are on. You could have a game similar to football, basketball, a futuristic sport like Rollerball but without the skates (hmm... that's another idea), etc.

There also needs to be a way to steal the ball from each other.

 

[LoneDeranger]

Hehe, interesting idea. I think it would be pretty easy to do a mod like that. All you need is a basketball court map and a way to track the score.

 

[trantjd]

Hmmm, this is starting to sound pretty similar to the "sport" game in UT2k3 (sorry, can't remember the name of the game mode right now). I think that, while being an easy mod to create, it would get pretty boring very fast without some sort of variety to the maps and gameplay...just my 2 cents!

 

[OCybrManO]

If I were going to make a mod the two things that would be on the top of my list would be a remake of QPong (my favorite mod for any game) and this mod idea... I have a bunch of ideas but those are my two favorite ones.

 

[Tyl3n0L]

bombing run?
like ut2k3 .. would be cool with hl2

 

[DaLys]

Manipulator Basketball Bomberman? :E

 

[JunkieXL]

You don't need to mod it, you could just make a basketball map or whatever and make it that every time the ball goes through the hoop the scoreboard changes...

 

[Guest]

Originally posted by Marauder
Basketball is great and all, but I don't play the sport. I wrestle instead.

Anyway, I would prefer manipulator football

mmm oily men hhaha jk

 

[LoneDeranger]

Oh no, there are tons of ways to make it fun.

i.e. If you score a 3-point shot, headcrabs are released on top of the opposing team.

 

[Joeyslucky22]

lol half-court shot would release a strider on the opposing team? thatd be cool.. lol

Actually.. make it so the manipulator is actually 2 hands rather than a gun so it'd make it look more realistic.

And when you make a half-court shot you get to watch the other team get eaten or something. lol

 

[SerialCarpens]

Manipulator cockfight would own

 

[el Chi]

Originally posted by trantjd
Hmmm, this is starting to sound pretty similar to the "sport" game in UT2k3

Deathball. Based on football. Or "soccer" for you moron yanks (That was mild sarcasm. Realise that and move on. )

And yeah it would be very similar. To the point of... "That was great fun... Let's create a mod that's... 'similar'. Erm, a 'tribute'. Yeah"
Although actually I had been thinking that Manipulator Deathball would be a good idea With a few constraints put on its beguiling powers.

 

[nw909]

Im not a moron yank, i'd much rather be a wanker.

 

[el Chi]

Then your wish is granted my dear boy.

 

[nw909]

/me does a joy dance

Now back on topic, that deathball thing would be cool, fire the ball hard enough and send the other players flying into walls

 

[LoneDeranger]

Originally posted by Joeyslucky22
lol half-court shot would release a strider on the opposing team? thatd be cool.. lol

Actually.. make it so the manipulator is actually 2 hands rather than a gun so it'd make it look more realistic.

And when you make a half-court shot you get to watch the other team get eaten or something. lol

But the whole point is not make it realistic (I hate sports games anyway), but to make it silly and fun.

 

[Prince of China]

Sport games are okay, but I prefer shooters more.
I play real basketball and tennis-don't need a game to have fun.

 

[el Chi]

Well said Tredoslop - I f*cking hate sports games. <Ahem>
Other than Manipulator DM I can't think of any non-sports related games that would use our friend to the fullest.

 

[SirMcNugget]

Howabout dodgeball. That would be easy and fun. Run around ducking and dodgeing and giggling.

 

[el Chi]

Dodge Barrel.

 

[OCybrManO]

Screw Dodge Barrel... Dodge Ram......... heh..... hehe... bad joke.

EDIT: I know... I know... but I'm a sucker for bad puns.

 

[el Chi]

<Fires barrel at CybrMan>

 

[OCybrManO]

Why not make a sports bar with a bunch of TVs showing camera inputs (not a new idea) in each level... but (now the new part) you put a bunch of bottles, tables, chairs, etc in there that you could beat each other with and start a manipulator bar fight when your team loses (or wins, or if you spill your beer... whatever you want to start a fight over).

In tournament play it would give the players waiting for their turns something to do until they are up... either watch the game on the big screen or "Pummela! Pummela!" all of the little girly men.

 

[IceWORM]

I think it would be kickass to have a manipulator tag mod. One person would be it w/ the manipulator and try to tag the other players with various items, barrels/boxes/car etc.

 

[PainLord]

You could make a mod similar to UT2003 Deathball.

 

[Joeyslucky22]

I never found UT2003 mods any good..... Its really not my type of game. They put too much time into it to make it look good and didnt really change much.. oh well

 

[Xtasy0]

do you guys realize how much force the manipulator puts behind stuff? how do you plan to get the ball up, and then down in a hoop? you'd have to basically hit the ceiling and hope it just falls straight down into the hook, because the manipulator will just fire it at the backboard and it'll bounce right back off it because it would be going too fast.

it could be done in a mod i suppose, lower the velocity the manipulator fires at, give the ball more weight.

 

[Prince of China]

Or you could make the hoop really far and make the players shoot from a distance.

 

[nw909]

Or make them shoot at other players.

 

[Blud Stane]

question: what would happen when 2 people use the manipulator on the same object?

Gameplay idea: Why not have car wars in a junk yard, i can already see a truck flying you you while you hit it in mid air with a car to deflect it away. JUNKYARD WARS!!

 

[Prince of China]

Idea: Players could use the manipulator to swing around the arena. Grab something attached to the ceiling and swing away like Tarzan.

 

[Gordon'sFreeman]

How about picking up parked cars and hurling them at people while there not watching, or (what i found in a thread) put someone in a dumpster and shooting it 75 feet away