Cloaked weapons

[Blue Ghost]

A few years back I started a thread about painted weapons after seeing Black Hawk Down. Recently, while looking for some skins for a CSS mod I want to create (Traveller oriented), I came acrosss this skin for an M4 / M16;

http://www.fpsbanana.com/skins/30877

I thought you all might want to chime in with some thoughts on this. Would it provide any benefits like a painted weapon in Traveller? Or is it just a curiosity?

 

[far-trader]

Meh, it's a gimmick imo. Wouldn't work well in the real world without "magic" paint. But then we do have "magic" paint in Traveller in the form of Chameleon Armor Coating. Which is pretty much what that "ice" reflective effect is.

Can if be done on something as small and multifaceted as a weapon? Doubtful. At a minimum I think it has to be a reasonably rounded form and (only because it's already canon) at least human sized.

The benefits for a weapon would be few and very situation specific imo. And much more easily and cheaply done by other methods, like simply changing the form to something innocent. Instead of a gun bring a "cane" to the party.

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Don't put your gun down, you might never find it again...

 

[Blue Ghost]

Heh, interesting.

It seemed curious enough. Me, I was actually wondering when somebody would actually texture a weapon with the water skin. It reminded me when I used to play Quake 2, and a friend of mine used a jet black skin during a co-op session during a LAN party I threw. That skin was creepy; the other players merely saw this black shape bouncing around the map, but he was very difficult to see.

Where this is only the weapon, it had me thinking of possible Traveller applications. As you mentioned we essentially already have it via the chamelion capability. Still, it might make for an interesting perk during an adventure; i.e. a party member picks up an ACR with this camo-scheme.

Loose tangent; during a session of Jedi Knight my team mate was using force invisibility on the Oasis map when he came up to me to say "hi". I went postal on him not knowing who he was. Fortunately friendly fire wasn't on, but he took off anyway

 

[far-trader]

Come to think of it now, I came up with an Active Adaptive Chameleon "baggie" for weapons in Traveller. I'm sure I posted it around here somewhere but can't recall where. Maybe it'll come to me. Basically a carry case to cover the weapon and hands, plugging into the soldier's Chameleon Armor so it would also be camo, but still usable without removing the baggie.

 

[casquilho]

I think this falls into my "Fun to write it down, but get no game rule benifit" catagory. Sort of like saying what color your airraft is painted. It is cool but I would not give you anything for doing it.

This reminds me of the guy who wanted everyone at the table to know his shotgun had camo painted on it. Great, but except in the forest it does not make any differance.

Daniel