v 1.06

[prosthetic_eye]

hey, is the new Fremen weapon sound a maula pistol? in the books they said that Fremen had maula pistols, which are spring loaded, or sumtin... the Fremen weapon in 1.06 sounds like a spring loaded weapon....

thanx - DNA

[montego]

There are actually two weapons they use (primary and secondary). They are (and I know this because I have edited the game before) Machine guns. What leads you to believe it's different is simply the sound effect they use.

[prosthetic_eye]

i know a lot about weapons and fire, and violent stuff enough, and machine guns are usually constant rat-a-tat-tat noises, wheras the fremen weapon is a "woosh-pause-woosh" sequence. now correct me if im wrong, but you said "What leads you to believe it's different is simply the sound effect they use." for all we know it could be a laser they're shooting. a sound does play an important part in identifying something. and in the books the only weapons i believe thewy used were crysknives, and maula pistols. i never remember the fremen using machine guns. and what do you mean by "primary and secondary weapons?" you can't choose which ones they use...

[Gobalopper]

I believe it choses what weapon it will use based on where it is in relation to the other unit.

They may be called machine guns when you edit the game but I think they sound like a maula pistols too. Are all infantry weapons called machine guns, other then troopers that is?

[prosthetic_eye]

thanx for the support, but not all infantry have "machine guns" sabotuers are "infantry," as well as the engineers and thumpers. but the engineers' weapon is capturing buildings, the sabotuers' weapon is destroying buildings, and the thumpers' weapon is the thumper.

[Gobalopper]

I was refering more to other infantry who would carry "guns" and what it would show up as in the game. Like the Sarduakar and the regular Infantry, are those weapons called machine guns in the game code?

[harkahn]

Hello all.

This is how it is.

* The Fremen have the weirding modules that were used in the movie but not in the book, having to do with sound, not maula pistols, i know this because in the game code they are labeled as such, as weirding.

* Also you have to remember westwood's license is in regards to the Dune movie and whatever other Dune things they licensed from Universal, or Paramount or DeLaurentis or whoever else owns Dune rights, hence the reference to sonic weapons is taken from the movie, not from the book.

* Lastly, the game Dune 2000, though it has a few indiscrepensies anyway, is set in a time several hundred years before the events in the first Dune books, which is something you have to take into account when you realize they didnt have shields, etc. at that point, except maybe as black ops stuff in secret.

Anyway, thats all i wanted to say. have a good evening. Farewell.

- Jason

[montego]

Thanks, Harkahn. That clarified it beautifully, and saved me some typing too.. lol

[kwisatzhederach]

If your unable to Identify it then its safe to say it may be a las gun or one of those sonic guns they used in the Dune movie (not miniseries).

[exatreide]

well in the dune book i am reading sheilds were made at least 1,000 years before the events in the book.

[prosthetic_eye]

which book, ex?

[harkahn]

Lol, i think Ex is right, though im not sure, but like i said, there are already some major indiscrepancies in the game. Or maybe shields just werent technologcially to a point where they could be used small enough for individual men, or maybe its just because they are really expensive and too hard to maintenance at this point to let every single man have one, or even use excpet for like a baron or duke or somthing... i dont know, use your imgaginations people. :) Well, everybody have a nice day. Farewell.

- Jason.

[ordos45]

I love the stealth raider. Get 30 of them around a harvestor blow it up and run, the enemy sends a lot of units with the next harvestor and then you attack his base.

[ordos45]

Now I like stealth devestators, God bless those Ixians.

[montego]

<grin>

[Guest Clarshh Sepulchre]

There were shield at the time period but the shields would causes any worms nearby to go into a killing frenzy.

[ordos45]

thanks captain. I really love aftermath. I mentioned you on the jokes by the way about dune.

Reason you like dune to much:

It took you 5 hours of editing and an im message to Captain_Montego, but you made the death hand accurate.

[montego]

Well, in a couple weeks i'll start working on my next one - Work is just really hectic at the moment...