Gun cane

[Leadpoisoning]

I noticed someone with a dress cane equipped the other day and thought, wouldn't it be cool if you could have a gun disguised as a cane as a holdout weapon? I've seen this type of gun-cane in movies before (I think The Penguin may have used one at one point), and I don't think creating it would require any new models or textures. You might need to edit an attack animation for it, though. The idea is basically a holdout weapon with a little more punch to it.

 

So here's what I was thinking for the gun. It should use 12.7mm pistol ammo, and probably not hold any more than three rounds at a time. It should have relatively low damage but a very high crit damage. Also, since it's supposed to be a concealed weapon, it probably shouldn't make people explode into bloody giblets. It should also, obviously, used a silenced pistol sound, be somewhat heavier than a normal dress cane, and be on the list of holdout weapons. I was able to find the list but I can't figure out how to edit it. Plus, changing the attack and reload animations is way out of my depth.

 

Let me know if you're going to try this. Thanks!

[Gashjackel]

So sorta like the pimp cane from saints row 2?

[Leadpoisoning]

So sorta like the pimp cane from saints row 2?

 

Never played that game, but I would assume so.

[Gashjackel]

The pimp cane was pretty much just a cane but with a shotgun built in

[DragonJTS]

I'd assume he means an actual gun cane, which were low calibre weapons carried by gentlemen who didn't feel like dicking around with a sword.

[Leadpoisoning]

Yeah, that's more what I was thinking of. Definitely not a shotgun.

[StPatrick923]

Actually, if someone were to make this...how much trouble would it be to include both a low-caliber weapon and a shotgun variant?

 

Also, making them items you can (or even have to) craft would not seem unreasonable.

[Guest deleted2159825]

Good idea. You could have a dart gun variant as well. It's been done before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov

 

Yes, that was an umbrella, but it's close enough.

[StPatrick923]

Would it look like a slightly modified dress cane or have a different model altogether?

[Leadpoisoning]

Would it look like a slightly modified dress cane or have a different model altogether?

 

I have virtually no experience with modeling or model editing, so I don't know how much additional trouble it would be to edit the dress cane model to make it look more like a gun cane. But since the whole idea of the weapon is that it's hard to distinguish visually from a regular cane, I don't think it would be out of the question to use the exact same model as the dress cane.

 

Also, making it a crafted gun would make sense. Mr. Holdout might sell the blueprint for it.

 

EDIT: A dart gun variant would 1) make more sense and 2) be downright awesome, but the dart would need a custom effect. Maybe massive initial fatigue damage followed by some fairly heavy DoT, so it would knock someone out and then kill or nearly kill them while they were out.