Throw a stone?

[NaimaR]

So, I've been thinking...

I often play sneaky characters who mainly used melee or unarmed combat styles. I can take on lone enemies fine, my problem is when there is a group of enemies.

In that occassion, if would be nice if you could pick up a stone from the road and throw it, quietly, at an enemy, causing them to become alarmed and attempt to find out where it came from.

 

Is this a mod anyone would like to make?

I guess the stone itself could just be a clutter item, something you'd find around in the waste-... Why am I explaining this? Are you telling me that the Courier doesn't come across thousands, millions of stones and pebbles on his travels? :D

Should atleast be as common as the rusty tin cans.

Oh, and the damage could be kept pretty low, 5-10 damage? It's not meant to kill, just to distract afterall.

 

Well, there it is.

Just and idea, incase anyone is looking for something to do. :)

[JohannesGunn]

Great idea. I know there were rocks in Fallout 1 AND 2, and I'm pretty sure there were rocks in tactics, too. To make it even better, I know the Geck can set up a gun to fire a projectile that looks like a rock. The only problem is if you pile too many rocks up, or if you shoot a rock, they BLOW THE POCK UP. However, since the texture is already there, it should be fairly easy to make a rock weapon. You'd need custom textures, to show you holding a rock, but that's about all.

 

Edit:Just had a brainstorm, gonna try it out. If it works, I'll post the file here.

Edited November 20, 2010 by JohannesGunn

[JohannesGunn]

Well, I tried to design a blank weapon using the grenade animation and the rock projectile, only to find that it has been removed from the FNV geck. This does not mean it can't be done, it just means that I can't do it... yet. I just don't have the skills. Still, I hope someone with more talent decides to give this a look, as it would be awesome. Good luck with this, it's a great idea.

[Savage117]

If you know how to texture this will be pretty easy.

 

For a rough draft just retexture a grenade with a rock like texture and remove the explosion effect, it would look a little funny, a grenade shaped rock, but you could use it just like you want and even use VATS to get the rock closer on target. Then just get someone whos good at meshes and texturing make you a rock and add grenade properties to it, except the exploding of course, although that would be cool.

 

Take a look at this mod the author made it so you can use survival to pick up debries to throw, they all look like skulls but im sure he might know how to change it.