I like the ideas of flash grenades and even 539 would be great, if flash grenades make it in, what if when the player doesn't close there eyes and view the flash, there vision gets blurred or blinded, making 173 even more dangerous until your vision returns?.

Flash grenades would be too difficult to implement and won't improve gameplay - it doesn't even seem like SCP and somewhat classifies as a weapon. 539, however, is interesting and would be possible to implement.

garbo wrote:No
It isn't: "NO GUNS" It actually is: "NO WEAPONS"
Weapons make you feel more secure

tell that to this guy.

but what this tells us is how guns and weapons dont work. ill give you a scenario.

SCENARIO 1:
begins shooting SCP-173
*BLINK*


SCENARIO 2:
throws flash grenade
SCP-106:"LOUD NOISES!!!!!"


SCENARIO 3:
attempts to stab MTF unit
*BANG BANG BANG*
XP

smoke grenade could work though.

Anything like a weapon, aka guns and grenades (be it smoke or flash), doesn't work with the kind of horror Regalis has worked so hard to create for this game. Weapons, whether they work or not, create a false sense of security. But something that works only to distract the MTFs (and doesn't act like a weapon) might be fine. After all, the MTFs are not scary, they're just annoying af obstacles that must be passed

Joe Emel wrote:

garbo wrote:No
It isn't: "NO GUNS" It actually is: "NO WEAPONS"
Weapons make you feel more secure

Spoiler

tell that to this guy.

He is actually feeling more secure. If he wasn't, he would have been running or crying on the floor

How would grenades and melee weapons even help, considering they'd only hurt MTFs...and MTFs have guns and move in groups, so even if you could manage to dispatch one the others would kill you pretty f*cking fast. What is needed is a distraction, not a weapon - a weapon is stupid in that not only does it create a sense of security, but it creates a FALSE sense of security where you are actually MORE likely to get killed.

SCP-500 wrote:what if when the player doesn't close there eyes and view the flash, there vision gets blurred or blinded, making 173 even more dangerous until your vision returns?.

I love this idea. Also, someone once had the idea of putting in that one SCP (I forget the number) that's a pair of brass bracelets that make a bow appear when you stand as if you were drawing back the string. When you open your hand, instead of shooting an arrow, it shoots the bones from your arm. The regeneration period would prevent more than one use at a time, and the scream of pain would terrify uneducated players.

Edit: Wait, the one I was talking about IS 539, isn't it? Well, I derped

Edit again: Just searched 539, turns out it's not the one I was thinking of. The number just seemed familiar.

garbo wrote:

Joe Emel wrote:

garbo wrote:No
It isn't: "NO GUNS" It actually is: "NO WEAPONS"
Weapons make you feel more secure

Spoiler

tell that to this guy.

He is actually feeling more secure. If he wasn't, he would have been running or crying on the floor

Basic psychology. If you have something that might help you survive, no matter how little that chance is, you will feel much more secure. After all, IT IS A GUN. Guns kill stuff, what can make you more secure than the ability to take life away by just pressing a trigger?

It is not just the gun itself. This might be my opinion, but having the hud be empty of any hand or object makes you feel much more vulnerable. Having the player hold a gun, puts something in between him and the SCP, which feels less scary.

Also, there is the MTF, a gun will allow you to kill them.

Order of Steelpoint on the old stickied weapons discussion thread, I am to lock this thread now.

Locking.