Why is my character completely incapable of using anything to make a weapon

[BallisticLord]

First before you respond don't respond with how guns change player mentality or how the game would be too easy, I want to know why my character can't figure out how to either make a gun without the computer having an existing blueprint or even better there is an alien rifle I can't grab and a giant sunbeam I can't reverse engineer, also if you can make toxic/vortex torpedos why can't I add some sulfur and magnesium in a torpedo to save myself from giant creatures whose only purpose is eating me. I understand the creators may be opposed to weapons but weapons are the most practical way to stay alive in a hostile enviroment. I understand blueprints were removed because of a massacre but I should be able to use my scanner on alien weaponry to make myself something.

[miklkit]

If ballistic weapons are the only kind you know how to use, then you deserve to be fishfood.

[kwong20287]

There's somewhat enough in-game information to figure out why the character doesn't make weapons.

[old.school]

"weapons are the most practical way to stay alive in a hostile enviroment"

I have this feeling that players who ask for guns to be added to the game dont want to just "stay alive in a hostile environment...they want to dominate it.

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

Originally posted by old.school:

"weapons are the most practical way to stay alive in a hostile enviroment"

I have this feeling that players who ask for guns to be added to the game dont want to just "stay alive in a hostile environment...they want to dominate it.

When the only danger an environment offers is from animals, that's exactly what staying alive means.

[kwong20287]

Originally posted by RT:

IMO they should have atleast added the Repulsion Cannon upgrade to the Prawn suit so you could push away some of the more annoying critters without having to exit your suit.

or a prawn shield, like the cyclops.

[Amanoob105]

Breeds crashfish, builds propulsion cannon, loads a crashfish while holding propulsion cannon.

Oh look, I made a grenade launcher. So hard to do.

More people that want a weapon in this game need to play Halflife 2. Or at the very least look up the gravity gun.

[old.school]

Originally posted by Ryvaken Tadrya:

Originally posted by old.school:

"weapons are the most practical way to stay alive in a hostile enviroment"

I have this feeling that players who ask for guns to be added to the game dont want to just "stay alive in a hostile environment...they want to dominate it.

When the only danger an environment offers is from animals, that's exactly what staying alive means.

There is staying alive...and then there is going out to find all the Reapers who ate your Seamoths, took your lunch money and gave you wedgies and blasting their heads off and making yourself a necklace out of their skulls. Out of those two which one do you think username "BallisticLord" is interested in doing? Ballistic...Lord. He is the Lord of Ballistics...think veeeeery carefully about your answer.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3RJUMm-hd0

[The Happy Friar]

I figure it's so that you have to get up close to attack things, and hence have more of a reason not to. No different then why I can't kill the alien in Isolation: design decision (no practicle reason a flame thrower shouldn't toast that guy).
In their previous game they had no problem giving you the ability to destroy things in gunny & rippy ways, so I'm doubting they have a gun phobia.
(however, it would still make sence to make a long range weapon in a real life situation like this).

[Graf Schokola]

Its not a hackn slay game. We dont need weapons. Thats why the game is so great. You can avoid 99% of all hard contacts, you only need open eyes and some movement.

[BlackWater]

Originally posted by Amanoob105:

Breeds crashfish, builds propulsion cannon, loads a crashfish while holding propulsion cannon.

Oh look, I made a grenade launcher. So hard to do.

More people that want a weapon in this game need to play Halflife 2. Or at the very least look up the gravity gun.

And quite effective as well. It took a few, but I put a reaper down that got stuck right by the lifepod. 3 ampeels wouldnt kill it, even a hatched lava lizzard woudlnt kill it for me, had to do it myself.

[General Idea]

Do you mean that you want to be a predator with guns on a alien planet? What the hell are you?

[BallisticLord]

Originally posted by old.school:

"weapons are the most practical way to stay alive in a hostile enviroment"

I have this feeling that players who ask for guns to be added to the game dont want to just "stay alive in a hostile environment...they want to dominate it.

Forget dominating the enviroment I just don't like having a heart attack whenever something moves on the screen

[BallisticLord]

Originally posted by old.school:

Originally posted by Ryvaken Tadrya:

When the only danger an environment offers is from animals, that's exactly what staying alive means.

There is staying alive...and then there is going out to find all the Reapers who ate your Seamoths, took your lunch money and gave you wedgies and blasting their heads off and making yourself a necklace out of their skulls. Out of those two which one do you think username "BallisticLord" is interested in doing? Ballistic...Lord. He is the Lord of Ballistics...think veeeeery carefully about your answer.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3RJUMm-hd0

Believe it or not I would rather not come across them at all because they scare me half to death

[PrimeSonic]

Originally posted by BallisticLord:

Forget dominating the enviroment I just don't like having a heart attack whenever something moves on the screen

Let me tell you, during the first couple days you'll be with this game, you'll have plenty of things giving you jumps and mini hearts attacks.
And only a small handful of them are actually dangerous at all.

The unexpected bump of a random fish bumping into your vehicle, they gave me a startle every time for a long while.

You'll eventually get used to it.
You'll know what all the sounds mean and the fear factor will slowly go away as you begin to really understand the game world and how it works.

Hang in there.

[General Idea]

Why not try to have good relations with the native wildlife if you feel threatened by any in particular and progress beyond BallisticLord? You can always use a seaglide they zip along and you can play hide and seek if you like in your spare time.