First heals you and then kills you?
Make up your mind! XD

Yeah. Like if you have low health, it will heal you to max health, and then after a few seconds it will cause damage to it.... It's like using some medicine, but after using it, it will take an effect on your body... Sometimes negative effects... <.< And that's what this is....but worse. :D

Interesting idea, I look forward to seeing your other entries

Well... These look more dumb and look like crap and will never make it, but...


^ (Meant to float around the fist...)



And one of my favorite..... (>.>) (<.<) (>.>) No one's around right? .... Good...









Get ready.....















(Sorry for unnecessaringly wasting space....)











HELL YEAH! THAT'S RIGHT! THE GRUNT LAUNCHER 5000!!!

you should name this one "troll-gun" lol
Edited by ChBgt909 on Jul 21, 2012 at 01:06 PM

Sooo, uh... What do you guys think of them? :)

+1 for the Grunt LaunchPr

@P3: Thanks for your submissions! The drawings are quite well done. And the fact that they are custom designs (not swiped from an exisiting game) will work in your favor.

@everyone: deadline is approaching fast, get your submissions in before it is too late. Keep in mind this is a chance to get your idea completely modelled, textured, animated, tagged, etc.... If you have any good weapon ideas but have never had the time and/or knowledge to create them yourself then now is a good chance to get them created. If you win you will recieve the tags for your weapon to be used in your own projects.

Grunt Launcher

Fires Grunts that attach themselves to enemies, dealing serious damage over time. After 5 seconds they die and drop a grunt biped on the ground.

Didn't someone have an animation, where the grunts would jump on people's heads and beat them with their fists›

Hmm.... I don't really like the Grunt launcher base... Looks fake and have unnecessary designs... The drawing looks crappy, like a child drew it. >.> .... I think i will redraw a better version... Same with the M.M.H and B.O.T.S.(Even though i know those won't have a chance of winning.) XD

I drew B.O.T.S because i thought it would look funny to see a spartan smacking people in the back of the head. XD

I like it, but of course it looks fake; it's a shoulder-fired platform for flinging sentient beings.
Edited by Echo77 on Jul 21, 2012 at 11:54 PM

Well, yeah... But unnecessary designs... It won't look good in-game or, as a 3d model... :3

sure it will!

I am actually quite excited to see the grunt launcher win

anyway, as for a launch animation, you could have a grunt in turret position while in the gun, then fling him out by using the animation for explosion kills (them flying away with their arms swinging screaming "WHAAAA")+ragdoll, then finish it with the grunt switching to a dead model once it hits the ground.


Edited by SilentJacket on Jul 22, 2012 at 12:23 AM

Are you guys sure i shouldn't redraw the launcher base? /:| I could make it look better. It will still have about the same layouts.

Honestly, that picture looks great. If you really want to put more effort into any of your entries, then you could always draw some close views of specific details that you want, or other angles of the weapon, or simply describe anything else that you can think of about how it should work/look.

You are not limited to one picture for each entry, the more reference the better. If you have ever modelled weapons than I am sure you know that you can never have too many reference images.

Ok, so submissions closed yesterday and we will no longer be taking new submissions. Thank you all who participated in the competition. In the next few days we will decide and announce the winner.

DUUUUDE, this, this, this! xD
Edited by MoooseGuy on Jul 27, 2012 at 11:24 AM

Well, the contest has ended and we are reviewing the submissions and trying to decide on a final winner for the contest.

Right away one thing is very obvious.... We got some very good entries and a few VERY bad ones KIRBY!

Unfortunately we have run into a problem in the decision process. Here is our dilemma:

for obvious reasons everyone seems to have fallen in love with the "Grunt Launcher 5000" design.



The problem is that we had planned for the secret weapon to be a reletively common part of gameplay. It is going to be hidden, but not extremely well hidden. The grunt launcher (however fun it would be) would significantly alter gameplay, and possibly destroy the possibility for any serious fighting if it was too easy to get. In addition to this we had not planned on using any halo related content in the final version of our map (like grunts).

Because of this problem we were leaning towards echo77s "Impetus"



This weapon would fit in far better with the graphical style and the gameplay of our map (and it would be easier to make, lol)

It would seem like the Impetus is the only logical choice... but we like the grunt launcher so much that we want to fit it in somehow.

SO...... we are CONSIDERING have two secret weapons. One in the area that we already planned out (the impetus) that would be reletively easy to find and use in combat, and one in a completely new secret (the grunt launcher) that would be far more difficult to find.

we have not made a final decision on the subject yet, but I thought I would let ya'll know whats going on and give you a chance to voice your opinions on the subject.

Woops, wrong button xD
Edited by MoooseGuy on Jul 27, 2012 at 11:23 AM

I think that's awesome.

You should make the Grunt launcher a devcommand only available weapon if you are really that worried about it.

That's a good idea.

Two secret weapons sounds good to me.
Edited by Echo77 on Jul 27, 2012 at 12:18 PM

I was about to be like.... :( And then delete the picture from photobucket, and it'll never see the face of the internet ever again-(which could never happen because- "what goes on the internet, stays on the internet...") until i heard it might be in use. Then i was like :)

Oh yeah. Before you use the Grunt launcher, can you send the 3d model set up for animation so i can see if you guys made it right? For the grunt launcher.... Maybe make him explode on impact? Like make it fly at you with 2 plasma grenades on each hand, then explode when it contacts an object. Makes it a bit easier than making it hump your face until you die. XD Maybe.... Can you pm me when you guys decide how to use it please. Like hump your face to death, launch it at you and then it runs up to you and starts smacking you with both hands(In a sissy way XD Like a short kid trying to hit a tall person.), or explosion on impact like described above :)

Edit: Oh yeah... I'm using max 2013
Edited by P3 on Jul 27, 2012 at 06:41 PM

well I am glad you didn't delete the picture.

As I said before, we are still deciding what we are going to do. But since everyone seems to be very positive to the idea I mentioned, it is very likely that we will go with that.

As for the weapon itself, all of the work on the weapon will be done by me. But I will definately be in contact with the designer/designers throughout the process of creating the weapon/weapons. We definately want to make sure that the designers approve of the way that their designs are being implemented. Keep in mind though, even after we make our final decision it will take some time for me to create the models/textures/animations/tags for these weapons.

We have decided the outcome of the contest. Please see the main thread for the results and future updates.
http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=40352&start=36

Also please post any questions and comment in the main thread now, thanks.