Weapons

Game elements used as tools to cause death and destruction in game worlds.

This pattern is a still a stub.

Examples

grappling hook Just Cause 2

Using the pattern

Sets Tools Combat Privileged Abilities, e.g. the possibility to do ranged attacks. Game Items

Ammo Limited Resources

Privileged Movement

Improved Abilities Installations can be Weapons, then typically providing Improved or Privileged Abilities to motivate the use of stationary Installations. Vehicles can diegetically motivate weapons of the same caliber as Installations but may even more than other ways of providing Weapons negatively affect Player Balance since they also improve Movement (or provide Privileged Movement and potentially Armor as well.

Common ways of providing Weapons to players are as Loot or Trading.

Relations

Can Be Instantiated By

Installations, Vehicles

Can Be Modulated By

Loot Trading

Potentially Conflicting With

Player Balance

History

New pattern created in this wiki.

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