Only if it was a fully automatic, recoilless, silenced, belt fed, water cooled peashooter loaded with genetically altered Titanium Death Peas!!!!

has anyone mentioned http://www.securityarms.com ? Its the biggest list of real-life weapons i know, so you should find all the inspiration you need there.

Usually a gun is named after the Manufacturer + Model Number (+Caliber)

like:

AK-47 (Automat Kalashnikova)
FAMAS (Fusil Automatique Manufacture d´Armes St. Martine... i think)
HK-G36e (Heckler&Koch something or other)
Steyr AUG (Armee Universal Gewehr)
....

You are guaranteed to hit, with:
ICQ Missiles!

quote: Original post by Dactylos
The russian word "sputnik" literally means "travel companion". A fearsome name for a weapon

Hmm... Thanx for the help. I am born in Russia my friend, so shutup.



- err, the last signiture sucked bigtime!

How about using foreign words?

German
Panzer= armor
Faust= Fist
Schrek= fear
Jager= hunter
Fusilier= rifle
Richter= knight

Japanese
ken= sword
shi= saint or death (depending on kanji)
mu shin= "peace" or "void" (mu=empty shin=mind)
ai nuke= mutual destruction (ai = harmony or combine, nuke= end or finish)
oni= demon
aiki= controlled energy

Me personally, I don''t like descriptive words for weapons unless they are acronyms for something. I think just having the company name of the gun is enough and lends a sense of real power, rather than some cheesy sounding term. At worst, I''d do something like this:

Colt BPPC M31 (Binary Propellant Phase Cooled) for a futuristic based binary propellant caseless munitions Assault Rifle.

For a sniper''s laser weapon, maybe something like:

H&K CFAD Mk29 (Crystalline Focused Detonation Laser)

Once you develop something that is logically consistent everything will seem like it belongs to a consistently logical world. Nothing ruins my fun quicker than logical inconsistencies (I won''t get started on Giant mecha...I won''t get started on Giant Mecha...relax...count to 10....1,2,3...pheeew ). And seeing some cheesy sounding vehicle or weapon in a genre that''s supposed to be realistic just burns my butt. But that''s just me, and if anything, I''m in the minority....so maybe you shouldn''t listen to me

The general formula appears to be manufacturers initials + serial number + name. In that spirit:

Seburo(SB):
Maker of precision silenced pistols.
SB-16 Pindrop
SB-32 Whisper
SB-64 Footfall
Coloumb & Faraday Electromagnetics(CFE):
Shock prods and magnetic firearms
CFE-100V Sparker
CFE-10000V Thunderbolt
American Lock & Latch(ALL):
Extreme security devices
ALL-12AM Antipersonnel Mine
ALL-47MPAT Man-Portable Automated Turret
Mojave Heavy Industires(MHI):
Really, really big guns.
MHE-150HMG Heavy Machine Gun: "REASON"
MHE-300WGM Wire-Guided Missile: "DIPLOMACY"
Transylvania National Arms(TNA):
Catering to an, um, specialized market.
TNA-STC30 30 cm Stake Cannon
TNA-HWG Holy Water Grenades: Guaranteed blessed by licensed priest of major religion of your choice.

Have fun! I know I am.

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You can''t have "civilization" without "civil".

quote: Original post by Dauntless
How about using foreign words?

German
Panzer= armor
Faust= Fist
Schrek= fear
Jager= hunter
Fusilier= rifle
Richter= knight

just be sure to consult a dictionary and not the gamedev.net forums for accurate translation help.

it´s more like this:

Panzer= armor, but also tank or shell (as in turtle)
Schreck= not exactly fear but rather fright (more startled than fear)
Jäger=hunter
Fusilier= that´s not German and does not mean rifle. What you meant was fusil, which is French and means gun. A fusilier is the guy who carries the gun - a rifleman.
Richter= not knight but judge. Ritter would be the word for knight.

Hase

whoops, you got me. Fusil is indeed a french word..and I misheard my dad when he told me what knight was (my dad''s the real military history buff, my brother has a PhD in military history specializing in Soviet Naval power, but my father knows more than my brother does).

I''m trying to find an old game I had with some neat Cantonese and mandarin names but I can''t seem to find it now. All I can recall is that Long/Leung and Lee/Li = dragon.

But I still think that foreign words are kind of neat and lend a more accurate feel, unless of course your game background does reside totally from US-based factions. And I''m still against the "cool" sounding names. To me, its just...well, hate to insult anyone here that likes those kind of names...but I just think it''s very adolescent. That''s a little different than say providing names like they did to Fighter aircraft. How many people know thta P51= mustang, P47= thunderbolt, P38= Lightningbolt, F4= corsair, P41= warhawk, B17= liberator, etc etc. Now that''s cool, because it has a nickname but an official name as well. So I like naming schemes, like Generals for tanks (Sherman, Lee, Bradley etc) Indian tribes for helicopters (Apache, Kiowa, Chinook, etc), but just naming some sort of descriptor sounds cheesy to me.

"The Hand-Held Battery-Operated Color-Enhanced Laser-Guided Clip-Fed Light-Weight Infantry Assault Rifle with a Hair trigger and a Scope."

Commonly known as "THHBOCELGCFLWIARHS", pronounced "tee-aych-hib-okah-lig-see-fel-wee-arr-hiss".

~Dwarf


Complete amatures whose only relevant skill is programming undertake to design games with no further preparation than their own experience as game players. Those who overrate their own understanding undercut their own potential for learning.

In Return to Castle Wolfenstein, there is a special sniper rifle. It is an M1-Garrand with a night vision scope (I guess they forgot there wasn''t any night visiion in WW2). Anyway, they decided to name it the "Snooper Rifle." Snooper?!?!?! For god''s sake call it an M1-Garrand!

In short, just use company names!