New Gun Type: Stealth Shot

[Chris Edgar]

Earlier today, I found a red wallmaker gun drop and saw it blending into the background rather well, so I picked it up.  After a few minutes in the Weapon Lab, I got rid of the walling effect and made the red even darker.  I'll upload a picture of it.  As you can see in the pictures, the bullets are very, very dim.  They are hard enough to see on a black background, but they're nearly invisible on blue or green backgrounds.  Ironically enough, they show up very well on red.
I've tried it out in PVP, and it does exactly what I made it to do.  It swarms the enemy without them being able to see it, and generally confuses them when they start taking damage from seemingly nothing.
I'm still looking into getting it combined with other gun times, like a wave type, or mines.
So, thoughts?  Is this a good find?

[Chris Edgar]

Update: the gun is now completely invisible, even on a red background.  I will be happy to demonstrate it to anyone in game.

[Chris Edgar]

Bullets are hard to see, but they show up as a very faint white/grey near the edge of the system.  added some crudely drawn arrows to point them out. :P

[Adg]

Im pretty amazed, would love to see the weapon lab of it :)

[Evolutionary Games]

Very cool. Back in the 1.0 beta we had several people trying to evolve these, but nobody ever got a perfectly invisible gun. I'd be interested to a shot of the weapon lab as well, if you don't mind posting it. ;)

[Chris Edgar]

Weapon lab shot has been uploaded.  Incidentally, it was primarily connection 6 that I had to change to get the bullets dim enough to blend into the background.  a few others connections were used to change color as well, but I forget which.

I just hope you don't take away my stealth gun.  I likes me my surprise ganking. :P

[Evolutionary Games]

Cool, Chris could you also post a shot of the weapon screen (with the 3 guns). Did you get it on the Gar Official 32 player server? If so, I might be able to find it in the weapon archive. Just need the ID of it.

And no, we don't have the ability to take anyone's guns. Nor would we want to. ;)

[Chris Edgar]

I think it was on the official server.  either that, or I got it on Are32's server.  Anyway, I pointed out which gun it was in the attached image.
Other then me, there were, I think, two others who managed to make a Stealth gun after I showed it to them.  One was necro2607, and the other was RedMage.  If they can post, they can probably confirm which server we were all on when we made them.

[Chris Edgar]

okay, I'm on the official server right now, and I just picked up a gun that looks like I can make into another stealth gun.  i'm going to try, and if I succeed, I'll post images.

[Chris Edgar]

it is done.  If anything, this one is even stealthier then the first one. :P

[Chris Edgar]

Okay, made a third one, adn from what I'm seeing, you need a red, blue, and green node, with one connection each for blue and green, and two connections on red.  The red goes to two different points, and the blue and green each go to one of those nods, so theres a red and green going to a node, and a red and blue going to another node.  here's an image of the three stealth guns I've made.  So far, it seems they always lead to a "step" node.

[RedMage]

I'm quite certain I found and made mine on the official GAR server, though it might've been the encode server.

That observation seems right; my invisible weapon also has 2 connections for red, 1 for blue and green, and they all lead to step nodes.

Isotope Graph

Weapon Bank info (the middle one)

[necro2607]

I can't remember exactly what server the stealth weapons were initially created... I feel like it was on the official server.  The Neuralium Isotopes of my two stealth weapons are 32827 and 32948.  The 32827 is the best one, completely invisible.

[Chris Edgar]

just got a new gun that can become a stealth gun.  thing is, it has more nodes then the others.  I'm thinking I can get a new pattern out of it.  Problem is, after three stealth guns, I'm running low on Neuralium.  once I get some more, I'll work on making it into something awesome.

[Chris Edgar]

Stealth Swarm: Check
Stealth Long Distance Waller: Check
Stealth Wave: working on it.

Here's the weapon lab for the Stealth Waller.  It seems the isotopes are getting more complex...

[Evolutionary Games]

nice ;)