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Instead of having all mantis weapons players do not use under the name item.name, name it like

Unknown Blaster
Unknown Fusion Blaster
Unknown Antimatter Blaster
Unknown Thermoblast

and so on...
 

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I think that's a nice add-in to the game, because it allows you to be... tactical, if you wish.

For example, consider the following scenario:
- Noob: Crystalwolf, rank 13 Lands on Teresa (I did this, I came, I saw, I owned :D)
He pilots a heavy transport. That's it.
- He see's generic mantis foe number one. (Let's assume he's never seen a custodian commander)
- He charges after the commander, when a scan reveals absolutely nothing, maintaining proper distance
until he's suddenly stunned.
- He gets podded. He's frustrated.

My only real reserves are that I've seen a few ego's get deflated by a good podding, so maybe this isn't
the worst thing that could happen :D
Cocky Man No.1:"HAHAHAHAHA noob, watch me beat it." *Stun* "Lag! AAHHHHHHHHHHH!?!?"
Noob No.1: ":)" <suuuuuuuure. lol>

On another note... Defacto's right about the item.name part. I remember it.
I also remember saying "well that's real helpful" out loud.
By the way, Defacto, I've actually thought about what you posted here, and began looking around in-game, scanning whatever enemies I could find. 0.0 Some of the item names are revealed, actually!
Precious few of them, sure... but it leads me to believe that maybe there's another issue.
Why even put "Item.name" there? It sounds more like programming jargon to me than much else.
Meaning that there could be an error topside.


^_^ Food for thought eh?

O_O My name is Wolfie and I support this message.
 

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Good idea it should say something instead of item.name
 

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My cousin has a Shield rank 3 called item.name

lol
 

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I saw someone with a blaster named item.name. Sadly, he didn't use that ships so i can't confirm the myth that item.name blasters fire mantis shots...
 

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Defacto, I think I might have a myth to offer on that.
I was allowed to tag along with a few high level characters this one time on Lustra.
One of them supposedly had a mantis weaponry BP. I'll confirm on this if I can...
Something about... a crimson BP?
If I remember correctly... it's not attainable via "normal gameplay".
Though I'm still not certain as to what that meant.

On top of that, another person yesterday mentioned something about having found a mantis rocket.
...Look, if these things exist, then they're freakishly rare.
Why? I've only heard of them twice during my month or two so far in PG.
 

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That person on lustra that time with a mantis blaster would be me :)
It's a rank 3 blueprint called item.name, i can remember it being the same blue as a normal one when i picked it up but have no idea where i got it from though, and it only started showing in my blasters list about 3 weeks after i got it.

Now, whats this about a shield called item.name aswell, i need that too for my AnIn 1450 lol(my blaster uses no energy so i hope that doesn't either)

oh, and the blaster shoots kinda like a pyro.
 

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Charlie120 has item.name blaster
 

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JWL1991 said:
That person on lustra that time with a mantis blaster would be me :)
It's a rank 3 blueprint called item.name, i can remember it being the same blue as a normal one when i picked it up but have no idea where i got it from though, and it only started showing in my blasters list about 3 weeks after i got it.

Now, whats this about a shield called item.name aswell, i need that too for my AnIn 1450 lol(my blaster uses no energy so i hope that doesn't either)

oh, and the blaster shoots kinda like a pyro.
Sounds too good to be true. What did you kill for it? Cause i want a Efree blaster. I betcha the game is gonna delete em now though
 

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:) He's tellin the truth.
Talked to him about it, saw him use it in game.
Sadly, it was a bug. You see, occasionally Item.name would drop before. In fact, I believe there were several such items.
He had the frenzoid gun :eek:
 

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Same for pyro's too. That tiny little 2-shot gun. Sad that he didn't get a Custodian gun, they're strong.
 

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godman said:
Charlie120 has item.name blaster
I was going to say that! Lol :)
Aaanyways, I had a startership PvP with charlie120 and I diddn't see shots, but I saw the red sparks comeout of my ship, so I think it was one of the old shots, when it came in one big ball of red stuff... ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
 

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heisan213 said:
godman said:
Charlie120 has item.name blaster
I was going to say that! Lol :)
Aaanyways, I had a startership PvP with charlie120 and I diddn't see shots, but I saw the red sparks comeout of my ship, so I think it was one of the old shots, when it came in one big ball of red stuff... ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
Yes, i remember that... it's like the mantis rare blaster ^^
 

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dunno never seen him with it
 
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