Guest drewid Posted May 18, 2003 Report Share Posted May 18, 2003 Soldiers have long had nicknames for vehicles, guns, even boots. I was thinking it would be good to come up with both official names and nicknames for all the kit in the game, both friendly and alien. Examples for aircraft on this page: http://www.coastcomp.com/av/fltline2/nickname.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breunor Posted May 18, 2003 Report Share Posted May 18, 2003 On top of deciding on 'official' names for the aircraft, that's a good idea. Once there are some ideas out there for nicknames, maybe a vote for the best ones could be held? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drewid Posted May 18, 2003 Report Share Posted May 18, 2003 Just to kick things off. "Sledgehammer""Anvil""Berserker""Battleaxe""bug-crusher""gauntlet""hammerfist""morningstar""bullwhip""raptor""razor" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anglachel Posted May 18, 2003 Report Share Posted May 18, 2003 Here are some:apocalypseogremacesabretalonannihillator sp?pheonixice hawk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreatGold Posted May 18, 2003 Report Share Posted May 18, 2003 Hehe - Know what would be fun? If for the flight call-signs that are implemented for flights on the geoscape, we made the list of them based upon the names of the games developers. Examples:Red Knight 1-1Stewart 4-1GreatGold 1-4 :wink: Something to that effect. Gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drewid Posted May 19, 2003 Report Share Posted May 19, 2003 That's a fine idea. We could include contributors as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest drewid Posted May 20, 2003 Report Share Posted May 20, 2003 armour - Grizzly, trojan, hulk, gilgamesh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest blaa Posted May 20, 2003 Report Share Posted May 20, 2003 Hehe - Know what would be fun? If for the flight call-signs that are implemented for flights on the geoscape, we made the list of them based upon the names of the games developers. Examples:Red Knight 1-1Stewart 4-1GreatGold 1-4 :wink: Something to that effect. GoldEaster Eggs last please folks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judge_Deadd Posted May 20, 2003 Report Share Posted May 20, 2003 (edited) For example: SKYRANGER - Knight, Raider, Nightcrawler, Little VanINTERCEPTOR - Devil, Satan, Killer, LumberjackFIRESTORM - Jackhammer, Harnessed One, NemesisLIGHTNING - Hexagon, PygmyAVENGER - Mother-In-Law, Dzeus' Thunder, Widowmaker* *makes widows of alien ladies, that is! Edited May 20, 2003 by Judge_Deadd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikker Posted June 14, 2003 Report Share Posted June 14, 2003 Cyperdisks- DJ's Nightmare, Hypnodisks, Devil-in-armor, spiral of death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kenshiro Posted June 25, 2003 Report Share Posted June 25, 2003 Skyranger and Interceptor names should reflect a conventional (if international) development. Skyranger Names:AtlasBuffaloChieftainRaider (liked it from above)SkyhookTalon (liked this one too) Interceptor Names:BansheeDefenderHawkKestrelMonsoonSpectreViper Alternately, each plane could be given a secret name classification "Type S Fighter"/"Type K Transport" and a backstory about it having been built in secret at China Lake Naval Air Station/White Sands Test Range or some such, and hinting at other secret designs out there. You could even throw in a CIA-esque code prefix. Ie: Fighter Project 'S'CODENAME: ZX/MONSOON(Specifications)... I think some of the more "badass" names contributed above might go well with the alien-derived aircraft, especially with a codename slapped on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nebulous menace Posted June 27, 2003 Report Share Posted June 27, 2003 You have to consider that there's the "official" nickname, and then there's the nickname that the soldiers actually use. For instance, the B-52 bomber. Named the "Stratofortress" by the manufacturer, but known as the "BUFF" (Big Ugly Fat F*cker) by troops in Vietnam. Or the A-10 : "Thunderbolt II"/"Warthog." 'This is your stun baton, troops. They call it the "Zx-33 lightsaber." We call it "Ol' Sparky". ' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gutter Monkey Posted December 4, 2003 Report Share Posted December 4, 2003 For the blaster launcher perhaps? PFWL-1 "Apocalypse Cannon", known among troops as "Blaster Launcher" or the "Boomer." Just a thought... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolp Posted December 7, 2003 Report Share Posted December 7, 2003 Isn't Skyranger the nickname for the plane already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breunor Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 It's the nickname from the original game, so it's part of the intellectual property of the game owners too. :crying: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolp Posted December 8, 2003 Report Share Posted December 8, 2003 :flame: x-com being copyrighted Has skyranger been used before X-com though? Seems like the kinda name that would be used for some cheesy 80's show... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChonkE Posted January 10, 2004 Report Share Posted January 10, 2004 I think you are talking about Airwolf I dont know, but I think the firearms should keep pretty mundane to military standards. I was always partial to the German system, MG for machine-gun, MP for machine-pistol ect, but only because I love H&K firearms. I think the armor shouldnt really have a "official" nickname but something more like traditional acronyms. Like the Powered Armor could be Advanced Tactical Armored Exoskeleton (A.T.A.X.) or for the flying suit like Advanced Tactical Aerial Assault Suit. Definentally need some soldier nicknames for the armor though like Tin-Can or the like. Some aircraft/spacecraft/platform names thought are a little more difficult I guess. Here are the few I can think of that arent already used Vindicator, Rattlesnake, Chimera, Rapier, Stilletto, Atlas, Tarantula Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndy Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 not everything needs a nick name, like not everyone has a nick name (self-applied doesn't count). Forceing a nick name on something will often sound exactly that, forced. Nick names, if applied, will be so verbally between personnel; probably for things people need to talk quickly about. This a matter for the script department. "we've got a bug(chrysalid)!" for example. Weapon nick names arn't neccessary. Putting a nick name down in text on a weapons description in the inventory is pathetic, does the DOD/MOD do that on its official weapon reports? Does the general send a communique saying "relocate 60 troops from beta company, to the Eastern European Xcom facilities, and make sure sufficient Ol' Sparky's are provided." ? The term might be used in the training rooms, but the player will never hear it, so why waste time coming up with it. And lastly, putting it down on a research report just plain doesn't make sense. "you will nick name it this when we give it to you". :whatwhat: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthraxus Posted January 28, 2004 Report Share Posted January 28, 2004 The question also needs to be asked, how are these nicknames going to be implemented? If you give everything an official designation, an official nickname, and a common use nickname, that is three names you have to remember for every item, because you never know which one will be used by whom. Perhaps if there was functionality to allow the player to rename the items as well, that would be cool, but I think MagicAndy is right, giving a nickname to everything or almost everything will render a lot of the elements of the game incomprehensible if you don't know all of the lingo by heart. It's like the first time you started spending time on a public forum. People are constantly throwing out abbreviations and nicknames that have become so abstracted from what they are talking about that you have no way of figuring it out without doing a bunch of indepth research that is almost never worth it. I think it would be better to just stick with the Official designation and an official nickname. You are playing the game from the director's viewpoint. If you want to say that the soldiers in your game call the Blaster Launcher the BFG 9000, you can. That doesn't need to be coded into the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndy Posted January 29, 2004 Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 Perhaps if there was functionality to allow the player to rename the items as well, that would be cool, thats a good idea! Then the nick name can be shown in the tactical data on the battescape screen, if the player doesn't want to enter one, then the official "name" is used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puasonen Posted January 29, 2004 Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 That will be hard. The name should be replaced in million places. Buy/sell/transfer/battlescape/inventory/equip screen/X-net/stores Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aosar Posted January 29, 2004 Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 That will be hard. The name should be replaced in million places. Buy/sell/transfer/battlescape/inventory/equip screen/X-net/stores Actually, in coding terms, this would be more or less easy, but a dung load of work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagicAndy Posted January 29, 2004 Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 forget it then. I'm just in the proccess compiling a list of object and alien names for Breunor and to save confusion and simple = better. Leave for Version +1.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puasonen Posted January 29, 2004 Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 Yes, this has been talked about before and I think we came to the agreement that there will probably be modding tool in the future which gives you "free hands" to rename every gun and alien by original for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthraxus Posted January 29, 2004 Report Share Posted January 29, 2004 I wouldn't think it would be to difficult to setup a global array of kit names, indexed to the id tag of the item. When the item meets it prereq to be available, the player gets a popup for the nickname, could built in the research completed screen. Add the input to the global array of kit names and just use a function call to select the name when needed instead of hard coding the name. But your right, its prolly v1++ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Puasonen Posted January 30, 2004 Report Share Posted January 30, 2004 To make it easy to add this feature in the future, it needs a lot of work already to V1 so I'm starting to wonder why wouldn't it be included already? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts