Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-26141477-20191027212536

Alright guys, MP5 was well received by the community in already one day, you're making it difficult for us to keep surprising you with each suggestion we make. Like MP5, this is another returning weapon from R2D 2014, we wanted to make M1 Garand feel like you're actually doing something with it, a lot of power packed into it while at the same time feeling like every shot counts. Instead of having ignys do the backstory this time, we recruited a new member to the team, TheSopwithCamel to do the backstory. He is also the man behind this idea, so props to him.

Summary
The M1 Garand is a returning weapon from R2D 2014. It is a primary assault rifle that is well known for it's 'ping' sound when it uses all its ammo. It has a unique reload mechanic that punishes the player if they reload the weapon with ammo still left in the clip, making it a second longer than its actual reload without any ammo in the clip.

Background Story
Sinister Arms Inc. was on a streak. The success of the 1886 Winchester and the 1887 Shotgun made the company well renowned across the apocalyptic land. One day, a small, mysterious package appeared in the mailbox. It was no larger than a tissue box; on top of the package was a letter that said “To whom it may concern, read me first.” The CEO decided to look into the matter personally and read the letter, which stated the following:

''“I would like to meet with you to discuss something regarding a weapon that I think will help turn the tide of the apocalypse. I have no further need for it, my time is almost up. Please meet me at -LOCATION REDACTED-. I hope this little present will persuade you.”''

Sinister Arms usually gets a lot of letters like this all too often. People requesting weapons, meet-ups which turn out to be ambushes, but no one has ever sent them actual packages. Why would this letter be sent? What made it different from the rest? What was inside?

Inside was a small clip with 8 bullets. 8 bullets in the .30-06 Springfield cartridge. A small clip that made a distinct ping if you flicked it with your finger.

The meetup was imminent. A legend was about to make a Garand return.

Pros

 * Great Damage
 * Lots of ammo
 * Decent attachments

Cons

 * Long Reload when reloading with bullets left in the clip
 * Expensive
 * Can run out of ammo quickly

Trivia

 * M1 Garand is a returning weapon from R2D 2014.
 * Idea by GoSinister & TheSopwithCamel, modeled by fusionFSJAL, textured by LITTLEROBBY11, animated by bloxxerMan666, and backstory by TheSopwithCamel.
 * M1 Garand has the famous ping sound effect when you reload the weapon without any bullets left in the clip.

ANIMATIONS / Poses
We had ideas for a special animation pack to go with this weapon, but could not think of anything really cool we could use so it was scrapped. The default poses are based of of R900 and the first iteration of the Winchester run that shipped with Update 1.3.7.

D​​​efault Animations
The gun size in this image are not to scale. I tried to do something unique with the run animation to make it look like you're actually sprinting with the gun in hand. The reload was hard to do and even harder when bloxxer had to animate it with the actual size to scale. The firing pose was also changed in the final animation.

M1 Garand Attachments
There was a limited amount of attachments we could use for this weapon until it became out of place. We had ideas to create an animation pack that makes your animations change into something that an actual soldier would do, but that proved difficult so we scrapped it (for now at least...), we also had an idea for extended mags but I thought of the wrong weapon and imagined a M14, so that was also scrapped. I then came up with an attachment called Ammo Pouch (as I was creating this thread I realized that someone else had a similar idea in another M1 Garand thread lol, please don't smite me and say I'm stealing ideas). The Ammo Pouch gives you +1 clip for the gun and that's about it. You can choose either Ammo Pouch or 25% Reload Speed as your secondary attachment. For your first attachment, we came up with simply Vortex Viper 30mm (can be changed into another scope that was actually used on the weapon). Gives you what we already know ingame, nothing special. The only special ammo you can use on this weapon is hard bullets. Self explanatory, nothing interesting in this area other than the Ammo Pouch. Sorry for the lack of visual representation this time guys, time constraints.

And of course the famous ping sound will play when all ammo is used in the clip.

Animations [VIDEO]
For this suggestion, we had bloxxerMan666 create the animations for this gun. He scaled the M1 Garand to other R2DA weapons and it turned out it was a lot longer than what I used in the poses.



In Conclusion / TL;DR
M1 Garand is the second weapon we decided to try and bring back to R2DA. We are pushing to release AK74U soon as MP5 and M1 Garand are completed. We just started picking our roles for the next three weapons we are deciding to remake: Chinalake, Crossbow, and Crowbar. If you liked our idea, consider giving us a kudos. If you have any critcism or feedback on anything we did in this suggestion, let us know in the comments, I'm always open for feedback. Hopefully we can get AK47U done by next week.

CREDITS

 * GoSinister - Aided in the creation of the idea, made the stats and poses.


 * TheSopwithCamel - Wrote the backstory


 * LITTLEROBBY11 - Created Model & Texture


 * bloxxerMan666  - Animated M1 Garand


 * fusionFSJAL - Improved the M1 Garand model

 