You should be able to throw the axe at zombies when all else failed and you must use it as a last defense, or just trying to show off. One axe, throw it. Go pick it up, use it again. Kind of like that throwable crow bar from uh... sven coop? Or that HL server side mod cant remember the name.

Never been suggested as I've seen, and it would be easy to add.

Throwing knives have been suggested and shot down. Likewise, I see the throwing axe suffering the same fate for the same reasons.

- http://www.ironoak.ch/forums/index.php?sho...153&hl=throwing

A nice secondary attack would be to swing it vertical down.

I didn't suggest throwing knives, or throwing axes. I suggesting the ability to throw the axe which is already in the game. You could only carry one axe, so if you threw it you would have to go pick it up again.

Or, for some reason I guess people fighting zombies wouldn't be able to let go of the axe that they all carry?

This post has been edited by Jarett on March 02, 2005 07:36 pm

...Did you even read through the thread I linked? All of the reasons there apply to throwing your axe regardless if it is or is not designed to be for throwing. Not to mention the axe has no third person detached model (which, as you may guess, brings us right back to the model limit)

The axe HAS a model 'lying on ground'. I've made it quite a few times, just kill yourself while carrying the axe. THen it'll fall to the ground, and you can see it lying there, bloody and all.

Bah, that got misconstrued in my head, foul hands doesn't have a model, but can be picked up to replace the axe, which causes quite a few oddities... somehow I turned that into the axe has no v_ model,,, Don't ask how...

However, going back to the pure logistics of throwing the axe... It wouldn't be effective since in order to get a realitively accurate throw to deal damage at more than a foot, an axe more or less has to be designed with that purpose in mind, which normally is extremely detrimental to the wood (or zombie in our case) cutting abilities. Not to mention that you require a few seconds to properly throw an axe, during which you could have swung about twice... so it doesn't really seem to fit a last resort type of situtation.

that would be pretty cool tho

I, myself, wouldn't throw my last resort melee weapon at an oncoming horde of undead and i'm sure a lot of people feel the same way. Although, It would be cool to throw the axe.

This post has been edited by Gneralas on March 03, 2005 09:36 am