The Nimbus was done first as the Airblast in the mod Unreal4Ever, back in 2000. Flying was it's Alt-Fire. In normal fire, it operated like the Power Fists, blowing away anything in front of the player. The whole thing was designed to look like a Spitfire's engine molded into a gun.
The mod won Grand Prize in the first "Make Something Unreal" contest, back in 2000. Strangely then whole contest has been expunged from the Wikipedia page on the contest. Unreal4Ever also won Best Mutator in the 2003 contest. Many of the weapons in several releases of Unreal Tournament as well as Gears of War were based off weapons from that massive mod. Might be the reason Epic has tried to bury it's existence. :p
10:50 i know, i wish that they would have added like extra materials, like with the constrainer you can like click through and get wood and stone and metal etc.
Dude the wolverine claw thing you did reminds me of what we thought it'd be like to use the mantis blades in cyberpunk before they completely ruin the mantis blades on release of the game lol. The wolverine claws thing is such a cool idea btw. Seems like it would make you feel like an absolute bad ass.
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