**Overall description**
The BoomStick is an explosive melee weapon. It consists on a wooden stick with an explosive taped to it. It's also throwable.
**Control**
The control of this weapon is simple and fast. Just click anywhere to perform a melee attack. Clicking when in mouselook will work too, so the user can deal more precisse melee attacks by using mouselook.
**The fuse**
The explosive attached to this weapon has a fuse. When the fuse is on, the BoomStick will have a chance of exploding when performing a melee attack, damaging/pushing all avatars in a 10 meter radius range. After this, a new BoomStick will be picked from the backpack. If the fuse is on, the BoomStick will be able to be thrown. See "Throwing the BoomStick" section for more info.
Advantages of keeping the fuse off, is that the weapon will never explode during a melee attack,so is not so risky (if the user is combatting with RP meters and self harm option activated. See "Other options" for more info about self harm), and will have a higher chance of performing critical hits (see "Critical hits" section for more info).
Fuse configuration will be remembered by the BoomStick, so the user does not have to toggle it every time a new BoomStick is picked from the backpack.
**Throwing the BoomStick**
When the BoomStick fuse is on, the user will be able to throw it (like a grenade), and it will explode on impact, doing the same effect as a exploding melee attack. Be careful, when damage mode is selected, the thrown BoomSticks will always damage the user if in range, even with the self harm option off (see Other options section for more info). When in push mode, grenades will never push the user, even with the self harm option on. It works both in third person and mouselook.
**Customization**
This weapon comes with various customization options, so the user can give it a different look that fits with their taste.
-Textures:
This category includes various explosive color textures, so the weapon will be able to fit with a lot of aesthetic styles. Textures options are in the textures menu in the HUD or by touch menu.
**Other options**
-Self harm: When activated, explosions coming off the BoomStick will deal damage/push to the user too. This adds more realism to the weapon effects when, for example, doing fair RolePlay combat. The damage dealt to the user will be the same damage dealt to targets. This does not apply for thrown sticks.
-Critics: This toggles critical hits on/off. See "Critical hits" section for more info.
**Modes**
-Damage: When in this mode, the BoomStick attacks will kill in linden damage zones, and will deal damage to all collision based HP meters too (DCS2, CCS...).
-Push: When in this mode, the BoomStick attacks will push targets away in push enabled zones.
**Critical hits**
This weapon has the option to deal critic hits when performing melee attacks. If critical hits are activated, this weapon will have a chance of dealing double damage or push when hitting a target. Critical hits will make the BoomStick have a golden glow and shine during the blow, and will do a caracteristic sound. The BoomStick will have a higher chance of dealing critical hits if the fuse is off.
**Kamikaze**
The BoomStick allows the user to perform a suicide "last move". By lighting all the BoomStick fuses in the backpack at once, the backpack will explode. The explosion will be a 2.5 seconds persistant explosion, so it will deal continous push or 4X the damage of a standard explosion. If in push mode, the push will be upwards instead of directional like other explosions coming from a BoomStick. The backpack has a 5 seconds timer before it explodes. When the backpack explodes, the user will not be able to move , attack or do anything until 6.5 seconds have passed after the explosion.
**The HUD**
The weapon comes with an intuitive and easy to use HUD. ITs a square shaped 1 prim low lag hud. It has 4 main buttons and 2 "S" and "R" small buttons.
-Upper button: Draws or holsters the weapon.
-Lower button: Mode selection menu.
-Left button: Customization menu.
-Right button: Options menu.
-"!" button: Performs the Kamikaze hability.
-Fire shaped button: Toggles the fuse on/off.
Crazy funny
The scripting, animations, and scultpies are all fantastic, this thing had me laughing my ass off for awhile.
The only problem is you can't change the size of the backpack, which is kind of annoying