Forum:Mass Effect 3 Weapons Infobox

So, ME3 is fast approaching, and I wanted to start work on a way of displaying ME3's weapons.

My proposed infobox template page is here, and an example of it in action is here. The template page also includes some alternate colours at the bottom. My strong preference is for either 1 (the one in use) or the 3rd alternate. I would love to avoid using the in-game colour version, as it just doesn't work outside the ME3 interface, and without gradients. My version is an 'impression' of the ME3 colours. So that looking at it evokes ME3, without actually being ME3 colours. These are the same colours I used in my proposed ME3 Upgrades box, and if I had my way the same colours we would use for all ME3-exclusive infoboxes (Enemies etc.) So perhaps you could also consider a vote on this a referendum in ME3 template colours.

Basically the proposal is to display ME3 weapons in the same way they are displayed in game, with the Stats shown in bars. Getting values to put in these bars shouldn't be too difficult, if we can't find the raw numbers (and compare to the maximum), it's simply a matter of taking a screenshot, measuring how many max pixels in a bar, and counting how many pixels across the weapon has and expressing the difference as a percentage. Crude, but get's the job done.

The template doesn't actually depict the raw numbers for these values, however a relatively simple modification to the template would let you overlay the bars with a number. I would argue that this is unnecessary, but it is an option.

Ammo, unlike ME2's infobox, shows only the base level Clip and Reserve size, as ME3 appears to have considerably more variation in the possible values than ME2 did, so there's no point showing them all.

There is also a section for damage bonuses, presented in percentages, as that's how the game does it for everything else. It's not clear at the moment if weapons even have a defence-specific damage bonus this time around, so in the event that it doesn't we can just comment this section out.

And obviously there is the type, fire-mode and location fields. You can see these on the example page, as the template doesn't show them at all if no value is given, hence you can't see them on the template article itself.

For now just soliciting feedback on colours, missing fields, etc.