The idea isn't new, and I don't much like the name. Personally, I've had the idea of an Amarr shotgun variant for many months. Since I'm feeling generous, I'll share my idea. Basically, my concept of an Amarr shotgun is that you can charge it, increasing damage and tightening the firing cone.

Your idea isn't bad. It would be nice to hit things behind cover, but that's what explosives are (supposedly) for. Unfortunately, all (or at the very least, most of) the explosives we have seem to have ridiculous damage, but horrible splash radius.

Good idea, but same as the AUGER in the Resistance Series, people will just whine.

give it a scope that sees heat even through walls add 200m more range. but make it take 10 seconds to reload and 1 round per clip and make it so it has a nasty drop with range.

can it be used to hug people to death?

so it would be OP as hell in a logi hands who can fit a hive a scanner and rep hive and possible a smg sidearm...

*hint hint*

Grab flux and mass drivers. We don't need anymore "Area denial" weapons or weapons that kill through cover. Thank you.

I just beat Crysis 3 for the second time a few minutes ago, and I was thinking something almost exactly like that, which is by extension almost exactly like this.

I was thinking continuous fire microwave emitter with a steep falloff so that at max AR range you probably want to think about not rushing at your target head-on. Having someone with an Active Scanner to spot targets for you so you could shoot through walls at a damage penalty would be even better. Also, the weapon would have NO spread or splash whatsoever, so it would require you to be just as accurate as you would need to be with a Laser Rifle, making it require a lot of skill to use without line-of-sight, given that you'd have to spot on the scan chevron, and then aim lower and try and estimate where the target would be.

Sounds good apart from that you essentially want to give players cancer so they die a couple games in the future (which could be very funny esp. If they are about to do something important and they just die) I suppose it could work if you tweaked some of the science ;)

Somebody may have mentioned this already, but gamma rays and X-rays pass through matter that isn't dense. Gamma rays more so than x-rays, since they have more energy.

This property also makes them very difficult to detect, much less interact with, so I'm not sure how practical it would be to weaponize them. It would be like trying to kill somebody by throwing golf balls out of an airplane.

So it's probably best to call it something that leaves the nature of the working mechanism unclear. Like "blaster". What is a blaster exactly? What's a 'scrambler'? Can I prepare an omelette with it?

Do I care enough to be bothered that I don't know? It shoots bolts, or beams, or... something. It's neat.

Heck, call it a raygun, lol.