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.

Any more thoughts?

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?

I thought of the "x-ray scope" thing, but I would prefer making it rely on the user carrying an active scanner.

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.

You're not the first to suggest an optional-charge shotgun to tighten spread and damage

You say my idea isn't new, yet I'm also pretty sure no one else thought of a required-charge burst-firing shotgun that shoots through walls.

X-rays and gamma rays can pass through solid matter

Gamma Rifle
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Designed to counter the guerilla tactics used by the Minmatar during the Rebellion the Gamma Rifle fires a charged pulse of gamma radiation that is capable of penetrating solid objects. For Amarr doctrine this weapon ensures that the Reclaiming Light of the Lord can find even those cowardly enough to hide.

- Light Weapon
- 1.5 second charge time
- Moderate damage (100 to 150 per hit)
- 40m range, 30m scope range (X Ray)
- Small clip (4 to 5 per)

This weapon is pretty much the Farsight (Perfect Dark) or Auger (Resistance) in that it is capable of hiting targets through solid objects. It wouldn't do much DPS and would instead be more of an opportunity weapon, with kills / assists scored when targets get low on health and duck for cover. This would add an interesting mechanic to combat where players would have to decide between tanking the Gamma Rifle hits or dashing from cover and hoping to avoid the deadly Tachyon Laser that's sweeping across the room. The limited range / scope range would keep it limited to closer range combat and help ensure it doesn't turn into "OP Invincible Snipers OMG". Like all laser weapons it has a bright, distinctive, beam when fired (to help locate the shooter).
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Some numbers for this:
DPS while firing: 250 (so 625 per 2.5s burst)
DPS with prof 5 and 3 damage mods: 363 (907)

Optimal area of effect: 70 m2 (proto assault mass driver has 162 m2)

Nice idea.

However I think there are many issues with countering and information.

With damage of that level you can take out almost all suits with a single 2.5 second burst. This is a problem given the ability to shoot through walls and AoE.

So you shoot a guy with this, it takes him at least half a second to notice and start reacting. Then he has to figure out which way to run (he can't shoot back to counter you). If he knows which way to go it takes him another second or so to get out of the arc. So that's around 375 damage which is ok except that presumably the wielder is tracking the enemy so he doesn't actually leave the area and dies a horribly burny death.

To make this weapon work I think the target has to know (with some visual queue - minimap?) what the area of effect is. And probably be aware of this while the gun is charging. I think the damage is a too high too. Given the huge advantages in shooting though cover and AoE this weapon shouldn't kill unless the target fails to react.

With significantly lower damage and informing the target of the area it'd still be a useful weapon for driving people out of cover.
This should be a heavy weapon.
What if it was also made into a heavy weapon?