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?

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 ;)

This makes no sense. Do you even know how these rays work? If I learned anything in my college chemistry is that this is a badly thought out idea.

Rays wouldn't have pulses. They are able to pass through shields and armor and with enough exposure, you can mutate them to death.

Rethink this.

Uhh, well, x-rays and gamma rays are just highly energetic and short-wavelength light.

If a piece of technology is able to create these, then it could logically turn on and off to create pulses of them.

They do not pass through everything unhindered, and regarding shields: they're fictional, so you can't say how the gamma rays would work against them.

Who is to say the armour could not absorb some of that energy? I'm sure the mercs aren't covered in tinfoil.

Finally, have you even SEEN a radiation burn? Leave the mutation sentiment to comic books, and go look up what intense radiation does to flesh.

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.

Interesting idea but from a game design stand-point, sounds like a -LOT- of asset work to evade the collision detection on static meshes. That's a lot of memory going into each round. Then again, I've never worked with UDK.

Surely it's easier when you don't have collisions. All you have to do is check to see if mercs are in the area of effect since the weapon ignores cover.

Like I said, I'm an amateur with game design. Nothing special, but from the engines I used it doesn't really work like that xD Dunno, maybe UDK is different. Though in retrospect I can see a notable problem with this weapon being that you could spam an objective with it whilst standing in a cluster of nanohives, 30-50m away. Risk/Reward ratio seems a little skewed imo.