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Asha Starwind wrote:

Arkena Wyrnspire wrote:

Asha Starwind wrote:

I said this in the other thread and I'll say it again here. You bunch are jumping the gun here, the Ion pistol may turn out to be the shotgun sidearm that has been requested by every shotgun user ever.

Perhaps you should read the thread.
How can it possibly be the 'shotgun sidearm' when it's so terrible compared to all the other sidearms? There are other sidearms doing more DPS with twice the range.

Please do explain how this is 'jumping the gun', though. CCP have released stats. The stats are terrible. Are we meant to wait until we can see the pretty models before we point out that the gun is terrible?

What you are doing right now is pretty much looking at the current shotgun or NKs and saying they're complete garbage based on their expressed stats. Do they do only 42, and 200 damage? No, they much, much more. So yeah, until we actually try out the weapon there isn't anyway to say how it will actually perform.


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Oxskull Duncarino Tickle My Null-Sac 373	Posted - 2014.01.27 22:15:00 - [1] - Quote Asha Starwind wrote: Arkena Wyrnspire wrote: Asha Starwind wrote: I said this in the other thread and I'll say it again here. You bunch are jumping the gun here, the Ion pistol may turn out to be the shotgun sidearm that has been requested by every shotgun user ever. Perhaps you should read the thread. How can it possibly be the 'shotgun sidearm' when it's so terrible compared to all the other sidearms? There are other sidearms doing more DPS with twice the range. Please do explain how this is 'jumping the gun', though. CCP have released stats. The stats are terrible. Are we meant to wait until we can see the pretty models before we point out that the gun is terrible? What you are doing right now is pretty much looking at the current shotgun or NKs and saying they're complete garbage based on their expressed stats. Do they do only 42, and 200 damage? No, they much, much more. So yeah, until we actually try out the weapon there isn't anyway to say how it will actually perform. I'm hoping you're right Asha, but I'm expecting you're right Arkena. What Asha might be right about is a the shotgun type sidearm a few of us have been hoping for since fist setting eyes on the flaylock artwork nearly fifteen months ago. The damage CCP has told us might be per shot, or, it might be per pellet like the shotgun. Modern day smoothbore handguns that use small calibur shotshells have only 3-4 large pellets per cartridge. Tight spread giving the longer range than a normal shotgun but the spread won't give the accuracy of other sidearms. The charged shot would combine all the plasma balls into one powerful accurate shot, albeit a bit short ranged and with overheating involved. Imagine the Ion pistol firing 3 plasma balls for 150 damage per shot Much as I'd love the Ion pistol to function like I described, I really do think it's going to be as Arkena thinks. There are great ideas for extremely different weapons types in Dust but unfortunately I think the easy, more well trodden path is the one CCP gravitates towards. Edit - While having the Ion pistol fire mulipile plasma pellets per shot might sound over powered, if it has a very fast overheat mechanism for regular fire it could come into balance.