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Posted - 2014.02.10 08:39:00 -
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Luna Angelo wrote:Paladin Sas wrote:plausible weapon variants
shotguns
Cald - pump action slug
Gal - current near semi auto spread
Minm - full auto, short range
Amar - think laser rifle, but short range AOE. does more damage to groups of enemies than against lone soldiers
knives
Cald - current charge-up affair, boost the damage, reduce time between knife attempts
Gal - (if DOTs are introduced) plasma injection DOT
Minm - explosive tips (stab for 0 damage, run away, press button, boom)
Amar - medium range (10meters) pulse lance (im pretty sure the AV lance described was a heavy weapon
launchers
Cald - Swarms
Gal - PC
Minm - MD (on a side note, i would LOVE a MD variant with a remote detonator instead of impact detonation)
Amar - maybe some sort of charge up 3-5 round burst direct fire MD (for those who dont know, MD follows a near balistic arc, direct fire is linear)
submachineguns
Cald - magsec
Gal - maybe some sort of charge up to release a burst of plasma rounds
Minm - our current traditional bullet hose
Amar - mid range, low ROF, submachine scrambler
again, these are possible plausible ideas, nothing hinted/confirmed by CCP For the Amarr Shotgun, I had an idea: Shoot a laser through a prism to "break" the beam. It would multiply the amount of damage, and limit range. Like a shotgun.
Lasers get their damage from passing through a focusing crystal - if you 'break' the beam you get a pretty lightshow and nothing else.
As for parity it doesn't mean each race gets a shotgun or each race gets a sniper rifle what it means is each race gets an answer to a problem / weapon style in a different way. Examples are rifles or pistols - each race has something that performs roughly similarly, then weapon design in terms of launchers - plasma cannon is light av/ai, swarm is pretty good av, mass driver is anti infantry and I would not be surprised to see the amarr launcher be a khanid kingdoms short range direct fire rocket (essentially an amarr rocket-shotgun).
'Melee' is something there should be parity for
'Short range primary weapon' is something there should be parity for
'Mid range utility' is something there should be parity for (hint it's rifles)
'Sidearms precise / generalist' is something there should be parity for.
'Light av' is something there should be parity for
'Long range' is something there should be parity for
'Heavy av' is something there should be parity for
'Heavy anti infantry' is something there should be parity for.
Edit to explain that a 'lance' isn't necessarily a melee weapon in fact in science fiction a 'lance' is often just a big laser gun |