Racial parity doesn't mean that every race gets a shotgun.

Racial parity doesn't mean that every race gets a shotgun.

Every race has their own special weapons:

-Amarr: Laser Rifle
-Minmatar: Mass Driver
-Caldari: Sniper Rifle
-Gallente: Shotguns

Every race has their own special weapons:

-Amarr: Laser Rifle
-Minmatar: Mass Driver
-Caldari: Sniper Rifle
-Gallente: Shotguns

There are sniper rifles and shotguns being released for other races. There are concept art drawings on them.

I believe the Mass Driver, Plasma Cannon, and the Swarm Launcher are the racial light AV weapons.

There are sniper rifles and shotguns being released for other races. There are concept art drawings on them.

I believe the Mass Driver, Plasma Cannon, and the Swarm Launcher are the racial light AV weapons.

precision rifle is the only other sniper announced for the near future. no other shotguns have been. No other shotguns are needed tbh, and all of the above would out preform the Gallente shotty by leaps and bounds. Don't act like it won't.

Eh, the gallente shotgun needs a buff, but i think the others would honestly be very balanced. The only one i would be concerned about is the amarr shotgun. All the others are very balanced IMO, minmitar doesn't have as much alpha, and you have to deal with less bullets hitting, Caldari requires a direct hit and charge up to use to full effect, and if you miss, the consequences would be deadly to the use, as you would have to reload, or switch to your other gun, but the reload animation would take away precious seconds

1k damage in one shot, at hitscan.

a full auto shotty with a longer range and wider spread

a semi auto shotty that can do over 2x the shotty's damage in 2 shots through a charge shot

.................... I repeat, we don't need more shotguns. they don't fit the other races styles of combat (more accuracy over spraying), and would over power the current shotgun if they came. That's just adding **** to add ****.

Laser rifle=amarr precision weapon
Mass driver=minmitar launcher weapon
Sniper rifle=caldari precision weapon
Shotgun=Gallente shotgun or CQC weapon (like how the assault rifle is the gallente rifle)

Seriously guys just think about it. Caldari fighting style is to stay far from it's opponent and cause maximum damage at slow rates of fire. Hence why we have Caldari Railgun, Rail Rifle and our Sniper Rifle is Caldari.

Gallente fighting style is close and personnal. Hence why the Blaster Rifle deals more damage the closer the range, the Gallente Blaster Turret and the Shot Gun is Gallente.

It fits into their play style.

Now why'd you guys want a shot gun and sniper rifle that only deals more damage to either shields or armor while decreasing the damage on the other one is far from me. What happens when you have your Minmatar shotgun and you find a Caldari Heavy?

Now why'd you guys want a shot gun and sniper rifle that only deals more damage to either shields or armor while decreasing the damage on the other one is far from me. What happens when you have your Minmatar shotgun and you find a Caldari Heavy?

I think CCP is trying to put emphasis on the rock, paper, scissor concept. Reason for this is so people will actually have to work more as a team rather than be "super soldiers", besides this IS a teamwork based game.

But it wouldn't fit each races fighting style. Why, the Caldari, who specialize in long range combat make a weapon especially designed for CQC?

Laser Rifle isn't the precision weapon, in other words it isn't similar to the caldari precision weapon in any way at all. How bout we let CCP tell us which weapons are what, besides I don't see the laser under the sniper tab rather it's under the rifle tab. Laser Rifle would be closer to a Amarr LMG used for surpression of large groups and area of denial.

Just because they specialize in long range combat doesn't mean they're ALWAYS going to stay at that range. I normally don't like conparing a game to real life, but just about every nation out there has their own specialty weapon for the engangments they might encounter. Even the police do the same thing even though officers carry a handgun but when the situation warrants they can bring out higher caliber weapons. Besides even without comparing this game to real life why would you be against having more variety in weapons? Or are you worried that your "I WIN" gun might avtually have a weakness that can be exploited?

Sidearms here:

Come 1.8, we will see a lot more sidearms being implemented.
The 3 main categories of sidearm weaponry are-
-Pistol
-SMG
-Melee weapon

The ones that still need to be released post 1.8 are:

Amarr:
-SMG: This weapon would require a charge to fire, and the longer the charge is held, the more shots are fired. Once the charge is released, the weapon fires a large volume of laser shots in a very short period of time, with a rate similar to the Combat Rifle

-Melee weapon: Knives that could only attack once fully charged, however, provide greater damage than the nova knives when fully charged. Also can be charged while sprinting, but at the cost of double stamina, and drains the users armor HP.

Minmitar:
-Melee weapon: Ballistic knives that have no charge, but can be thrown as well as slashed with. Would be slightly stronger than the caldari nova knives, but have no charge function

Caldari:
-NONE, full sidearm racial parity will be achieved post 1.8

Gallente:
-SMG: The plasma flamethrower, with an effective range of 15-20 meters, and would spread out in a cone, making it a very effective CQC weapon. Would rapidly deplete ammo, and have a DPS slightly higher than the current minmitar SMG. No DoT effect, as this would be very lag inducing, however, it would work along the same lines as the laser rifle in applying damage, except it would work over a larger area. The cone would be about 5 degrees.

-Melee weapon: Power gloves with melee-like range, but would do over double the damage of nova knives per attack, and would allow for fast attacking

I don't agree that all the rifles are balanced yet. After the impending RR and CR nerf, still missing would be a meta 5 fully-auto Assault CR for 10K ISK and a meta 6 fully-auto Breach CR for 17K, to match the Caldari and Gallente offerings. (Hopefully the current ACR will be converted to one and the other added.) Also missing is a meta 1/2 fully-auto Standard CR for 1.5K/2.5K ISK.

First off, i want to say that CCP is doing a great job so far with all the weapons that they have released and are going to release, so +1 to you guys. However, i wanted to make this thread as a constructive list of suggestions for future weapons for future racial parity. The first three posts will consist of light, sidearm and heavy weapons respectively.

Once all racial weapons are created, i would like to see races getting say a 10-15% bonus to each of their racial weapons, which i believe is done in EVE as well. This, i feel, would also help with a lot of current balancing issues, as each racial drop suit will have weapons that are designed for use of that drop suit, thus increasing niche based roles, and decreasing all-encompasing FoTM's.

Also, for all posts, feel free to remind me if i forgot any, and also comment any ideas for the unannounced weapons that you think are good ideas

So first off; light weapons!
The different types of light weapons we have are:
-Rifles
-Shotguns
-Precision weapons
-Launchers
What we currently have full racial parity of will is rifles, which is good. The remaining weapons that need to be released for full racial parity include:

Amarr:
-Launcher based weapon: "Fist of God", fires a projectile in an arc that lights up on the ground, and then after .75 seconds, the gun fires a large burst skywards, which hits where the laser light on the ground is in an orbital-like manner with about a 5-8 meter radius, dealing very large damage inside the radius. The laser light that marks where the actual strike occurs could stick to vehicles.

-Shotgun: shotgun that fires a laser burst, fires 5 pellets by tapping, but has charge capabilities and overheat mechanic, and at max charge fires 12. each pellet, at proto, does as much as a basic scrambler rifle shot, has an optimal range of 8-10 meters, overheats after one full charge and one tap

Caldari:
-Shotgun: one shot clip, fastish (2-3 seconds) reload speed, requires .25 second charge, and instead of firing a spread it fires a single slug round that deals massive damage (like 1000ish at proto), and has an optimal range of 15ish meters. The reticle would be smaller than the reticle for the breach shotgun, making it a difficult weapon to hit with, and dastrous effects for the operator if the round misses, but huge rewards if the round hits


Minmitar:
-Shotgun: fully automatic, same dps as gallente shotgun (once it gets buffed), slightly more range of about 1-2 meters, but has a larger spread to accompany the increased range

-Precision weapon (precision rifle is currently in the works)

Gallente:
-Precision weapon: NEED IDEAS

The different types of light weapons we have are:
-Rifles
-Shotguns
-Precision weapons
-Launchers
What we currently have full racial parity of will is rifles, which is good. The remaining weapons that need to be released for full racial parity include:

-Shotgun: shotgun that fires a laser burst, fires 5 pellets by tapping, but has charge capabilities and overheat mechanic, and at max charge fires 12. each pellet, at proto, does as much as a basic scrambler rifle shot, has an optimal range of 8-10 meters, overheats after one full charge and one tap

Caldari:
-Shotgun: one shot clip, fastish (2-3 seconds) reload speed, requires .25 second charge, and instead of firing a spread it fires a single slug round that deals massive damage (like 1000ish at proto), and has an optimal range of 15ish meters. The reticle would be smaller than the reticle for the breach shotgun, making it a difficult weapon to hit with, and dastrous effects for the operator if the round misses, but huge rewards if the round hits


Minmitar:
-Shotgun: fully automatic, same dps as gallente shotgun (once it gets buffed), slightly more range of about 1-2 meters, but has a larger spread to accompany the increased range

-Precision weapon (precision rifle is currently in the works)

Gallente:
-Precision weapon: NEED IDEAS

I believe the Mass Driver, Plasma Cannon, and the Swarm Launcher are the racial light AV weapons.