DUST Search - Should each race have a racial shotgun or CQC weapon equivalent?

Gavr1lo Pr1nc1p wrote:

Kigurosaka Laaksonen wrote:

No. Weapons should more or less follow what EVE established, but not to the exception of new, creative weapons.

Maybe it would help illustrate my point not to the of a Rail Rifle, for example, as a Caldari weapon. Instead, think of a Rail Rifle as a Hybrid weapon, and that Caldari are inclined to use Hybrids.To that end, Hybrids are split into Blaster and Rails. There should be some mirror of Blasters and Rails for Sidearm, Light, and Heavy weapons. It's makes sense for a Blaster equivalent Light weapon to be a shotgun. It DOES NOT make sense for there to be some weird Rail Shotgun.

how does that not make sense? Rail technology, in real life is simply magnetic propulsion of objects. A rail gun, in real life is an anti tank weapon that uses a massive metal that exhibits diamagnetic properties to be propelled at astounding speeds to destroy the interior of tanks. If a shotgun were to use rail technology, it would fire a slug, similar to modern rail guns


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MINA Longstrike 2Shitz 1Giggle 311	Posted - 2014.02.24 01:47:00 - [1] - Quote Gavr1lo Pr1nc1p wrote: id also like to see, once ALL racial variants of the launcher, sniper, shogun, knives, and SMG are released is a 10% bonus to the damage of racial guns, if used on the same racial suit. It would really help balance and the synergy that CCP is trying to create I've said it before and I will say it again racial paritydoes not mean four shotguns, four snipers, four mass drivers etc. racial parity means four cqb weapons, four main line rifles, four 'long range' (relative to racial profiles) weapons, four specialist weapons, four launchers (which may not necessarily be av), four pistols, four melee weapons, etc. Racial parity is 'we have an answer for x situation' not 'we have gold played laser 'shotguns''. It also doesn't mean 'laser everything' like the notably stupid laser launcher someone tried to tell me about - every race has a ton of diversity to it, like the amarr have a subgroup called the khanid, who are really big on missile technology that they develop and share ideas about with the caldari, I could easily see the amarr cqb weapon being a khanid kingdom anti-infantry rocket launcher. I've also read about similarly daft 'rail shotguns' etc.
MINA Longstrike 2Shitz 1Giggle 311	Posted - 2014.02.24 04:13:00 - [2] - Quote Gavr1lo Pr1nc1p wrote: Kigurosaka Laaksonen wrote: No. Weapons should more or less follow what EVE established, but not to the exception of new, creative weapons. Maybe it would help illustrate my point not to the of a Rail Rifle, for example, as a Caldari weapon. Instead, think of a Rail Rifle as a Hybrid weapon, and that Caldari are inclined to use Hybrids.To that end, Hybrids are split into Blaster and Rails. There should be some mirror of Blasters and Rails for Sidearm, Light, and Heavy weapons. It's makes sense for a Blaster equivalent Light weapon to be a shotgun. It DOES NOT make sense for there to be some weird Rail Shotgun. how does that not make sense? Rail technology, in real life is simply magnetic propulsion of objects. A rail gun, in real life is an anti tank weapon that uses a massive metal that exhibits diamagnetic properties to be propelled at astounding speeds to destroy the interior of tanks. If a shotgun were to use rail technology, it would fire a slug, similar to modern rail guns It's too narrow in scope - caldari use missiles too they're not just hurf durf RAIL!!!!!11!!1, just like the amarr use rockets & drones, and the minmatar use artillery & missiles.