Bizar Wolf
Carbon 7
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Posted - 2014.04.09 01:17:00 -
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Since the ideas have been getting bounced around a lot lately, I decided that I would throw my ideas out there and see what others thought. We know that there needs to be an Amarr weapon and a Gallente weapon, but what those are has yet to be announced or possibly even decided. My suggestions are:
The Amarr Heavy Laser - A massive portable laser that resembles the ones used by ships in EVE, which can provide sustained fire and has similar abilities to the regular laser rifle. However, it has a much quicker overheat rate, and takes a moment to charge before firing. This prevents people from standing up somewhere high and just drawing circles with it on the ground below, vaporizing large numbers of mercs.
The Gallente Plasma Gun/Thrower - A large, flamethrower like weapon that sprays molten plasma out of its nozzle. This plasma can then provide area damage for a short period of time before dissipating. For those caught directly in its spray, it causes a larger amount of damage initially, then becomes a constant reduced amount of damage for a short time after the player has escaped the spray. The way to make this not be overpowered and overused: the tanks that hold the plasma can only hold a very limited amount, and so must be reloaded often, with only three or four full reloads being available at the standard level.
Everybodys rolling around in tanks and I'm just sitting here with my combat rifle
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Bizar Wolf
Carbon 7
Iron Oxide.
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Posted - 2014.04.15 22:48:00 -
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ARF 1049 wrote:Plasma thrower isn't really gallente umm, ideals? Torching people is not very humane and gallente are all about human life.
I can picture the gallente heavy weapon now, loads from a large box magazine on top, has the cyclotron look on the sides (shotgun circles) and the classic gallente circles up front, it has a spool up time then just brutally throws plasma incapacitating anything in front of it, just a stream of slugs,
It would have a very tight CoF and low effective range and high kick but slower moving rounds, so almost creating a whip like effect with the slugs in the air, it would have an overheat, and and be limited to precise close range people. But keeping that string of slugs on the person would mean death, and aiming it would keep it spooling for instant fire.
I feel like brutally throwing plasma at someone is probably just as inhumane as dousing them in plasma.
Also, the Gallente stand for individual rights, free economies, and democracy, not about human life. And that's just for their citizens. I don't think an empire that uses shotguns (which are incredibly painful weapons, I'm sure) and bombarded the Caldari homeworld with orbital strikes while civilians were still planetside would not be too torn up about setting enemy soldiers on fire with plasma.
Everybodys rolling around in tanks and I'm just sitting here with my combat rifle
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