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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2014.08.16 18:22:00 -
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[PART 1: Rifles]
Each race's main rifle is supposed to have a different kind of behavior (assault, breach, burst, tactical) as its base variant. Scrambler rifle is base tactical, assault rifle is base assault, combat rifle is base burst, and rail rifle is base breach. In addition to each base variant, they are each supposed to get variants to mimic the other race's rifles. For example: the rail rifle has an assault variant to mimic the assault rifle, the assault rifle has a burst variant to mimic the combat rifle, etc. This information is from a CCP developer, CCP Remnant. Here is a link.
Each rifle was supposed to eventually have a variant to mimic the others, though right now most of them only have assault variants. Right now this plan has been left abandoned, and incomplete. The Gallente assault rifle has all variants, while the other race's rifles have only the assault variants. I would like the plan to be fully realized by adding the missing variants via hotfixes.
The missing variants are as follows:
Burst scrambler rifle
Breach scrambler rifle
Burst rail rifle
Tactical rail rifle
Breach combat rifle
Tactical combat rifle
Given how great a job CCP Rattati did with rifle balance with a hotfix, I think this is feasible.
[PART 2: Filling in for missing content]
Dust 514 launched with poor racial parity, but with the intention of filling in the missing racial variants with later updates. 1.7 and 1.8 filled in a lot of the missing racial variants, adding all missing racial rifles and dropsuits, and introducing a few racial sidearms. The transition from Dust development to Legion development however means that 1.8 is likely the very last update to Dust that brought fresh new items. In light of this, it is clear we will never get the following:
Gallente SMG
Amarr SMG
Amarr light AV weapon
Minmatar light AV weapon
Minmatar, Amarr, and Caldari, close range light weapon (like shotgun)
Gallente and Minmatar long range light weapon (like sniper rifle or laser rifle)
Minmatar, Amarr, and Gallente knives that were shown in concept art (like nova knives)
Minmatar and Amarr vehicles that were shown in concept art.
I believe that a lot of these (but not all) could be filled in by creating new variants of existing weapons.
Gallente ion pistol should get a variant that behaves exactly like an SMG
Amarr scrambler pistol should get a variant that behaves exactly like an SMG
Minmatar mass driver should either gain full damage to vehicles, or a new variant specifically for vehicle damage should be created.
Amarr laser rifle should get an AV variant that does full damage to vehicles.
These could breathe a lot of new life into the game.
[OTHER: Dropsuits]
I would also like different dropsuit variants. They could have different buffs and debuffs (like maybe built-in +5% damage bonus to weapons, but take 5% more damage from enemies), different module slot layouts, different equipment slot counts, base HP, E-WAR stats, etc.
Colors could be lore inspired, for example, Minmatar special dropsuit variants could be named and colored based on different tribes similar to these ships. Caldari suits could be named and colored based on the different Caldari megacorporations that make up the state. Amarr ones could be based on the different noble families (Kador, etc), or even have stuff based off the Khanid Kingdom.
This is basically a rough idea with nothing specific, but though I should throw it out there
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2014.08.17 00:10:00 -
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More variant ideas welcomed. Would love a Krusual tribe assault suit.
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2014.08.17 17:59:00 -
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Snake Sellors wrote:You left out the missing heavy weapons.
i'd suggest:
a heavy scrambler cannon, works like a forge gun charges up for serious damage.
has the option to fire quicker for lighter damage/infantry fire.
overheats quickly in rapid fire.
has opposite damage profile to forge gun (armour/shields)
doesn't do as much damage as the forge gun but charges up quicker
A heavy plasma gun.
could be like a hmg but uses a heavier form of the assault rifle profile, is more accurate but has less rate of fire?
or it could be another forge gun type weapon and use the template of the plc, possibly fires faster projectiles, higher ammo count than the plc, projectile fires further (reasoning that the heavy design of the weapon allows it to fire more shots without melting and can hold more pressure)
if we use exiting weapons but exaggerate their profiles it may not need as much of an update. but i think the artwork may need to be an actual update though.
Yeah I forgot to mention missing heavy weapons, but I don't think its a good idea to use light weapon models for heavy weapons, will create too much confusion on the battlefield.
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2014.08.17 22:56:00 -
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Perhaps in hotfix echo
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2014.08.23 01:19:00 -
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Still want, the rifles at least are overdue
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2014.09.02 16:45:00 -
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/me hears crickets
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2014.09.02 19:08:00 -
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Haerr wrote:Assault Shotgun
Burst Shotgun
Charge Shotgun
Tactical Shotgun
Assault Assault Rifle
Charge Assault Rifle
Specialist Assault Rifle
Assault Sniper Rifle
Burst Sniper Rifle
Breach Sniper Rifle
Burst SMG
Charge SMG
Specialist SMG
Tactical SMG
Assault Plasma Cannon
Breach Plasma Cannon
Burst Plasma Cannon
Charge Plasma Cannon
Specialist Plasma Cannon
Tactical Plasma Cannon
hop to CCP ;)
The assault rifle is already the assault variant, just like the scrambler rifle is already its tactical variant, and the combat rifle is already is own burst variant. The link in the OP will confirm this.
Charge assault rifle would be too close to the SCR and already existing tactical assault rifle (since charge requires that it's semi-auto).
Charge SMG makes no sense.
Plasma cannon is already charge.
Charge shotgun would great, I always wanted a shotgun with optional charge feature.
The others would be nice.
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KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Dominion of the Supreme Emperor God-King KAGEHOSHI
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Posted - 2014.09.23 19:50:00 -
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I want things!
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