Zat Earthshatter
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.07.05 23:20:00 -
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Love this idea. I agree that passengers should get to shoot out of dropships, and the light restriction helps keep them balanced.
LAVs could theoretically get away with light guns, but sidearm restriction would be a good way to ease it in.
@garrett : from what I hear, fighters are supposed to be in an expansion a few months after release. No clue whether MTACs will come first though.
@mobius : I do agree current turrets are a little lacking in the anti-air department, especially the LMTs which are supposed to have that role.
Flak would likely be a Minmatar design that acts as a massive shrapnel grenade, with hundreds of small depleted-uranium "arrows" around an HE core and proximity fuse.
When it gets close enough to detonate, the target isn't just peppered, it's salted |
Zat Earthshatter
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.07.06 21:29:00 -
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Mobius Kaethis wrote:Definitely. I love how you've come up with a solid tie-in to the current eve mythos.
Perhaps Caldari would have a homing anti-air missile battery with a rather slow reload speed.
Don't know what the details should be for the other races. Ideas?
Blaster Flak : The charge for this round is similar to EVE's blaster charge, with a core and suspended-plasma chamber.
The difference is, on firing, the core is fired alongside the plasma, and behaves as the prox-fuse. The amount of plasma used is also far greater.
When it nears the target, the "fuse" in the center of the plasma ball detonates an EMP, "exploding" the plasma at the enemy aircraft. Tech-II versions can focus the pulse to vent most of the plasma at the target, creating a shotgun effect on detonation.
Of course, this is a Gallente design.
Holo-Flak :
the Amarrian answer to airburst munitions, This device consists of multiple medium-sized lasers.
On firing, the weapon pre-determines the enemies' location, then fire the lasers so they converge at a point in the air near the target. This is similar to how air-formed holograms create their image, hence the name.
These lasers are so intense, that they cause the hydrogen in the air to fuse into helium, which creates a micro nuclear blast.
Because of variable atmospheres, an uncontrolled version of this effect could either nuke a battlefield, or merely cause blurry vision to the target. Amarrian engineers have created a consistency system that either reduces the wattage of the lasers, or uses a blaster to shoot extra hydrogen at the detonation point. This standardizes the damage potential of the weapon. |