KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf wrote:Ok, and I must say this is a great idea for a thread.
EDIT: might as well add another idea to this thread.
-More exotic scifi weapons/equipment like the forge gun, not just scifi versions of regular weapons (like SMG, assault rifle). It would be nice to have something like a blue plasma flame thrower that does close range burning damage. Perhaps gravity gun made from scavenged Yan Jung (from EVE lore) technology. Perhaps bio-mechanical symbiotic dropsuits that regenerates, can be made from Takmahl technology (EVE lore). Mass Effect 3 does a great job in this department, for example, they have a shotgun that's like a powerful lightning flame thrower, but has to reload after each shot. They don't have to be crazy powerful in relation to the defense dropsuits offer, they just have to be more scifi, and interesting compared to the generic FPS weaponry.
More specific:
I want to say that I want new weapons that are not just a novelty, but are as genuinely useful as regular weapons like assault rifles and SMGs.
Going to throw around some ideas.
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Amarr (lasers)
-A mid to long range laser weapon firing multiple beams with low but continuous damage. Its advatange is that it doesn't fire one beam, but instead fires four beams lined up on a wide horizontal plane allowing for a wide field of damage to hit multiple targets at once. It could be similar to the line gun in the Dead Space series.
-Please make the laser weapon that isn't currently in the beta as versatile as the assault rifle.
Caldari (missiles, railguns)
-Antipersonnel stasis webifier: Reduces the maximum speed of an enemy merc by employing micro energy streams which effectively entangle the target temporarily, thereby slowing it down. Would be actvated by aiming one's hand towards an enemy.
Gallente (drones, plasma blasters)
-Plasma burner that does short/mid range continuous burning damage. It fires continuously for about 2 seconds before needing to reload.
-A long range rifle that fires explosive drone disks that the shooter must remote control to drive them to the target. Has great damage, and great range, but remote controlling the disk into an enemy puts the user at risk since he's no longer observing his own surroundings because the shooter is viewing in the camera perspective of the disk.
-A group of spherical flying drones that orbit the player and generate a slight shield. When the player designates a target by aiming a non-lethal laser at an enemy, the drones move towards and fly around the enemy to do some light contnuous damage, and distraction.
-A lightning weapon that functions in short and mid range like an SMG, but does lower damage as a tradeoff. The main advantage of it would be that the lightning will have a chaining effect, and would damage multiple nearby enemies all at once (maybe Amarr since its also an energy weapon, but lightning is a form of plasma).
Minmatar (projectiles: autocannons, and artillery)
-Artillery spear rifle: A mid range rifle with very slow (1 shot fired every 2 seconds) heavy explosive short spear rounds, it would have high damage. Should be more powerful than a breach assault rifle, but not as powerful as a mass driver. but only a 10 round magazine size.
Yan Jung (maybe made from reverse engineering scavenged technology from ruins)
-A gravity gun that fires charged shots, and each shot will be a energy sphere that will pull in anyone that it hits directly (which traps them until the sphere disappears in 10 seconds), and slows the the movement of anyone moving away from it by pulling on them. It would be like the forge gun, but have the effect of trapping or slowing down enemy players. This weapon would be nonlethal.
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These are just examples of possible ways to go about adding more interesting weapons.