Drop that stick, here, use my knife.

Drop that stick, here, use my knife.

I kinda wish the NKs were the Gallente melee weapon. It would be so awesome if the Caldari had Stun Batons (which telescoped upon equipping ). They fit the Caldari since batons have come to represent law and order and it would be so much fun shocking those frogs.

The stun baton is a staple of the State Domestic Peacekeeping Force. It delivers an electric charge at close range, to render opponents harmless.
The standard baton has carefully calibrated electronics to deliver a precise level of charge, in order to avoid permanent injury to civilians.
Most batons in the field have been altered to bypass the built-in safety protocols."

The first order of business, I would think goes something like this.
A write up, a la standard Dust weapon description.



What would be particular amusing, would be if they somehow interacted with enemy shield extenders.. you know, Caldari Technology ... to have increased effect.

Don't really care for the idea of non-weapon mods affecting weapon performance or behavior.

I see two possible attributes that would make the stun baton viable (needs a cooler name too).

They could have a charge attack like the NKs.. but that would be boring.

Make them deal fairly low damage but allow successful strikes to reduce the movement speed and perhaps the turn speed while also disrupting disrupting the HUD. Rather than being an assassination weapon, it would become a tool for facilitating escapes from bad odds.

First off I agree that the nova knife functions very gallente like, so I agree that it doesn't seem caldari.

I'm trying to image the utility of a stun baton, it could work one on one, but not killing the guy gives him time to call for help from allies, it also makes you TK susceptible if it requires your own allies to drop him, unless the stun effect is a lasting effect, which would make it extremely powerful to stun and then switch to your killing weapon.

Another way to to the caldari knife is to have it be a nanite knife of sorts

Considering that the Caldari usually focus on anti armor weapons, and the fact that they have efficient nano technology delivery systems, what about a knife that has a medium alpha that applies a DOT effect, lore being destructive nanites breaking down the armor of a suit?

Caldari - The Caldari are not CQC fighters by choice. They want to take out their enemies at greater ranges to minimize their own loss. Thus it seems like their weapon would focus on allowing them to return to their range, hence a stun weapon.

I came to a realization today. I thought about what suits I would spec into after I got my Cal scout... and realized I only wanted the other scouts. The other suits hold no interest to me. (Still want speeders and MAVs though)

*sigh*

... CCP better get to revamping the scout suit soon. My patience is wearing thin.

Pretty effective but don't be the center of attention. Drop an uplink in some well protected area, then get like 40 or even 50 meters off to the side of some firefight. If people are too busy to turn their eye to you you can lay on some serious heat and fast. A duh the Combat rifle is better but the GK-13 has class. This is practically a mirror of my Tac AR fitting but with some variance change.

Tried to give up my pistols in favor of one of the new rifles and knives ... but I just can't put the pistols down

I am with you ... I recently got my Minnie scout up to level four ... and already have my Gallente scout at 4. Other than the basic Min logi and basic Min assault (neither of which I use) ... those are the only points on dropsuits for me.

Use LP store points, to try out the level 4 versions, without having to skill into them.
You might prefer one of those.

The assault RR is fun.

Agree too.

I got Minnie Lv5 straight off from the last respec. Lately I specced into Logi and Assault Lv3 as my plan was to have minnie suits across the board but if they do give another respec then I will just max out all skills even though it is a minimal gain.

May still skill into a Minnie Commando but other than that, sticking to scout all the way.

Manus Peak was and always will be my favorite map.
I don't know why people say there is no cover on that map. The terrain provides lots of cover with the hills and peaks.
I loved that map in closed beta. I loved the peak, had some epic battles up there. In fact it was me sniping in a corp battle in open beta on that map that let me meet one of my favorite people in the whole world. Epic battle where we both lost 2 Thale's And I finished the battle by switching to my shotgun and getting her in the back of the head lol it was the first and only time I'm the one that got her from behind .

It was also the first map here I ever got more than 30 kills in an Ambush (back when it was 80 clones) and the first map I got over 30 kills running dual toxin SMG in a dragonfly scout on skirmish.

Back when the peak was still there, it taught me the joys f the infiltrator gameplay style, hugging the peak to sneak around to capture [B] (though it was a different letter at the time)

Manus Peak was the map that taught me that REs are the best sidearm and an appreciation of the Type-II/B-Series/VK.1

Manus Peak w/ Shotgun ftw

EDIT: The fact that it only has 3 points is one of my favorite parts though. The map is large enough that one can sneak around, or use a dropship to drop someone off discreetly, and set up uplinks or hack a point and change the tide of battle. Some of the most enjoyable matches have been because 6-8 people actually worked closely together to capture a point. Seeing one side redline a team, only 5 minutes later to get redlined themselves was fun and intense. It just doesn't seem to have the same intensity on the 4 and 5 point maps.

On the flip side ... man, that assault RR If I was going to level RR up first, I'd be using that thing ... quite a bit.

Yeah, I just wish there was a basic version, and then an IMPROVED one, rather than there being one-and-only-one type.
I'd use the basic.
For 17k, gaaah.... I dont spend over 10k on a weapon :p
I use it via LP points occasionally though.

I didn't realize there was an LP version of the ARR until you said something...

Man, that's actually great ... unless it changed recently, I don't believe the ACR is available on the LP store ... just the Specialist.

If I'm wrong, somebody correct me...

Not wrong

No you may not ask, you may forever mispronounce my name.

But I must know! It's gnawing away at me.

It's Bojo and nothing can stop the Mojo

But is it pronounced like Mojo? That's the soul eating issue.

Bojo is the Mojo, and the Mojo is the Bojo
Nothing else matters

Damnit LIast.

While we're here, is that L followed by capital i or by a small L?