Vell0cet
Royal Uhlans
Amarr Empire
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Posted - 2013.07.03 12:49:00 -
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This is a very low priority but a dual-wielding medium suit with a glass-cannon design might be an interesting dropsuit concept. To keep things balanced you could only dual wield sidearms, and the left hand will always have a significant accuracy penalty, plus you can't ADS. another restriction might be that you have to wield identical versions of the same weapon in each hand (think about how hard it would be to shoot an SMG in one hand and simultaneously shoot a pistol in the other).
There are thousands of more important things to work on (like racial symmetry and fixing the LR), but I thought it might be interesting to discuss and consider adding to the roadmap for a future expansion. Also the name isn't great, but it conveys the idea--I'd be interested to hear suggestions for that as well.
I know there are players itching to dual-wield, this might be a way to achieve that goal without being overpowerful. |
Vell0cet
Royal Uhlans
Amarr Empire
39
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Posted - 2013.07.05 17:30:00 -
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Samuel Zelik wrote:...if it's going to be a glass cannon, I'd rather see it as a Light Frame. The thinking behind the medium frame is that it should be tankier than a scout suit, and doesn't need to have the sneaky, low sig profile/fast sprint speeds either. It should should have a suit bonus to fitting requirements of damage mods or something, with a lower base shield/armor of the assault suits (still higher than scouts though). That way you can keep CPU/PG tight on it to keep the suit in balance. Perhaps glass cannon wasn't used appropriately, I tend to think of scouts as tissue-paper cannons, so glass would be in-between a scout and an assault, but you get the idea.
The way I see its role is like a close-quarters scout in that you tend to engage via flanking and ambush, but from 5-15 meters out instead of circling at point blank. You'll have a slightly larger tank which gives you the ability to take a couple of shots before having to seek cover. The Gunslinger dropsuit would be for people specialized in medium suits and so wouldn't interfere with the CQC Scout. |