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Heavy Weapon Suggestions
ShadedExalt:
--- Quote from: Gilder Unfettered on November 27, 2014, 11:55:50 pm ---Yeah the problem with piercing weapons, it can be OP real quick.
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So you'd be looking at something with Carronade range that just, melts faces. Maybe the massive Hades cannon would fit this. Or what you could do is have a heavy double barrel mortar. Give it a 4-5 shell clip and total damage = the old HF round.
At the same time, need a new light gun to fit between the mortar and LF range. Probably the Pom Pom idea that has been mentioned before by someone else on here. Fast shooter, little spread, no arming timer. So like the original LF. Something that would be perfect mounted on squids or ships which fight more in the short to mid range but can't afford to sit there waiting for mortars to get angle or unload. I could picture a Spire with these. Gat + dual pom poms = nothing is ever going to get close.
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Maybe the Vulcan could be transformed into the heavy mortar. Keep the Rotary Barrels, but give it three barrels each side- like the Hwacha but not. 6 shots, slow-medium RoF. Half the projectile drop of Scylla. Name it after a Sea monster- Scylla double mortar... KRAKEN ROTARY MORTAR. Perfect name right there. 8)
Pom Poms are a cool idea. What we really, REALLY need is a Heavy with piercing damage. Name the weapons that do enough piercing dps to be effective at stripping armor, no Gat. Even if it isn't the Jupiter or the Vulcan, it needs to find a way in there. I wanna get Goldie ramkills using my own weapons damnit.
Richard LeMoon:
These obviously belong here. (images are links to the containing threads)
Ixion Flame Vortex Cannon
Rocket Harpoon (unnamed)
Aquilon (heavy shatter/piercing freeze damage on chemsprayed parts)
Electric net launcher (unnamed)
Squidslinger Gilder:
Net launcher would be an interesting way to make a deployable shield. Temp stops weapon fire, cept for piercing rounds.
The trick with the impact damage Barracuda Sky Torpedo is..the mine impacts damage everything, plus light fires. You can knock out armor fast if a ship takes multiple impacts. So you could do a Torpedo with impact as primary and maybe piercing as secondary. That...would make a heavy piercing weapon that wouldn't be OP cause it would have slow traveling shots and shots that wouldn't be in rapid fire. A goldfish with a torpedo launcher would be awesome because you wouldn't have lateral movement to account for, just deployment range so you could charge in firing torpedoes and with impact damage, imagine the satisfaction in seeing your foe being bashed around, armor dropping then gun it with moonshine and ram it straight up his rear!!
Course what would be really hilarious, is if you could catch up to torpedoes with the fish. Run into your own ammo..lol. But then again, in Starlancer when you'd do a close range kill on a torp bomber and the ship would just erupt violently, if you got enough speed and timed it right, you could blast through it and ride the shockwave, boosting your own speed for a moment. Imagine moonshine goldfish speed with a torpedo burst. Sure you'd take damage but man it would be super insta kill.
Dementio:
--- Quote from: Gilder Unfettered on November 27, 2014, 11:55:50 pm ---Probably the Pom Pom idea that has been mentioned before by someone else on here. Fast shooter, little spread, no arming timer.
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Sounds like a Banshee, btw I really like how you manage to put a Squid into every thread even when it's about Heavy Weapons.
I don't think that a close-ish heavy piercing gun would be all too op It would work on Galleon with a hflak or hwacha (and the Galleon's manouverbility nerf this gun pretty well already) or on a spire with all sorts of light guns and Goldfish really only has to option to ram if it would ever want to kill something.
I like the Torpedo idea.
Moike:
--- Quote from: Richard LeMoon on November 28, 2014, 02:57:14 am ---These obviously belong here. (images are links to the containing threads)
Ixion Flame Vortex Cannon
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Every time I see a new medium (or heavy, depending on how you see / name them) weapons thread, it reminds me of this suggestion.
Whenever anyone suggests a new medium weapon it always has words along the lines of 'massive damage' and some aspect of it being better than anything else and leading to it being OP, but the Vortex cannon just fits into a completely viable and balanced niche that isn't filled by anything right now. Plus... Flames and impact?! :D
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