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Alliance medium weapons?

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Naoura:
We have the light weapons for each of the factions, but it's kind of strange to try and follow the same route with heavy weapons for the factions. We know the Baronies love their rocketry, the Chaladonians stick to gas, while both the Angleans and the Guild enjoy energy weapons.

We already have one faction heavy weapon, the Minotaur, which is lore-wise Arashi, but what do you think could be a heavy for the different factions? The Chaladonians I'm having a hard time thinking of any heavy weapon. The Charybdis is practically perfect for them already.

Richard LeMoon:
It still confuses me that four ships centered around heavy weapons were added to Alliance, but no new heavy weapons. Just a bunch of new light weapons that do heavy-level damage.

Naoura:
Well, they didn't add the Cloudjumper in the Alpha, and it is light weapons only, so that might be part of the reason. The other part possibly being that heavy weapons would require more art development and animation time, so they didn't add what they had, if they have anything, into the alpha.

Naoura:
Had the thought for an Alliance heavy weapon for the Angleans, and one that would be rather lore friendly: A HERF weapon.

A HERF is a high energy radio frequency weapon, which in the most simple terms is a Microwave gun. Anyone who's ever seen those videos on YouTube of people microwaving an iPhone knows exactly what that can do to anything electronic.

Simply port over a few of the mechanics from the Voltaic Coil and possibly the Flamer. A charging weapon that deals higher and higher damage, and has more and more range, the longer you charge it, and when fired sends out a cone-shaped "pulse" that deals fantastic Shatter damage. At low charge, it has shorter range, less damage, but a much, much wider cone, while at higher charges it deals much higher damage and longer range, but has a more narrow cone and requires the enemy to be in juuust the right spot to hit.

Naoura:
Hey, I found the Arashi weapon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northover_Projector

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