About NC Weapons...

The closest I've seen to concept is the following. Noone says they'll be in the game though. Don't get your hopes high.



Also anybody remembers the following? It was even linked by Higby and it's nowhere to be seen:



And finally, the grand vision of Smedley himself:

Why not both?

Shotguns with choked modes (al la PS1) - basically shotguns that work on things like MAXs and vehicles because of their choked modes.

And heavy hitting Gauss/Railguns where even choked shotguns fail or are inappropriate.

I think it's not fair to call NC shotgun nation and to give us only vehicle shotguns.
For infantry, except the Jackhammer, we have no better Shotguns than the other factions, renegade can be used by everyone.
Instead, we get a fully unbalanced MAX, a short distance ESF weapon and a full auto MBT shotgun.
I think we should get more unique infantry shotguns which VS and TR do not have, break action sounds great for example.

Of course, slow as hell rate of fire and slower reload speeds.
But of course, the damage will maul everything in such a weapon's path, with frightening velocity, too.

Unfortunate balance problem here, this would mean close ranged mastery as well as medium range, as opposed to the HMG approach the VS/TR take where you get upper mediocre in close and medium. It would be like swapping between shotguns and slugs at any given time. Then... Well, then the devs would either remove it or nerf it into the ground.

Funny, seeing as how VS have the generally lowest velocity weapons.

Well that's not really how it worked in PS1.

For example the PS1 NC AI MAXs were better in close range, so so in mid, and still relatively poor at long range.

However they were still useable at longer range (just with appalling DPS relatively).

That is because the spread was reduced you could hit with a lot more pellets with the maximum choked mode (where as currently past a certain range you'll be lucky to hit with A pellet no matter how accurately you aimed in PS2) however it still had the same damage (and drop off) and the RoF was massively reduced.

So you had:
Choke 1 = High RoF High spread
Choke 2 = Med RoF Med spread
Choke 3 = Low RoF Low spread

With the DPS landed on a target (as well as absolute DPS) dropping from 1 to 3, but Choke 3 still giving usability at range albeit with lower DPS.




Choked modes worked in PS1, there's no reason why they couldn't in PS2 - it is pretty inexplicable why they weren't brought across to me.

Slugs seem to be what they tried instead, and whilst they work with ADS, they don't work well at all with hip-fire (which basically what MAXs and vehicles have too), at least compared to how well Choked modes worked in PS1.

I mean look at the Cannister, only recently has it become remotely decent (after vast amounts of tweaking) and has spent most of its time being arguably THE worst weapon in the game.

Ah, finally done with the event. Time to play with my NC and some real guns

...Futuristic Harley-Davidson....?


I want it neaw.

NC has perfectly reasonable and good weapon concepts

Still waiting for more gauss style weaponry....

If anything, I believe we do not have enough shotgun in our stuff.
We need a rocket launcher that fires in a shotgun spread. Also, we need a grenade launcher that does the same. And a helmet that's just a shotgun. And cosmetic armor that's made entirely out of shotguns. And a shotgun MBT primary weapon. And give our Infiltrators, just our infiltrators, shotguns if they don't have them already.
Also a sniper rifle that's actually a shotgun.
And a shotgun that fires shotguns that fires shotguns.

Are we not all waiting?
Just wish all weapons in the game were directly better than modern weapons. Terran weapons have LOWER velocity AND RATES. OF. FIRES. And what about actual plasma weaponry that fries everything? I want that, too!

Oh yes.
And you can expect it in only FOUR years' time!
Plus a short time of TWO YEARS to come up with the correct cosmetics and unique weapons to use!