Here's what I think the upcoming empire-specific pistols are going to be...

Depends on your level of masochistic depravity

Sounds fairly good to me, but I have one complaint. That no bullet drop is really powerful. Better nerf the VS one a bit to make up for it.

so the devs just posted on reddit that they thought your idea was great so now the VS pistol has the velocity and drop of a grenade. im so buying this when its released

. Why must VS have the crappiest pistols.

heres what the new ES pistols are going to be:

NC: ridiculously overpowered

TR: usable, but worse than their other options

VS: pure, unusable garbage, with a side order of $hit

I'd pay good money for one of those.

Took me 4 days to auraxium XM98 (BEFORE straight-pull-bolts) ill give YOU a challenge though... use ONLY Phaseshift one day and ill use ONLY Parallax one day... if i dont get at least 5* more kills during the same timeperiod ill auraxium Phaseshift, but if i do, you will stop using that crap and get a real gun deal? (ill take same bet with commissioner only vs Phaseshift!)

Arc Pistol was one of my favorites in ME3 Multiplayer. Nobody considered it dumb. But then again, it hit really hard when charged up. And you could keep it charged up while running around. And it had shield destruction multiplier. So, yeah. We won't get that. But the idea is not dumb

I, for one, cannot wait for what could otherwise be a fantastic addition to the NC weapon lineup to get nerfed into nothing because people are going to flip their **** over something that's going to be functionally identical to a Commissioner

I anticipate it will be 6 pellets at 80 damage each = 480 damage, which would be high but not be within the quicknife damage range that SOE seems to not want to broach into. Though considering this gun would be even more range limited than the crossbow, which IS capable of quicknifing, I don't think 6 pellets of 100 damage each is out of the question. Probably a 4 round mag in that case, with extended dropoff and a long reload.

The most important part, of course, is what it will LOOK like. Kaiju seems to be a fan of the 1887 look, whereas I'd much prefer a sawed off coach gun style shotgun. Maybe a bit steampunk with 4 barrels to justify 4 shots per mag

NC-player "omg my shotgun is empty" -Whips out shotgun pistol and frags opponent-

TR-player "Omg! OMG! my 500round magazine is empty!" -Whips out automatic-homing-missile gun and frags opponent-

VS-player "Omg! My crappy discogun is empty!" -Whips out chargeup-suicide-Lazor "BSUOI" "BSUOOOOOI", gets knifed in the face by a laughing opponent-

I feel pretty confident about this one... a charge up pistol is just as good idea as a chargeup sniper... *decloak* chaaaaaaarge and... yeah other sniper already killed you and left!

Now I want a rocklet launcher so I can run dry with my shotgun primary, switch to and run dry with my shotgun secondary, then switch to my shotgun rocket launcher

Yeah and i can chaaaaaaarge my phaseshift or Lancer, and if im not dead yet, i can switch to pistol and start chaaaaaaaar.... *BOOM*

I wonder if my giant engraved revolver will still be useful when these come out.

Roadmap speculation again? You guys already forgot all those times when weapons undergone complete redesign during the two hours it takes to move stuff from PTS to live?
Not to mention these ones are not even on PTS.

Do they shoot through spawn room shields? That's all I want to know.

We can't have people thinking rationally about the toys other factions have! No sir, it's a shotgun and it killed me! AND I CAN"T USE IT!


NNNNNEERRRRRFFF

Ignoring the fact that said shotgun goes from pellets to marshmallows between 8 and 12 meters, has a 3 second reload and only 2 shots which probably are 1k damage max, with various other weapons that outperform it in pretty much every aspect.

This required doubling the disbelief.
Well played.

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