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

NC: M-358 Talon
VS: Acolyte
TR: N7 Eagle

i bet the vs pistol will be OP once everyone figures out its a UBGL at full charge

you know , charging weapons actually have a really High velocity usually, even if your just firing a bunch of low damage shots they are still incredibly fast and Explosive you could in theory get a small group of people who just spam shots and take down tanks under the impressive barrage.

Your sig makes that perfect.

I am a fan of ME series and ME3 MP, so i get your idea.
Too bad, though, SOE cannot import those weapons as they are, because those weapons are designed around certain functions.
For example, they tried to import Javelin of sorts when they introduced Phase-****, but the idea of Javelin is that it penetrates cover. And hits very, very hard at the expense of fire delay. The simply couldn't make it as is, so what we got was.. well, crap.

As for the Acolyte, the idea, as you surely know, is shield stripping. But in PS2 shields are just second health, i don't think there are any multipliers there for any kind of weapons. You do the same damage to the shields as you do to the health.

However, if they did introduce different resistance values for the shields vs. specific weapons, that could open a room for unique Vanu weaponry.

Acolyte could be made to strip all shields in one shot, but do very little damage to health. Considered how its projectile looks like a grenade, it would be an EMP grenade of sorts, which has no AOE and only strips shields on impact. But it should strip all shields in one shot to be viable.

If Acolyte was introduced as is, that would be cool. It was one of my favorite weapons in ME3 MP. Quick charge up (like phasehsit) and a blob of shield stripping plasma bounces off the floor right into the enemy face, knife follow-up.

VS gets the shotgun, TR gets the chargeup and NC gets the full auto.

Why? Because TEAAAAAAAAAAARS!

You mean like the amazing Phaseshift with its 550m/s (slowest of all sniper rifles)?

All this is true VS getting royally screwed once again now a really stupid infiltrator can decloak and start charging his Phaseshift before he gets his head shot off... when he gets bored with that he can do the same with Stalker cloak and new VS-crap-loadup ****...

There are 2 things that needs unholy fast fireing and fast projectiles and that is Sniper rifles and pistols you whip out when out of ammo...

How anyone is stupid enough to put chargeupmechanics on either baffles me....

Had you bothered to read, you'd see that the pistol on it's own is rapid fire but can charge up to fire explosive shots. Not once was it mentioned that it'd be for sniping or some kind of long range shot. That's a good mechanic and depending on the way the explosive shot is it can be a good pistol. Not saying you in particular, but people are being stupid again and whining and over reacting and it's going to cost us again. TR and NC will get something nice and new, we'll be given another copy. Because apparently jumping on the uninformed whine train is what the cool kids do these days.

I'm guessing TR's the one crying, VS is Cartman, and NC is somewhere in the back being mostly apathetic because they got a functional, while not necessarily unique or broken, pistol.

I'd be ecstatic if we got a "copy" of the other factions burst pistol.......

We got another weapon that can charge or rapid fire recently... the sniper rifle... and it's a piece of garbage that is inferior at semi-auto to the SASR's and inferior at long range to BASR's. It's a bastard child of a sniper rifle that's only purpose (infinite ammo) can be largely replaced with a max tiered ammo pouch and leave you with a far more capable weapon.

This will just be the same. A "rapid fire" pistol inferior to even the Beamer, or charge up for STILL low DPS (and as been noted many times, that mechanic is even worse on a pistol than a sniper rifle).

W/E, honestly I don't care. I don't use my pistols much in the first place and unless they ever give VS (or hell, NS) a burst pistol I'll prolly never get another anyways. They can make all the useless pistols they want.

As someone that owns a phaseshift. Nothing about it is rapid fire, not sure where you're pulling that from. And yes it isn't very good. Again the mechanic is fine. The price we usually have to pay for the mechanic is what's bs. If you want another copy of a empire's weapon that's fine, I do not, especially when 2 of the 3 are already copies. I'd rather them make the cerberus a burst fire weapon and leave the new gun alone. People could at least try waiting until it gets on the test server and they can try it out.

I don't know about you, but my Phantom only has 525 m/s.

And my SAS-R has only 500...

like my KSR-35...

and my Impetus...

and my Ghost...

...

Pistols...

to be fair 550 is pretty slow for a gun that's forced to use a 6x or higher scope