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Commander Weapon: Particle Beam

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12 years ago
Remember those cool red Particle Beams in the claws of the Scorpion strider? No other unit currently has a weapon like that, so I figure it would be a good idea to start with Commanders. Particle Beams work like beam lasers in that they pretty much never miss, but they do their damage in short bursts rather than a continuous beam. Would be short/mid range and more expensive than the beam laser of course, its essentially a 'carbine' type weapon that can fill all roles but not do that much individual damage. Give it access to the High Frequency Beam upgrade for good measure.

Come on, give us a new toy to play with! The weapon is there already and worked out, just slap it on, tweak it and bingo. Hope we get some particle beam-armed coms soon!
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FIrankFFC
12 years ago
check waht it looks like in mission editor
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12 years ago
When would you want to use this weapon instead of normal beam laser? I mean, most of the other guns have some gimmick that makes their choice logical in some circumstance.
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FIrankFFC
12 years ago
i want part beam for coms
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12 years ago
i wanna a flametrower for my comm
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12 years ago
a beam laser with alpha
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12 years ago
Yeah, we need more Commander weapons with alpha.
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Should it have less dps than normal beam, then? Because of alpha?

I think a weapon that could oneshot glaives would be nice somewhat. But isn't this gauss' domain?

Of course, particle gun wouldn't have piercing, but gauss' piercing rarely plays a role. So it's disadvantage re: gauss would be shorter range, and advantage - faster reload?

How should it relate to the lightning gun, which pretty much does exactly that?

(oh, if it comes to existence, i can spend points of it!)

What other modules besides high-frequency-beam should apply to it?

Maybe make it just a conversion for beam laser? "Pulse laser conversion" something. Then it can even retain same DPS or actually get a boost. And high-frequency pulse laser would have different color! :D
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we could just adopt MechWarriors' module system?

i'd like to have a battlecommander with AC20s and LRMs :D
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12 years ago
What about giving commanders a 5th morph which allows them acces to a small superweapon? xd
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12 years ago
it may be clear that we could make the comm system infinitely more complex.
more special modules is always fun to play around with. Dont really see the use for a second laser beam though

neon
some mechanism where you can spend any number of points on would be nice. Something like a super damage booster that can cost X times 1000 pts.
increases damage with 10%*X
cost 1000 * X metal
equip at lvl5 and takes all slots
basically an unlockpoints dump
/neon
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12 years ago
i want new modules!

### capture module (weapon module)

### flamer module (weapon module)
as demanded earlier.

### gravity gun (weapon module)
obviously missing. throw things around for fun.

### speed imporvement module (support module)
either decrease the com's weapon reload time by a certain prcentage or give a aura to surrounding units to decrease reload

### armour aura module (support module)
aura to surrounding units to take less damage from hits. possible to restrict to not fireing status?

### fire denial module (weapon module)
point to a single unit and make it shut down its weapon as long as com points to it. appies to EVERY unit, shut down a detri with it! as its only mountable to commander, very vulnurable and unique.

### temporary boos module (weapon or support module?)
d-gun behavioural activated boost for speed/hp/armour/etc?

### spy bold stun (weapon module)
stun heavies

### rocket vector modifier (support module)
rockets, which are fired into the range of, say a circle/sphere a bit larger than personal shield, are sent to miss their original targets. funny where they hit now. or target another nearby target (switch lock).
also possible: rockets are shot down.

### teleporter module (weapon or support module?)
give djin's magic to com to port in from factory. costs energy on usage?

### diving module (support module)
make com able to dive from underwater to surface to fire ground weapons

### AA gun (weapon module)
give it a archangel AA battery on his head. or maybe a jethro's...

### dirt salvo (weapon module)
throw a d-gun activated line of dirt, shots like cluster bomb not very accurate or ranged. for the fun.
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> fire denial module (weapon module)
It is called EMP and venom+gnat have it
+1 for the rest

(Tandstickor)
some mechanism where you can spend any number of points on would be nice. Something like a super damage booster that can cost X times 1000 pts.
increases damage with 10%*X
cost 1000 * X metal
equip at lvl5 and takes all slots
basically an unlockpoints dump
(/Tandstickor)
maybe not 1000, but 250? +1
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