Weapon ideas

[anders]

At some point could we get additional weapons added or upgrades to existing weapons?

Like Railguns, dual plasma/laser turrets, different missle ammo types, etc.

I'd love a Cerberus decked out with railguns, since railguns are pretty awesome

[kafloopinator]

Awesome!

[roknikus]

Railguns are indeed cool, but from a gameplay perspective, they're quite similar to rockets. They don't have a high rate of fire and they deal lots of damage. a railgun does arguably more damage though.

[Clinkzbone]

I think the Aliens need weapons more then we do. They only have 3 types, while we already have 5.

[kafloopinator]

I agree. The aliens should have more guns. The beast should have a unique weapon too. Like the Aegaeon has the super weapon.(ion cannon)

[Space Borders]

OK, we all agree that there have to be some new weapons, especially for the aliens. So, are there any ideas of (perhaps) a new and different weapon, e.g. a weak long range weapon or something similar? Also, I've considered adding some new upgraded turrets for the Terran faction, if a ship reaches the highest rank. Like more powerful mini gun ammo, stronger missile types, dual plasma / laser (as you have mentioned).

[anders]

Idk. How about a shotgun type weapon like the flak. Maybe give them a yellow drone type gun like in stargate Atlantis. I like your idea of a long range weapon. Maybe have it be a one directional type beam weapon, where it has to fire facing forward, and the longer it's firing the more damage it will do.

And I really like the purple coloring on the alien ships. What if we the higher level alien ships have different colors to show their level of strength instead of a rank?

And, maybe give aliens special abilities as well, like for the drone carrier a swarm ability that will send out 2x as many drones? Also new unique styling on the aliens would be cool as well. Like you said we really have focused on the humans a lot, maybe it's time to give the aliens some attention.

[anders]

And lets not give the beasts some super powerful weapon. They're already hard enough to take out as it is lol

[Space Borders]

Agreed. The Beast is already a rather difficult opponent!

[joe130794]

I love the drone idea from stargate atlantis. I love watching that. Maybe have ships similar to the bc-303, bc-304 and the aurora class ancient ships. I dont know any games that have the actual ships in. Add a 3rd race in to the game that has ancient ships. The puddle jumpers can be similar to gladiators. Size wise.

And railguns have piercing damage in a lot of games.

[roknikus]

If we're talking about low-energy long distance weapon ideas, why not increase the range of the red laser turret? We could always add continuous beam weapon with low damage but long range. But such a weapon, from a tactical sense, would only serve to hit critical spots, such as engines or turrets, and while we're on the subject, why not add destructible engines? If you could perhaps target a ship's engines and render it slower or altogether incapable of movement, wouldn't that be interesting? It'd make scout ships very useful in hit-and-run tactics. Simply fly in, muck up the engines, and fly away! Then your heavier ships would be able to engage it on better terms.

[roknikus]

Also, if we were to add a railgun, I'd think to make it a have piercing damage and the ability to strike through multiple ships, this would cause players to rethink their attack vectors.

[joe130794]

What do you think to the drone weapons and the extra ship ideas. I can always try my hand at the image programs at college. Try and make a few hull designs.

[anders]

Yea I used to watch stargate Atlantis all the time. I liked the ancient ships, having some ship wit a drone swarm would be so cool, I liked seeing how they used the drones to take out the wraith ships

I'd love to see an ancient faction tho I doubt that's gonna happen.

[anders]

And rok I meant a long range laser for the aliens, have it be green or white since that's the color of the aliens projectiles.