The Mag-Shot Pistol

[Hamma]

http://www.planetside-universe.com/news-the-mag-shot-pistol-2677.htm

[CidHighwind]

Jeez Hamma! Wasting no time!

Love the look. Always knew the NC would be the ones to have something like a DE. Why waste bullets when you can do the job with one <--- secondary NC Motto.

Also - I can imagine that they might allow a Scattergun weapon mod. just puts a different barrel on it, and uses a similar magazine, only it has buckshot instead of .50 cal rounds.

[Captain1nsaneo]

Better bet able to shoot shotgun rounds. Otherwise, why have separate pistols?

[Hmr85]

Not bad, It looks good for a pistol.

[DayOne]

It's not even on the news page for me yet o.0

EFIT: Well I just signed into facebook...

[CGar]

How amazingly boring. The scatter pistol was so unique and awesome, now it's beyond boring and generic.

I'm loving most of their changes, but this one is a definite thumbs down :/

[Neksar]

It's probably like a Desert Eagle vs an M9, for comparison. I like. :cool:

[Shotokanguy]

I can't wait to rip that NC sticker off.

I better be able to take that thing off.

Otherwise, I like its look. I never touched the Mag Scatter, so I'm not too broken up about not having a shotgun pistol.

[Zhane]

Niiiiice.

[Tasorin]

Could see several side grades for this.

Extended butt stock, 2 rails for attachments, hand grips, extended mags, barrel variant and maybe 2 ammo variants.Then you can start in on the cosmetic end of it to offer say 2 solid one color variants and 2 multi-color variants.

Cash store $kaching$

[Shade Millith]

So no Scat Pistol?

Well that's kinda boring.

[Vancha]

As always, the empire logo looks terrible, but otherwise it's good. It's no mag-scatter but it fits the NC's improvisational theme. It looks slightly retro with that shade of grey (not a bad thing). The carbon fiber doesn't look very good up close, though.

[JuggernautO]

Boring as some of you think it may be, remember that NC goes for what is practical not what looks good. Also does anyone have a guess as to what the clip size might be?

[CidHighwind]

Boring as some of you think it may be, remember that NC go for what is practical. Also does anyone have a guess as to what the clip size might be?

Given that it's NC - probably 7, or 9 if we're lucky. As stated before, we don't waste time with multiple bullets. Two should be enough. Three if you really don't like them.

[Atheosim]

I like it a lot actually. Looks like it packs a wallop. I like side arms that look and feel like they're actually a viable weapon option rather than "shit i'm out of bullets well at least i can annoy them with this pea shooter before i die"..

[Bags]

Bor
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Looks cool, at least, I guess.

[Death2All]

Very uninspired. Just a standard gun. Cool?


Am I the only one that isn't impressed at all with the weapons they've been showing? Very uninspired generic weapons, that are just supposed to be base models and heavily customized anyways.

These guns definitely aren't blowing my mind. They just look standard, generic weapons. I hope VS can deliver something interesting.

[EASyEightyEight]

The number of people that used the mag-scatter in Planetside was less than half the number of cloakers on the field at any given moment.

I feel people are fighting change just to fight change. A desert-eagle for the NC just makes sense. At least it's useful up to mid range, not just knifing distance.

EDIT: And if it means anything, it does look like the entire front half of the gun can come clean off, hinting at possible modification into everyone's favorite, barely-ever-utilized mag-scatter.

[polywomple]

I'm so curious as to what the new lasher would be like (if there is one) and what kind of customization it would sport.

When I get tired of aiming I like to put my feet up and kick it with my vanu brosephs

[Rbstr]

The Mag-Scatter, while a neat idea, just wasn't a good gun (not that either of the other pistols were any good either).
I'm much happier with more caliber.
It is interesting the the whole front of the gun looks detachable. Perhaps the scatter isn't completely dead.

At any rate, I'm ready to pop the heads of some TR with it.

As far as boring: Semi-auto Pistols...they look like semi-auto pistols. Yeah, go ahead and nitpick but you've got two rectangles, except in very extreme cases.
Perhaps they should have gone revolver...That be a quick and dirty way of putting shotguns shells back in it too.

[Bzak]

I really hope there will be a scat variant. Other then that it looks pretty good.

[Xaine]

It just looks like a Pistol. It doesn't look very interesting, at least not to me. They seem to be going with the more practical designs, as opposed to stylized ones we saw in PS1.

Which i'm ok with, we just need a slightly different mindset.

I'm so curious as to what the new lasher would be like (if there is one) and what kind of customization it would sport.

When I get tired of aiming I like to put my feet up and kick it with my vanu brosephs


I know what you mean. When i'm tired of being underpowered, i backflip onto my NC SHMURF and kill people in under a second with my large, hard-to-use, automatic three barrelled shot-gun. Why aim when your target covers most of the screen, AMIRITE?

[Panserbjorne]

Sure, it looks a little boring, but it is just a standard side arm. I wonder how much we can customize it?

[Aaron]

The pistol is pretty cool, but doesn't anyone think the pistols would be cooler if they weren't so "fat" or bulky? To me, there just seems to be a lot of metal on there for a pistol. Anyone else have thoughts on that?

[Firefly]

It looks lame. I miss the old one - I really dug that horrifying BOOM. I also liked its look, with the big fat magazine under the barrel.

[sylphaen]

Did they forget to add the magazine or is that the final look of the pistol ?

It looks neat but that's only assuming the magazine is missing.

From the division on the barrel, it looks like it will reload in a similar way to PS1 (rotate mag/slide out/slide in/rotate in).

While I play VS and love the beamer, the scatter gun was oh so sweet with the loud bass shots.

[Reginald]

Mabye it can chamber a 410 shell? You know like those .45/410 derringers.

http://www.gunsamerica.com/blog/the-cobra-titan-derringer-45lc-410/

[Accuser]

Perhaps they should have gone revolver...That be a quick and dirty way of putting shotguns shells back in it too.
I thought the same thing when I saw the pic. Revolvers are sturdy, dependable, easy to clean/repair and pack a bigger punch per bullet than a semi-auto. I'm not a fan of them IRL, but it sounds perfectly NC to me.

[Traak]

Revolvers are sturdy, dependable, easy to clean/repair and pack a bigger punch per bullet than a semi-auto.

Well, yeah, the huge-caliber revolvers, for which an automatic pistol is not yet available.

I'm not a fan of them IRL, but it sounds perfectly NC to me.

I agree. A seven-shot .500 revolver would be SO NC.

[Hermes]

Think I used more looted beamers than I did the mag scatter. So I don't have too much attachment to the old one to fight off here - and this looks ok to me :)

Id really like to see some screenshots of these guns with mods on. Taking it all with a pinch of salt at the moment as trying to imagine stuff being gaffa taped on all over it.

[DOUBLEXBAUGH]

From the division on the barrel, it looks like it will reload in a similar way to PS1 (rotate mag/slide out/slide in/rotate in).

This^. When you reloaded the gun in PS1, you replaced the barrel with the new clip hanging down from it. So maybe you can still get a shotgun variant of it.

[NewSith]

http://www.demotivationalposters.org/image/demotivational-poster/0809/glock-guns-demotivational-poster-1220520302.jpg

[Tamas]

Looks good. I'm glad it's not too fancy, love the "practical" look.

[Beagle]

Looks nice, sturdy, powerful. Future USP to TR's Future Beretta/Glock.

Dunno what everyone crying "boooring" was expecting. It's a gun, guys.

[FastAndFree]

I don't know why people are surprised that it's not a shotgun pistol, we knew this ever since the NC turnaround video

[Redshift]

The mag scat was shit anyway, it was only useful for killing other cloakers, the amp and spiker were both far better, at least the repeater and beamer could pick off wounded targets from the other side of the CY.
I'm not at all surprised that all the pistols have been turned into similar weapons.

[Revanant]

Did they forget to add the magazine or is that the final look of the pistol ?

It looks neat but that's only assuming the magazine is missing.

From the division on the barrel, it looks like it will reload in a similar way to PS1 (rotate mag/slide out/slide in/rotate in).

While I play VS and love the beamer, the scatter gun was oh so sweet with the loud bass shots.

Excluding the possibility of having a joint removable barrel/magazine (which, while true to canon, makes absolutely no practical sense w/regard to ammo storage), I can see two places where a mag could fit.

1) Standard grip magazine.

If you look closely at the mag-shot, you'll notice a protruding butt-plate at the bottom of the grip. Could easily be a magazine.

2) Forward magazine in front of the trigger guard.

If you look at the extractor and draw a straight line down, you'll see a strange outcropping with a 45 degree slant, right in front of the trigger. A magazine could easily fit inside there.

[Oryon22]

Boring? No.

Clean? Yes.

[TacosWLove]

Is there a double choke option?

[SniperSteve]

The number of people that used the mag-scatter in Planetside was less than half the number of cloakers on the field at any given moment.

I feel people are fighting change just to fight change. A desert-eagle for the NC just makes sense. At least it's useful up to mid range, not just knifing distance.

EDIT: And if it means anything, it does look like the entire front half of the gun can come clean off, hinting at possible modification into everyone's favorite, barely-ever-utilized mag-scatter.


You get a cookie.

[Metalsheep]

Didnt the NC turnaround video say this thing was 50. Calibur? That alone makes me think this pistol is going to be awesome. I hope it has a loud, distinctive firing sound with such a large calibur handgun.

But i am curious... The TR Repeater has a triple fire mode... what does the Mag-Shot get for an alternate fire?

[polywomple]

Didnt the NC turnaround video say this thing was 50. Calibur? That alone makes me think this pistol is going to be awesome. I hope it has a loud, distinctive firing sound with such a large calibur handgun.

But i am curious... The TR Repeater has a triple fire mode... what does the Mag-Shot get for an alternate fire?

the secondary is a flashlight

[Talek Krell]

the secondary is a flashlightHonestly, what else would it be?

[Livefire]

Gun looks great kinda like the Israeli arms Desert eagle only better. Really like the rails on the bottom and top I want to stack stuff on the top and the bottom it will look so beastly. Maybe a laser on top or a scope and a flash light on the bottom? Be nice if we can mod it to have extended threads so we can put a silencer on it to,.50 cal SOCOM total future gun!

[Knightwyvern]

Gun looks great kinda like the Israeli arms Desert eagle only better. Really like the rails on the bottom and top I want to stack stuff on the top and the bottom it will look so beastly. Maybe a laser on top or a scope and a flash light on the bottom? Be nice if we can mod it to have extended threads so we can put a silencer on it to,.50 cal SOCOM total future gun!

I agree about being able to mod a secondary weapon, but with things like larger magazine, hair trigger for more accuracy, etc.. Not trying to make my pistol into a Bolt Driver. :rofl:

[Raka Maru]

If the mod includes stealth hunter tech, that would be cool too...