News: Tempest (mini Gauss)

[DOUBLEXBAUGH]

The lightweight Tempest is the favored submachine gun of the New Conglomerate. Though inaccurate from afar, the Genudine produced Tempest provides substantial stopping power at close ranges, even while on the move. [RadarX]

[Mastachief]

Looks like a toy

[QuiCKaNdDeaDLy]

The new NC AWP?

[LZachariah]

The NC weapons (Gauss, Bolt Driver, and Tempest) still look like customized adaptations of each other, but I do believe that there will be so many customization options for each one, they will start appearing different once we tweak with them (for instance, Higby said that there would probably be a bolt-action version of the Bolt Driver, sacrificing rate-of-fire for increased stopping power and accuracy, or something).

I'm thrilled that they're giving us so much info so regularly, now :-)

~Zachariah

[Bags]

That's cute.

[TheRagingGerbil]

I like it!

[Raymac]

I'm just stoked the game is getting SMGs. It looks really cool. I wonder what classes will get to use this?

[LZachariah]

TwoThreeSix said that Engineers get SMG's (and Carbine-variants of their Empire's primary assault rifle). It's quite possible that Medics (who seem parallel to Engineers) might get SMGs as well. Basically, they're "formidable weapons, but less formidable than assault rifles." Now, there might be an unlock or sidegrade that allows Medics/Engineers to slot superior firepower at (perhaps) the cost of some higher-level Medic/Engineer abilities (ie- pushing for a more hybrid-class rather than a 100% healer-class, etc).

Cool stuff

~Zachariah

[Boogster]

So the Tempest is apparently the NC's 'favoured submachine gun' but we've been given no direct equivalent for the TR. Why? This description seems to imply the same division of weapon classes as, say, CoD, which is fine, but we've no idea how this works across all the empires. I wish they'd be a little more systematic with these releases, to be honest, if only to save confusion.

[DOUBLEXBAUGH]

So every empire gets there MA weapon from the first game as their main mid-long range weapon. Then they all have a sniper version, obviously for long range, and 2 short range options, a high damage low accuracy LMG and a lower damage high accuracy SMG. Then they all get a shotgun and their HA weapon(s).

[LZachariah]

I think that we haven't seen all of the ES weapons for any faction yet. For instance, we haven't seen the TR Striker, or any anti-vehicular weapon yet. Therefore, there is probably a TR submachinegun, as well.

[Tikuto]

That is definitely going to sound like 'pew pew'.

[DayOne]

Originally Posted by Boogster

So the Tempest is apparently the NC's 'favoured submachine gun' but we've been given no direct equivalent for the TR. Why? This description seems to imply the same division of weapon classes as, say, CoD, which is fine, but we've no idea how this works across all the empires. I wish they'd be a little more systematic with these releases, to be honest, if only to save confusion.

I think every is going to get their classic assault rifle but each faction will have and SMG, LMG and sniper variant of it. Whether you get one gun and can customise it to any of these (REALLY cool) or separate version that customise in their own way (sort of "meh" but easier to balance probably) I'm not sure.

[DOUBLEXBAUGH]

Originally Posted by DayOne

I think every is going to get their classic assault rifle but each faction will have and SMG, LMG and sniper variant of it. Whether you get one gun and can customise it to any of these (REALLY cool) or separate version that customise in their own way (sort of "meh" but easier to balance probably) I'm not sure.

Since they all have different names, I think its safe to assume you choose 1 to start with (gauss, tempest, bolt driver, etc) then customize from there. You wont have to build everything from a standard guass.

[WiteBeam]

I like the look of the NC weapons. I wonder if they are going to remake weapons like the Thumper or other SA varients or just stick with the grenade launcher attachments.