New Twitter pic: NC shotgun - Page 3

Justaman · 2012-01-04, 05:44 PM

Originally Posted by SuperMorto

And only VS get laser beams! hahahaha!

Our lasers will blot out the sun!

EASyEightyEight · 2012-01-04, 06:12 PM

Originally Posted by Justaman

Our lasers will blot out the sun!

Orly?

/tenchar

Crator · 2012-01-04, 06:13 PM

Originally Posted by acosmo

guys get whatever notion that weapons in PS2 will be anything like PS1 out of your head.
each side gets a chaingun each side gets a shotgun each side gets an assault rifle.

I'm confused. It says in the PS2 Info Thread that each empire will have 3 different empire specific Heavy Assault weapons. Unless the definition of that is different somehow from PS1 to PS2, I don't see how the above statement is true...

Knocky · 2012-01-04, 06:27 PM

Originally Posted by Justaman

Our lasers will blot out the sun!

Then we will fight in the shade!

EASyEightyEight · 2012-01-04, 06:48 PM

Originally Posted by Crator

I'm confused. It says in the PS2 Info Thread that each empire will have 3 different empire specific Heavy Assault weapons. Unless the definition of that is different somehow from PS1 to PS2, I don't see how the above statement is true...

Consider that the Gauss rifle, Cycler, and Pulsar constitute as 3 different empire specific Medium assault weapons and the Mag-scatter(?) repeater and beamer constitute as 3 different empire specific side-arms. Further, the Reaver, Mosquito, and the Scythe are 3 different empire specific aircraft, with the Vanguard, Prowler, and Mag-Rider being 3 different empire specific tanks.

At the very basic level, they're all the same tool serving the same purpose, just the default stats and quirks are skewed towards their own empire's tendencies: slow, power, armor = NC for example.

There's no reason to absolutely believe that means HA in PS2 will be 3 different mini-guns, but it doesn't necessarily mean we'll get the Jackhammer, MCG, and Lasher all over again. The Jackhammer is essentially a souped up sweeper anyway, arguably modified into with the sweeper as a base in PS2. You handle an mini-gun in a notably different way than you would a rifle however.

acosmo · 2012-01-04, 07:09 PM

Originally Posted by EASyEightyEight

There's no reason to absolutely believe that means HA in PS2 will be 3 different mini-guns

actually i do believe higby said they will be 3 different mini-guns.

Johari · 2012-01-04, 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by acosmo

actually i do believe higby said they will be 3 different mini-guns.

This does bring up a good point. Don't know if this was ever refuted or not but TRay was working on something along the lines of a HA NC minigun.

Anyone else remember this? It's in the PSU picture archives.

EASyEightyEight · 2012-01-04, 07:43 PM

Originally Posted by acosmo

actually i do believe higby said they will be 3 different mini-guns.

I don't recall any confirmation on that from Higby, just strongly hinted at by the example above, which is why I brought it up seemingly out of the blue in the first place.

I'm pretty convinced each empire will have their own MCG though. If there's a lasher, TR get a flamethrower, and I guess NC would get something akin to magnetic fields? Some kind of device that shatters rock would work wonderfully shattering armor and bone.

Coreldan · 2012-01-05, 04:14 AM

Originally Posted by Johari

This does bring up a good point. Don't know if this was ever refuted or not but TRay was working on something along the lines of a HA NC minigun.

Anyone else remember this? It's in the PSU picture archives.

Good thing to note about that was hexagonal things are not barrels, but magnets. That's gauss cannon to the max

I'm more expecting to see a slowish firing, but extremely heavy cannon of a sort.