T-Ray Tweets New NC Asset (Wants our Feedback!)

[Redshift]

If it's a MAX arm then it looks ok, although the joystick is irrelevant then.
However if this is a HA weapon then it's going to be far to front heavy to realistically be usefull, to me it seems you'd need to shift weight backwards maybe slide the mag back, the front could do with loosing some bulk.
Is this suppose to be a gattling gun or is it supposed to fire all 6 barrels at once at a slower rof?

[TiberiusAudley]

Are those actually barrels? They look more like completely solid rods to me.

[Raymac]

It's definitely an MCG. Either the NC colors are a red herring, or NC are also getting an MCG. I think the latter is more likely. Give the NC a type of MCG with lower rate of fire and harder hitting, and give the TR a type of JH with higher rate of fire with lower damage. VS will just be playing with their rainbows, unicorns, and bunnies anyways.

[Bags]

I don't know if I'm too late to weigh in, but I think it'd look better with three barrels and no X.

Well, if the NC get an MCG there goes any reason for me to stay TR!

[Baron]

I've thought a little more about the "X" part of the model (and also had some coffee).

I'll stick by my original assessment that if this is the standard weapon template, then the "X" is out of place (like when the original NC command loaded the weapon template into the nanite creation machine, the only one they had was a busted metal plate so they quickly arc-welded an X to patch it? hmmm, doubt it)...so every single weapon pulled at any terminal would have a "X".

however, if that space is meant to be a custom graphic area then I could see someone putting an X, model #, outfit logo, or some other symbol they bought in the cash shop...this would make more sense.

[Marth Koopa]

I never liked the style of gun where you hold a handle jutting upwards, it just seems so uncomfortable, inefficient, and clunky.... just like the NC, so I guess it works perfectly.

[Gwartham]

If its a portable weap it sure would be clunky and awkward to use without a gyro/gimble/harness....

[morf]

Dear T-Ray:

Like everything else, this weapon would look much better in Red & Black.

Please fix.

[SKYeXile]

Originally Posted by T-Ray

yeah, i look at the "idea" behind the design, what was their thought process when they put it together? I like the exposed bits, that is VERY NC. I think I need to balance our design a bit with some rounded shapes or some more 45's

Yea, i like th idea of NC been all sQuares, but that gun is overdoing it.

[HELLFISH88]

This asset perplex's me. Multi-barred Gatling style weapons Scream Terran to me. While I'm not opposed to a "NC Style Gatling weapon" I would hope the Terran's receive some kind of crazy belt fed Auto-shotgun in return.



Think AA-12 but even faster and more Terran.

(Belt Fed, Drum fed...either kick ass IDC)

Also: T-Ray is bossing it up again. SOE might as well just cut him an additional check for Customer service aswell.

[Senyu]

Needs a splash of purple

[Tapman]

This gun makes me think of the Heavy from TF2, however I think that some of the confusion about it being too front-heavy might just be due to a perspective issue. TRay, can we get a front/top/profile picture with this one and perhaps a little more information from Higby about its functionality? I could come up with small modifications all day based on this image but I'm not even sure how each part affects it beyond the trigger, top handle, and the business end.

Just focusing on those, I would extend the shield up a little more to protect the handle, it is very exposed. I assume that the window on the bottom could be used for an iron-sights aiming system but the top/center of the barrel sticks way too far into the field of vision of that window. It would look weird for a solder to hold a heavy weapon up to his face with their arm cocked up overhead, will this machine gun be mountable on walls and rocks or only carried at the waist?

One thing that needs to be noted is the magnets, I will try to keep this simple. A railgun would not necessarily have true magnetic substances, the magnetic force would be generated in a circuit. If you coil part of your circuit evenly, running a current through it will create a magnetic force that is perfectly lined up at the center of the coil. The image below shows a small number of magnetic field lines but if you were to illustrate them, the closer towards the center you got the more accurate it would be for a longer distance.



I bring this up because the frame around the barrels looks HEAVY! The only reason for such bulk would be for essential circuitry, possibly actual magnetic substances, and to serve as armor for the barrels. Each barrel looks thick enough on their own that it could house a thick and long coil to generate a magnetic force powerful enough to accelerate a round through to a kill-velocity which actually turns out perfectly for our empire, the rate of fire will be much lower because it takes a short amount of time to go from zero to full power for each individual barrel and then back to zero so that the residual magnetic field wouldn't affect the next shot. I don't have a solution to keeping the connecting wires from being tangled up as the barrels rotate but that is much more easily explained away through the genius of NC corporate technology. What this allows you to do design-wise is to make the barrel frame thinner and more indicative of protecting the weapon which will help balance the weight issue many people have brought up.

[BorisBlade]

Originally Posted by Bags

Well, if the NC get an MCG there goes any reason for me to stay TR!

They said long ago that all empires will have access to common pool shotguns/mcg's. Doesnt mean that nc cant have their tripple barreled version in the JH, and the TR cant have a higer RoF + Larger Clip size MCG.

Now this makes me wonder what will be comin into play from the VS, and what exactly we will see as far as common pool variants of VS weapons. Energy weapons werent exactly common pool before. (aside from the cave junk)

[Bags]

Well if that's true, NC it is, because MCG is all the TR had going for them.

[HELLFISH88]

Originally Posted by Bags

Well if that's true, NC it is, because MCG is all the TR had going for them.

How do you not find the stryker sexy? Or The prowler?