Plasma Whip

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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The Plasma Whip can deliver two unique melee attacks. Tapping the fire button performs a longer range overhand whip strike with a very small area of effect. Tapping the melee button performs a shorter range sidearm whip swipe with a wide area of effect.

All whip attacks drain exactly one shield layer from the target so it kills a fully shielded player in 2 hits. All whip attacks transfer 50% of the target’s shields into the user’s shields on impact. Shield vampirism can only charge the user to a full default shield layer, not into Overshield layers.

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Your shotgun comparison is kinda throwing me off the point. Just state the idea.

I don’t think it’s a bad one either. Very interesting weapon design. Perhaps you could build up energy inside the weapon, and then choose to either take it for yourself or deliver it to an ally via whip-strike?

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It looks to me like the Covenant has the technology, so there’s the canon out of the way.