In the image above you can see its sight picture, there is a UNSC type rail and sights on it. as well as two buttons. This would make the Weapon the second plasma weapon teh UNSC has made after the Rhino which was just stolen covenant ship plasma cannons put in a scorpion.
Now for why this is important, this weapon doesn’t seem to just be a plasma weapon but a mix of plasma and hard light, so it is a mix of all three main tech groups… which is really freaking cool.
Just sucks that the UNSC got great minds together to combine forerunner, covenant, and human tech… and they made a shotgun… I am disappointed not in the game it will be fun, but in the techs. Because lets face it yes that is the first thing humans do when they get a new type of firepower make a freaking shotgun. but still why.
In what sense is it underwhelming? You call it just a shotgun, but this is a weapon which has a horizontal and vertical firemode, as well as a bankshot mechanic. That’s pretty inventive to be honest, so I don’t understand what else you’d expect.
Anyway, hopefully it’s not UNSC but Forerunner. The prometheans are bound to be back at some point, and I’m fairly certain they’ll be in this game based on the sound effect samples we got from that Inside Infinite. If they are in the game and this is a UNSC weapon, it would be really odd to give this weapon to the UNSC instead of the Prometheans given that the latter still needs their own arsenal of unique weapons.
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> Because lets face it yes that is the first thing humans do when they get a new type of firepower make a freaking shotgun. but still why.
Had a good laugh at this haha! History wise when a new element or compound is discovered we turn it into a weapon of mass destruction (sarin gass/napalm WW1, nukes WW2). So sandbox wise i’m happy that’s its a hybrid shotty instead of a map clearing weapon.
I do think shotty isn’t the right description taking the “bankshot” clip into account, that was quite some range for that kill. So not saying it won’t be effective at close range but it seems to have quite a punch from mid range as well.
I’m curious if we will find some hybrid weaponry on the banished side of things as well.
