Okay, so this thread has been created to here everyone’s opinions on this idea.
Some of you may have seen the new Hybrid weaponry drop a couple of months ago or something. Well I love these weapons but I feel the UNSC could take it one step further. What if they developed Plasma Coated rounds for their weapons. Why would this be good? Well plasma is an effective shield breaker, perfect for Warzone. Let me try explain how it would work and be balanced. Lets say its a level 4-6 default req for the Plasma Coated variants, this means it can’t be used straight away to annihilate the opponent. Lets look at each weapon in detail:
Plasma AR: Shoots Plasma coated projectiles that deal 1.25x as much damage to shielded opponents. It has a slightly lower rate of fire to compensate for its power.
Plasma Magnum: The Plasma Magnum should have 2 less bullets to compensate for its massive shield breaking power. Maybe it could have a charge shot where it can be used to emp vehicles and enemies, it should not lock on to targets. Either hold RT or enable the EMP when using Smart Scope.
Plasma BR: The Plasma BR should be a two shot shield breaker, so potentially a three shot kill. It should have a slightly slower rate of fire to compensate for its power.
Ideas for DMR and SMG variants leave bellow:
Dmr: much slower rate of fire, 2 shot shield disabled, 2 body shot kill, 1 for head. Half magazine
SMG: on par with storm rifle, same ROF but slightly less damage. Slightly reduced magazine
Whilst cool it doesn’t fit in with the loudout system, where the changes to each weapon are minor and don’t affect its time to kill. If you where to change them that much they would have to be single use REQs which is just messy if they still used the base models.
Frankly we already have a tonne of weapons so I don’t really see the need for buffed loudout weapons, where just putting a damage boost on does the same.
You don’t need to change any thing about the weapon if it had a plasma upgrade cause it would be weaker against prometheans and that would be its balance
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> Whilst cool it doesn’t fit in with the loudout system, where the changes to each weapon are minor and don’t affect its time to kill. If you where to change them that much they would have to be single use REQs which is just messy if they still used the base models.
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> Frankly we already have a tonne of weapons so I don’t really see the need for buffed loudout weapons, where just putting a damage boost on does the same.
This is an interesting point, however one has to consider that some players will use a silencer that de-buffs the guns damage, this actually reduces “its time to kill”. Furthermore Kinetic Bolts increase “time to kill” against vehicle based enemies. Although this idea was more of a Firefight request, I have to say i disagree with you my fellow Spartan and i feel it would fit the game and Warzone nicely.
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> > Whilst cool it doesn’t fit in with the loudout system, where the changes to each weapon are minor and don’t affect its time to kill. If you where to change them that much they would have to be single use REQs which is just messy if they still used the base models.
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> > Frankly we already have a tonne of weapons so I don’t really see the need for buffed loudout weapons, where just putting a damage boost on does the same.
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> This is an interesting point, however one has to consider that some players will use a silencer that de-buffs the guns damage, this actually reduces “its time to kill”. Furthermore Kinetic Bolts increase “time to kill” against vehicle based enemies. Although this idea was more of a Firefight request, I have to say i disagree with you my fellow Spartan and i feel it would fit the game and Warzone nicely.
Okay okay, hold the hell up.
Silencers do not decrease damage. In addition, Kinetic Bolts decrease the time to kill against vehicle based foes.
Now, regarding the OP- hell yes I would like stuff like this. Some kind of honest to god modification would be utterly fantastic.
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> > This is an interesting point, however one has to consider that some players will use a silencer that de-buffs the guns damage, this actually reduces “its time to kill”. Furthermore Kinetic Bolts increase “time to kill” against vehicle based enemies. Although this idea was more of a Firefight request, I have to say i disagree with you my fellow Spartan and i feel it would fit the game and Warzone nicely.
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> Silencers do not decrease damage. In addition, Kinetic Bolts decrease the time to kill against vehicle based foes.
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> Now, regarding the OP- hell yes I would like stuff like this. Some kind of honest to god modification would be utterly fantastic.
Hold the hell up? sorry mate I messed up haha, I typed it out wrong with Kinetic Bolts, and I don’t use silencers so it was just an assumption that it would reduce damage like most other FPS games. But it is nice to see that you agree somewhat with the prospect of plasma enhanced UNSC weaponry.
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> Dmr: much slower rate of fire, 2 shot shield disabled, 2 body shot kill, 1 for head. Half magazine
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> SMG: on par with storm rifle, same ROF but slightly less damage. Slightly reduced magazine
What about a storm rifle that fires bullets? like a mini gun haha
Even though this would be a great idea, it would cause problems canon wise like how the UNSC is now hiring companies to make weapons that could seriously damage a person to the point they can’t be revived or helped from their injuries and would make the UEG and the UNSC look like criminals because plasma does serious damage and the only to restore the person back to the way they were is by successfully cloning their original part that was burned. The only person I’ve known lore wise for being able to clone people is Dr.Catherine Halsey.
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> Even though this would be a great idea, it would cause problems canon wise like how the UNSC is now hiring companies to make weapons that could seriously damage a person to the point they can’t be revived or helped from their injuries and would make the UEG and the UNSC look like criminals because plasma does serious damage and the only to restore the person back to the way they were is by successfully cloning their original part that was burned. The only person I’ve known lore wise for being able to clone people is Dr.Catherine Halsey.
Maybe UNSC have Covenant targets in mind when this experiment comes about?
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> > Even though this would be a great idea, it would cause problems canon wise like how the UNSC is now hiring companies to make weapons that could seriously damage a person to the point they can’t be revived or helped from their injuries and would make the UEG and the UNSC look like criminals because plasma does serious damage and the only to restore the person back to the way they were is by successfully cloning their original part that was burned. The only person I’ve known lore wise for being able to clone people is Dr.Catherine Halsey.
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> Maybe UNSC have Covenant targets in mind when this experiment comes about?
Maybe as a War Game only item then sure. I mean they literally made the pizza and fries skin just War Games.
If they ever decided to add anything similar to this, it’d likely be a “high caliber” variant with more damage overall, but lower rate of fire, magazine size, and higher REQ level. It might even be good enough to make it a level 8 REQ.