Thank you for adding electricity based weapons to the game it’s been long over due but I hope they are made by the unsc
Electricity-based weapons? Where’s that shown? Seriously, I missed it?!
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> Electricity-based weapons? Where’s that shown? Seriously, I missed it?!
I believe it was a toy leak on Twitter.
Showed a weapon & name (can’t remember the name, the Shocker maybe?) People are assuming it’s some electrical based weapon. Yet to be confirmed of course.
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> Electricity-based weapons? Where’s that shown? Seriously, I missed it?!
I think the railgun from H5 would be the most closest electricity-based weapon more a magnetic weapon but yes
I guess I was imagining like a K-Volt from Crysis 2, or a Volt SMG from Titanfall 2.lol
But seriously, a weapon that slows/stuns, like the OG Plasma Rifle-if it doesn’t return as it was depicted in Combat Evolved-would be a nice welcome to the sandbox and open up some good weapon combos.
It should be called: Why 343
Energy UNSC Weapons completely ruins the idea of a Covenant-exclusive weapon type.
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> I think the railgun from H5 would be the most closest electricity-based weapon more a magnetic weapon but yes
No, it would be the Splaser.
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> Thank you for adding electricity based weapons to the game it’s been long over due but I hope they are made by the unsc
So are we all just gonna ignore the entire (excluding needle weapons) Covenant Arsenal
and don’t even think about saying “it’s plasma not energy” because it’s the exact same concept.
There’s a stun grenade and a shock rifle. I have been wanting a lightning gun for years in halo and I guess I want it to be a unsc thing as the banished and the covenant seem to get all the energy based weapons it would be nice to see this be a unsc thing as electricity would be well within our technology abilities
Not sure how I feel about them yet personally, but there may be a place in the sandbox for them. Guess we’ll just wait and see. Not subject changing but what I hope we do see, is less burst fire weapons. I would say only the BR and maybe one more gun. Just my thoughts.
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> Electricity-based weapons? Where’s that shown? Seriously, I missed it?!
In the gameplay trailer (not demo) there is an electric throwable weapon, that stun multible nearby enemies and bounce between them kinda, check it out
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> In the gameplay trailer (not demo) there is an electric throwable weapon, that stun multible nearby enemies and bounce between them kinda, check it out
Oh yeah, it was like an AoE stun grenade. I remember seeing that now.
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> > Electricity-based weapons? Where’s that shown? Seriously, I missed it?!
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> I believe it was a toy leak on Twitter.
> Showed a weapon & name (can’t remember the name, the Shocker maybe?) People are assuming it’s some electrical based weapon. Yet to be confirmed of course.
well theres an electric grenade
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> There’s a stun grenade and a shock rifle. I have been wanting a lightning gun for years in halo and I guess I want it to be a unsc thing as the banished and the covenant seem to get all the energy based weapons it would be nice to see this be a unsc thing as electricity would be well within our technology abilities
Energy weapons do not fit in my halo mind. Plasma, sure. Absolutely. But energy? Just doesn’t fit with Halo.
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> There’s a stun grenade and a shock rifle. I have been wanting a lightning gun for years in halo and I guess I want it to be a unsc thing as the banished and the covenant seem to get all the energy based weapons it would be nice to see this be a unsc thing as electricity would be well within our technology abilities
I mean, one of the trailers for Infinite (cannot remember which one) did show some kind of stun grenade being used…
In halo spartan Assualt there is a stun grenade that looks similar and its a unsc weapon. Maybe this is where it comes from
I think the idea of some Human energy (electricity or otherwise) weapons outside of the Splaser makes sense from a lore perspective. In the postwar era it makes a lot of sense that the UNSC would try to ramp up R&D and take inspiration from the proven-effective Covenant energy arsenal. Putting an electric spin on that basic concept is cool.
People expressing concerns that such weapons will be redundant when featured alongside classic Covenant plasma weapons have a valid concern; obviously, the Promethian weapons were practically just reskinned and minimally modified UNSC armament, sometimes tweaked just to make them “more powerful,” (Incineration Cannon and Binary Rifle) or effective at different ranges/firing rates (Suppressor and Lightrifle).
If 343i puts electric human weapons in Infinite, but they don’t appreciably differ in utility from the Covenant weapons that presumably inspired them, that’ll just be a muddied mess of redundancy in the sandbox. If, however, they do serve a different and unique niche in combat, they’ll have a place. I think this is just one of those things we’ll really have to wait and see about. It could go either way.
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> > Thank you for adding electricity based weapons to the game it’s been long over due but I hope they are made by the unsc
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> So are we all just gonna ignore the entire (excluding needle weapons) Covenant Arsenal
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> and don’t even think about saying “it’s plasma not energy” because it’s the exact same concept.
The UNSC flamethrower is also a plasma weapon.
What’s important is if the lightning gun will have a nice aesthetic that’s unmistakenly of human design and functions in a unique way; we dont need a focus rifle copycat.
Stun grenade and shock rifle are cool, and I wonder how they will factor into the multiplayer.