I like the weapon customization idea from the guy above.
But when I think of weapon customization I think more along the lines of the weapon-pad glitch(or classic modding), just a more honed in. Now imagine having an option, click on an incineration cannon and you see an edit option. A list comes up;
-charge time=the amount of time it takes a weapon to charge and fire
-charge effect=the effect present when a weapon is charging; rail gun, incineration cannon, splaser, fuel rod, etc
-fire effect=editing the explosion at the end of the barrel; think of the fire that comes off of the AR
-fire color=editing the color of said explosion at the end of the barrel; changing the fire of the AR to black and red, blue and white, pink, etc
-ammo count=how much ammo does it have? Can be a one shot sniper or a ten shot rocket launcher.
-time between firing=the delay that happens after firing a weapon, think of the rail-gun vs. the whiplash
-bullet speed=how fast does the shot move, similar to the mythic SPNKR
-bullet type=what fires out the end of the gun? Want an AR with needles or a plasma rifle with fuel rods? Done!
-bullet color=Change the color of the bullets; like fuel rods becoming blue, or incineration cannon becoming red
-bullet effect=the effect the bullet causes, such as increasing shield or shielded damaged, EMP effect, super-combine, voids tear, etc
-bullet damage=the obvious one, how much damage per shot
-bullet count=how many shots per one bullet; scatter shot getting increased to 20 shots, or a BR that fires a triple burst of 6 instead of 3
-weapon skin=what skin does the weapon have, this option will allow us to get skins that are more universal to all weapons
-weapon skin color=change the color of these weapon skins
-powerup=what type of power up is added; Camo, damage boost, over-shield; etc
These customization weapons will be custom games only, and up to the discretion of 343 to permit into matchmaking, similar to the weapon pads. Now some might be thinking that this will never happen because it’ll take away from 343s req system, but what if this was the req system? Every month the community can vote on the top 3 favorite weapons submitted by members of waypoint (marine silver and above with appropriate amount of warzone played), a req level will be placed based on its power, and bam! Req weapons that people know they will love(at least the majority)
This way each monthly update can have less focus on new reqs and more focus on updating forge, this system, and new maps, then let the community have fun with their tools.
Wow this got big, wonder if I should’ve just made my own thread X3