How about a laser that gets stronger over time the more you focus a target with it? I don't mean the engineers little doohicky. I mean a laser cannon. Something with some kick and feedback. Also a version that doesn't get stronger, but expands it's AoE. Very Niche weapons, but useful in the right circumstance.
And maybe some more exotic weapons. At higher levels we get into alien weaponry. Bio-Mechanical weapons. A weapon that fires high velocity bone spears. This gun would be a semi auto or burst fire weapon that fires high damage impaling spears that either pierce enemies in a line or knock them back. A killing blow ragdolls and even pins them to walls.
In that same vein a harpoon tether. A gun that harpoons a target and you can either pull them in with the secondary fire or stake them to the ground by firing at another location while they're harpooned. This could even mean tethering 2 enemies together and watching them slam into each other as the tether retracts.
More traditional would be a rapid fire plasma cannon. Low damage small AoE blasts. Functions like an assault rifle but with higher damage and a small AoE in trade for travel time.
A sonic cannon that functions like a shotgun, with the exception that the blast wave dissipates completely after a short range but deals damage to everything caught in the blast.
A line of melee weapons. Earthshaker hammers that deal good AoE damage and Energy blades that have decent speed and cleave. Whips That can snare enemies and slow them down. Oh and Blast spears. Rocket powered spears that propel you forward for a devastating melee strike. Possibly even resulting in an explosive charge being detonated. I want melee weapons to be interesting and viable. Not like the ones in FF that were a total joke.
Satellite Cannon. Take a knee. Aim for a few seconds. Unleash hell.
Spiker. This one is functionally an assault rifle with very very fast travel time. Fires crystalline spikes rapidly. Why my obsession with impaling weapons? Shut up. Slightly Higher damage or possibly causes a bleed DoT
Swarm Cannon. Fires either a nanobot swarm or a biological swarm. This can either travel forward slowly dealing damage to anything caught in it's path or infect targets dealing a DoT both to the target and in a radius around them as the swarm... swarms. It's possible that if the target dies the swarm can spread a limited number of times or duration. For duration lets say by default it lasts 5 seconds. If the target dies in the first 3 seconds it spreads to all nearby targets for the remaining 2 seconds, possibly getting a 1 or half second duration increase. This turns a small AoE into a possible massive damage field. Useful on large groups of weaker enemies.
Can we get extra weeby for a second? Taking inspiration from Far Cry: Blood dragon we have a laser bow. It's a regular bow, but we painted it neon to make it futury. Silent, high damage, with bonus headshot damage over other weapons because logic and reasoning are abundant in this post.
Ballistic launcher. It's a grenade launcher. Except it fires bouncing betties. Laser bouncing betties. Because this is the future.
Drone launcher. This one deploys a hover drone for 1 minute or so. It shoots the bad guys. Give it some basic equipment. Hell make it customizable and equitable with basic weaponry. Lets say anything you could hold in your hand, but nothing equippable to the omni-bro
I went into this post only wanting to bring up the 2 laser cannons at the top. Then my brain vomited.
And maybe some more exotic weapons. At higher levels we get into alien weaponry. Bio-Mechanical weapons. A weapon that fires high velocity bone spears. This gun would be a semi auto or burst fire weapon that fires high damage impaling spears that either pierce enemies in a line or knock them back. A killing blow ragdolls and even pins them to walls.
In that same vein a harpoon tether. A gun that harpoons a target and you can either pull them in with the secondary fire or stake them to the ground by firing at another location while they're harpooned. This could even mean tethering 2 enemies together and watching them slam into each other as the tether retracts.
More traditional would be a rapid fire plasma cannon. Low damage small AoE blasts. Functions like an assault rifle but with higher damage and a small AoE in trade for travel time.
A sonic cannon that functions like a shotgun, with the exception that the blast wave dissipates completely after a short range but deals damage to everything caught in the blast.
A line of melee weapons. Earthshaker hammers that deal good AoE damage and Energy blades that have decent speed and cleave. Whips That can snare enemies and slow them down. Oh and Blast spears. Rocket powered spears that propel you forward for a devastating melee strike. Possibly even resulting in an explosive charge being detonated. I want melee weapons to be interesting and viable. Not like the ones in FF that were a total joke.
Satellite Cannon. Take a knee. Aim for a few seconds. Unleash hell.
Spiker. This one is functionally an assault rifle with very very fast travel time. Fires crystalline spikes rapidly. Why my obsession with impaling weapons? Shut up. Slightly Higher damage or possibly causes a bleed DoT
Swarm Cannon. Fires either a nanobot swarm or a biological swarm. This can either travel forward slowly dealing damage to anything caught in it's path or infect targets dealing a DoT both to the target and in a radius around them as the swarm... swarms. It's possible that if the target dies the swarm can spread a limited number of times or duration. For duration lets say by default it lasts 5 seconds. If the target dies in the first 3 seconds it spreads to all nearby targets for the remaining 2 seconds, possibly getting a 1 or half second duration increase. This turns a small AoE into a possible massive damage field. Useful on large groups of weaker enemies.
Can we get extra weeby for a second? Taking inspiration from Far Cry: Blood dragon we have a laser bow. It's a regular bow, but we painted it neon to make it futury. Silent, high damage, with bonus headshot damage over other weapons because logic and reasoning are abundant in this post.
Ballistic launcher. It's a grenade launcher. Except it fires bouncing betties. Laser bouncing betties. Because this is the future.
Drone launcher. This one deploys a hover drone for 1 minute or so. It shoots the bad guys. Give it some basic equipment. Hell make it customizable and equitable with basic weaponry. Lets say anything you could hold in your hand, but nothing equippable to the omni-bro
I went into this post only wanting to bring up the 2 laser cannons at the top. Then my brain vomited.
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