Makeshift weapons

[Vuk Farkas]

an air-powered gun is ok too. flamethrowers take air/oxy tanks for propellant already, it would just be applying it to brute projectiles rather than fire/chems. but what could it use for ammunition, if not just rods again? let it accept various small objects and simply act as a powered-up throw? maybe shooting glass/crystal shards of various types could be its forte

it could be recharged from canisters and perhaps also cranked/pumped manually, but of course it shouldnt gain any pressure if you start pumping it in an airless environment

yes self pumping ones would be indeed nice (so we dont waste precious air from canisters) however why stick to rods? like i said before we could craft ammo for it from metal sheets (balls as bullets), we could also scrap up a version of captains lasergun, that has easily replacable cells, but would owerheat from constant use or bad materials (so in other words, a player would have to craft the parts from materials to fit his playstyle, to balance between usability and cooling, higher the dmg and fire rate, faster it heats up, but the more the materials are effective at cooling, the less are they effective at other things) this would give the workbench (or whatever the name is) some more use, and to mining too (so far almoust no one is bothering with the captains lasergun, and the only use for mining is to gather materials for machines, and MAYBE cells if anyone bothers to make borgs, let alone upgrade them)
Another thing is ... yanno those flashes that can be rigged with a powercell to burn people? their lightbulbs should be replacable, they should be mergable with other things (so we can make flash-mines that activate by signal or proximity, setting anyone on fire who is next to them, or in whose inventory they are) they could be also part of a makeshift laser gun, we could make the makeshift lasergun also have a chance to malfunction so it needs repairs (like new cell, or bulb, or wires, things that are not too hard to obtain) and with a chance to burn the hand of the user when it malfunctions. We could also make some sort of a portable recharger to charge tools/weapons, which can charge from APCs (or charge them), be charged manually by cranking, and when upgraded would slowly charge itself owertime when not used (ofc provided it has its own cell to hold the charge in, otherwise when tool or weapon need charging the player would need to either crank it or use the APCs, but if it has its own cell, it would easily and quickly recharge from its reserves whatever is connected to it to be charged) This way engineers could give enough juice to APCs to at least get the lights going, security and miners could charge their tools/weapons on the field, even borgs who ran outta juice could be charged this way!