Goonhub
05-08-2017, 01:56 PM
I think tasers are fine as they are, security needs all the help they can get anyway.
Eguns are a little powerful but it's generally balanced out by them being fairly rare, and anything that makes the cap a bigger target is fine by me. The two roles that get them natively (cap and HOS) have no shortage of more powerful alternatives anyway.
I think most of the traitor guns are good,maybe the silenced .22 could use some work. It's not actually that good a stealth weapon, though it is balanced out by being fairly cheap and easy to acquire functionally infinite ammo for.
Phasers are decent anti-mob weapons, but I find them nearly useless as anti-personnel weapons - anyone being shot at with a phaser just buggers off to heal, and anyone too weakened to avoid being phasered to death could have been finished off in multiple other ways. I'm not sure if replacing them with lasers is the best idea, give how easily accessible they are. Maybe as a compromise the ones in the armory/orderable from QM could be full-fledged lasers, since those are in-theory sec only. Ideally I'd like to see a return of the phaser mods to distinguish the two.
I personally don't think zipguns explode enough, though that may be tempered by the fact that I most commonly see them in the hands of twitchy fingered vigilantes looking for an excuse to use them, often running around in an Indy suit to shrug off any explosions even if they occur. They certainly never seem to explode if you just use stun rounds from a manufacturer, which is really the only thing you need since everyone knows stuns are king.
Eguns are a little powerful but it's generally balanced out by them being fairly rare, and anything that makes the cap a bigger target is fine by me. The two roles that get them natively (cap and HOS) have no shortage of more powerful alternatives anyway.
I think most of the traitor guns are good,maybe the silenced .22 could use some work. It's not actually that good a stealth weapon, though it is balanced out by being fairly cheap and easy to acquire functionally infinite ammo for.
Phasers are decent anti-mob weapons, but I find them nearly useless as anti-personnel weapons - anyone being shot at with a phaser just buggers off to heal, and anyone too weakened to avoid being phasered to death could have been finished off in multiple other ways. I'm not sure if replacing them with lasers is the best idea, give how easily accessible they are. Maybe as a compromise the ones in the armory/orderable from QM could be full-fledged lasers, since those are in-theory sec only. Ideally I'd like to see a return of the phaser mods to distinguish the two.
I personally don't think zipguns explode enough, though that may be tempered by the fact that I most commonly see them in the hands of twitchy fingered vigilantes looking for an excuse to use them, often running around in an Indy suit to shrug off any explosions even if they occur. They certainly never seem to explode if you just use stun rounds from a manufacturer, which is really the only thing you need since everyone knows stuns are king.