Malo-Avaliite Weapons Corporation (MAWC or MWC)

[cobalt bronze]

Malo-Avaliite Weapons Corporation (or shortened simply the MAWC, bearing the IFF MWC) is, you guessed it, a Weapons Corporation.

Origin
Based originaly as a Gorlex Subsidiary during the time of the corporate wars under a different banner, the old corporation was reformed into a new, similarly violent subdivision, now promoted to full corporation. Taking from existing syndicate designs, the MAWC would refine and upgrade the old guns, creating a focus on self-recharging ballistic weaponry using a reverse engineered ammo feed system derived from Cybersun's Anaconda, and applying it to larger weapons like the C-20r SMG, and other weapons platforms.

Despite promising outcomes and heavy industry spending on infrastructure to manufacture effective weapons and armor... nobody actually wanted to buy the self-recharging gear and improved bloodreds in the first place (in part due to terrible public outlook and awful ad campaigns that sunk more money than they gained). So they turned to the next best method: making their own customers!

Doctrine/Motives
MAWC Employees are expected to sell goods by any means possible. Whatever they sell and how they get the money doesnt matter, only that they sell their desired product and a customer leaves with one more crate on their ship. When referring to "any means possible", the corporation WILL try to sell to you if you reject. The only way out otherwise is Death, or forfeiting ship modules to let them resell, and hand you over the crate anyways.

(Cont.)
Navy
Typical MAWC vessels are hybrid cargo-combat warships, designed to carry a lot of things and deliver equal grade punishment to their enemies, should they be provoked, or should an employee feel the need to "tax" a civilian for extra profits. MAWC warships follow a broadside-heavy weapons arrangement, with few ships focusing on frontal firepower unless they are small. Most MAWC ships prioritize heavy armor and high firepower, so their thrust is lacking, yet well protected, as most designs attempt to incorporate some form of internal thrust, leaving as little exposed thrust as possible behind.

Capital
the Heart of MAWC operations lies in their mobile flagship, the Tartarus, a massive, broadsider focused battleship that could rival Halcyon, and acts as a Mobile equivalent to the Camelot Station of USSP., with docks centered on the rear, with its thrust inside the hull.

theoretical corpo

will work on equipment later

currently tired and need to refine this as well

[cobalt bronze]

list of equipment:
Modified c20r (assault)
Modified anaconda (secondary)
Modified Burner (sniper/heavy)
Upgraded bloodred (gives user an armblade ability, protects slightly more than base)
Upgraded elite (comes with special 50% reflective shield, similar stats to elite otherwise)
Smart bullet grenade

Things to get mapped:
Light combat hauler
Medium combat hauler
Heavy combat hauler
Combat support ship
ACTUAL hauler with hidden weapons inside
Tartarus flagship

[fluid dock]

this is just stronger equipment

Give it pros and cons

[cobalt bronze]

ive been thinking on those

need to write em down though

upsides and downsides to using MAWC weaponry...

[cobalt bronze]

MAWC Gimmick: Self regenerating ammo
All MAWC weapons come with regenerative ammo mags. Depending on caliber, the weapon reloads faster or slower. Magazines are unremovable for all MAWC weapons, and depleting the ammo will cause the weapon to beep audibly 3 times, before entering a reload cooldown for 5 seconds. Once the cooldown expires, the weapon regenerates ammo as normal.

MAWC C-20r Upsides and downsides
upsides
-Infinite ammo
-Better handling, accuracy, and one-hand capability
downsides
-Cannot quick reload
-Magazine regenerates ammunition slower than the anaconda does, and weapon cannot fire until 5 rounds are regenerated once emptied
-LOUD
-Takes up a 2x4 bag space

MAWC Anaconda upsides and downsides
upsides
-Slight AP (like a hawk)
-Faster firerate
-5 more piercing damage
downsides
-Projects a laser, revealing you.
-Regenerates ammo much slower than the normal anaconda.
-Pistol takes up a 2x3 instead of the normal space
-Slower projectiles

MAWC Burner upsides and downsides
upsides
-Infinite ammo economy
-Fires faster
-Higher structural, additional AP effect
Downsides
-Slows the wielder
-Slowest ammo regen
-Reduced AP effect
-LOUD reload and fire
-Cannot be quick reloaded
-Cannot use HE ammo

MAWC Bloodred (compared to syndicate bloodred)
-Has 4% less slowdown compared to normal (6% slow)
-Has 15% more piercing, heat and radiation resist
-Has 20% less slash, blunt and caustic resist.
-Poor stamina resistance
-Poor explosion resistance
-Comes with thermal pulse and Sechud capability
-Built in armblade weapon for melee engagements

MAWC Elite suit (stats compare to CV-32)
-No slowdown
-Comes with a shield that can reflect bullets hitting the user with a 50% chance
-Has 10% more piercing resistance, 20% more heat resist, 100% rad resistance.
-Has 10% less blunt, slash and caustic resist.
-Shield is weaker compared to normal, can deflect 5-8 hits maximum before going down.
-Poor stamina resistance
-Poor explosive resistance
-Comes with NVG and medhud capability.

stats may be changed

[visual gorge]

i like the abbreviation a lot

[cobalt bronze]

2/3 MAWC weapons done

[pearl belfry]

The armor is still very strong and is generally just a better blood red

[pearl belfry]

Reasoning is
Most times you're fighting other players you're using bullets
So you won't find the 10% less slash and blunt very limiting

15% more piercing resistance is crazy
Especially if you're saying that's on the main armor

And explosions will probably kill you even if you have 80% explosion resistance

[pearl belfry]

Also how would you normally acquire this kind of gear?
Somewhat something similar to the amount of effort you need for blood red Gear?

[cobalt bronze]

its company tech, its researchable like the Ullman stuff is

and Ullman suits are already comparable to or above bloodreds in performance

[narrow apex]

There is a downside though, they are only really comparable if the shield is up

Otherwise they rank more around a war lord

[pearl belfry]

I don't know I always thought
That like researched gear shouldn't be above in tier then scavenged and or currency bought gear

But honestly I'm not against the idea of research items being stronger

[pearl belfry]

Or equal

[cobalt bronze]

its researched gear, it should be better than scavenged gear

bloodreds are only as good as they are because they're scarce (Syndicate relics) and the PDV can print them dime a dozen anyways

[cobalt bronze]

enforcer mk1 has near bloodred/scaf stats for less slowdown, enforcer mk2 is a warlord with the elite suit shield

[narrow apex]

Damn okay

I thought mark 1 was just mark 2 without the shield

[cobalt bronze]

RD suit is admeme only, and engi suit is basically just the sapper with actual armor. Pilot hardsuit is bleh.

just there for the pilot larp

[cobalt bronze]

all MAWC guns done

at least, until I get ideas for more

[cobalt bronze]

MAWC gun sprites all done

[fluid dock]

what is this

[pearl belfry]

It's sad 😢

[cobalt bronze]

perspective rotation distortion

I was admittedly feeling a bit lazy about it, but I also didn't just want to copy the burner backsprite which made the gun look smaller than it did

also haven't posted

hardsuits

[cobalt bronze]

suits redone

[fluid dock]

Those are a lot better

[cobalt bronze]

MAWC weapons, compared to their originals

[narrow apex]

I can get behind anaconda and c20

Though burner

I don’t think anyone but PDV should have access to that

Espically a self reloading one

[trim nova]

This looks good

[fluid dock]

Could use some more prominent outlines on the white parts

[cobalt bronze]

MAWC guns, starting with the heaviest and going down to lightest

Name scheme is as follows
M (Company tag, MAWC)
AW = Assault Weapon
HW = Heavy Weapon
DW = Defense Weapon
Number corresponds to the last 2 digits in the weapon's serial tag.

M-HW34 "Bulkhead"
Self regenerating radically upgraded burner, fires higher velocity 50.cal rounds with high structural and piercing damage. Half of the piercing damage is heat damage.

60 struct, 40 damage per round, 20 pierce, 20 heat. 20 round magazine, but slowest reload rate out of all MAWC weapons. Loudest and hardest hitter, and the most expensive to create. Projectiles fly faster than the normal burner's 50 BMG ammo. Can ONLY fire its AP projectiles.

M-AW44 "Hammerhead"
Self reloading plasma-infused shotgun, radically upgraded from the "Bulldog" weapon design. Fires rounds that ignite the target. Primarily heat damaged based over piercing damage due to firing incendiaries.

Each pellet does 15 damage, 10 heat and 5 piercing. Each burst fires 7 pellets. Each pellet ignites the target.
12 round magazine, regenerates at a slower pace than the anaconda, but just enough to allow consistent firing. Loud, dangerous, and versatile. Comes with semi and full auto modes for user convenience.

M-AW46 "Nailhead"
Self regenerating radically modified CS C-20r Machine gun, with specialized one-handed capabilities for ease of use and synergy in combat. Encouraged to be used aggressively, in close quarters.

Has improved bullet spread, projectile speed, and firerate.
Each projectile does 28 damage, 14 pierce and 14 heat.
The weapon retains accuracy with one hand, not wieldable.
Regenerates faster than the anaconda, but if the ammo reserve is depleted, it will beep 3 times, and then enter an 8 second reload cooldown before beginning to regenerate its ammo.

M-DW77 "Blink"
Self regenerating modified Anaconda design. Simple, to the point, and effective. Higher projectile velocity than its parent design, and partial heat damage.

Equal stats to the anaconda, but otherwise has faster projectiles.
Each shot does 25 damage. 15 pierce, 10 heat.
If ammo reserve is depleted, the weapon will beep 3 times, and then enter an 8 second reload cooldown before regenerating ammo again.

[cobalt bronze]

MAWC Hardsuits....

I could make more maybe

Engi suit first

Then pilot

[untold island]

Besides the fact these are basically better faction gear, they look great

[cobalt bronze]

MAWC Hardsuits time

M-LS1 "Spy"
Standard EVA Wear for assassins and pilots within MAWC control. Also doubles as a civilian grade EVA suit, sold on the market for cheap with above average performance to most softsuits.

Special MAWC upgrades give it a stealth field, which replicates the function of the old syndicate stealthsuit. Covering the suit is a layer of projectors enabling a chameleon-esque function powered by the thin back core on the suit.

20% resists across the board, 33% piercing resist. When the stealth is on, all resists become negative.
Built in weldprot, and flashprot. Comes with NVG.

M-HS4 "Brute"
Heavy combat grade Engineering suit, designed with utilities and carrying heavy loads in mind. The suit is assisted by a basic exoskeleton built into the suit, which weighs the wearer down, but allows the wearer to carry far heavier objects much more easily, and also doubles as a hydraulic weapon capable of shattering skulls. Plating is thick and designed for extreme conditions, and is unintentionally also somewhat decent at combat protection.

45% resists across the board, 100% for rad protection, 60% for heat protection.
Suit slows the user by 20%
Removes slowdown penalty from pulling objects, reduces time to pick up and carry others, increases throw strength by double.
Grants the wearer a slow wideswing punch that does 35 damage and knocks the impacted target back.
Comes with weldprot, flashprot, T-Ray, and nightvision.

M-AS6 "Viper"
Standard combat tacsuit of the MAWC. Infamous for its shield strength, mobility, and built-in vicious armblade, capable of chopping limbs. Iterated on over years of combat training, and designed to work in tandem with Support Suits, this hardsuit isn't the greatest on its own, but performs beautifully while in a team.

40% resists across the board, 55% for piercing. 30% caustic and radiation resist.
No slowdown.
Suit has a shield, which, when raised, provides 70% flat resists across the board, and slows the user by 10%
This suit cannot activate its shield by itself, requiring external factors.
Grants an ability which enables the user to create an energy blade, which takes up one hand and is clearly visible.
Energy blade deals 20 heat, 20 slash, 5 pierce per swing.
Energy blade has the same reflect chance and swing speed as an Energy sword.
Has NVG's, Thermals, Sechud and flashprot.

M-SS8 "Bulwark"
Heavy suit with a built in radar electronics package, capable of monitoring entire battlefields on the ground. Slow, bulky, and highly armored, with a shield to boot. Capable of activating the shields of Assault suits whenever it turns on its own.
Designed for backline command and support, while also allowing commanders to enter the field, this suit is designed to benefit Assault Suits, activating shields and providing coordination.

60% resists across the board, 45% for piercing and heat.
This suit slows the wearer by 20%.
This suit has a shield, which, when active, provides 80% resistances across the board, and slows the wearer by 10%.
Whenever this suits shield activates, any nearby "Viper" hardsuits will also enable their shield.
Provides slightly extended zoom and view range. Has NVG, Thermals, medhud, sechud, weldprot, and flashprot. Thermal pulses last twice as long.

[cobalt bronze]

feeling loreful

[cobalt bronze]

working on hydra compatibility

[pearl belfry]

Holy shit that's so many benefits

[pearl belfry]

And an inbuilt energy sword
At this point just make energy swords civilian Tech

[cobalt bronze]

ideas for melee weapons hmm

hardlight spear first

[fluid dock]

he who does not know balancing

[cobalt bronze]

me when I spitball numbers instead of having a proper baseline to balance from

this is high tier research anyways

[fluid dock]

“Proper baseline” is faction tech for companies

[cobalt bronze]

so company tech is faction tier roughly

like how Ullman has pseudo-elite suits from PDV and bloodreds of their own

350k research for MAWC stuff....

what if i just sprite enough gear to justify forcing their tech onto a special RD server and a separate faction tree

[fluid dock]

Nope

[cobalt bronze]

fair

[fluid dock]

Try putting it in first

[barren vessel]

They would NOT have a battleship the size of halc 💔

You have to think about the consequences of the corporate war

Government bodies wouldn’t allow corporations to have assets that powerful.

[cobalt bronze]

they operate in a nomadic fashion because their permanent facilities were all destroyed during the corporate war, and the general reputation after it that they had was not the greatest since people would just keep attacking them when they tried to stake claims, and government forces neutering their attempts to grow as you said.

[barren vessel]

but as an example the confederation hunted down and decommissioned remnants of syndicate vessels due to the fear of the corporate power rebuilding - actively sending naval forces to purge whatever they could find

[cobalt bronze]

its at the very least a fragment of what they used to be, and the one thing they value most, since its basically their mobile command center.

[barren vessel]

It wouldn’t rival halcyon though

[cobalt bronze]

maybe not outgun

but it would serve similar purposes to the halc of today

a mobile FOB

[narrow apex]

This is slowly becoming more and more just a seperate faction then a company

[fluid dock]

it just isn’t thought out in a balanced fashion

[cobalt bronze]

im just spitballing numbers still because I dont have a baseline i can edit on the fly and check if it feels good

[fluid dock]

lmao look at faction gear

If you need a real baseline try opening up your IDE and looking at what different gears have

[chilly orbit]

i mean maybe it could just have a ton of bofors as a long range artilary hub bofors cant really outgun a frontal attack but can definitly provide some insane levels of fire support

requiring support ships to function as a propper mobile combat base

[cobalt bronze]

bofor range is 1.8km and it would ideally have a set of hades on either side for actual artillery combat

[chilly orbit]

yeah but that wouuld put it on par with stations

or just make it

able to just murder halcyon

from a distance

[cobalt bronze]

yea with the hades

[chilly orbit]

the current hades ships pdv has acess to

is 1 hades

on a sainte

[cobalt bronze]

ok but TSF gets four of them on one voucher ship

[chilly orbit]

very intentionally would take actual centuries or 4 saintes to do any real damage

[chilly orbit]

yeah and helio has 3.5 k range to fight back

so with its shield

you cant fight it

even with flyssa

scince helio has hades

[cobalt bronze]

helios gets like, 8 across its hull

plus 6 thanatos

its not comparable at all

[chilly orbit]

yeah

[cobalt bronze]

and halcy rework is going to be even more upgunned anyways

[chilly orbit]

iether way stationary bases still probably going to outgun halcyon

[cobalt bronze]

MAWC flagship could have like 4 hades and 4 cyrexas and it would just be a fancier camelot firepower wise

[chilly orbit]

i mean maybe? i just think bofors would suit it better especially for a mobile ship

asuming your giving it other ships

cause giving it the ability to totally defend itself against entire factions is not really the goal here

it should be able to fight off invasions from them but only with ships to support..

[cobalt bronze]

camelot can fend off literal faction invasions on its own rn out of the virtue of the fact that it has thanatos carrying it hard

struggles against wyverns and flyssa but eviscerates anything else

[chilly orbit]

i mean yeah and its stationary

and its a old military fortress

from a massssive faction

[cobalt bronze]

what used to be USSP

now turned merc central

[untold island]

USSP used to be direct TSF counterpart

[chilly orbit]

yeah

[untold island]

So the remnants being able to match TSF to a degree makes sense

[chilly orbit]

but uhh

the reason im trying to retcon the firepower as a whole is

i dont think the maints want a third major faction

from a company

and i WANT this to get in

i just dont want it to be shot down due to dumb things and then stereotyped

[untold island]

That and companies are in sector, whereas TSF is a galactic power backing in sector operations

I dont know what the pdv is, i havnt read any of its lore yet

[chilly orbit]

gruhhhh ok this is kinda fair cause our lore is a bit scattered rn

[untold island]

Im just assuming its powerscaling incarnate

[chilly orbit]

as in

most people will just send you to #1388798368771342438

but thats juts

ltierally a discusion between exactly none of the people actually responsible for its lore

[untold island]

So peak

Anyway off topic for this, id recommend it being flyssa level at most for a company flagship

[cobalt bronze]

true

flyssa tier with like 2 hades per side as main batteries and 4 or more bofors along its hull

[untold island]

Something along those lines

[cobalt bronze]

if it ever does get made

which it will one day

the basic layout i have in mind for it

[untold island]

Amogus

[cobalt bronze]

6 bofors 2 hades build, forgoes all the other guns flyssa might have for 20mm and 57mm

hades are packed in one vulnerable spot so you can knock out its main firepower

power is above the bridge, med to the left and sci to the right, cargo at the bottom (so its easy to get in and seize control in the first place)

blue areas are just spots civs can do shenanigans in/buy MAWC vessels at

[chilly orbit]

the flyssa reowrk is like

already PRed no?

like its basically done

[cobalt bronze]

waiting review and merge

same with saturn

[cobalt bronze]

hmm I suddenly feel like making a hooded/cult style hardsuit for medical MAWC units....

https://tenor.com/view/warhammer-gif-19055033

[cobalt bronze]

lemme gather screens of everything real quick

all guns and blades

all suits (pilot/combat/support/engi)

@fluid dock current MAWC gear and stuff

is this enough to get them approved for now?

ships and such can be mapped later, rn they need their items coded in and their balancing tweaked to feel right for a late stage merc tech

im gonna get their flavor items done maybe tommorow (jumpsuits and masks)

I need to sleeepp

[barren vessel]

company tech*

silly

company tech can be the same as factions kinda like ullman but will be ridiculously expensive

i wonder if we will ever get company specific servers.

hm

[true sinew]

this reminds me of avali weapons

[trim nova]

it really looks like them

[fluid dock]

sprites != content, make a PR adding the guns

[cobalt bronze]

I need to learn how to yaml aagh

[cobalt bronze]

posting sprites to help with devving for myself

[cobalt bronze]

part 2

[cobalt bronze]

wrote down notes

RANGED

• all guns have higher bullet velocity and improved spread compared to their non-recharging counterparts
• all guns regenerate ammo
• all guns deal half/a third of their piercing damage as heat, so blink does 15 pierce and 10 heat for example
• • Breacher has reduced damage but fires incendiaries
• hailstorm regenerates its ammo the fastest (0.4s reload), warhead regenerates the slowest (8s reload), breacher and blink anywhere inbetween
• warhead has highest bullet velocity
  MELEE
• Sear has same reflect and slightly higher damage than edagger, but quickest attack speed
• Sharkminnow has the highest slash and heat damage, but can only hit a target 6 times before needing to recharge for 7s
• MAWC Spy and Assault both posess an energy armblade which does hefty slash, piercing and heat damage, but can only be swung 3 times before recharging
  ARMOR
• Bulkhead support has raidsuit resists (65%) across the board, with 20% slowdown
• Viper assault has bloodred resists (50-55%) with 8% slowdown
• Brute engi has elite suit resists (40%-80%, 100% rad resist)
• Spy softsuit has merc hardsuit resists (33%)
• All hardsuits have NVG, Weldprot, and sechud
• • Viper and Bulkhead have medhud and flashprot
• • Bulkhead has constant thermals instead of night vision
• Bulkhead hardsuit possesses a shield
• Viper hardsuit possesses a shield
• • This shield cannot be activated until multitool linked to a Bulkhead support suit, which remotely raises the shield for the assault suit
• Bulkhead shield has 70% resists and slows the wearer by 30%
• Viper shield has 65% resists and slows the wearer by 5%
• Bulkhead engi suit removes pull slowdown penalty while worn
• Spy softsuit is roundstart, or the cheap research precursor to every suit

RESEARCH

• Basic Outfit (jumpsuit, shoes, gloves, mask), Spy softsuit obtainable in loadout
• • If not roundstart for the softsuit, then its the precursor to researching every hardsuit, comes before SCAF tech.
• Suits require Super Parts tech, SCAF tech, Nightvision/Thermal tech, Advanced tools tech, and Advanced energy weapons research prerequisites.
• • Incendiary ammo, Material research 3, and Plasteel Core ammunition are additional research prerequisites.
    -Warhead in independent research for 255k points
• • Requires all MAWC guns to be researched + late stage merc guns
• Bulwark in independent research for 225k points
• • Requires prerequisite suit tech + MAWC Viper, Brute, and Spy to be researched

last thing.... ships

NAVY

• Disguised cargo vessel focus
• • All ships have spacious bays, artillery/burst focused weaponry, and broadsider focus
• Directionally weaker from front and back
• Combat vessels follow a predominantly Arrowhead shape
• Docks on rear or nose whenever possible
• Bridge central, Engi below bridge.
• • Engi accessible easily via bridge usually
• Three cargo ships
• 2 Attack/combat warships
• 1 Capital (POI)
• • Intended to be a mobile equivalent to Camelot
• • Armament is primarily artillery focused. 4 HADES, 6 Bofors, everything else Dravon or ASM-302.

[chilly orbit]

maybe partial implementation is best first like UI currently then slowly work out the ships base and other guns over time

im just weary cause i saw that drake industries tried to do pretty much this and the scope of the project was large and the person who made it eventually lost the motivation to continue maintaining it

its own base its own gear its own suit its own guns

all at once

[true sinew]

okay this is 100% avali inspired and im all here for it

[cobalt bronze]

gulps

predominantly lizard corpo tho

[true sinew]

i dunmind ive been trying to get a avali inspired corpo in here for AGES

this is the closest we'll get

so im all here for it

i could help with ship mapping if needed

red taught me how

[cobalt bronze]

would love it

I want my pointy cargo warships in the sector...

[true sinew]

oka! just send me like

any details about it and ill get to it in a bit

[cobalt bronze]

mkay

[velvet valve]

slo p

[true sinew]

Sadly i can't do maping due to technical issues, so if someone else wants to feel free

[true sinew]

wha?

[cobalt bronze]

I challenge you

to make hive content

[velvet valve]

auuugh

i would but liiike what if mr hive owner guy doesnt like it

[true sinew]

eat him

solves all the issues

[cobalt bronze]

truth

also any kind of company content is good

[true sinew]

debateable

[cobalt bronze]

make your iff less a name tag and more of a presence

[true sinew]

The zealots

[visual gorge]

what happens when ideasguys care too much about their ideas

[pearl belfry]

This isn't even an idea's guy this is I'm making it guy

[visual gorge]

Its not gonna be made unless someone codes it for them