Beam Rifle

[buoyant skiff]

A primary weapon that fire focused pulse beam that can shoot though entire map, with a rather high rate of fire but lower damage per hit and no knockback. Perfectly accurate and recoilless, but turns not fast. Each shot generates heat, and if a shot will cause heat beyond capacity, it is prevented from firing. Heat capacity and dissipate rate are fixed regardless of the amount of weapons equipped.

A sharpshooting weapon parallel with the Gauss Rifle, which may share the same aim emitter effect.

Rough meta stat design: 0.5 shots per second for 1 gun, 3 shots per second for 6 guns. each shot add 1 unit of heat, dissipate 1/s, and a capacity of 8.34 .

[arctic nimbus]

Sounds too op tho

[bold narwhal]

how about while aiming the cannon / turning the cannon the accuracy would be more poor at long range instead of a focused beam.

might feel cool

only reason i'd say it'd tough to balance would be that it'd have no damage fall off and be very difficult to balance the damage across range / infront of you potentially

[lament kettle]

I feel like this would be too strong, both in the cases of ground shooting at air and air shooting at ground.

[buoyant skiff]

i mean the "lower damage" is probably very low, maybe not more than 1000 damage per shot i guess. its most lethal move is 12 bursts in 4 seconds, then it is 1 shot per second sustaining unless wait 10 seconds for heat completely dissipated.

[lament kettle]

I guess with sufficiently low stats it'd be "balanced" but I think it would be very difficult to find a statline where unlimited range rapid fire perfect accuracy hitscan isn't unpleasant to play against tbh

[buoyant skiff]

i believe it actually easier to play against than a gauss bot

and gauss is also what play against it, or vice-versa

[buoyant skiff]

my idea is Beam Rifle can be a competitor of Gauss Rifle, so the extra-long range will not solely gauss. counter gauss bot tactus also apply to this thing.

and the act of "12 bursts in 4 seconds" will likely highly visible and attracts attention

[buoyant skiff]

compare with gauss, its advantage is very good damage application and sustained damage, so you can keep shooting for forever, and can keep someone PSG down

its disadvantage is less burst damage capacity, the "12 bursts in 4 seconds" is the best it can do, but still inferior to the devastating 6 gauss shots

both weapons share the same aim emitter, so the beam rifle will not less profile than gauss rifle