Gravitational Cannon (Deck Weapon)

[floral shuttle]

This weapon consumes hiperium to shoot, with a low fire rate. It creates a gravitational bullet that when hits its target causes average AoE damage with Penetration (but no fire). When this bullet impacts an enemy, it removes some momentum on the enemy ship and increases the weight of everything in the area for a few seconds (basically, it slows down the enemy ship for a few seconds).
Every time you shoot this weapon, it causes a E.M.P. effect in adjacent tiles, so you must put this weapon in a smart position to prevent complications on your ship.

There could be also a Gravitational Missile with a similar effect.

[slate wing]

WHY DOES EVERYHRING HAVE TO BE A DECK WEPON

ANOTHER HYPERIUM WEAPON SUGGESTION

You don’t need for it to be a deck weapon all the time or use hyperium

To function

Omg MAZIVE AOE WEAPON WITH PENETRATION THAT DOES EMP AS A DOWNSIDE WOOO

WHOCH ALSO ACTS LIKE A tractor beam

Pulling the enemy towards you

Bro this exact same post was takes about a tractor beam but gun idea was already talked about

Tho it didn’t have emp

It was just a hyperium missile that could move peoples ships

Not a massively damaging aoe weapon with high penetration and emp effect as well as moving the target

[crimson lake]

Seems OP. Also i dont think more deck weapons are a good idea

A+ for creativity though. Thats a lot of stuff to put in a single weapon

[silent axle]

emp to your own ship as a downside, and also doesnt bring the enemy towards you, just slows them down, though that is still pretty overpowered. Also im pretty sure Walt is fine with new deck weapons and tbh I havent seen one suggested in a while should probably comprehend before commenting and be less rude

[main star]

While Walt is fine with the deck weapons already in the game, he is very reluctant to adding more since the main focus is on surface stuff, Like regular cannons or the missile launchers, that stuff

[silent axle]

ah, I well i guess i was wrong about that, but my other point still stands

[main star]

In a world where speed meta makes a lot of ships that rely on speed possible, I'd say that heavily reducing the speed of an a ship in combat is similar to temporarily turning all the armour on a deck brick into corridors

[silent axle]

I didnt say that it should be added as it is overpowered. I was just commenting on the fact that Azler seemed to be acting rude

[main star]

I do agree he is abrasive at times, and in this case

I do think the idea of something that makes the opponent heavier could have some merit, perhaps something a bit more balanced though

[silent axle]

yea definitly, definitely shouldnt do any damage

and maybe have some effect on your own ship

[main star]

That much would be clear, the same way the TB doesn't do damage, but is also useful as Utility

[wet shard]

This idea is pretty imbalanced

but Alzer's response to this individual's idea was just rude as fuck

Enderluck made an idea that he clearly put some thought into. And put it in the area where ideas and suggestions are supposed to go

Azler aint gotta overreact so much to something that someone simply thought would be cool to have in-game

take a fuckin chill pill bro

stop yelling at the community

@slate wing

[slate wing]

Fair enough here is a calm and collected text about the posts weapon

there are some good ideas but a majority of the weapon ideas not all but a majority is just overpowered weapons and a lot of deck weapon posts, this is litraly a aoe pericing gun that makes a apponent get hit by all weapons fire as it stops the opponents momentum meaning makes the ship stop in place because of the x25 weight on everything when they get hit then thrusters have to push them out but what happens if they get hit again boom they can’t move at all and you are a sitting duck, another thing the emp won’t affect anything important because it’s a deck weapon it will be behind armour and there is no reason to have anything with energy near it because it takes hyperium not energy to fire it, shields would be placed away from it and incased in armour nullifying the emp effect.

[wet shard]

thats much better

i agree this weapon is in fact imbalanced and should be rethought completely

too many things to have to counter with negatives like a emp effect on your own\ ship

[slate wing]

Speaking of the fact it doesn’t even say the projectiles hp or the fire rate so it could be a machine gun for all I know

[slate wing]

Emp is not a good enougth downside

On a deck weapon

[wet shard]

exactly my point

if your weapon needs "good enough" downsides, then its too OP in the first place

[slate wing]

Deck weapons have stun as a downside though?

I get your point though

[wet shard]

Yeah but stun is a decently minor downside compared to like setting your ship on fire or emping it or whatever it may be

plus ngl i only ever knew that the deck cannons stunned when i looked at the tooltip

[main star]

You never saw the crew stunned?

[slate wing]

Haha i like the idea of your weapon having a limited amount of uses due to fire damage if you don’t have crew to deal with it

[main star]

Personally, I never buy Fe for my ships, too expensive

[slate wing]

Why would you need to buy it when you can just steal it from the station?

Or mine it

[main star]

Fire extinguishers is what I am saying

Fe for short

[slate wing]

Oh

Well I find that rude as I am a fire extinguisher

[main star]

Unlucky

[slate wing]

Still though they could save your scrap of a almost dead ship to living

Well living as a corpse

But still living

[main star]

Too expensive

Takes up too much space

Weighs too much

[slate wing]

More expensive then buying a new ship ?

[slate wing]

Ok that one is true for speed ships

[main star]

It's either win or lose when it comes to elimination

[slate wing]

This is true

But fire could make you loose faster

[main star]

If I never get fire, I never need fe

[slate wing]

Assuming they have laser wepaons

Do you not have reactors explode causing fires or anything?

[main star]

If my reactors die so does the rest of my ship

[slate wing]

One reactor can’t possibly kill your whole ship ?

Well

I guess it can actually

[slate wing]

Depends on the size lol

[slate wing]

Ah yea I see why if your reactor dies you die

[main star]

Generally what they all are looking like

[slate wing]

Didint you say fe was too expensive and heavy? How is adding asphetic scaffolding not too expensive then?

[main star]

That's for holding the armour in case it breaks in the middle

[floral shuttle]

I wanted a weapon tha tuses hyperium cause I have TOO MUCH hyperium. I though that the self E.M.P. was funny and so it could be a deck weaponk, similar to the stun with the deck cannon

[slate wing]

Fair

[slate wing]

It’s not a good enougth downside like I said

[slate wing]

Here

[floral shuttle]

I just wake up, I need to read all this messages

[main star]

, a few are just Fe talk

[slate wing]

Then don’t carry that extra hyperium no one is making you pick it up

Or use hyperium more often as fast travel

To get to your own ships and other places for missions faster

[floral shuttle]

It doesn't pull the enemy

[slate wing]

Yea I read it wrong I’m aware

[floral shuttle]

I didn't said high penetration, and the emp effect is self not to the target. Also it doesn't move the target, it simply slow down it

[floral shuttle]

That depends on the numeric aspects of the weapon

[slate wing]

Or if you want a hyperium weapon make it make sense why hyperium would be used over anything else don’t make it something this overpowered, there are like 30 hyperium weapon posts

[slate wing]

… no the slowing is overpowered enougth and the fact it’s a deck cannon that slows is overpowered enougth ( and x25 of everything weight in a bubble )

Not even include the fact it does damage

And stops all momentum as you said which is even more overpowered

[floral shuttle]

I tried to not mention many numbers as that require more careful thought. I think the only number I mentioned is the x25 weight but I actually I have no idea how much that would impact on the ship speed (specially since the x25 is just in the area of effect)

[slate wing]

25 x the weight of even 20% of the ships parts being hit by it is insanely deadly for a ship

[main star]

One downside of the enemy being heavy is that it makes that ship's tractor beams more effective at not effecting their ship as much

[slate wing]

It makes it stop in its tracks with how slow and how much force is needed to get it moving out of the field

And the fact deck cannons can just be spammed and hidden in armour too

[floral shuttle]

I didn't said ALL, the idea is slowing, not stopping a ship

[slate wing]

Meaning you can have 10 of these firing and a ship wscentialt can’t move due to its own weight

And they can’t escape the bubble because a new one just pops up anyway every few seconds

[floral shuttle]

You can have 10 Deck Cannon and simply don't worry about having to fight a ship as they will kill it extremely fast with 6000 DPS each and 9 meters of penetration....

I understand that requiring hyperium compensates the fact of emp effect. But depending on the emp radius, you might need to put it too far away of everything else, and that is not always possible

[sharp sequoia]

Please do not act like a child...

[sharp sequoia]

True

[floral shuttle]

And sorry Azler, but I will keep suggesting deck weapons cause I love the idea of deck stuff

[granite pulsar]

No need to apologise to him, it’s not your problem he’s so against deck mounted weapons