Weapon variants

[bold cave]

Cannons, disruptors chainguns and more. We have weapons, but could we do more with them? Most weapons have fire arcs. What about making more fixed weapon types?

They could be more powerful or increased range than their pre-existing counterparts or narrower, faster fire rate or any numner of other types of advantage.

Who says the devs have to try inventing new weapons? Why not create more variations of existing ones?

I would love to see this be taken in the other direction and make topside turrets. A Topside chaingun turret could use four directional inputs of ammo and alternate between them so that it would reduce downtime which would be ideal for a station defense platform

Those are just a few ideas would love to hear others.

[glass apex]

its because variations are boring and bloat the game. Thats what mods are for

[oak lark]

i always found being able to pick a new type of laser for a new laser using fighter less boring than using the same laser for every single one of them though

[oak lark]

as long as they are different enough from one another they would be cool
basically, don't do it like this

[fresh marlin]

kroom hating lmao but thats fair

[obtuse cove]

I think a good idea would be a fixed mounted missile torpedo launcher

If it will be small enough for smaller ships to use but will take a lot of ammo, it might be a very useful thing

Like, 2x4 or 2x3 should be a great size for such a weapon

[rocky shuttle]

the problem is that weapons need to both be unique and not be an undecision to use

[oak lark]

there are multiple ways to do that
one of the things i feel like isnt considered enough as a method is how the weapon is placed on your ship
ex:

[long wren]

This is a deck gun with extra steps

[fresh marlin]

rather a deck gun balanced around having to have a certain thickness of armor

[sterile lotus]

Railgun missiles pew pew pew

[obtuse cove]

unlike DC that you can bury in armor, this weapon can have armor, but only a certain amount, not making it too OP

[obtuse cove]

I love this idea

it could actually be cool if some powerful weapon was designed like this

[halcyon stratus]

Maybe give my maltis game overhaul core mod a shot 😉
Also I do offer some kind of skill based fixed weaponry - take a look at the fragment bombs f.ex. 😉

[bold cave]

Continuing the idea
Corner weapons. Keep all the stats the same but a different firing angle would allow new ways to build ships.

Imagine if chainguns were not just forward or side facing.
The same logic could also be applied to shields.

[buoyant zealot]

I'd like more Deck weapons, over more exposed weapons.

[eternal mesa]

we're not getting more deck weapons

[buoyant zealot]

Awwww.

[frosty hamlet]

we very well might be, iirc Walt's mentioned the next weapon will be a deck energy one, though i could be wrong

[buoyant zealot]

Yippy!

[frosty hamlet]

this, however, is something that we almost certainly aren't getting. walt has mentioned that he does not want to make diagonal-specific parts

[sick tide]

plus youll never see a diagonal modular weapon

[bold cave]

Just ideas for weapon varients.

On a wedge style ship you normally suffer from either your weapons having a blindspot right in front of your ship or to the sides of your ship making it so that you have to have weapons in two directions to cover your bases but it spreads your firepower out too much to be viable.

Currently this makes diagonal ships the only viable option for wedge style weapon loadouts. Otherwise you end up with a "wall of guns" brick of a ship.

[sick tide]

weapons are stronger on diagonal ships

[eternal mesa]

Not railguns

[rocky shuttle]

mathematically and in practice for dps diagonal is just better

i think what u r describing is design skill issue

[buoyant zealot]

Rails don't really work on diagonal ships, since they're built in stright lines.

[eternal mesa]

exactly

[rocky shuttle]

technically they are better on paper but lamost never in practiuce

[hollow herald]

they're better than orthogonal if you have them in one direction, for ai control only tho (they can use autofan)

[spring basin]

Mod name?

[oak lark]

kroom's forage.. if it even is in modern yet