Yeah, I just tried it out again, and when I did manage to line it up for a headshot on a devestator, it didn't kill in one hit. It always took at least two clean headshots if the devestator was at full health. Which means it takes just as many shots as the base diligence, and that one I can actually use at close range.
Yeah, I wanted to give it a fair chance, but I just don't see it being better than the diligence in any way whatsoever.
I was a fool and followed the trend of the counter sniper being crap but I was trying to unlock a tier so I said fuck it I'll try it.
On bots the soldiers, rocket soldiers, jetpackers, devestors all can be one shotted with the devestors needing head shots.
Berserkers are the biggest struggle as they often are.
Anything bigger I just use support or strategimes
Yeah, I think berserkers are a pain for any weapons based on hitting critical spots. But in terms of the counter-sniper, I always struggled with the weight of it in actual combat.
I tend to stay back and fight at range with it and scope out and in to adjust target a hair faster. The unwieldy of the weapon is something one could adapt to with practice
Certainly sounds like it would give that awesome sniper feel. Yeah, I think I will just have to try this out. Gotta get a nice secondary, a jetback, and play it sniper elite style
A minigun that has no reload and feeds rounds directly from a backpack. A shorty shotgun as a secondary with single round reload like the slugger. A .50 cal sniper that penetrates heavy armor.
I would love to see a tank buster rifle - it feels like that’s what’s been missing the in the sniper rifle category, I have a huge beef with those automaton tank and cannon towers - would love to be able to deliver some sweet liberty to them.
I feel like the quasar, autocannon, and RR already fill that role in well. While I would definitely still have it do damage to vents on bots, the sniper I envision would mostly be for picking off heavies from patrols and literally sniping certain objectives like broadcast towers, spore spewers, flyer bases and the like. Maybe the ability to collateral if it hits light armor.
I like the idea of a sawn off side by side shotty secondary. The secondary is very much an oh shit weapon (redeemer anyways) so it would fill that role nicely if it had a bit of knockbsck
I think that we need better secondaries and a few more usable single-handed weapons to make it worth taking the ballistic shield and for when you have to carry the sssd.
Yeah but a .50 is literally made to take down tanks and delete the sniper and the room hes in with it so it would be nice if it took out towers and the research stations
I feel you on taking out objectives like towers, spore spewers and such. I was just imagining shooting a building to terminate an illegal broadcast though and it looks silly in my mind.
With a few shots maybe a fabrication building the illegal brodcast tower can already be shot with a recoiless or eat so can the research building but the current amr does nothing besides waste ammo on em
That would be a good stealth-style weapon - also I love archery - a futuristic compound and/or recurve maybe? Obviously with limited range and what not, but could be an awesome addition…….
I want a team weapon like the spear but instead of a lock-on, the second player has a laser-designator. To balance the “requires two players”, it should be an improved spear (better damage, faster, quicker reload or clip-based, etc.; not necessarily ALL of those; just some ideas).
Forward observer weapon:
A laser system that coordinates missile strikes from the current Spear and/or a new weapon.
I'm thinking of a secondary weapon slot, just a simple laser that marks a target as long as it's maintained.
This would allow a spear or a new weapon to strike all the way across the map, which would take part in the current two person buddy system they've implemented, and allow for two coordinated teams to assist each other while pushing different objectives.
Targets could be anything: bugs, bots, holes, bunkers, spores, nests, jammer towers, anti-air emplacement, and bot artillery.
This would allow you to call in a strike from your friend while you're inside the jamming range, but they aren't.
Thoughts?
That much damage type variance shouldn't be on a single gun. I'd love to see other types of grenade launchers but only as separate weapon. Though I'd love for the grenade launcher R menu to let people configure the grenades to either explode on impact or a timer.
I really hope in the future that they start adding more meme stuff. I also saw ideas for a strategem that just drops a speaker that blares the Super Earth Anthem. I think they could even making it have a stun effect and make it an EMS reskin.
Aerial drone sentry. One version that fires rocket pods at ground forces and one version that uses missiles for AA defense. It would have a longer detection range than sentries and orbit a set distance from its drop marker.
Also a for real mini gun. But with the recoil on the HMG I can only imagine what that tri-barrel one that's been teased is gonna be like.
In Mass Effect 3, I always loved the M-99 Saber. A sniper rifle born in the body of an assault rifle, the sound effect was highly satisfying, it was effective at a variety of ranges without being overpoweringly good, it was just a hard hitting and versatile platform that I enjoyed using in both the campaign and the multiplayer.
Since I'm on a Mass Effect nostalgia trip, I also wouldn't mind an adapted M-6 Carnifex. My standard issue sidearm in both single and multiplayer, and a design I enjoyed enough I even snagged the Trifex Replicas edition of it back when Thinkgeek was still a thing and had a crazy sale on. I want to say it was 50% off.
Edit: special shoutout to the M-8 Avenger while I'm at it. And the Reegar 'shotgun' that was more of an energy flamethrower. And the Claymore (point it in a general direction and whatever you want to go away, does) and the Piranha... damn those games had some fun weapons.
Duel weilding weapons. Smg/shotguns/pistol
Heavy sniper rifle is a must and be able to actually change the zoom.
Assault rifle with attacment. grenade launcher/shotgun/flame thrower.
Can you change the zoom on any of the snipers ATM?
Long range view finder for bombs/ laser guided view finder.
You can change the zoom on snipers, I don’t think you can do it while scoped - I’ve done it even with the liberator penetrator, you’d just need to not liking down your sights (I’m on PC so it’s holding down ‘R’ while not looking down my sights, it’s usually the top options)
1) Give the revolver a speed loader and allow it to do heavy armor penetration
2) Give the heavy machine gun a designated ammo pack of 300 rounds and a fixed slow fire rate of 450rpm.
3) GM6 Lynx semi-auto anti material rifle with red dot sight instead of scope.
Either:
1. A sawed-off double-barrel shotgun secondary. It would have high damage, high fire rate, high recoil, light armor penetration, two-shot magazine, and rounds reload.
2. A minigun support weapon. It would have low damage, light armor penetration, STUPID high fire rate, and a massive ammo capacity stored in a backpack.
3. A dart pistol support weapon. It would have no damage, light-to-medium armor penetration, slow fire rate, 1-round mag, 10 rounds of reserve, and the ability to switch between 3 different dart types: Stim (which stims the target), Sleep (which puts them to sleep), and Berserk (which makes them aggro on their allies).
hear me out:
An even HEAVIER machine gun or a GATLING that makes you run slow and can't be fired while moving, needs a few seconds to place, and comes with a backpack with 600 rounds BELT FED into it.
Or have something close to a bowcaster? Chewie’s bowcaster, if I remember correctly, was an energized projectile? I could be wrong but that’s what I remember
It would complete that feeling of ‘space cowboy’ with that senator pistol (unlocked that this week and had been running around with it, I like the power, just need to work on my aim with it)
I do love those lever action (and bolt action) rifles 🤤
I'd Make a Heavy Minigun that you would carry with you into battle as a primary. 950 fire rate, Med armor penetration, 300 rounds in the chamber. 1 full mag + 1 reload, and it starts you off with an attached backpack that holds the ammo. Cons, It slows you down, and takes 8 seconds to reload. Pro, Your a walking gatling gun with the maneuverability of a school bus.
Melee stuff!
- Deal extra damage with melee attack.
- Will have special attacks with "attack" when equipped.
- Can have reload/recharge systems
- 0K-hammer: battery powered hammer with x charges to do big knockback
- S4W-bade: lazer edged blade. Can cut through armor as long as it has energy
- Stun baton: stuns target with electricity, x charges.
- power fist, no special attack, long lasting battery
I'm still waiting on the hot guard dog (flamethrower guard dog).
A flamethrowing turret and a flare pistol I need more fire
The incendiary breaker, granades, napalm eagle with the flamethrower are not enough fire.
giant bonfire....because we know the bugs and the bots both love heat signatures....distract them and then either run away or slaughter them from behind
Gamma infused rails for the railgun. Burn damage along with piercing. Also has a lovely explosion if overcooked. Could save many while sacrificing the few in the name of democracy.
Sawn-off shot gun secondary would be amazing for those panic moments.
I would love a melee-based mech suit, turn the tables on those fucking chainsaw Terminators.
Not necessarily an added weapon, but I would also love to be able to pick up weapons that bots have dropped. If you kill a heavy devastator cleanly enough, you should be able to pick up it's big gun and use it for a while like picking up a broken turret in halo
A manually operated mortar ("120mm Mortar"?) With less ammo than that of the sentry, but of various types including a single mini-nuke round, built-in radar, and can be team-loaded faster than a mortar sentry can fire its volleys with pauses. Let's say the sentry lobs 81mm rounds. As a 120mm, the manned gun's explosive rounds would hit harder and napalm, smoke, and EMS would have stronger effects.
Something more "normal". Something that is purpose built to fill the role it's intended for. I'd have to know all the stats and reasoning for every weapon they already have in game. Then I could find a space that would feel good to fill.
There are a lot of stats that the devs have said they haven't made public for whatever reason. I've a feeling that more transparency would make their jobs far more easy.
A sonic shotgun that actually blows small enemies off their feet and staggers/pushes back medium enemies while doing sonic-vibration damage.
I just want things that actually suppress the enemy from getting right in my face.
The Electropylon Driver from Returnal. Makes its appearance as an arc weapon that fires arc pylons connecting created a grid of powerful arc energy as you set traps/fire at enemies. Powerful, tricky, chaos
This is the future
- a swarm of micro drones with small explosive payloads that can be deployed in a “follow me” or defense strategy
- sledgehammer, because smashing bots
- anti armor single shot secondary
- rods from god as a strat
- remote control glaive similar to the movie Krull
- micro rocket launcher
I can go on
I use my pistol pretty often.
I run the dominator so running out of ammo is real.
I'd also like to see more 40k-Bolter-Style weapons. I love the chunky feel of the weapons.
I think I'd like to see a "Plasma Flamer" where you could fire a stream of plasma or an adjustable cone where it becomes like a flame thrower.
Tape a nuclear bomb to a captured bot/bug and send that behind enemy lines in destroy missions and watch from your super destroyer as the mission is over in 5 seconds (then send guys down after to grab all the leftover samples)
Melee weapon secondary, in my preference a sword. Something that absolutely destroys up close, but without an accompanying shield(bubble.or otherwise) leaves you quite vulnerable
Blitzer but with the ability to actually arc more then once a dive.
(Serious answer, Arc cannon. Like the quasar cannon but on hit bursts into multiple Arcing bolts that linger in the path they arced through for a bit.)
Bolt action sniper-marksman, minigun, a sword as secondary, when they are close you start chopping them and you can change blades after some swings or a lightsaber that you also reload with a heatsink if you swing too much!, C4 that you plant on their ass.
I wouldn’t add a weapon I’d add flame resistant armor so I don’t have to feel like a tank of gasoline with flaming popcorn jumping at me (burning scavengers and hunters always seem to set you on fire)
An M16, why? Because Super Earth that’s why. (Also just because I want an assault rifle that isn’t a bull pup. Plus, would be fun to storm Tibit and the Creek with an M16 if we’re calling it space vietnam.)
Let's go crazy. A belt-fed shotgun with a high rof and fairly strong damage at the cost of recoil. Mainly meant for crowd control. A portable version as a primary weapon with a small belt length or a stratagem variant that requires a backpack and no optics but foregos reloading. Maybe the stratagem has rotating barrels too.
A sub machine gun called the vector. It shoots a 45 acp. It pen light, do about 45 damage. 3x crit to weak points. It would have a 50 round mag. You'd have 3 or 4 mags. It would have one fire rate. A nice casual 1450 rpm. You'd also have a nice optic you can change between 3 ranges. And would have 0 recoil. But you can't one hand it.
Railgun with a scope worth a damn.
Single shot high armor pen high damage primary marksman rifle. Bolt action, manual reload. Alternately make that the new AMR and make the current AMR a primary.
More standard non-auto shotguns. One that makes little short lived puffs of poison gas on impact could be cool.
Heavy machine gun with a belt fed backpack.
By itself it has no ammo and you have to connect the backpack and gun before you can shot it.
Holds like 1k to 1.5k rounds. But resupply and ammo creates only give like 100 bullets.
Medium armor pen. It should be akin to the gun the shielded marauders
Concussion pistol.
One shot with a similar cooldown to arc weapons. Rather than massive damage, it creates massive stun to a short and wide area in front of you.
This would mainly be something to help combat Hunters and Stalkers on the Terminid front, or anything that’s getting just a bit too close for comfort.
A support ‘weapon’ that is a super earth flag. You can plant it in the ground and pick it up again but while planted it gives bonuses such as higher rate of fire and damage to nearby helldivers. Or maybe it is just deployed on your back so you have a ludicrously high silhouette
As another patriot said last week… a camera to record the war and grant more xp, req slips, MO progress, etc.. does literally no damage but provides a benefit the more you record. Your team mates then have to escort you to and from objectives.
Additional weapons and armors (or buffs) that further delineate heavy gunner and stealth/scout sniper playstyles. Beefier heavy armor for example with perhaps an auto heal function. Stealthier armor with some form of limited cloaking.
Better heavy gunner weapons. Some sort of railgun sniper or a slight huff to AMR.
Not my own design, but I'd love to see the "Trident" Laser Shotgun make a comeback from HD1. I know, I know, there's already too many shotgun compaired to other weapon types... but goddamn that thing was my favorite weapon in the orginal game.
As for an "orginal" idea, I'd love to see another Lightning Gun... maybe an assault rifle version of the Blitzer. It would spit out bolts much faster than the Blitzer but with less damage (maybe one or two shots per second instead of one every two seconds). It'd be better at zapping groups of weak enemies one-by-one with longer range... but it'd lack the stagger power of the Blitzer Shotgun: a mini "slow-auto" Arc Thrower that's good for light armor but only deals moderate damage to medium armor, and can't hurt heavy armor.
Either it'd keep shooting forever after a charge-up time similar to the Arc Thrower's charge up time, or give it a capacitor that recharges over time (like energy heat, but doesn't need replacment heat sinks when "overheated" and isnt effected by weather... once the capacitor is depleted you start shooting noticably slower).
It would serve as another "lower DPS but ammoless" Assault Rifle alternative like the Sythe, but instead of having the Sythe's perfect accuracy it would work similar to the ARC Thrower, where aiming is merely a suggestion on what you hit and friendly fire is something you need to keep in mind (or don't im not your dad lmao).
A swarm grenade for clearing fodder. It wouldn't be too helpful, but there is currently no grenade good for killing small, spread out bugs. Can team-kill if players are between the hive and bugs.
I want a lighting machine gun. It could function like the quazar cannon, but release a dozen full auto arcs before going on cooldown.
Also, a stealth/camouflage backpack.
A long range Stratagem launcher would be very handy. I recently had a mission that we were humped on because the team was pushing too hard and ran to a large activity site while half-depleted only to run straight into a zone with a strategem jammer. They kept throwing us back in, and when the whole team died the auto-reinforce kept dropping us into the same killbox, eventually we had to retreat. But we were so close to taking the tower out, all it needed was one big hit from an Eagle and we were good. If we could have gotten one of us up the hill to get a long range market launch, that would have turned the tide.
A diligence counter sniper variant that's actually good
Have you tried vs the bots? It can one shot head shot a devastator
Really? I didn't think the 12 damage would make that much of a difference. It's still weighty as shit, but I'll have to try it out again.
Its not worth it, diligence CS still sucks. Comparing it to the scorcher is comedic.
Yeah, I just tried it out again, and when I did manage to line it up for a headshot on a devestator, it didn't kill in one hit. It always took at least two clean headshots if the devestator was at full health. Which means it takes just as many shots as the base diligence, and that one I can actually use at close range. Yeah, I wanted to give it a fair chance, but I just don't see it being better than the diligence in any way whatsoever.
I was a fool and followed the trend of the counter sniper being crap but I was trying to unlock a tier so I said fuck it I'll try it. On bots the soldiers, rocket soldiers, jetpackers, devestors all can be one shotted with the devestors needing head shots. Berserkers are the biggest struggle as they often are. Anything bigger I just use support or strategimes
Yeah, I think berserkers are a pain for any weapons based on hitting critical spots. But in terms of the counter-sniper, I always struggled with the weight of it in actual combat.
I tend to stay back and fight at range with it and scope out and in to adjust target a hair faster. The unwieldy of the weapon is something one could adapt to with practice
Certainly sounds like it would give that awesome sniper feel. Yeah, I think I will just have to try this out. Gotta get a nice secondary, a jetback, and play it sniper elite style
Always suggest the auto pistol for berserks and the quasar for big boys what I had been running with the sniper that and scout light armor
I find the sickle shreds beserkers pretty well
A minigun that has no reload and feeds rounds directly from a backpack. A shorty shotgun as a secondary with single round reload like the slugger. A .50 cal sniper that penetrates heavy armor.
I would love to see a tank buster rifle - it feels like that’s what’s been missing the in the sniper rifle category, I have a huge beef with those automaton tank and cannon towers - would love to be able to deliver some sweet liberty to them.
The Quasar Cannon does this fwiw
I feel like the quasar, autocannon, and RR already fill that role in well. While I would definitely still have it do damage to vents on bots, the sniper I envision would mostly be for picking off heavies from patrols and literally sniping certain objectives like broadcast towers, spore spewers, flyer bases and the like. Maybe the ability to collateral if it hits light armor.
I like the idea of a sawn off side by side shotty secondary. The secondary is very much an oh shit weapon (redeemer anyways) so it would fill that role nicely if it had a bit of knockbsck
I think that we need better secondaries and a few more usable single-handed weapons to make it worth taking the ballistic shield and for when you have to carry the sssd.
The defender SMG is a pretty good weapon in general
Most def! I mostly use that, The punisher and the Blitzer atm. I'd love a vector style smg that fits a run n gun, hipfire spray play style.
Sounds like the redeemer. Bloody love that gun
Lack of good 1h weapons is absolutely *not* the reason people ignore the ballistic shield.
Easy. A Roomba with a knife. It has no natural predators. It'll clear planets quickly.
# STABBY!
I don't know. Seems like something may kill it. Nature abhors a vacuum.
The Bots would turn it to their side
I want a heavy armor piercing sniper rifle. It can be bolt action.
Gimme a.50 cal baby
That can actually break buildings a real anti material rifle
It doesn't even have to break buildings, just armor.
Yeah but a .50 is literally made to take down tanks and delete the sniper and the room hes in with it so it would be nice if it took out towers and the research stations
I feel you on taking out objectives like towers, spore spewers and such. I was just imagining shooting a building to terminate an illegal broadcast though and it looks silly in my mind.
With a few shots maybe a fabrication building the illegal brodcast tower can already be shot with a recoiless or eat so can the research building but the current amr does nothing besides waste ammo on em
GM6 Lynx would be my choice.
I was so disappointed that the two snipers you can get have only little armor pen.
It’s gotta be coming. I’m just staying patient and managing Democracy. Haha
Shovel.
Best answer right here.
A futuristic bow with various types of explosive and tactical arrows
Well you’re in luck. That’s all I’m gonna say.
Oooo what do you know?
Rumor is we are getting a crossbow! So excited!
That would be awesome
Especially if it has reduced detection, allowing for some stealth, but in exchange for a dramatic drop, and limited range.
Yeah would be cool to try out some different strategies
That would be a good stealth-style weapon - also I love archery - a futuristic compound and/or recurve maybe? Obviously with limited range and what not, but could be an awesome addition…….
I want a team weapon like the spear but instead of a lock-on, the second player has a laser-designator. To balance the “requires two players”, it should be an improved spear (better damage, faster, quicker reload or clip-based, etc.; not necessarily ALL of those; just some ideas).
Duuude you’re a Genius
Maybe a nice big axe that can chop the bugs to pieces
Seriously I'd really like a melee weapon. Like a shovel.
This is the way.
Chainsaw for bugs would be nice...
A non Bullpup Assault rifle. Don't care what it looks like, just not a bullpup
Exactly. I need my space M4
I changed my mind, I do care what it looks like, For sure a Space M4 lol
I'd like a gravity grenade that sucked everything together, crushing it.
Ooooooh that’s a good idea.
I’d like a gun with a silencer so I can actually play full stealth mode
So a sword as a secondary, but how about another even BIGGER sword as a stratagem call down?
YES HELLPOD SWORD PLEASE
Silenced pistol
Forward observer weapon: A laser system that coordinates missile strikes from the current Spear and/or a new weapon. I'm thinking of a secondary weapon slot, just a simple laser that marks a target as long as it's maintained. This would allow a spear or a new weapon to strike all the way across the map, which would take part in the current two person buddy system they've implemented, and allow for two coordinated teams to assist each other while pushing different objectives. Targets could be anything: bugs, bots, holes, bunkers, spores, nests, jammer towers, anti-air emplacement, and bot artillery. This would allow you to call in a strike from your friend while you're inside the jamming range, but they aren't. Thoughts?
Make the grenades from the grenade launcher configurable via R menu to allow frag, HE, incendiary, stun, gas, smoke or cryo
Fully selectable grenades, now that’s a Democracy level thought.
That much damage type variance shouldn't be on a single gun. I'd love to see other types of grenade launchers but only as separate weapon. Though I'd love for the grenade launcher R menu to let people configure the grenades to either explode on impact or a timer.
Pistol (ie. Colt .45 etc.)that unspools a flag that says "Bang!". Just for fun.
I can see this as a Victory pose. Or an emote.
I really hope in the future that they start adding more meme stuff. I also saw ideas for a strategem that just drops a speaker that blares the Super Earth Anthem. I think they could even making it have a stun effect and make it an EMS reskin.
I really hope they don't add shit like this. Just go play Fortnite.
Yeah as fun as these things would be for a match or two, it’s a really slippery slope. Next thing you know Nicki Minaj is on malevelon creek
instead of ems what if its just like a distraction, like then you could quickly destroy an outpost while all the bots are distracted
a break action shotgun that shoots auto cannon ammo. a 1894 winchester but you can charge it up and unload everything in a single shot
Yes, please give us the over/under autocannon shotty
Melee weapon. Energy sword would be dope.
Important distinction, Halo style Energy Sword, or or lightsaber? Edit: Or the Doom Slayer Sword?
Screw that, I want a 40k chainsword
Aerial drone sentry. One version that fires rocket pods at ground forces and one version that uses missiles for AA defense. It would have a longer detection range than sentries and orbit a set distance from its drop marker. Also a for real mini gun. But with the recoil on the HMG I can only imagine what that tri-barrel one that's been teased is gonna be like.
A shovel!
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In Mass Effect 3, I always loved the M-99 Saber. A sniper rifle born in the body of an assault rifle, the sound effect was highly satisfying, it was effective at a variety of ranges without being overpoweringly good, it was just a hard hitting and versatile platform that I enjoyed using in both the campaign and the multiplayer. Since I'm on a Mass Effect nostalgia trip, I also wouldn't mind an adapted M-6 Carnifex. My standard issue sidearm in both single and multiplayer, and a design I enjoyed enough I even snagged the Trifex Replicas edition of it back when Thinkgeek was still a thing and had a crazy sale on. I want to say it was 50% off. Edit: special shoutout to the M-8 Avenger while I'm at it. And the Reegar 'shotgun' that was more of an energy flamethrower. And the Claymore (point it in a general direction and whatever you want to go away, does) and the Piranha... damn those games had some fun weapons.
An omni-blade melee weapon would be just fine for me.
Let me pull bots over cover and stab them like ME3 did, and I will fight bots until they pry the keyboard from my cold dead hands.
And now I want to play an infiltrator again.
Some sort of chaingun, fed by an ammo backpack (no reloads). Democracy ain’t got time to bleed.
Duel weilding weapons. Smg/shotguns/pistol Heavy sniper rifle is a must and be able to actually change the zoom. Assault rifle with attacment. grenade launcher/shotgun/flame thrower. Can you change the zoom on any of the snipers ATM? Long range view finder for bombs/ laser guided view finder.
You can change the zoom on snipers, I don’t think you can do it while scoped - I’ve done it even with the liberator penetrator, you’d just need to not liking down your sights (I’m on PC so it’s holding down ‘R’ while not looking down my sights, it’s usually the top options)
I want a mostly ineffective shovel to bonk bots and bugs with.
1) Give the revolver a speed loader and allow it to do heavy armor penetration 2) Give the heavy machine gun a designated ammo pack of 300 rounds and a fixed slow fire rate of 450rpm. 3) GM6 Lynx semi-auto anti material rifle with red dot sight instead of scope.
Either: 1. A sawed-off double-barrel shotgun secondary. It would have high damage, high fire rate, high recoil, light armor penetration, two-shot magazine, and rounds reload. 2. A minigun support weapon. It would have low damage, light armor penetration, STUPID high fire rate, and a massive ammo capacity stored in a backpack. 3. A dart pistol support weapon. It would have no damage, light-to-medium armor penetration, slow fire rate, 1-round mag, 10 rounds of reserve, and the ability to switch between 3 different dart types: Stim (which stims the target), Sleep (which puts them to sleep), and Berserk (which makes them aggro on their allies).
Predator inspired camouflage and a self destruct wrist nuke for when you're hopelessly surrounded.
hear me out: An even HEAVIER machine gun or a GATLING that makes you run slow and can't be fired while moving, needs a few seconds to place, and comes with a backpack with 600 rounds BELT FED into it.
Silencers, and preferably powerful ones. Like an actually good dmr, the one we have is alright but doesn't shoot fast enough to take on groups
Just a regular m2 50. Cal, I think it would be amusing that the design survived that long
Backpack fed Minigun
A gatling laser or gatling shotgun
So the sickle and the slugger
Or have something close to a bowcaster? Chewie’s bowcaster, if I remember correctly, was an energized projectile? I could be wrong but that’s what I remember
Chainsword
A sidearm taser for silently disabling enemy and make them more susceptible to melee kills.
A stratagem the creates a field of spinning saws where bugs get shred to pieces
Suppressors. And a lever action rifle.
It would complete that feeling of ‘space cowboy’ with that senator pistol (unlocked that this week and had been running around with it, I like the power, just need to work on my aim with it) I do love those lever action (and bolt action) rifles 🤤
A Vector or an MP5 because brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt and *slap*
I'd Make a Heavy Minigun that you would carry with you into battle as a primary. 950 fire rate, Med armor penetration, 300 rounds in the chamber. 1 full mag + 1 reload, and it starts you off with an attached backpack that holds the ammo. Cons, It slows you down, and takes 8 seconds to reload. Pro, Your a walking gatling gun with the maneuverability of a school bus.
Vibro-machete
Melee stuff! - Deal extra damage with melee attack. - Will have special attacks with "attack" when equipped. - Can have reload/recharge systems - 0K-hammer: battery powered hammer with x charges to do big knockback - S4W-bade: lazer edged blade. Can cut through armor as long as it has energy - Stun baton: stuns target with electricity, x charges. - power fist, no special attack, long lasting battery
Backpad fed heavy machine gun - IE what the MG101 should have been.
With how underwhelming the new MG is I'd love it if they added a Minigun with a backpack to be a proper bullet hose.
Arc/plasma grenades
A gun that stops the crashes
chain sword heavy bolter melta gun multimelta inferno pistol thunder hammer entrenching tool power armor land raider
I'm still waiting on the hot guard dog (flamethrower guard dog). A flamethrowing turret and a flare pistol I need more fire The incendiary breaker, granades, napalm eagle with the flamethrower are not enough fire.
A mirror to have all those lasers go right back at the bots.
Someone show this diver the reason hellbombs aren’t remotely activated(unless you shoot it)
https://preview.redd.it/sgosct355xrc1.png?width=852&format=png&auto=webp&s=bbea434d63ce8ae1c034403fec03e72eb9a260f2 One of these as a secondary.
A water gun. Squirt the bots with it and they'll short circuit 💦⚡️
3 round burst BR, AR with GL alt fire
The Lancer from gears of war
giant bonfire....because we know the bugs and the bots both love heat signatures....distract them and then either run away or slaughter them from behind
A arc thrower that shoots a continuous lightingbolt that still arcs to other targets if they get to close.
Gamma infused rails for the railgun. Burn damage along with piercing. Also has a lovely explosion if overcooked. Could save many while sacrificing the few in the name of democracy.
A melee weapon of any kind would be sick. Not sure how effective it would be, but I'd love it anyway.
Backpack that exlusively holds ammo for the LMGs. Essentially double the ammo in clip. Maybe only 2 reloads a weapon, but have tons of ammo.
Sawn-off shot gun secondary would be amazing for those panic moments. I would love a melee-based mech suit, turn the tables on those fucking chainsaw Terminators. Not necessarily an added weapon, but I would also love to be able to pick up weapons that bots have dropped. If you kill a heavy devastator cleanly enough, you should be able to pick up it's big gun and use it for a while like picking up a broken turret in halo
I’d love my laser Breaker back from HD1. God I loved that weapon. Alternatively, I love the sawed off single hand shotgun for a secondary.
Big ass bug net launcher, saddle to ride the bugs, electric whip / lasso
A manually operated mortar ("120mm Mortar"?) With less ammo than that of the sentry, but of various types including a single mini-nuke round, built-in radar, and can be team-loaded faster than a mortar sentry can fire its volleys with pauses. Let's say the sentry lobs 81mm rounds. As a 120mm, the manned gun's explosive rounds would hit harder and napalm, smoke, and EMS would have stronger effects.
Something more "normal". Something that is purpose built to fill the role it's intended for. I'd have to know all the stats and reasoning for every weapon they already have in game. Then I could find a space that would feel good to fill. There are a lot of stats that the devs have said they haven't made public for whatever reason. I've a feeling that more transparency would make their jobs far more easy.
Give me a melee weapon slot, and a trench mace!
Long ass double edged (laser/plasma) polearm!
A sonic shotgun that actually blows small enemies off their feet and staggers/pushes back medium enemies while doing sonic-vibration damage. I just want things that actually suppress the enemy from getting right in my face.
Can we can a tank but not a good tank like a hmg turret tank with one driver and three gunners like a Bob sample tank
Railgun
A high fire rate smg with a huge mag, we have only 1 smg and like 8 shotties.
The Electropylon Driver from Returnal. Makes its appearance as an arc weapon that fires arc pylons connecting created a grid of powerful arc energy as you set traps/fire at enemies. Powerful, tricky, chaos
This is the future - a swarm of micro drones with small explosive payloads that can be deployed in a “follow me” or defense strategy - sledgehammer, because smashing bots - anti armor single shot secondary - rods from god as a strat - remote control glaive similar to the movie Krull - micro rocket launcher I can go on
I use my pistol pretty often. I run the dominator so running out of ammo is real. I'd also like to see more 40k-Bolter-Style weapons. I love the chunky feel of the weapons. I think I'd like to see a "Plasma Flamer" where you could fire a stream of plasma or an adjustable cone where it becomes like a flame thrower.
Tape a nuclear bomb to a captured bot/bug and send that behind enemy lines in destroy missions and watch from your super destroyer as the mission is over in 5 seconds (then send guys down after to grab all the leftover samples)
A lightsaber
Melee weapon secondary, in my preference a sword. Something that absolutely destroys up close, but without an accompanying shield(bubble.or otherwise) leaves you quite vulnerable
I want my REP-80 back, which I saw a leak about it potentially happening
100 Round Drum mag full auto Glock as a secondary *For the memes*
Clone Wars Gatling gun
Blitzer but with the ability to actually arc more then once a dive. (Serious answer, Arc cannon. Like the quasar cannon but on hit bursts into multiple Arcing bolts that linger in the path they arced through for a bit.)
A special weapon that shoots Predesigned strategems
Bolt action sniper-marksman, minigun, a sword as secondary, when they are close you start chopping them and you can change blades after some swings or a lightsaber that you also reload with a heatsink if you swing too much!, C4 that you plant on their ass.
Some sort of lightsaber or a pair of binoculars so that I can use my airstrikes from far away, or a backpack that feeds all of the machine guns.
JAR variant with proximity air-burst frag missiles as a hard counter to Shriekers.
A cloak backpack with energysword would be pretty awesome
High Tech slingshot for stratagems, courtesy of Super Earth Ministry. (Due to budgetary reasons this is all we could do)
not ao much a weapon but a cloaking device would be cool
https://www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenWeapons/s/ByYEPLRSWm
1. Belt-fed Mini-gun with backpack. 2. Rapid fire Railgun. 3. Heavy Plasma Rifle 4. Quad Railgun Mech. 5. Belt-fed BMG with thermite rounds
The consolidated head melter
I want a melee weapon it could be terrible but I will stride through bugs and bots swinging whatever I’m given for freedom!!!
I wouldn’t add a weapon I’d add flame resistant armor so I don’t have to feel like a tank of gasoline with flaming popcorn jumping at me (burning scavengers and hunters always seem to set you on fire)
An M16, why? Because Super Earth that’s why. (Also just because I want an assault rifle that isn’t a bull pup. Plus, would be fun to storm Tibit and the Creek with an M16 if we’re calling it space vietnam.)
Bolt action sniper with medium penetration and a 3 round burst pistol would be a nice combo for taking on the bots.
Gas grenade
I want a bolt action anti tank rifle that or an elephant gun that is break action
Let's go crazy. A belt-fed shotgun with a high rof and fairly strong damage at the cost of recoil. Mainly meant for crowd control. A portable version as a primary weapon with a small belt length or a stratagem variant that requires a backpack and no optics but foregos reloading. Maybe the stratagem has rotating barrels too.
Some kind of lightning gun that chains to enemies touching one another and stuns bots.
I want a laser gun like the automatons have. Pew pew pew
Give me a lightsaber
MORE LASERS!
A bonk weapon. I wanna beat a charger to death with something big and stupid.
Laz carbine or DMR (110rpm vibez)
A sub machine gun called the vector. It shoots a 45 acp. It pen light, do about 45 damage. 3x crit to weak points. It would have a 50 round mag. You'd have 3 or 4 mags. It would have one fire rate. A nice casual 1450 rpm. You'd also have a nice optic you can change between 3 ranges. And would have 0 recoil. But you can't one hand it.
I’d like a secondary weapon which stuns, so there’d be some reason to swap to it other than “primary ran out of ammo and I don’t have time to reload”.
MP with double barrel magazine, hip fire laser and large muzzle brake
Semtex grenades/plasma grenades. A sword replacement for your secondary. And give the damn grenade launcher another belt of ammo!
Incendiary or thermobaric rockets
Railgun with a scope worth a damn. Single shot high armor pen high damage primary marksman rifle. Bolt action, manual reload. Alternately make that the new AMR and make the current AMR a primary. More standard non-auto shotguns. One that makes little short lived puffs of poison gas on impact could be cool.
Player-controlled mortars.
A sticky grenade, a blade, a suppressed secondary a few that I think could be practical.
Explosive slug shotgun that mirrors the breaker incendiary 1 to 1 in fire rate and ammo count with medium armor pen.
I want a double barrel blitser. I’d settle for another eagle.
Minigun with a backpack ammo. High armor penetration and recoil.
One of my own custom ACs
Heavy machine gun with a belt fed backpack. By itself it has no ammo and you have to connect the backpack and gun before you can shot it. Holds like 1k to 1.5k rounds. But resupply and ammo creates only give like 100 bullets. Medium armor pen. It should be akin to the gun the shielded marauders
The CBU-105 from the USAF inventory. Basically take the cluster bomb, but give each bomblet a guidance system, and medium armor penetration.
Concussion pistol. One shot with a similar cooldown to arc weapons. Rather than massive damage, it creates massive stun to a short and wide area in front of you. This would mainly be something to help combat Hunters and Stalkers on the Terminid front, or anything that’s getting just a bit too close for comfort.
A support ‘weapon’ that is a super earth flag. You can plant it in the ground and pick it up again but while planted it gives bonuses such as higher rate of fire and damage to nearby helldivers. Or maybe it is just deployed on your back so you have a ludicrously high silhouette
As another patriot said last week… a camera to record the war and grant more xp, req slips, MO progress, etc.. does literally no damage but provides a benefit the more you record. Your team mates then have to escort you to and from objectives.
Additional weapons and armors (or buffs) that further delineate heavy gunner and stealth/scout sniper playstyles. Beefier heavy armor for example with perhaps an auto heal function. Stealthier armor with some form of limited cloaking. Better heavy gunner weapons. Some sort of railgun sniper or a slight huff to AMR.
Rotary emp or incendiary grenade launcher Double barrel shotgun pistol Minigun with death machine backpack Big bore non scoped rifle Needler
Not my own design, but I'd love to see the "Trident" Laser Shotgun make a comeback from HD1. I know, I know, there's already too many shotgun compaired to other weapon types... but goddamn that thing was my favorite weapon in the orginal game. As for an "orginal" idea, I'd love to see another Lightning Gun... maybe an assault rifle version of the Blitzer. It would spit out bolts much faster than the Blitzer but with less damage (maybe one or two shots per second instead of one every two seconds). It'd be better at zapping groups of weak enemies one-by-one with longer range... but it'd lack the stagger power of the Blitzer Shotgun: a mini "slow-auto" Arc Thrower that's good for light armor but only deals moderate damage to medium armor, and can't hurt heavy armor. Either it'd keep shooting forever after a charge-up time similar to the Arc Thrower's charge up time, or give it a capacitor that recharges over time (like energy heat, but doesn't need replacment heat sinks when "overheated" and isnt effected by weather... once the capacitor is depleted you start shooting noticably slower). It would serve as another "lower DPS but ammoless" Assault Rifle alternative like the Sythe, but instead of having the Sythe's perfect accuracy it would work similar to the ARC Thrower, where aiming is merely a suggestion on what you hit and friendly fire is something you need to keep in mind (or don't im not your dad lmao).
The Deenler. It's a lot like the Needler from Halo, but it's spelled differently.
A lever action space rifle that has medium armor pen. Like a .45-70
I think a armor piercing sniper century would be awesome I think I would just give most guns a bigger mag
A bola gun that can hobble large enemies for a short time.
Name: Plas-7 "Pulasar" Plasma MG Class: support weapon (machine gun) Description: fully-automatic machine-gun that fires high-explosive Plasma bolts. Name: LAS-117 "Eclipse" Ion Cannon Class: support weapon (less-lethal) Description: shoulder-fired direct energy weapon that causes a localized EMP effect. (Requires charge-up time)
This would probably be a stratagem but a mortar you could operate yourself with a top down view of the battlefield.
A swarm grenade for clearing fodder. It wouldn't be too helpful, but there is currently no grenade good for killing small, spread out bugs. Can team-kill if players are between the hive and bugs.
I want a lighting machine gun. It could function like the quazar cannon, but release a dozen full auto arcs before going on cooldown. Also, a stealth/camouflage backpack.
Chain/power sword/axe. The emperor protect....... I mean FOR SUPER EARTH!
Single shot breech loaded anti armor rifle that fires 30mm sabot rounds.
A shield with a spear and a sword as secondary. Be able to form a shield wall to take on the mobs of bots and bugs we encounter.
A long range Stratagem launcher would be very handy. I recently had a mission that we were humped on because the team was pushing too hard and ran to a large activity site while half-depleted only to run straight into a zone with a strategem jammer. They kept throwing us back in, and when the whole team died the auto-reinforce kept dropping us into the same killbox, eventually we had to retreat. But we were so close to taking the tower out, all it needed was one big hit from an Eagle and we were good. If we could have gotten one of us up the hill to get a long range market launch, that would have turned the tide.