Weapons (Destiny)

by electricpirate , Wednesday, July 09, 2014, 07:20 (3799 days ago) @ Ragashingo

Definitely looking forward to what crazy weapons (if any) we get to play with.

~m

I'm still holding out hope for some alien weapons...

Me too! I think human weapons are really limiting in a formal sense. Since they are mostly kinetic, hitscan you end up playing with fewer variables. What type of damage do you do, how large is the spread, how big is the magazine, damage, ROF etc. Adding in more alien weapons allows for more craziness. Projectile speed, tracking, combinatorial effects,status effects etc.

I understand why they break things down this way (Enemies with Hitscan weapons aren't all that fun, and using projectile weapons with slow projectiles is challenging, especially in a networked enviroment) but in a game with a large focus on breadth of content, having a narrow set of weapon classes is a bit odd.