Relic Artillery Suggestion

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Hey guys its me again with a random suggestion that I have had kicking around, I would love some feedback on the subject. More perspectives always help when I try to balance out game suggestions! Anyway the subject matter of this post is a 14 energy rocket artillery system. I wanted to work off the 1 weapon balancing method to try and make something appropriately powerful, but also, putting all of your eggs in one basket. I envision the weapon as something similar to the real like katyusha rocket system. So it would fire its payload in a sequential volley off the rocket rack (like how the mandrake does) unlike the heather which launches everything at once. This would give it a larger spread area but less alpha damage on one target, to compensate for this I envision the rockets having a relatively large explosive radius individually; Anyway now onto the weapon itself.

Name: RA-2 Brimstone
Rarity: Relic
Type: Rocket Artillery
Energy Cost: 14 pts
Shot type: Sequential volley (8 rockets)
Reload: Moderate
Blast Radius: Large
Damage: High end of medium (maybe 500-700 per rocket)
Range: High
Spread: High
Durability:700 pts
Mass: 2400 Kg

Perk: (Blackout artillery)
If an enemy armored vehicle receives damage from RA-2 brimstone they will be hit with an EMP pulse that will disable their vehicle for 2 seconds (like the old typoon)

I envision this as a nice way to crowd control during a fight, and see it as less oppressive than the old typhoon given the inherent inaccuracy of an artillery system. A well timed shot from the brimstone could turn the fight in the favor of your allies.

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The biggest balancing drawback would be how much can you tilt the weapon before it doesnt fire? If you already have it at a more horizontal than vertical trajectory, tilting it like an incenerator could make this a 1shot MOAB gun similiar to the old mandrake tilted builds, but much much more powerful. If you make it so it cant tilt and be fired, you end up with 0 short-medium range ability, whereas the heather and mandrake can be tilted in such a way as to fire only 50-100m in front of you.

MOAB potency or unuseable within 200m. Thats the hiccup im seeing so far.

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I would prefer to keep it with the same kind of trajectory the mandrake and heather already have. So unusable within a certain distance.

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Or big Tomahawk which you can control and hit target :slight_smile:

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There are just too many weapon suggestions, as far as I know the developers are very lazy about designing new weapons, even if it could bring them good money

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Right but I’m pretty sure they pull new weapons out of the player suggestion pool. So who knows, maybe I’ll get lucky.

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Sounds Fun

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Where is Here The Difference Between Rockets ? :thinking: Like on Katyusha

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I Would Say… New Artillery Should Have New POV/Trajectory :relieved::tipping_hand_man: That’s It :hugs:Sure is. It Can’t be The Same Like Mandrake Again. This Time WithOut Flame/Burning DMG on Ground. :thinking:Maybe Single Bullets Like Cannon with Magazine…

Other Kind Of Weapon Could be A Glue/Ice Cannon/Mortar :laughing: Sticks/Freeze EveryThing in The Area Hahaha

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The difference is that it shoots larger rockets one after another, rather than the heather shooting a large volley of smaller rockets simultaneously.

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SomeThing Like This but Lower😛

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How about a relic module, called a “guidance system” that shows projected landing spot of artillery on the mini map. I’m afraid if something like this came out that it wouldn’t be very fun to play.

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Its artillery, it will always be a niche thing. There are those out there (myself included) that love the different play style they offer. Not every weapon appeals to every person, but that is not necessarily a bad thing.

Also, so more people understand the inspiration behind this design I will link a video explaining the real life weapon that inspired the idea (also history is fun).

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WW2 Best Time Ever :sunglasses::heart: and Still Best Weapon Designs :ok_hand: