Feedback on Weapons Revamp

[Raven Redstar]

Alphabetical?

Assault Rifles
Battle Rifles
Carbines
Scout
Sniper

Not sure if I forgot a category or not.
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[Naaman]

Carbines and scouts are more like configurations rather than "types" or platforms, so I'll likely include those options within the primary entries for the platform they are built on.

[Raven Redstar]

Makes sense to me.
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[Zarn]

Shouldn't there be an option for a gun camera or scope camera? Macrobinoculars can also take a picture of whatever view is there, generate three-dimensional pictures (so there's essentially a built-in rangefinder there), and should likely be able to use a comlink for uploading sensor data.

Come to think of it, perhaps one should be able to lase a target as well, for heavier ordnance?

[Naaman]

[Naaman]

Added the bolt action write up to the original post (rules are over there, not here).

Bolt Action

Due to the nature of blaster technology, tremendous amounts of heat can build up in the reaction chamber during combat. The amount of heat build up far out paces the rate at which the atmosphere can absorb it. Even after only one shot, the characteristics of the weapon have changed enough that any subsequent rounds fired will not behave the same as the round fired before it. In order to preserve a constant temperature inside the weapon, the action is filled with a fluid which absorbs heat almost instantaneously. When the action is operated, and the fluid is mixed with a thermophilic gas which is cycled through a micro condenser, cooled, and then replenished into the mixing chamber. The mechanism for this is usually built into the back of the receiver, and internal to the design, taking up no more than a few cubic centimeters. As a result, the temperature in the reaction chamber remains relatively constant, shot after shot, and the characteristics of each blaster bolt remain virtually identical from one shot to the next. This allows precision shooters to achieve the consistency necessary to make surgical attacks against their targets at impressively long ranges. Such deadly firepower cannot be achieved using "standard" blaster technology, since the excessive amounts of heat in the reaction chamber cause the resulting bolt to carry too much heat to remain stable over vast distances.

[Zarn]

How about spectrum tuning of a blaster bolt?

There's a few EU blaster weapons that have non-visual spectrum blaster bolts, making it somewhat easier to get away with shoot-and-scoot operations. This is perhaps particularly relevant with marksman's rifles, anti-materiel rifles, and sniper rifles.

Connected to that there's ion blasters, DEMP2 guns, ion double blasters, rapid ion gun, ion stunners, and disruptor guns (as opposed to disrupter rays), sort of two opposite ends of the blaster bolt tuning spectrum, at least when it comes to damage.

[Naaman]

That's a good idea. As for tuning/customizing, those rules will be coming soon, once I get all the personal weaponry posted (up to light/medium repeaters, and possibly some missile weapons like grenade launchers).

It could be as easy as attaching a "suppressor" to the barrel which not only alters/cancels the sound waves, but the electromagnetic signature as well.

[Raven Redstar]

I'm really looking forward to all the spec ops gizmos and attachments for rifles.
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[Darklighter79]

Do you plan Disruptor Rifles to be "Jedi Outcast sniper style" weapons?
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[Naaman]

I don't even know if I'll write up disruptors as a base weapon "type."

Seems to me that a disruptor would fall under a "type" of weapon (pistol, rifle, whatever) that fires a special kind of ammo, so you could just use any of the profiles for a weapon type/platform (say, for example, compact blaster pistol or short barreled rifle) but make it's damage output appropriate to whatever you think a disruptor should do.

What do you think?

[Zarn]

Disruptors are still beam weapons / plasma / particle weapons / whatever blasters are.

Non-beam weapons would include bowcasters, magna casters, cycler rifles, flamethrowers, dart guns, concussion rifles, flechette launchers, and a variety of slugthrowers (SMGs / PDWs, rifles, revolvers, shotguns), needlers.

Oh, and bows, crossbows, and arrows from arrow-throwers (like a woomera or atlatl), and a variety of thrown weapons (discblades, knives, nets, whatever).

[Darklighter79]

[DarkJackal]

Can we get updates for the lightsabers presented in the Fantasy Flight games? With the new Contained Energy Axe and Broadsaber, as well as the takes made on other lightsabers and their modifications it may be time to make a second take on D6 equivalents.

[Naaman]