Prototypes (Destiny)

by Blackt1g3r , Login is from an untrusted domain in MN, Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 18:40 (2908 days ago) @ Kahzgul

Personally, I'd love to see the weapons actually seem like they were testing something. Either a perk that doesn't normally land on that archetype (shotguns with explosive rounds, a full auto hand cannon, or maybe a sniper rifle with a Sureshot IS instead of a scope), or something even more extreme (a shotgun with vortex, "find more special ammo", and performance bonus, as well as full auto, for example, or a bullet hose auto rifle with minimal stability that uses skip rounds and has a massive clip... Stuff like that.

It would be really interesting to have prototypes with new gun features, but that would require adding new content to the game. So far, that's been more difficult than it should be for Bungie. That said, I'd really like it if the prototype weapons had interesting features that could make them very powerful, but since they are prototypes they should also have significant problems. Maybe a shotgun with firefly occasionally damages the player as much as their opponents? (Actually, that's the tradeoff ice breaker should have had. Infinite ammo, but sometimes the gun "misfires" and damages you instead or pehaps it overheats and if you don't watch your shots you'll take damage?) Perhaps a sidearm that hits targets behind your targe but is extremely unstable and has a tiny clip.