Thunderlord Drawing Board (Destiny)

by Malagate , Sea of Tranquility, Thursday, September 19, 2013, 20:11 (3868 days ago) @ Zero

Even after going back and looking at the footage from the gameplay reveal, I can't really see any discernible drawbacks. But there's always the possibility that there are things with it we can't see. One thing I've thought of is, because it's an exotic heavy machine gun, perhaps it assigns that player as a higher priority to the AI when the weapon is in hand? I doubt that's the case, but it's about the only way I can think of at the moment that would make it deadlier to the wielder.

From a hard science perspective, you'd need a laser to clear a path to the target if you wanted to have a bona fide lightning gun. So we're talking either magic-imbued heavy machine gun, or we're talking some unstable alchemy to have the weapon discharge randomly around the wielder. Mmm. Chaos. My favorite.

~M