As an aside... how the hell do Scout Rifles even work? I mean....

What exactly is the path from magazine to barrel on these?

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The gun pictured there is a bullpup design, so the firing chamber is farther back than a conventional layout. If you look at the hole the user's thumb would be going through, the rounds are coming up from the mag behind that.

I'd gathered that much, it's just that the magazine (at least the bottom) looks enormous, so it never appeared as though there was enough room for any sort of bullet to travel behind the grip.

Looks like a lot of variation. I kinda wish some of that, even just a little, would trickle down to the common guns. Everything looks exactly the same otherwise, despite manufacturer origin.

I don't know about exactly the same. There is definitely some variation in the look of some of the various common weapons. I think it's intentionally toned down a bit though. It just makes you want those exotic weapons more. :)

And it should, right? Everything can't be unique.

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"Necrocasm" is a primary Auto Rifle with Arc damage and something other than Kinetic: a fist holding a bullet(?)

Maybe it's related to melee somehow? Increased melee speed when doing damage or something? Seems like an increase to melee would be useful against hive thralls.

It's an existing perk (my 77 Wizards have it). "Cascade: Melee kills increase the reload speed of this weapon for a short time."

"Necrocasm" is a primary Auto Rifle with Arc damage and something other than Kinetic: a fist holding a bullet(?)

Maybe it's related to melee somehow? Increased melee speed when doing damage or something? Seems like an increase to melee would be useful against hive thralls.

Looks to me like a hand holding a knife, so that implies increased melee damage I bet, maybe akin to the BruteShot in Halo 2, how it did increased melee damage compared to others.

Nice to see some variety on damage types.

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It's a primary sniper rifle."

If you read the description of that perk, it says "...may be equipped in the primary weapon slot". It says "MAY", not "IS", which to me implies an option.

Do you think it's possible that we "can" equip it in the traditional spot for snipers, as a Special?

"Murmur" has BOTH Arc and Solar damage, apparently can be chosen at will(?)

Certainly looks that way. The green circle around the arc icon suggests that it's selectable. Solar damage, then, is currently selected in this screenshot, and the weapon shows up as solar.

"No Land Beyond" is a primary Sniper with Kinetic and some unknown second damage type; looks like a headshot multiplier/advantage(?)

Wait, a primary? If there's evidence of that in the screenshot, I'm not seeing it. But I want to believe. I'm actually terrible with sniper rifles in Destiny, but this one seems to have iron sights so I think my results might be better.

Also of note: Some of these weapons have an icon in their upgrade path right where the "oracle disruptor" icon would be on VoG weapons. I'm assuming those are raid weapons from Crota's End.

All Special and Heavy weapons have text saying "Special/Heavy weapons use green/purple ammo...", whereas No Land Beyond does not.

Also, it has been said that the second damage-type-indicator is to show it is a primary sniper, though I don't know of the precedence for that conclusion.

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