Where are my Lasers? [suggestion for the future] (Destiny)

by Dean Hofmeyer (unhh) , Warsaw, IN, Wednesday, December 31, 2014, 17:28 (3856 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY

I want a fusion machine gun that's just a steady beam once you spin it up. To balance it, it could overheat or perhaps have a shallow, slowly recharging battery a la Icebreaker. I'd love to go into Crota's End with it and melt whole groups of Thralls at once.

Riffing off your Plan C thought, how about a grenade that chains lightning from enemy to enemy as long as there's another in range?

I hope one of the weapons from the Cabal raid is a cluster rocket launcher like the ones the Colossuses (Colossi?) use.

Something like the Focus Rifle would be cool, especially with the reduced accuracy of auto rifles. Its damage output could be kept in check by a lack of crit damage instead of a big spread.

While we're at the Halo weapons, what about a Needler? Actually, just make it that one Fallen gun.

A special weapon that's not a weapon, it's some kind of brass knuckles thing that gives you unlimited special melee attacks as long as you have it equipped and have special ammo.

A rocket launcher that's got a single deep magazine and no reserve, along with good stability and RoF. You could burn high-health targets really fast but it wouldn't be exceptional otherwise. (No tracking, small blast radius.)

I love the heavy sniper idea. Single or maybe 2-shot, something like 4 rounds in reserve, overpenetrate built in, big crit modifier with even bigger base damage.

Just for kicks, what about a pulse sniper rifle? One of my favorite snipers in Mass Effect was the one with 3-shot bursts. Just a ton of fun to drill 3 rounds into a crit spot instead of 1. Needs to be really stable, though, so you can actually hit all 3 crits.

Most of these are probably awful. I just wrote down everything that came to mind. Suffice to say I agree that there should be a little more variety. Bungie's clearly not afraid of certain weapons being a standout (Ballerhorn), so more cool stuff wouldn't break the game in any way that's not already broken.