Replace the L6 SAW

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Replace the L6 SAW

Post by Dragon2323 » 22 Jun 2015, 18:00

Summary (a quick, 2-3 sentence summary):

The L6 SAW has outlived it's welcome. It's time to take a prototype M41A variant, and deploy it in the field, or at least test it with the Marines of the NMV Sulaco. Replacing the L6, would be the M41AE2 Heavy Pulse Rifle.

Benefits (How this will benefit the server and game as a whole):

The Marines would lose the slow-firing, chunky L6 SAW, in favour of a weapon better built for the Colonial Marines universe, and make an interesting challenge for Aliens to tackle.

Details (Description of how you think this would work, the benefits, etc):

The M41AE2 would have the following general statistics, or alternates as decided by Apop/developers.

The weapon would be in an equal weight class to the L6 SAW, carry a higher magazine capacity (100 round box mags, aka 2x the L6 SAW's), and alternatively have lower damage than the M39 SMG, but a slightly increased firerate. It wouldn't be able to do much damage when fired in single shots, but it would fire much quicker to apply additional damage. It would be a suppressive weapon - no alien would probably want to get hit head on with it either way - and an alternative tackle to the HMG nests.

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Re: Replace the L6 SAW

Post by Steven Sneider » 22 Jun 2015, 18:01

i think it should be a smart gun but without the smart ability.still a better idea than the l6
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Re: Replace the L6 SAW

Post by Dragon2323 » 22 Jun 2015, 18:03

A Smart Gun would require you to ditch your helmet for the crippling Head Mounted Targeting System, and your vest and extra two storage slots for the mandatory M56 Combat Harness, which really screws you over with a weapon that can't fire as well as one would hope. The Smart Gun is alternatively, realistically, a piece of crap in CQC - where everyone ends up.

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Re: Replace the L6 SAW

Post by Fickmacher » 22 Jun 2015, 19:03

+1. The M41A is so obviously superior that I never bother with the SAW.
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Re: Replace the L6 SAW

Post by Lostmixup » 22 Jun 2015, 21:58

+1, Need a weapon like this honestly.
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Re: Replace the L6 SAW

Post by TopHatPenguin » 24 Jun 2015, 07:17

Would be nice if either it got replaced or wasn't useless, either one would be fine.
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Re: Replace the L6 SAW

Post by Butterrobber202 » 24 Jun 2015, 18:47

DO NOT MAKE IT HARDER FOR ALIENS TO POUNCE. Riot shields are hard enough, can't spit or pounce against those, only way is to get two facehuggers in, which is hard when the marine is still shooting back.

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Re: Replace the L6 SAW

Post by Dragon2323 » 24 Jun 2015, 20:50

Butterrobber202 wrote:DO NOT MAKE IT HARDER FOR ALIENS TO POUNCE. Riot shields are hard enough, can't spit or pounce against those, only way is to get two facehuggers in, which is hard when the marine is still shooting back.
The M41AE2 has negated purpose due to the addition of the M56 Smartgun in the Alpha. However, if it was anything to be said, it'd be hard to pounce against the M41AE2 due to the constant fire.

You can pounce and spit through riot shields, though. It's %chance that gets you, most of the time.

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Re: Replace the L6 SAW

Post by apophis775 » 25 Jun 2015, 03:12

Already in the works. Locked.

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