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Will there be equally strong size 1 and size 3 weapons, or will a bigger gun perform a bigger output?asked by Shifty

TL;DRWeapons will definitely span a range of potency across sizes, with long-term tuning options, and the upcoming physically based damage system will overhaul weapons like the overpowered Sledge II mass driver.

Yes. There is definitely going to be a range of potency on all of the weapons and all of their sizes. It is one of the big things that we want to have as sort of the long term tuning choices that you have where you can really fiddle with a size 1 to make it your own and to really specialize what it can do.Some of the other parts of that question that Shifty had in his post, though, was also dealing with the current Sledge II and how it's really really powerful conceptually for a mass driver. So, one of the big things that we're looking forward to with the upcoming physically based damage system is actually a big overhaul on all of these weapons. Really redefining what a mass driver's behaviour is, this what kind of damage it's going to be doing, this is the cost/benefit for running that weapon. Because, yeah... the Sledge II was pretty much just free damage, no penalty and... it actually helped us find out... that's not the best situation.

10 for the Designers›Episode 03 (2015.05.11)·
Published on this date.11 May 2015