John Crewe · Lead Technical Designer, Foundry 42 UK

So I'll tell a little story about beam weapons. When I first started here, beam weapons weren't in the lore. And then a designer, who shall remain anonymous, did a little prototype and showed it to Chris and the writers, I believe it was the Squadron guys, of this turret with beam weapons. And the moment they saw that, they were like, that looks awesome, we should do that. And whilst we don't have the code in place to do it, we do have them on the schedule to come. And they do provide a very different gameplay. For each of the weapon types, ballistic and energy and other types, we sort of try and have symbiotic ones. So the ballistic gatlings are the very fast-firing ballistic weapons, whereas energy beam ones are their equivalent. So it's a continuous stream of matter. So yeah, they are on the list.

Andy Nicholson · Technical Designer, Foundry 42 UK

Yeah, it's strange, isn't it? Because the door's open for like an energy gatling as well. There's nothing to stop it.

John Crewe · Lead Technical Designer, Foundry 42 UK

It doesn't work like that.

Jared Huckaby · Host, Community

So what's the answer about beam weapons in Star Citizen? Just one line.

John Crewe · Lead Technical Designer, Foundry 42 UK

Yes. Maybe. Yes, at some point.