Have we considered beam weapons, like the old Star Trek phasers? Is that a weapon type we've considered, or have we ruled that out?
TL;DRBeam weapons are on the schedule as the energy equivalent of ballistic gatlings, though the code isn't in place yet; asked for one line, the answer is "Yes. Maybe. Yes, at some point."
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.
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.
It doesn't work like that.
So what's the answer about beam weapons in Star Citizen? Just one line.
Yes. Maybe. Yes, at some point.