For online purposes only, I'm creating a thread based on your opinions as to weapons that should be added to Lost Planet's multiplayer. They should be balanced as much as possible with weapons that deal extremely high damage or cover a large blast radius hindered by low ammunition etc.

I'll start with some of my own ideas.

Homing missles: From the singleplayer

Acts like the Homing laser. Fires rockets instead of lasers which track targets. Holds 12 missles.

Anti-VS-Rifle: From the singleplayer

Acts like a Mech sniper rifle. Can zoom at 10% and 25%. A single hit from the Anti-VS-Rifle on an enemy mech will destroy an opponents mech instantly and trap them inside the mech so they cannot escape. Deals lower amounts of damage to people versus mechs. Each shot uses 400 thermal energy and the weapon holds three shots.

Thermal Blade: Makes the melee useful

Standard melee has a wider arch. A single hit kills an enemy. Can hold down the fire button to paint a single enemy. Release the fire button to launch into the air and fall down*, striking the foe. Takes half of their health. Takes no thermal energy per swing but TE runs out slowly like a VS. Requires at least 100.

*Opponents can dodge thermal slashes by running towards the enemy when they lunge so the foe flies overhead.

Land Mine: Trip up the enemy

Available at spawn in the grenade slot. Players spawn with 2 landmines and can set them anywhere there is flat ground large enough to support a Cackti. Mines explode on contact or detonation (Shooting extensively/ Fragging) and can kill a player in a single explosion. Mechs of variable integrity can be destroyed from continous wear or in two landmine explosions. Any player with a radar via data post can locate landmines by a blue dot on their radar.

Burst Rifle: A second standard fire-arm

Fires three shots in a burst mode of fire. Extremely useful for close to medium range combat. Four shots to the torso or two shots to the head yield a kill. Typically holds 60 bullets but can max at 300 ammunition. Each pull of the trigger expells three bullets.

Pistol: Backup weaponry

Fires quick bullets that can kill an opponent in 10 shots to the chest. Three shots to the head result in a kill.

Nuclear Warhead: The ultimate

A single specialized turret which claims your life via massive thermal energy drain. Fires a single extremely difficult to judge bomb that covers a large area and kills anyone within feet of the bomb itself. The actual explosion leaves anyone with max health at low health (plus knockdown) and kills anyone with less than 75% of maximum health. The turret explodes aswell thus decreasing your battle gauge even more.

With all of the cold-related weapons and the importance of thermal energy, I'd suggest a freeze ray/energy sapper of sorts. Not to actually stop an opponent in a block of ice, but to sap away T-ENG at a very fast rate, and add it to your own. Effective range would be only about as far as a shotgun, and you'd have to switch weapons to do serious damage, but if you went up against a foe with an energy gun or plasma gun, it could give you the edge quickly.

The Nubbin wrote:

I still want a lightsaber.

I could see Nub, grappling on the the belly of a VS, cutting it open with the Lightsabre and throwing in a thermal detona-..Uhh.. I mean gum grenade. :p