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[Felicitatem Parco]

Surströmming Warheads

Put these babies on your NARC Missiles to make a tracking beacon that lasts for weeks...

[990Dreams]

Tango Blue (if you know what I am talking about, have a cookie)

Homes in forever, goes over, under or around terrain and deals over 100 damage to the afflicted area (the damage is spread if the area is destroyed [i.e leg destroyed, so it goes to the next closest part])

[Felicitatem Parco]

For a change, instead of making something up, I am citing a real BT weapon...

Machine Gun Array

Allows you to mount up to 4 MGs and link them as one.


So... imagine the 24 Machinegun Jager-DD.

Edited by Prosperity Park, 12 December 2013 - 01:22 PM.

[Nathan Foxbane]

Prosperity Park, on 12 December 2013 - 01:13 PM, said:

For a change, instead of making something up, I am citing a real BT weapon...

Machine Gun Array

Allows you to mount up to 4 MGs and link them as one.


So... imagine the 24 Machinegun Jager-DD.

Multiply by the optional rapid fire mode rules. 1D6=Damage and heat for a single MG.1D6x3=ammo consumed. That ton of MG ammo no longer goes as far as you think it would.
Granted even if an array meant you could cram in 4 MGs per hardpoint you could only fit eight machine guns in each arm plus the 1 critical required for each array itself. But 16 micro RACs is still insane. It worked even better with the Maximum Tech rules set because you did not need an array to link machine guns or any other weapon for that matter.

[990Dreams]

Oh we goin real are we?

Fist of Power

Using room temperature super conductors, it slams a Ferro-uranium round out at Mach V for 1/4 the weight of a Gauss and 12 ammo per ton.

[Bagheera]

The Character Shield.*

Automatically makes your mech so central to the narrative that no amount of weapons fire can seem to finally destroy it. Regardless of damage you always have one last weapon or attack remaining with which to smite your enemy and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.








* - can only be deployed in Community Warfare matches. Wait ...

Edited by Bagheera, 15 December 2013 - 01:37 PM.

[dangerzone]

HAG40. I win.

[StompingOnTanks]

The Creepy Crawly.

Getting a headshot with this weapon causes a Goliath Bird Eater tarantula to appear on the victim's keyboard in real life.

[990Dreams]

Thumper cannon (i.e improved Autocannon)

Spoiler

Thumper cannon (4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40)
Tonnage & Size- Class- tonnage, size, rate of fire(1 rounds per x seconds), range (using med ammo)
4- 4t, 1, 1Rp1S, 640m
8- 6t, 1, 1Rp1.5S, 660m
12- 8t, 2, 1Rp2S, 680m
16- 10t, 3, 1Rp2.5S, 700m
20- 12t, 4, 1Rp3S, 720m
24- 14t, 5, 1Rp3.5S 740m
28- 16t, 6, 1Rp4S, 760m
32- 18t, 7, 1Rp4.5S, 780m
36- 20t, 8, 1Rp5S, 800m
40- 22t, 9, 1Rp5.5S, 820m

Description-
The Thumper Cannon (a.k.a Improved autocannon) is just as its alternative name would suggest. The Thumper Cannon propels a slug at a specific speed by using a method similar to a jump jet. A specific sized chamber of air is compressed to a specific number of atmospheres and then instantly plasmafied via massive electric and heat shock. The damage is equivalent to the number placed before the name (i.e Thumper 4 does 4 damage). This gives the maximum cannon a damage of 40 damage points. The sized of the chamber of air and the pressure of compression increases with the number of damage in order to fire harder (and give more damage). This leads to the range increasing with the size of weapon, quite the inverse of the IS autocannons.

Ammo- damage increment/decrement, range increment/decrement, ammo per ton
The Thumper Cannons use three universal types of ammo (the disadvantage of this is that the barrel must be swapped for changes in ammo).
Thumper Light ammo- -2 damage, +200 meters, 32 ApT,-2 tons for barrel change
Thumper Medium ammo- +-0 damage, +-0 meters, 16 ApT, +-0 tons for barrel change
Thumper Heavy ammo- +4 damage, -200 meters, 8 ApT, +2 tons for barrel change

Not really evil, but it makes ballistics even more OP. Evil in a way, right?

Edited by DavidHurricane, 31 December 2013 - 11:50 AM.

[StompingOnTanks]

This one isn't really a weapon, but rather a piece of equipment mounted in place of ECM:

The Cross-Universe Reinforcement Beacon

This device allows you to radio one extremely overpowered mech from another non-BT sci-fi universe for backup, and generates a portal that the mech comes through. It then proceeds to decimate the enemy team with its non-Battletech firepower. The universe and specific mech you call in can be chosen before the game starts, and you are allowed to pick any mech you want.

Ideally you would choose an anime-style mech so you can **** off every elitist BT fan in-game as they get shredded by Gundams, Armored Cores, Evangelion mecha, and whatever else you can think of. My choice?

N-WGIX (AKA: Black Glint) from Armored Core Verdict Day.


Even the Atlai wouldn't stand a chance.

[Felicitatem Parco]

Bagheera, on 15 December 2013 - 01:37 PM, said:

The Character Shield.*

Automatically makes your mech so central to the narrative that no amount of weapons fire can seem to finally destroy it. Regardless of damage you always have one last weapon or attack remaining with which to smite your enemy and snatch victory from the jaws of defeat.

Red Skins (Character Shield upgrade)

Red Skins are a consumable upgrade to your Character Shield module: they are Mech coverings that you apply to your teammates that causes them to be the first one to get shot in any engagement, leaving you alive and well to continue the fight under the protection of your Character Shield.

[SaltBeef]

Slime cannon or Gatling paintball gun! Messes up the cockpit view since mechs have no windshield wipers.

[StompingOnTanks]

The Inter-Server Land Mine.

Weight: 2 Tons
Slots: 2
Ammo Per Ton: 10
Damage Per Hit: 10
Type: Missile

Firing this weapon drops a landmine on the ground that stays there even until after the match, allowing players from the next match (and the next match, and the next match, and the next match) to step on it and suffer leg damage. The mine disappears after it explodes, but the fact that it can remain on the map indefinitely until someone steps on it means that sooner or later somebody will set it off, and you get the C-Bills and Experience for it. Loading up a Catapult with these and mining large areas of the map allows you to farm C-Bills long after you've died and left the match and the next match has started. The fact that this weapon forces every player to tiptoe around the battlefield with their eyes glued to the ground looking for landmines that were dropped two or three (or six or ten or a hundred) games ago while you watch the money roll in makes this the ultimate troll weapon.

[eaglemaster42]

Commando kamikaze edition with MASC!
Special features in the kamikaze edition include:
-reduced size
-increased lag shield
-extra fast
-um it also explodes hard enough to take down an atlas

[990Dreams]

Cockpit glass window cleaner.

[Bagheera]

Prosperity Park, on 03 January 2014 - 08:46 AM, said:

Red Skins (Character Shield upgrade)

Red Skins are a consumable upgrade to your Character Shield module: they are Mech coverings that you apply to your teammates that causes them to be the first one to get shot in any engagement, leaving you alive and well to continue the fight under the protection of your Character Shield.

EECM:

Extraneous Exposition Counter Measures:

This insidious device simultaneously takes over enemy comms while temporarily immobilizing affected mechs. Opponents are locked in place while their comms play out an excessively elaborate explanation of the back story of each member of your lance, how they were recruited, what specific skill they add to the lance, the entire plan of attack, and detailed retelling of how the match has played out for each lance member thus far.

Edited by Bagheera, 17 January 2014 - 10:06 AM.

[Blood Rose]

The Hatred Laser. It generates 9 heat, does 9 damage, has a 630M range and its beam is a cross between a large laser and a PPC shot. If it hits, it makes the players vision turn red. However, if it hits a Brony's mech, it will instantly cause them to explode with a 60M blast radius. Because Hatred is the bane of the brony.

[StompingOnTanks]

The Tabletopinnator.

This weapon is a module that changes all of MWO's game rules and mech/weapon stats to those of the original Battletech board game, resulting in a highly tactical but extremely slow style of play where every player has to hit a "Roll Dice" button for EVERYTHING. Guaranteed to cause ragequits.

(The BT board game is awesome though. )

[990Dreams]

As awesome as TT is, a Real-Time-First-Person-Shooter cannot use TT mechanics (the base BT mechanics/values that define the weapons/Mechs are an exception)

The LSD gun

Deploys gaseous Lysergic Acid Diethylamide into the air and causes all the pilots to hallucinate and get {hippy-fied}. Within a 180m radius (you are safe)

Edited by DavidHurricane, 22 January 2014 - 06:43 AM.

[Bagheera]

Or really anything from the "We Didn't Playtest ..." series.