Whats your favorite, or just liked, sci-fi/near-future weapons dynamic and why? Most have one, Star wars, Star Trek, Dune, Traveler, 40k, Traveller, Halo, cyberpunk, Rifts, etc that largely determine how battlefield engagements play out.
Star wars with ray and partical sheilds blocking solid and energy weapons respectively where blasters are more powerful generally, but solid might be more effective against lightsaber wielders.
Halo with plasma being more effective against shields, but bullets more effective against flesh.
Dune with Hotzman feild making fast moving objects, solid or energy largely fizzle out and requiring slow moving objects.
40k with plasma being more finicky and unstable but higher damage broadly, will lasers and solid rounds being more stable but generally less powerful.
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>handheld
laser guns
main appeal is that they are the modern version of rayguns, only a beam of light
while pew-pew GI joe lasers are cool, I do like seeing lasers with more of a soft "hiss" from their cooling unit and only a faint transluscent beam that instantly hits its target
>oversized
linear guns, magnetic accelerators, rail guns, or whatever cool and futuristic name for such weapon are
Guided bullets
would that technically be a rocket? or is it fin guided?
A good way to suck all the fun out of glorious battle.
no skill...no honor
you have to GLORIOUSLY make a more HONORABLE targeting algorithm.
>Be-a me
>Glorious Veteran of a Hundred Battus from the Rand of the Rising Sun.
>Must protect honor of the battufield
>Gettu deproyed
>Time to pluve my worth again
>Get sent to Afghanistan arongside fat Americans
>Going to go take reak by pire of rubbre
>Fat American speciarist fricking around with sniper lifre.
>He pulls trigger of roaded gun
>Get accidentary 360 no-scoped by overweight chow-rine garbage can of a "man"
>Go to afterife
>Face ancestors
>No honor
Honorable battle went out of style with the charge of the light brigade, my dude.
t.
>-t. ancient greek king seeing the first ballista
>Thog when he sees Grog throw his rock and then run away if it misses.
>Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls, and ask the ghosts if honor matters.
>The silence is your answer.
Gay
Honestly love the lasgun and I'm not even a 40kgay, it just has a nice comfy design.
Low energy piezoelectric hand weapons and body armour, so when you're running, falling, striking or struck, the charge carried with generate an electromagnetic wave to dissipate the energy.
Silly combinations of things like a six barrelled blackpowder carbine (emp proof) and nanotech blades.
Low tech and high tech, bowmen tying grenades to their arrows. Chanmail coifs and gauntlets to stop zombie bites.
I like lightning guns, impractical and unrealistic as they may be. Whether they leap to other targets or make one explode like a blood balloon like in District 9, they're great.
The cerebral bore from Turok also remains the king of impractical terror weapons.
I like Raypunk, all the various particles, and girth, and color. Different laser gun ammunitions. the gun porn of it all.
Mass Effect. Fairly normal guns in the usual formats, heat management, special weapons can get nonsensical but only really make sense in a niche.
I liked how their balistic weapons have smaller rounds but go faster to compensate so that they hold more rounds than modern guns per reload.
Something that always felt off to me in halo is that the setting is supposedly 500 years in the future, but most of the on the ground tech is still like 1970’s in terms of perks.
Guided bullets aren't futuristic to you?
Cyberpunk has a gin in one of it's splatbooks that has a flywheel which scrapes against a ceramic block and shoots out the resulting needles. And I think it's pretty cool, shamelessly co-opted it into my own space setting.
My other main favorite is chemical lasers. Something about carrying a couple tanks of volatile chemicals is just more interesting to me than batteries or bullets. That said the G-11 and any sci-fi gun inspired by it is a-okay in my book too
Rocket rifles/boltguns/gyroject/mini rockets. Whatever you want to call them.
I love the idea of anti-material small arms delivering a four-inch long payload of FREEDOM into an APC.
I did not mean to crosspost. Copied the other thread by mistake.
Flagellate me at your earliest convenience.
we will use M1919s, M2 .50s, M1911s, hi-powers, and M1918s in the future
we will fight the space termites of proxima centauri with the M2 browning like god intended
Yeah space versions of real guns or just straight up AKs in space is probably my favorite
>straight up AKs in space
If it's like in Elysium, yes. If like in Andor, no.
40,000 world wars!
This is fine, but even better is fighting space wars with crazy high tech weapons backed up by the designs of good ol' John Moses. Because of course you'd want the latest plasma carbine or laser pistol or whatever most of the time, those presumably have some serious advantages from tech advancements. But there's nothing like mechanical reliability in a pinch, and a belt fed heavy machinegun will be useful until every single infantryman is wearing something that can stop a .50
Weapons made out certified shit-you-do-not-understand. Alien materials, precursor race bullshit, psychics defying, etc.
To name a TTRPG specifically, the xen-harmonic weapons from Myriad Song.
>The technology for making these weapons was known only to the Syndics, so these items could be considered priceless. These devices defy conventional analysis. During its use, the weapon alters the proportionality between the energy of photons and the frequency of such a wave – something impossible by conventional science. Then by drawing power from some external source, the weapon projects a xenharmonic wave at the target. The effect has been compared to opening a tiny hyper-space warp. The results are highly unpredictable – high-temperature burns, flash freezing, rapid decay, microwave excitation, radiation poisonings, etc. Scientists of the Concord and the Solar Creed fear that xenharmonic weapons are slowly destroying our universe, and that the continued use of this technology can pollute the environment, altering space and time to a point that could lead to total collapse of the universe. Xenharmonic weapons are prized family heirlooms among the Remanence.
Bioweapons.
Only thing better than a gun, is a gun you can pet!
https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/sidearmexotic.php#id--Dial-A-Gun
I'm a fan of particle beams with optional stun for personal weapons
I like my ships to have more of a star wars turbo laser feel, just fricking launching building sized bolts of superheated plasma
go back over GARAND THUMB's catalogue, flannel daddy got to frick around with the next gen scopes they're working on. paraphrasing his video, he said it was fricking cheating. the scope does all the work of a designated spotter, calculating wind etc to accurately give you a CCIP fricking shotfall point of impact. its fricking RAD as frick. ONCE those roll out properly, combat will become an even more 'whoever sees who first, wins'.
Hand cannons of ludicrous power and the inherent accuracy of a laser with dial a yield abilities, preferably as lost/limited tech so an OC can sport one in a U inverse where everyone else is running generic sci-fi guff.
Like Blame but less incomprehensibly weeb.
Entropic Disintegrators from EVE online.
tl;dr these weapons burn exotic plasma to fire concentrated beams of energy at short-medium ranges. Upon impact the beam creates a localized entropic effect, simultaneously heating and ripping apart the target via intense gravitational forces. The beam itself is fueled by a caged singularity in the center of each Precursor ship, which 'folds out' to fully utilize the power source.
What makes these weapons so horrific is that the damage output increases with each firing cycle. They are highly accurate too, so a battle against a Precursor vessel is essentially a race against time.
There's a description of a milita weapon in The Instrumentality of Mankind that sounded fun. It was a kind of multi-modal direct energy weapon that could be dialed from stun to projecting a frick-off bubble that would annihilate anything in the direct vincinity around the user.
Anything that just reduces people to smoking skeletons
Throw big rock at bad man
No more bad man
Life good
didn't the whole problem with Dune shield was that a bullet striking it would cause a nuclear explosion?
no, lasers. And it was a might.
I think the plasma gun in 40k is really cool because it works how I always though a gun that shoots the same stuff the sun is made out of would work when I was in middle school.