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BTAxis:
Sure, but the thing is that we HAVE them. We DON'T have all the fancy hardware you guys are suggesting. Having it all would be nice, but who's going to make it? Model it? Texture it? Not me. You?

Pretend:
I agree that there could be a couple of later stage HUMAN weapons. Projectile guns instead of those typical lasers, plasmas and beams.

As for alien weapons I'd like to see some creative use of different species. As it is now the human figure aliens share the same weapons and I didn't see much difference which one I was fighting against. For starters make the muscle alien even harder to take down, snake alien faster and stealthier and so on. Aliens could be a weapon themself. Like couldn't the snakeguy (sorry can't remember their name now) have a poison spit and snake bite for close range. The big muscle alien could use it's strenght to throw something unique, like an Alien style "facehuggers" at Phalanx, which would take control of your soldier. Exploding alien suicide race would be nasty, as would bigger than one square size super-hard-to-kill alien beasts.

Weapons.. aliens should be scary as hell. Now they are not because the zap weapons aren't that intimidating. Aliens don't have any high-explosive weapons (plasma fluid launcher = grenadelauncher which leaves the ground burning for couple of rounds), they don't have machineguns (very inaccurate super heavy 10-shot autofire for the muscle boys) nor sniper rifles (Long distance low-velocity living projectile, which would bite deeper and deeper in to the skin causing damage each turn until removed). Try to think other weapons than just the basic rifle shape items.

Sophisanmus:
If you want a fear-inducing heavy weapon, I would suggest a sort of super-heavy Particle Beam Cannon derivative (sort of halfway between a PBW and a Bolter/Railgun in terms of pseudo-science description) which fires a shotgun-like spread of electromagnetically-accelerated rod penetrators which also explode on impact (roughly a mini-grenade).  The explosion could even be plasma-based.  For balancing issues, it probably should be far to heavy to carry for just about every alien race available, so it seems to beg the inclusion of a large-size alien (2x2, or a biological counterpart to the human... [curses!] ..."Tanks").  Hell, for the alien's design, it could be a 4-6 legged creature with the weapon grafted right into its body.  Any of the team's artists have a penchant for bio-mechanical abominations? 

Pretender, with regards to the suicide alien, see X-COM: Apocalypse's Popper, it's a good example of that concept in practice. 

Serrax:
@BTAxis:


--- Quote from: BTAxis ---Sure, but the thing is that we HAVE them. We DON'T have all the fancy hardware you guys are suggesting. Having it all would be nice, but who's going to make it? Model it? Texture it? Not me. You?
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Sure, you're right. And if I could code more than 'hello world', I'd help.

BTW: If there was the OICW insteat of 4 other weapons, this would have saved coding, modeling...  ;)

Than this issue is simply a question of priorities?


To be inspired for scary alien weapons, I'd simply watch a few hundreds sci-fi movies. For me, the most frightening alien (technical) weapons are the Predator's arsenal (mostly the guided plasma cannon) and the super-worrier 'developed' by 'Anubis' (stargate).

As for alien armor is some kind of 'movement assistance' is mentioned, smart weapons are imho not to exotic. Or as powerful defence against projectiles, rockets and grenades, some kind of smart armor with miniaturized anti-projectiles (or plasma/laser/particle beams) might rock.

Some kind of 'intelligent dust' like you can see in 'Aon flux' might also be a frightening threat.

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knightsubzero:
ding....idea.....well idea refined, how about a rifle based poison weapon, a bit like in serenity near the end of the movie, kaylee gets hit by poison darts.

the darts would slowly reduce your health unless you get healed by a medpac....you would maybe have to reasearch that part of the med pack....so at first they would maybe be a death sentance, unless you finish the round before your guys die.

as an option to the same weapon how about paralysing darts....reducing your time units for a time, with a chance of unconsiousness, or making you immobile until healed.


also how about one that spits green goo that holds you in place as well.

any of these would  allow aliens to capture humans, or they would make your soldiers sitting ducks for other alien weapon atttacks.


how about the needler as mentioned elsewhere, similar to the halo needler.

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