Feature Creep: Elemental Gun Party

Hello Star Citizen enthusiasts welcome back to some Feature Creep. I'm pretty stoked. Practically giddy with excitement at the first look of the elemental type weapons. This one being electric shock of a deadly kind of way in the form of a sniper rifle and a pistol with Thor's personal hammer touch. It's a beauty to behold.

I dig the design with a classy wood look on metal with a Mad Max style Tesla Coil on the end. What better way to fry your enemies and relieve their bowels in a most humiliating fashion? The only problem is I don't know where to take this post. There are far too many options!

Do I take us down the rabbit hole imagining hooking up ship sized Tesla blasters on our Bounty Hunter ships to fry pirates at a distance? Choice of deadly lightning strikes or system failure EMP style, but in one direct bolt? I just want to see a size four electro blaster sitting pretty on the nose of 325i. Ashes to ashes as the phrase goes as your molecules are torn into their most basic parts.

But then, what about other hand held weapons like an assault rifle supped up Tesla sparkle style that can be set for stun. Taser, phaser, and Tesla rifle all in one. A bounty hunter special with a slow, but decent rate of fire that disrupts systems. Good times in cosmos.

Better yet let's imagine what new elemental type weapons we'll see in the future. Will we see a laser that melts metal and lights organic matter on fire? Classic deep freeze style weapons like instant carbanization Star Wars style? Or maybe something completely out of left field such as quantum style guns that rip targets apart by launching mini projectiles using mini quantum drives creating a quantum field for propulsion.

So many choices. So many possibilities, and each one with the potential to be mounted on a ship to be frying it's prey on a much larger scale. The sky is the limit, and I hope they go all out with this concept.

I can just see landing in Theaters of War, or in a large conflict between a couple of hostile orgs to see the sparks fly. There we have classic lead, here lasers burning ship hulls, their this electric sniper rifle ripping through squads, there a gravity mortar shell ripping tiny hulls in reality before sucking everything into its depths, flashing brilliance as far as the eye can see. Sweet beautiful pixel based death as mesmerizing as watching a round of Warhammer 40k 2, but in first person Star Citizen level of detail glory. Ridiculous? Maybe, but totally worth it.

In the end we will just have to wait, and see how far they take these concepts for elemental based weapons. Personally, I'm rooting for the ever more sci fi to fantasy type weapons they can dream up to vanquish our foes, and hapless fools with. I'm certainly going to pick one of these bad boys up when they're usable. The whole time my wish list for mad elemental damage types will be running wild, and I can't wait to have my mind blown. CIG does that every now and then. If only we could get out of Alpha we would have it made.

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