Additional effects from Weapon upgrades

Benson

What if each level of weapon upgrade added an additional effect to the basic marine loadout?

For Example,

Weapons 1: Also increases rifle but damage by 15 (total of 40 i think)

Weapons 2: Also changes the pistol damage type to normal (from light)

Weapons 3: Also gives an extra two clips for both the LMG and the pistol


A similar system could be used for armor as well:

Armor 1: No extra effect (being immune to parasite + 2bites is good enough imo)

Armor 2: "lighter" armor, allowing marines to sprint longer (or move slightly faster, whichever is better for balance)

Armor 3: "Ninite" armor, armor repairs at 1/sec (90 sec for full armor)


Disclaimer: all values subject to change, it just an idea after all

Samus1111111

Sooo.... getting a flat damage/armor increase isn't enough?

CCTEE

Nice idea. Could be based on personal resources: a marine can choose to get the extra upgrade for 1 or 2 pres at the armory or the armslab (effect is gone after death).

Benson

With the recent changes from the BT (rifle spread, armories not healing armor) It seemed like it could be interesting to make late game tech (a3/w3) play differently that early game tech (a0/w0).

Biomass hp/armor scaling could be increased to compensate if it becomes an issue.

And I know that there are a lot of people who would love to have a normal damage type pistol

Sherlock

Imagine a pack-a-punched gun from a Call of Duty Zombies game (the only part of any of that series I still partially enjoy).

Now I would LOVE my W3 rifle to sound and have muzzle-flash like that when I fired!

JCDenton

Here's what I am interpreting your post as being.
Having upgrades that are just numbers aren't as satisfying. If you have weapons 2 instead of weapons 1, but you have particularly bad aim when encountering a skulk, the difference isn't noticeable.
But, small changes, like say a slightly different model, or a 10% increase in clip size with each weapon upgrade.
Small changes which are evident when walking around, instead of it took 1 less shot to kill this Onos.