Railgun on Yellow Ships?

So, I was thinking about how to promote diversity in the yellow ships- most speeders are flare+cannon or cannon+torp, enforcers are frost+mortar or flare+2xblast/flare+mine+blast. I also was thinking about how to "buff railgun" without making it OP on shooters.

My idea is to have railguns do extra damage to stunned targets, sorta like cannons and fire. Obviously, there would need to be new perks and new talents for Buzzkill.
To me this makes sense, because railguns fire by using an incredible electric charge and a lot of magnets to... Ok whatever.
This would make speeders (perhaps?) more diverse. This would also be a slight buff to Tesla Bolt, after the nerf. I doubt enforcers will change, but who knows?

So... what do you guys think? This is just my idea, so its up to you devs to decide.

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Very creative idea I love that.

 

That cooldown on a 2 red slot ship tho'!

 

I've pondered a railgun on my own speeder but it always comes back to the range issue. At least the way I pilot my speeder it's a close range combat ship. The last thing i need is a weapon which is useless at close ranges. Another point is that already I can deliver a 2 barrel combo of 1200hp damage. Any weapon with twice the cycle time would need to deliver roughly twice that damage. Do you really want a mid-grade mark-4 speeder dishing out 2500hp of burst damage -- or even 2000? That would put me in one-shot range of the bandage speeders but it's a one-shot with an R30 weapon rather than an E40 one.

 

I've only seen three RG speeders.
+1 for the idea btw.

 

I've equipped a big torp..
Worked surprisingly well

 

Well... I've considered the issues.

Most can be worked around- They can let railgun do half of it's normal damage at close-range and adjust (something like that).
Also, I am aware that this could be OP. This is why railgun has such a high cooldown. Remember, it does bonus damage to stunned targets.
Good luck stunning ONE ship and hoping the stun doesn't break because of a mortar!

 

Used to be a railgun user back in beta. Scrapped my rare railgun, neat idea.. If added might go back to railgun again!
+1 for diversity.

 

Considering Enforcers only get 1 point slots, it's pretty risky to use up two item slots for a single LONG cooldown item... at which point you are better off with a Speeder.

 

I've been a railgun + sniper speeder myself and I even reached nightmare league using that combo. But then I thought to myself what's the point - if I'm always going to keep distance to the enemy, then why not run a shooter and add 3 more guns on my boat. Only good thing the speeder currently has with railgun is the ability to relocate for better line of shot but that alone isn't enough. So I support the OP's idea, this might make the combo little more viable option again and bring more diversity to the game, especially after the recent EC nerf. But it's hard to say what damage multiplier would make it balanced.

 

100% No, completely against it.

And by Yellow ships,its just gonna be a speeder since enfo can't equip Two slot weapon...

Speeder is a assassination boat, no point in giving an advantage long and short range

You dont have to buff a weapon to increase diversity, just starts using it effectively players will follow you

 

Not true. So many players just use the meta.

 

Four words: He is shooter now

 

I use whatever this beautiful game gives me! I'm lucky to receive Explosive and Flare Gun

 

I've seen some great railgun speeders, but they're rare. This might make more people try it out. Another idea, for the enforcer issue, what if there was a railgun 1pt equivalent? Kind of like the blast and ex cannons.