Guardian "Laser" weapon "Guardian Particle Beam Cannon"

[Gryphorim]

Idea for a "laser" weapon for use against Thargoids:

Guardian particle beam weapon

Fires a stream of particles energised with guardian crystal energy (whatever that is, but it hurts the thargiods)
Essentially a beam laser, but high heat generation and with increasing jitter for longer the beam is held, somewhat like a shock cannon.
Rewards small bursts with accurate fire, but hold trigger down and beam scatters all over target.
VFX could begin looking like a stable, straight energy beam, but as more jitter accrues, beam distorts into a lightning-like effect, like thargoid energy attack.

 

[thunktone]

Sounds cool, but if it's going to look like the thargoid lightning attack then maybe it should be based on thargoid tech?

 

[Gryphorim]

Sounds cool, but if it's going to look like the thargoid lightning attack then maybe it should be based on thargoid tech?

I thought about that for ages before I made this post, but decided to go with Guardian tech for the suggestion as they also have some lightning effects on their tech (blue, which is what I imagined for this particle weapon), and Guardian tech is the established route for anti-thargoid weapons.

 

[Sylow]

Hmm, yea. I actually expect something like that in the future.
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Every big patch now again brings some guardian equipment. Basically we now have the frag cannon, the railgun and the plasma accelerator in the guardian version. So I would expect lasers to come next.
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The harder question is: why are guardian weapons effective against Thargoids (while being crap against human ships), while human technology can hurt humans but not scratch Thargoids. The only answer is: game. And even within this answer, it's still a crutch and in my eyes only exists to get around the mess FD has placed themselves in with the Engineers.
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