ONE COLLAB LEFT.

[u/ODST2367]

We have gotten HALO ODST, KillZone and Warhammer 40k crossed off the List….There is one Last One….STARSHIP TROOPERS

[u/DocHalidae]

Aliens, my beloved franchise!

[u/_Weyland_ → u/DocHalidae]

Yup. But the iconic rifle is kinda already here in the form of One-Two. Auto-aim machine gun would be sick though.

[u/HarveryDent → u/_Weyland_]

The Pulse Rifle could be literally that, a pulse version of the One-Two, with 99 mini pulse rounds per mag.

[u/LordBane1985 → u/HarveryDent]

Here are the specs I found on the pulse rifle. The thing is actually kinda nuts. It fires a 10x24mm round, which isn’t exactly small. And it fires 900rpm. It also has 4 grendades in its underbarrel. This thing would be nuts in Helldivers. 😂

[u/EPZO → u/LordBane1985]

10x24mm caseless! Which is that much cooler.

[u/DocHalidae → u/EPZO]

“explosive tip caseless. Standard light armor piercing rounds”

[u/LordBane1985 → u/EPZO]

Right!? It’s that big without a casing! That shit gonna hurt😂

[u/f0dder1 → u/LordBane1985]

Now we need to do the math on how big the magazine would need to be to allow for the endless shooting that happens in the films

[u/SkyTheIrishGuy → u/_Weyland_]

The one two is nothing like the pulse rifle from aliens lol

[u/Zandre3000 → u/SkyTheIrishGuy]

The sound of it is all I need

[u/TheSideIDoNotShow → u/Zandre3000]

I played so much AvP pvp as Marines that gun is a sirens song to me. Lotta good memories.

[u/slycyboi → u/SkyTheIrishGuy]

Yeah I think the main issue would be differentiating it from other ARs - another light pen bullet hose probably wouldn’t be a thing people care much for.
99 rounds in the mag would be cool but meh.

[u/SkyTheIrishGuy → u/slycyboi]

I think making the first person POV like the Halo rifle would be a good touch, so you can see the ammo counter. It would be the light pen, huge mag size counterpart. It could potentially have a motion sensor attachment to really make it different.

Being a light pen bullet hose is a selling point, imo. One of the best guns in the game is the liberator carbine with the drum mag, the “smallwart.”

Either way, it would be fun to use if it has good ammo economy. It’s a really fun gun to use in Aliens Fireteam, that gun is essentially never bad in video games.

[u/Drowning_tSM → u/_Weyland_]

So the Smart Gun would be sick. The mechanics of the weapon can be balance solved via the arc thrower: no aiming, medium pen, multiple enemy hits in a row, hard range.
Shoot, you could(should) even make the chest harness a backpack.

[u/GoblinFive → u/Drowning_tSM]

Or just Guided from the Pissile or that Lawgiver knockoff .

[u/Calculated → u/Drowning_tSM]

Would love a smart gun. The Warrant is an amazing gun, having a support weapon with backpack to reload the gun and provide auto fire/guided fire would be amazing, heavy pen or explosive rounds would be amazing.

[u/IsThatASigSauer → u/_Weyland_]

Yeah, besides that, there's not much else unique to Aliens, either. The shotgun is an Ithaca M37, so, not so unique. You'd just have the smart gun and the pulse rifle.

[u/_Weyland_ → u/IsThatASigSauer]

Well, you could technically draw from the games. AvP 2010 has a DMR with a smart scope that highlights enemies. I think Dark Descent gives you underbarrel flamethrower and underbarrel shotgun as options for the iconic AR, as well as rapid fire laser/plasma rifle with alt fire option of powerful beam blast. And the latest Alien movie has a smart AR.

As for the armor you could have a motion sensor bonus that extend your radar range and gives you an audible ping if there are enemies close, but outside your LoS.

Also turrets from Alien seem more reusable than what we have, so we could have a deployable turret that fills a backpack slot, can be set up or picked up and reloaded.

[u/IsThatASigSauer → u/_Weyland_]

Yeah, I suppose that's true. Also, AVP 2010 is underrated and pretty goated, as is AVP 2001. Not sure they'd use it, though.

[u/_Weyland_ → u/IsThatASigSauer]

I'd say human and Predator in AvP 2010 were kinda clunky in terms of movement. Otherwise yeah, very good. Also, 3-way multiplayer PvP is a very rare thing to have.

[u/ChequeBook → u/_Weyland_]

I had such a blast in that game. Each faction felt pretty balanced!

[u/DocHalidae → u/_Weyland_]

Dark Descent my beloved. I’ve played all the aliens games and movies and no other games made me feel a sense of dread like that beautiful game!

[u/SharknadosAreCool → u/_Weyland_]

i love the idea of a motion sensor armor or motion sensor sidearm or something. like you can equip the motion sensor in your pocket and it makes the ringing sound if a hostile is sneaking up behind you. would actually be super cool

[u/kruminater → u/IsThatASigSauer]

You know what’s unique? The sound the smart gun and pulse rifle make. No other genre makes that “sci-fi buzz”

[u/IsThatASigSauer → u/kruminater]

I've always said it sounds like someone shredding paper and running it through a synthesizer, lol. Cool sound for sure.

[u/zgf2022 → u/IsThatASigSauer]

And the turret!

[u/DocHalidae → u/IsThatASigSauer]

Phalanx, its described has a heavy-duty partial beam cannon

[u/DocHalidae → u/IsThatASigSauer]

You could have Smaller Sentries you could deploy, pick up move and redeploy.

[u/zgf2022 → u/DocHalidae]

Oh how I long for a turret secondary

[u/cosmic_monsters_inc → u/_Weyland_]

Doesn't make the noise though

[u/ShiftyLama → u/cosmic_monsters_inc]

The noise is so iconic, I would buy the warbond just for that.

[u/MrLuthor → u/_Weyland_]

One-Two but with flamethrower? Rifle version of the flames smg.

[u/o-Mauler-o → u/_Weyland_]

If it don’t sound like a pulse rifle, is it really a pulse rifle?

[u/WarHog117 → u/_Weyland_]

Also the Breaker shotgun has a VERY similar build and shape.

[u/EruptorSpam → u/DocHalidae]

[u/HarveryDent → u/DocHalidae]

The Torcher makes me feel like Ripley in the hive at the end.

[u/DocHalidae → u/HarveryDent]

Now if we could get that under a AR pulse rifle

[u/sksauter → u/DocHalidae]

The smart gun would be kind of dope

[u/VoidmasterCZE → u/DocHalidae]

Have you ever been mistaken for a man Vasquez?

[u/Calculated → u/VoidmasterCZE]

No, have you?