Think of a new specialist

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Something similar to the XM99A Phased Plasma Pulse Rifle from PvE would be cool.

The Vulture would also make a very interesting and very skill dependent spec weapon.

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Forgot about the Vulture. Good thinking!

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minigun/machinegun spec with a backpack-fed system

could be a m2c for all i care, imagine the TUTUTUUTUTUTUTUTUTUTUUTUTUTUTUM

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Jessie Ventura spec with Mini Gun. I love it!

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wtf is the vulture it sounds cool as hell

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We can ask to return breaching shotgun… auto mag feed shotgun… can we just use clap’s shotgun?

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the problem with a breaching spec is that it is useless a large chunk of the time. If you aren’t on the offensive and actively breaching xeno defenses, there is no point in having a breacher. What will they be doing during fob defense? or in a large open skirmish where shotguns typically suffer?

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It looks fire but also something that I feel would only be playable with metabuddies.

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Didn’t end up working out, vulture is largely shelved from regular gameplay iirc, though it’s 100% functional and complete

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Yeah, I really liked the innovation of it but I have no idea how it would work in practice.

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The only thing I saw the vulture do was half health a prae, and heartbreak a IO with the same bullet.

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like this

still exists on white antre btw, 1 bullet in the chamber

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Something similar to the XM99A Phased Plasma Pulse Rifle from PvE would be cool.

honestly this is a good idea, this could be alternative to pyro. Pyro’s point is area denial after all we can took this from plasma rifle and ta-da we have a PFC+ spec

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I mean a buffed shotgun could be useful for stopping xenos from entering a breach/choke.

Could give breacher spec pounce resistance like grenadier gets.

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Would be fair in my opinion, they are called specialists after all. Sniper and SADAR are worse in close quarters. So pyro and a shotgun specialist with the inverse would be nice.

Urist mentioned giving the breacher spec anti-pounce armor. But I think breacher would have to be either/or with grenadier for that. Having two sets of anti-pounce armor might be a problem.

In my opinion the hypothetical breacher spec should just get the anti-pounce and anti-hug equipment alone, while grenadier just gets something light and explosive resistant. But I’ll admit that taking half the equipment from one spec to make a new one would probably be poorly received

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I think some sort of “Xeno Handler” ala the APE suits would be cool. Maybe make them CQC, able to shrug off warrior lunges and most stuns?

Just spitballing trying to think of something unique besides another gun.

That or something along the lines of the chances recon technician. Like a specialized engineer/medical guy, like a mini synth almost.

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Light Assault Trooper.

Has a jetpack that makes it glide above the ground.

Can only fly with carbines, smgs, pistols, and LAT light armor.

Needs fuel.

Jetpack has heat capacity which limits its flight to seconds and rapidly cools down, but no faster than it heats up.

When fully cooled, it has a Boost ability that makes it jump in the air, dash in a straight line, then land. Can land early but still uses entire heat capacity.

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Sounds like it belongs on TGMC. Not a fan.