Conventional Late-Game Marine Weapons

Raneman

Currently T3 Marine weapons consist of the Flamer and GL, which are very situational.

Would it hurt to add a high tier hitscan weapon? I'm assuming the chaingun will be HA only.

IeptBarakat

Please bringback the heavy machine gun. I always used it in ns1. It's large firing cone helped greatly. Currently marines are just sent out to the slaughter when lategame happens.

Floodinator

Those aren't really Tier 3.

Tier 3 will be Dual-/ SingelMinigun (read smth about a Railgun to but don't remeber if it was a DEV or user) and the EXO/JP.
Everything that needs protolab is Tier 3.

Heroman117

Right now there is no tier 3.

The current weapons are only tier 2, which as previously stated the new tier 3 weapons will be a minigun, railgun, and others that have not been mentioned yet, which also includes jetpacks and exosuits(replaces previous heavy armor).

Same thing goes for the aliens, which their tier 3 would include the Onos, as well as the new Shift upgrade chamber.

Raneman

I consider Onos, JP, HA, and Chaingun T4

Heroman117

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If you consider those tier 4 then how exactly do you view the current weapons?

The way it is currently set up is:

Tier 1
Rifle + shotgun (As in Ns1, are available practically from the moment the game starts (albeit shotgun takes a few moments to research now))

Tier 2
Grenade Launcher + Flame thrower (Require the advanced armory)

Tier 3 (coming soon)
Exosuit (allows miniguns + railguns) + Jetpacks + whatever UWE may still have planned but hasn't revealed yet. (Will require a prototype lab)