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Please make Tanglecoil Launcher's BFG and Tractor Beam Weapons skins available for use

avianosavianos Posts: 6,178 Arc User
Tanglecoil Launcher and Tractor Beam
, both are powers from Gadgeteering powerframe, with really questionable Utility... what's Tractor Beam reason to exist?

Tanglecoil Launcher use a Badass BFG which could be used as skin for Assault Riffle and Pulse Beam Rifle
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While Tractor Beam has an interesting Radioactive heavy weapon (used only by VIPER Brick Busters) which could be used as skin for Gatling Gun (or other Future powers, but i leave this to another poster's suggestion thread, call me for Medical Gadgeteer)
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those skins are currently exclusive only for those powers, which is really strange
it would benefit the costumization if they became available for other weapon categories​​
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  • dakrushmordakrushmor Posts: 592 Arc User
    edited November 2016
    Obviously these samples aint normal customizable "weapons", but rather gadgets (as framework name suggests), like bolases or boomerangs. Gadgeteer has 3 weapon Bones - it's sonic blaster, particle rifle & experimental blaster. These have 2 powers utilizing that each, but above shown gadgets've only one power, that uses them, each. Obviously that wasn't nuff to justify adding new Bones specifically for them.

    l guess adding new weapon Bones would be possible, as it was done for sorcery (symbols're weapons technically), but then a dilemma stands - what Bone to use for one or another power. So imagine if Flamethrower playable power is released, if attach Minigun bone for it - there could be theme situation, when "Rambo" gonna interlace both powers - FT & Gatling; and he could have only one weapon skin attached. For each power the new bone - it's kinda spam, so it should be treated carefully, but luckily there're plenty of excessive Power Replacer icons were made past days, so they might be easily attached (to prevent situation like Star Barrage, which icon directs to Telekinetic Assault's one).

    l'm totally for heal tech power, as well as some intangible tech AoE (not the charge up). First one has completely drawn visual - Drone/Biosteel Beam, it also scales with rank, second one has almost drawn one - Viper Energy Gun Spray, it'll require few tweaks though. Also unique icons can be easily found. l guess Dronebeam may utilize Experimental Blaster bone (or heavy gadget cannon new bone), and AoE Maintain - Particle Rifle.
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