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I think the aliens should get a kind of powerful weapon after X-com researches and uses any kind of plasma weapon. A mid-sized explosion smaller than alien grenade but much bigger than the normal grenade will happen when it hits the target and the beam itself is about 20% stronger than a heavy plasma. X-com scientists couldn't research it because it swlf-destructs when the alien is dead.

Dunno if this is a good idea or not, but just something for the aliens fot a change

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Definitely not a good idea, Aliens are notorious for trying to shoot through walls (harmless if Plasma, Fun if Stun Bomb), and *gasp* THROWING GRENADES that rebound right inside the UFO... Which is actually Very funny... :LOL:

 

That said, they don't need more means to blow themselves up...

Just look at the way they handle blaster bombs (bug aside)

 

I know we're talking abaout a better battlescape and slightly better AI here, but it might be more trouble than it's worth IMO...

Oh, and self-destructing weapon won't work if you can MC them... Unless of course it would be the default weapon of a terrorist... Mhmmm I can see some nasties here... :D

 

Then again, the simple idea of aliens throwing grenades is... not nearly alien enough... Perhaps some other means of firing a spit of Nitroglycerin or something arcing over fences (like in Tftd, was it the deep one?)

Anyway, let's keep the idea open just in case...

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Guest alex the greater

sounds good maby it could be a fusion gun (supperheats pasma inside a forse field to fusion temputures and then colapsis the contanment field to creat a mini suppernoava)

 

normaly i woudent avocate giveing aliens more booms :explode: :explode: :explode:

but a fusion gun would be good as long as u limit the balst to human grenade sised (maby the contanment field could stay long enough to contan the blast so it does like 500 damige but the balst is limated to a few feat) but alow humans to reserch them

 

basicly make a man portable fusion ball lancher

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Ohhhh ho ho ho. That gun with an autoshot...wait a seccond its like the aliens version of an autocannon with He shells. That would be nifty. I see posibilty here. Interchaingable alien clips. Human stunning gas maybe, Fusion bombs, normal plasma fire? It would be cool kinda sorta. If we tweaked it around so it wasnt just an alien version of an auto cannon.
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I feel that the aliens have enough toys as it is, and if we tweak the AI so that they use their toys effectively *knowing glance to programmers* then we have no need or desire to give the aliens more stuff, especially on Superhuman (or Ironman :whatwhat:)
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Yup, the AI is the key, hence, we all need to bow down to programmers (looks himself in the mirror :LOL:)

On the other hand, I'd LOVE the idea of an alien paralysing thingie... It makes real sense with the abductions... Oh, wait, they have the Stun bombs for that... (wich makes engineers so easy to spot or capture... just approach a tank point blank with it :D)

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I don't think the aliens need more weapons, they only need the ability to stop the hordes of weapons the humans will be using. The only new thing that'd be cool for the aliens is a self-destruct device that allows them to kill themselves and others around them with a big boom. If you damage an alien it can trigger its suicide device, and that would make it hard to take aliens alive. They would try to protect the tech and kill you with their suicide devices.

 

 

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I saw once on Discovery a microwave gun. It was used to kill cockroaches hiding under carpets. You should see them explode :D

A similar fenomenon with LASER, but for microwaves would be called MASER. I wonder how many humans a MASER Gun would be able to fry. The problem is that gun will consume a huge amount of energy, so only an alien power source containing something like Elerium (or Zrbite) would be able to power it.

Basically, the target would boil in a moment, and the water inside it will evaporate in an explosive fashion. A metal armor would spark, overheat, and burn its wearer rather than protect it. Even a non-metalic armor would not stop such weapon.

Popcorn, beware, the aliens are in town :)

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Fusion Gun:

 

The long barrel excites the Xenium core of the muntions as they are accelerated at high velocities. Each of the variety of shell types operates under different effects and reasons.

 

Because the rounds do not an initiator or a guidance system, they are much more space efficient. In the space required for two BB shells, you can store twelve Supernova shells. Also, the firing rate of the weapon is three shots a turn.

 

Supernova Rounds - The super-heavy metal alloys are built in a special array. Excited anti-gravity particles emitted from the Xenium core cause the particles to enter a high energy state. They form a crystalline structure that can only be disrupted by significant shape change(impact) or other major force. Its damage is closer to BB than Alien Grenade.

 

Plasma Dispersion Round - Various light metals are in a similair array to the supernova round. Instead of a small nuclear reaction, the resulting particles form into small(500 - 1000 molar mass) crystals that hold a lot of energy until they hit other elements, but reabsorbs it again easily. The overall effect is a plasma gas that is super-hot. Think of combining the burning of napalam with the dispersion of fragrance.

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How about what they call the "pulsed energy projectile"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed_Energy_Projectile

 

...except of a more lethal variety than the one wikipedia describes. For those of you too lazy to read the article, it's a frequency of laser that vaporizes the water at its target, creating a small explosion. It seems like this would be a good beam weapon, between plasma weapons and blaster launchers in lethality.

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