Ice Pick 2: Return of Ice Pick

I totally reinvented my Arachnos Soldier for the purposes of having a character that specializes in Toxic damage. While most of his attacks are either using the Mace or no weapon at all (Surveillance, Bile Spray, Arctic Breath), I still took Venom Grenade since it's got Toxic written all over it.

I generally don't notice in combat, but when I stop to look at him holding the Rifle, I realize that it seems a bit small relative to his frame. When he runs with it he's hunched all over like some kind of space marine.



And that's the biggest gun at his disposal. A quick experiment in the costume editor revealed one of the options to be entirely insufficient:



It's not a complaint or a request for change or anything; I just find it amusing. It reminds me of Huge characters wielding Ice Sword back in the day, where it would materialize in their gigantic hands as a tiny needle. That seems to have been addressed in years gone by, but at least Arachnos Soldier can still revel in the glory of having weapons that are far too small for their own size.

I like that costume. Also: that costume is hideous.

You've just discovered something I've had a big problem with for years - almost all the firearms we have access to in this game are entirely too small, including those that should actually be much bigger in real life. I think the only really sufficiently big alternate rifle model is the Vanguard Redding Rail Rifle, and I'm not sure Arachnos Soldiers have access to that.

Personally, I'd vote to see more big guns across the board. A few days ago, my Nerf Longshot arrived in the mail, and it's probably the best toy I've ever paid an unreasonably large amount of money for. It looks like this:



I paid 80 Euro to own that as a plastic toy. I would definitely pay real money to have that as a weapon option in City of Heroes. Or not that, obviously - product placement and all that - but something a lot like this anyway.

I'm a metre and 80 centimetres tall, myself (well, thereabout) and this thing is a metre long, so it's HUGE in my hands. My mother asked to hold it one time, but because she's a relatively small woman, it turned out her arms were a little too short to grab it properly by both pistol grips. It's that big. And it's that big how I want our new firearms to be.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Great costume for that character concept. My eyes feel like they have been poisoned.

I'm fairly sure the Arachnos weapons are actually labelled as SMG's, and not rifles. At least that's what the NPC version is called.