Oh Shard Cannon, how you taunt me!

Why isn't the Elemental Order Shard Cannon a usable rifle model for the Arachnos Rifle? The Celestial Rifle and the Steampunk Rifle are. My Huntsman is seriously bummed

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My question is: why'd I get the Shard Cannon if I don't have Beam Rifle, don't want Beam Rifle, and don't plan on purchasing Beam Rifle?


The way I see it, I was jipped out of a card, and the Super Packs go against what the Devs originally stated Freedom would be about. Since Freedom, the only costume bundle I bought is the Club pack (Oh jeez those pants! Oh Jeez that hair!! I'M IN LOVE.), instead buying piecemeal the parts I wanted when I wanted them, mostly spur of the moment when an inspiration drives me into checking out a costume idea.


I don't use dual/team inspirations, I was sitting on somewhere north of 15k reward merits on my characters (cause I rarely ever even worry about IO'ing out a character, SO's and generics are fine by me), and Unslotters are like laughing about me behind my back. I bought the 12-pack because I am not holding my breath on the Devs giving the Elemental Order set as its own bundle (and only got one of the two pieces I really wanted out of it...).


Anyway, I've derailed enough. Devs, at least give the Shard Cannon to Pulse Rifle, Almighty-Sentient-Puddle knows they need some loving. If it's decided that other rifle sets can use it too, hey, it's more choice (which is what Freedom was supposed to be about *wink-wink, angry face*).

The Shard Cannon should totally be proliferated to use with Assault Rifle (including Masterminds), and VEATs. It's pretty darn awesome looking.

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I'm honestly not sure why it wasn't ported over. Could be animation, could be any number of reasons.

I'll go ask someone.

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URGR8!

Lewis

While we're at it... why are the Carnival of War/Light/Vengeance maces limited only to War Mace and not applicable to Mace Mastery? The Celestial mace works with Mace Mastery even though it looks odd shooting webbing and beams from a hammer. The Carnie maces would actually make more sense being usable there.

At least soldiers get variety. Think of the poor Widows who only have that single pair of old claws.

Tell me about it. My 'main' is a Bot's MM. I'd LOVE the Shard Cannon (and the BFG option of the D.U.S.T. cannon) for him.

I can accept the answer that porting over old weapon models might take additional work which there isn't time for (although I don't like it!). However, Steampunk and Celestial rifles both are available to Soldiers so they must be doing something different now. Can we please just have all new weapons proliferate to all the sets that should be able to use them especially now that we're forking over additional money aside from subscription costs?

Also, I won't accept thematic reasons as a valid excuse as that was thrown out of the window when sniper rifles turned into flamethrowers and grenade launchers.

In general, I really hate how weapons aren't proliferated across all sets that can use them. This is never more true than with Beam Rifle weapons not being available for Mastermind Robotics Pulse Rifle attacks or Assault Rifle. So, even though I don't have any spiders, I'm in full support of proliferating this.

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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.

In talking to various people, I got the impression it was mostly an aesthetics/animation issue.

We can look into porting it over, but no guarantees that it will happen or in what timeframe we can accomplish it in.