For me the answer is liquid and gases. Poisons, mutagens, blood, chemicals, samples... even the old science pack emotes were full of things like drinking concoctions or mixing things in various glass containers. Fizzing, sizzling, bubbling, swirling.
The retro sci-fi bubble helmet was really encouraging for glass.
Do we have the tech to do moving liquids? I can't think of anything that uses it except the science emotes. Even if we can't move it around, containers that are completely full shouldn't be out of the question since you wouldn't need anything to move. We already have some liquid filled glass stuff in the game don't we? Like the brain in liquid and such. Please don't reply saying the tech is impossible, just brainstorm with me and let the devs worry about if or how. :P
Blade/TW:
A glass container of liquid attached to a blade, and a trigger/interface of some kind on the hilt, like it's applying whatever is inside to the blade.
Color 1 = Metal of the handle and blade.
Color 2 = Color of the liquid, and a tint on the blade.
Version 2, liquid and blade edge glow.
Axe:
See Blade/TW, same thing but in the form of an axe.
Mace/TW:
Giant glass sphere filled with something, with syringes/needles coming out just one per direction. Color 1 for the liquid, color 2 for the metal. Again, second version the liquid glows.
Bane Spider/Arachnos Mace Weapon: (<3)
A chalice-like bowl on the end of a rod, or a cage around a glass container, the space in whatever the end piece is, would be filled with foaming acid bubbles that spills and slosh as you swing it. Color 1/2 for the weapon, acid is toxic green like the effect when you hit things with mace powers that have the toxic DoT.
Staff:
A metal staff, where the front end is filed with moving liquid and marked with graduations like a cross between a pen's ink tube and a syringe. The tip is a needle.
Color 1 = staff metal
Color 2 = Liquid
Version 2 liquid glows
(Naughty nurse costume contest?)
Claws:
Double Syringes. Color the Liquid/Metal with or without glow.
Spines:
Hope you're not afraid of needles! XD
Assault Rifle:
A flame thrower with two liquid tanks and tubes that seem to mix them near the barrel, along with your super-standard machine gun/shotgun/grenade launcher.
Flamer is permanently colored.
Color 1 = Liquid 1
Color 2 = Liquid 2
Version 2 liquid glows
Final length of hose where they're mixed combines the colors.
Beam Rifle:
I got nothing... maybe a bubbly liquid cooled something? Light going through a crystal could be scientific looking. Not sure how to set it up as a beam rifle weapon though. Anything I come up with in my head looks slick and techy.
Pistol:
Any standard paint sprayer style weapon is fine. Clear container full of liquid takes a color as with the above. I've noticed the semi-auto pistols have moving slide animations when firing, maybe the behind the scenes programming of that could be used to swish the liquid around or cause a little spray around the barrel using the liquid color?
Bow:
NO BOW STRING for those of us who hate the clipping. Instead make the notch at the front look like a short magnetized guide (rail gun concept), and add another glass container of liquid stuff that may or may not glow just because. :P
What makes a weapon 'science' to you vs tech?
For me the answer is liquid and gases. Poisons, mutagens, blood, chemicals, samples... even the old science pack emotes were full of things like drinking concoctions or mixing things in various glass containers. Fizzing, sizzling, bubbling, swirling.
The retro sci-fi bubble helmet was really encouraging for glass.
Do we have the tech to do moving liquids? I can't think of anything that uses it except the science emotes. Even if we can't move it around, containers that are completely full shouldn't be out of the question since you wouldn't need anything to move. We already have some liquid filled glass stuff in the game don't we? Like the brain in liquid and such. Please don't reply saying the tech is impossible, just brainstorm with me and let the devs worry about if or how. :P
Blade/TW:
A glass container of liquid attached to a blade, and a trigger/interface of some kind on the hilt, like it's applying whatever is inside to the blade.
Color 1 = Metal of the handle and blade.
Color 2 = Color of the liquid, and a tint on the blade.
Version 2, liquid and blade edge glow.
Axe:
See Blade/TW, same thing but in the form of an axe.
Mace/TW:
Giant glass sphere filled with something, with syringes/needles coming out just one per direction. Color 1 for the liquid, color 2 for the metal. Again, second version the liquid glows.
Bane Spider/Arachnos Mace Weapon: (<3)
A chalice-like bowl on the end of a rod, or a cage around a glass container, the space in whatever the end piece is, would be filled with foaming acid bubbles that spills and slosh as you swing it. Color 1/2 for the weapon, acid is toxic green like the effect when you hit things with mace powers that have the toxic DoT.
Staff:
A metal staff, where the front end is filed with moving liquid and marked with graduations like a cross between a pen's ink tube and a syringe. The tip is a needle.
Color 1 = staff metal
Color 2 = Liquid
Version 2 liquid glows
(Naughty nurse costume contest?)
Claws:
Double Syringes. Color the Liquid/Metal with or without glow.
Spines:
Hope you're not afraid of needles! XD
Assault Rifle:
A flame thrower with two liquid tanks and tubes that seem to mix them near the barrel, along with your super-standard machine gun/shotgun/grenade launcher.
Flamer is permanently colored.
Color 1 = Liquid 1
Color 2 = Liquid 2
Version 2 liquid glows
Final length of hose where they're mixed combines the colors.
Beam Rifle:
I got nothing... maybe a bubbly liquid cooled something? Light going through a crystal could be scientific looking. Not sure how to set it up as a beam rifle weapon though. Anything I come up with in my head looks slick and techy.
Pistol:
Any standard paint sprayer style weapon is fine. Clear container full of liquid takes a color as with the above. I've noticed the semi-auto pistols have moving slide animations when firing, maybe the behind the scenes programming of that could be used to swish the liquid around or cause a little spray around the barrel using the liquid color?
Bow:
NO BOW STRING for those of us who hate the clipping. Instead make the notch at the front look like a short magnetized guide (rail gun concept), and add another glass container of liquid stuff that may or may not glow just because. :P