After playing with the gun a little bit, I like it but have some suggestions.
The fire rate could use a slight increase to make it smoother to use. Firing like the vanilla gauss rifle is painful but I think the damage will be ok if it just fires a hair quicker. It should also have the plasma infused goo animation as an inherent effect to increase immersion.
For some reason the splitter mod made it incredibly difficult to kill things. Idk if the effective range just plummets or if the damage spread behaves differently. Maybe it's my aim...
Other than that stuff, my only suggestion is I'd love to see this gun be capable of continuous fire, or a prolonged beam you can hold until the clip is empty. Maybe add another weapon mod that makes the gun function that way. It fits with the idea of the gun and would make it so much more fun to use and more effective on more difficult enemies. Not even sure how possible that is with current modding tools but it's a good idea
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The fire rate could use a slight increase to make it smoother to use. Firing like the vanilla gauss rifle is painful but I think the damage will be ok if it just fires a hair quicker. It should also have the plasma infused goo animation as an inherent effect to increase immersion.
For some reason the splitter mod made it incredibly difficult to kill things. Idk if the effective range just plummets or if the damage spread behaves differently. Maybe it's my aim...
Other than that stuff, my only suggestion is I'd love to see this gun be capable of continuous fire, or a prolonged beam you can hold until the clip is empty. Maybe add another weapon mod that makes the gun function that way. It fits with the idea of the gun and would make it so much more fun to use and more effective on more difficult enemies. Not even sure how possible that is with current modding tools but it's a good idea