This is my favorite weapon in any game ever, Full Stop.
I genuinely think bungie doesn’t want to add this weapon because of the balancing issues, but let me see what I can do to help with that. I thought this through and I’m very passionate about this weapon.
Before I begin, the balancing issues for this weapon, as I see it are two main problems:
The weapons you pair it with and the ammo economy.
So
• Here’s what I want
What I want is the weapon to come back as a primary weapon, I don’t even care if the sprint reload glitch is removed, I simply love the weapon for what it is, broken (in every meaning of the word) or not.
• Here’s what I have to offer
To combat balancing issues, I have some creative ways to make this weapon more fun and balanced, because the fun aspect of the weapon is something we desperately need in D2.
• As pertaining to the infinite ammo as a primary problem, you could make it limited, which is uninspired, OR, you could use my little idea where the ammo is in fact infinite, but every time you run out of ammo, you crouch down, throw out an old wooden ammo box, grab out the bullets, and reload it. Sounds like a fun little way to fix the ammo economy, and a more interesting way of making your shots count, also slightly fixing the spam potential. Obviously it couldn’t be too long of a reload animation or people would hate it, but it’s just a suggestion.
• Also for reloading, alternative to the idea above, you could make the reload clunky and you could even drop the bullets on the ground, losing ammo, which is less fun but comical.
• For a catalyst, here me out, you could put a dirty old x1 or x2 optic on the weapon, but here’s THE most important part, it’s removable and optional, so you’re not stuck with it.
• My last idea is this, if in fact Bungie, you are scared about adding this weapon because people are gonna pair it with shotguns, implement this feature:
Make it so that when you equip No Land Beyond, you don’t choose your special weapon, rather, No Land Beyond gets coupled with an unremovable sidearm in your secondary slot that you cannot unequip, it literally is just a package deal with the weapon. In some ways this just makes people a little happy, considering that arguably the best weapon to pair it with is in fact a sidearm. But a very important element to this sidearm is that it has the older weapon theme, making it really nice to use with the No Land Beyond. It could be the M1911, that Luger pistol or whatever it’s called, the weapon that looks like the DL-44, heck even a freaking flintlock pistol. But make it creative.
I’m very passionate about this weapon and this game, please consider adding this weapon and/or these added ideas with it.
Feedback is welcomed, Thanks!
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We already have lots of kinetic snipers.