Rather than having these "holy grail" rare uncontestedly superior uber-weapons, I'd rather see a kind of sliding scale where the rarest weapons are exotic variations with advantages and disadvantages in terms of the most vanilla starting weapons. A kind of point scale where rate of fire, reload time, range & accuracy, damage, magazine size are all tied into one another; an advantage in one means a disadvantage in another. And a kind of damage mode, based on the kind of round, barrel & mechanism. So, that explosive launcher you find with an insane blast radius does a much less damage, but it's damage over time in that area, for example, as opposed to a lower capacity, smaller AOE higher damage launcher. So you have a whole spectrum of weapons, generated on a kind of slider-based system. In terms of unique appearance, every unique combination of stats would have a unique appearance; the rarest stat weapons have those unique polygonal skins you see with "Thorn" and such, while the slightly modified or vanilla ones have mostly modular parts just with different finishes. That way, with rare and common but always balanced combinations, there could be some sort of PvP mode where we could take any utility weapon we've found into battle because the stats would (hopefully) balance out. I mean, in addition to a more regulated PvP mode where weapon stats are normalized and tuned for hyper-competitive play. Basically a little bit like [i]Loadout[/i], but not player-modified and more loot/currency/situationally based in terms of what you have access to, a bit like [i]Borderlands[/i] but not nearly as random. That being said; I wonder if killed/procured enemy alien weapons (in co-op) can be wielded by the guardians at all, or if maybe we'll collect scrap parts from killing them to create weapon variants that our guardians can then use?