Lore: Project Sandstorm was a project funded by the Volus, Turians, and Salarians that tried to make heavy more accessible for all soldiers. The heavy weapons have a great many issues.
- They were too cumbersome. Large, heavy unwieldy objects that used heavy blocks of ammunition. During a time when soldiers wanted to carry more weapons to be prepared for every situation, soldiers were willing to skip heavy weapons altogether.
- Limited ammo. Due ammunition production being very expensive, heavy weapons were rarely used for specific situations.
- Most lighter weapons had now caught up with their heavier counterparts in terms of damage per second.
Weapons that have been converted include
The Arc Projector (Converted into an assault rifle)
ML-77 Missile Launcher (Converted into an assault rifle)
M-100 Grenade Launcher (Converted into a shotgun)
M-451 Firestorm (Converted into a shotgun similar to the Reegar Carbine)
M-490 Blackstorm (Converted into a sniper rifle)
M-622 Avalanche (Converted into a sniper rifle)
M-920 Cain (Converted into a mini explosive semi automatic assault rifle. Nowhere near as overpowered as the Cain)
Description:
The most successful of these weapons was the Sandstorm Arc Projector which became a popular means of dispatching collectors and some of the more recent Reaper transformations.
The arc projector ionizes targets with a nonvisible laser to ready them for a high-voltage electrical attack. As the lightning-like bolt hits its first target, a sophisticated autotargeting system paints succeeding targets with the ionization laser, allowing the electricity to take the path of least resistance and arc between them. An entire enemy strike team can be shocked to death with a few pulls of the trigger.
The biggest differences between the heavy weapon counterpart and the assault rifle version is rate of fire. The new arc projector charges up nearly twice as fast, does less damage per target but covers a much larger area. The role of the new Arc Projector is shield stripping and crowd control. The effect of using this weapon is spamming chain overload over and over again.
Rate of fire: Semi automatic. You can charge up the arc projector to cover a larger area.
Ammo Per clip: 2 lightning strikes.
Number of clips: 5
Area of effect: Radius of 7 metres at rank 10. Radius of 3 metres at rank 1
Reload time: 2 seconds
Weight: About the same as the Revenant.
Damage to shields/barriers: 400 at rank 1. 500 at rank 10.
Damage to health: 300 at rank 1. 400 at rank 10.
Damage to armour: 200 at rank 1. 300 at rank 10.
Effect: Guaranteed to stun all targets that aren't protected by shields.
No ammo: Dark blue lightning comes out of the arc projector.
With disruptor ammo: Damage to all targets increases. Bright blue lightning comes out of the arc projector.
With incendiary ammo: Red coloured lightning comes out of the arc projector. Dealing more damage to health and armour. Will cause enemies to panic.
With cryo ammo: White lightning comes out of the arc projector. Freezes unprotected targets, slows down protected targets and weakens armour.
With
With warp ammo: Purple lightning comes out of the arc projector. This will biotically prime all affected targets, do extra damage to targets already affected by biotics and will weaken armour whilst doing extra damage to health and armour.
With armour piercing ammo: Orange lightning comes out of the arc projector. This weakens armour and does extra damage to health and armour.
With Drill Ammo: Yellow lightning comes out of the arc projector. This will do exceptional damage to unprotected targets.
Explosive Ammo: Deep Red lightning. Explosions on every affected target. Great amount of damage to all targets.
Phasic Ammo: Purple lightning comes out of the arc projector. This will do some damage to health/armour and some damage to shields at the same time (even if the shields aren't completly removed).
Modifié par Abraham_uk, 07 octobre 2012 - 11:32 .





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