KVI-9 "Cryorifle" Ice Crystal Cannon, also known as the "Popsicler" (it sounds dumb, but the reason behind it is pretty badass
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Description: Uses a special crystal seeder to form razor-sharp ice crystals, which are then fired at high speeds. The weapon also contains equipment for condensing water vapor from the surrounding air into liquid form, effectively giving it infinite ammo (for primary mode, anyway...).
Primary Fire: Fires ice shards at a semi-rapid pace, about 3/second. They fly fast and are very accurate, but do relatively low damage. Firing this mode depletes your water reserves (shown on the chargebar), and you must refill the tank in some way to fire again. 13-15 damage/shot.
Fire Mode Switch: Switching firemodes allows the shots to be "charged," increasing the projectile's size and mass and greatly increasing damage. After reaching a certain mass, the huge ice spike becomes capable of impaling an opponent completely and even nailing their corpse to a wall, hence the name "Popsicler." (told ya it had a cool reason!
) Damage ranges from 13-15 to instant kills depending on charge time.
Reload: Switches on the condensing unit and opens vents all along the gun, blowing air over tubes containing liquid nitrogen and condensing liquid water from the vapor in the air. The gun actually does this slowly on its own, but pressing reload speed it up greatly (think RS Lightning Gun-style reloading). Alternatively, going into deep water will immediately refill the tank, but the weapon is disabled underwater to keep it from clogging with ice.
Secondary Fire: Shoots quick bursts of high-pressure liquid nitrogen from the nozzle under the barrel. Each hit slows the victim down until they are frozen completely after 5-7 hits, leaving them open to any attack for a couple precious seconds. Because the coolant is necessary for both reloading and for freezing the primary's shards, emptying the liquid nitrogen tank will result in the entire weapon being disabled. Damage is very low, 2 or 3 per hit.
Special Fire: No ideas here. Maybe a thermal scope would fit the theme of this weapon.
Ammo Type: Pickups are small tanks of liquid nitrogen. Each tank gives enough for 30 alt-fire shots, and you can hold enough for 120 shots. Each ammo pickup also tops off your water tank for good measure. Alternatively, going into deep water will immediately refill the water tank, but the weapon is disabled underwater to keep it from clogging with ice.
Kill: "Arclite was struck down by Abbadon's chill touch."
Alt-Kill: "Abbadon found a cold cure for Arclite's hyperactivity."
Suicide: "Abbadon ran really, really fast and got in the way of his own ice shards."
Alt-Suicide: "Abbadon couldn't handle quitting cold-turkey."
Special Kill Message (used when an enemy is nailed to a wall): "Abbadon just popsicled Arclite!"
Special Suicide Message: "Abbadon somehow popsicled himself. Way to go, dumbass."
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A versatile attack/support weapon with two rapid, accurate firemodes. While infinite ammo means this weapon is always there for some long-range blasting, it doesn't quite match up to bullets or energy bolts for damage. Impaling, however, is an instant kill, balanced by an extremely long charge time and high ammo requirement (~7 seconds and at least 3/4 water level). In team matches and especially CTF/BR, the alternate freezing firemode steals the show, as a single support unit can slow down an entire enemy party while his team smashes their merry way through the pretty ice sculptures. Unfortunately, this weapon is nigh-useless when vehicles are involved... Could this be a Cryon weapon?
Any constructive criticism welcome.
