u/Fort_Maximus

My brother y’all ;)

The purpose of these attachments would be to provide a non-cosmetic reason to get a weapon to max level, providing a significant adjustment or even a total re-kit of the weapon.

These new attachments would be added with 5 more weapon levels for every gun, with 3 attachments (at least 1 being a weapon exclusive) and 2 skins, silver and gold plating.

These attachments would be in their own category, and be mutually exclusive to each other (can’t stack these attachments). This concept also adds attachments for the Collaboration weapons, themed around their IP’s.

Liberator

- Battle-Hardening: Gives the gun better stats across the board (recoil, damage, accuracy, bloom, reload speed, spare mags)
- Horizontal Grip: Removes recoil from the rifle
- “Justice” Kit: Modifies the rifle into a burst fire medium pen marksman rifle

Lib Pen

- Battle-Hardening: Gives the gun better stats across the board (recoil, damage, accuracy, bloom, reload speed, spare mags)
- Horizontal Grip: Removes recoil from the rifle
- Sabot Rounds: Weapon gains Heavy Pen at the cost of high drag and reduced spare magazines

Lib Concussive

- Battle-Hardening: Gives the gun better stats across the board (recoil, damage, accuracy, bloom, reload speed, spare mags)
- Horizontal Grip: Removes recoil from the rifle
- “Paragon” Kit: Converts the rifle into a semi auto rifle that fires gas-filled explosive rounds

Lib Carbine

- Battle-Hardening: Gives the gun better stats across the board (recoil, damage, accuracy, bloom, reload speed, spare mags)
- Horizontal Grip: Removes recoil from the rifle
- “Stalwart” Kit: Gives the Carbine box magazines at the cost of reduced ergo and less spare mags.

StA-52

- Battle-Hardening: Gives the gun better stats across the board (recoil, damage, accuracy, bloom, spare mags)
- HE Underbarrel: Identical to the One-Two
- Buckshot Underbarrel: Pump shotgun with 8 round tube, 16 reserve, damage equal to Breaker

MA5C

- Battle-Hardening: Gives the gun better stats across the board (recoil, damage, accuracy, bloom, spare mags)
- Spartan Stock: Butt Stock melee attacks hit harder, stagger longer, and penetrate deeper
- Shredder Rounds: Bullets generate small amounts of shrapnel on hit, but the main projectile becomes light pen

Tenderizer (Bonus: Adds Drum and Short Magazines to standard pool)

- Battle-Hardening: Gives the gun better stats across the board (recoil, damage, accuracy, bloom, spare mags)
- Horizontal Grip: Removes Recoil from the rifle
- Underbarrel Flechette: Pump Shotgun with 4 round tube, 8 reserve, damage equal to Halt

All Non-Bullpup rifles
- Fast-mag: Halves reload speed

Adjudicator

- Horizontal Grip: Removes Recoil from the rifle
- “MG-43” Kit: Gives the Adjudicator box magazines at the cost of reduced ergo and less spare mags.

One-Two

- Ammo Pouch: Grants more spare grenades and magazines (identical to grenade pistol)
- HE Grenades: Grenades are deadlier and have a larger blast radius

Coyote

- “Kalash” Kit: Increases fire rate and reduces ergo at the cost of recoil
- Napalm Shot: Burn effect is stronger at the cost of direct projectile damage

Pacifier

- Underbarrel Stim: Heals players, 6 round capacity 12 reserve
- “EMS” Kit: Drastically improves stun duration and effect at the cost of spare mags

Suppressor

- Blackout Rounds: Removes gravity factor and damage falloff
- “Ninja” Kit: Makes the weapon one-handed and medium penetrating, at the cost of locked 30 round mags

More concepts on the way! Next up is SMGs.

I think you SHOULD be encouraged to shoot the weak spot to kill the enemy quickly, but not at the cost of miniguns and sentries getting hard locked onto them. I would have liked to see the Fleshmob treatment for these guys: keep them the same as they are with the current patch (weaker fleshy bits) but make the armored parts Medium armor AND give them more HP. That way, it still requires overwhelming firepower to kill them effectively.

First of all, I made this when I was doubtful of Arrowhead and their ability to manage this game for so long. I now regret making this after the fact because it only exists to generate controversy, which is the last thing this game needs. What it needs is proper, polite communication from both parties, which since then, has been attempted. We can only go up from here regarding this game's growth.

Second of all, this chart is inaccurate, as it does NOT include the last 6 MONTHS of AMAZINGLY GOOD stuff that has happened for the game (size reduction, highly successful warbonds, Machinery of Oppression, Illuminate update, etc). We haven't seen this much success for the game since NOW with recent drama. This chart does NOT reflect that information, and serves only to farm negative interactions, something I am sad to say I expected from Clay's content.

As such, I believe this chart trend no longer feels necessary for the game's growth. I hate seeing us fight when we could be working alongside AH, despite their often closed-minded ideals, just like they have been with us, despite our tendencies to lash out and be hateful. We can only go up from here.

And to Claysthetics, I ask you, start looking for other ways to farm engagement that isn't so negative. It worked for GundamBoi and CommisaarKai, right?

EDIT: The issue has been resolved, lower the sodium and dive on!