Well, I gotta admit that I recently realized with the new vanilla content that extra weight reducing flight efficiency is a pretty good balancing method. The thing is, this would mean that if you got a shogun with regular or no weapons, they could possibly fly normally. I sorta want to have it so they always suck at flying, which is what the jump jets accomplish: they can only jump, loaded down or not. And really, I haven't found many situations where that jump doesn't get you where you need to go. Really, consider a Shogun as a somewhat more mobile Dreadnought.

Now if more content, such as certain levels, makes it blatantly obvious that they need to be able to fly, I might change it. But then they'd probably be LESS effective when wielding heavy weapons.

As for the concussion grenade... thanks for all the suggestions, but I'm fairly confident that I have a good idea of what I'm going to do with that already. Really, if I'm stumped about some technical issues, I'll go ask about it in mod making.

The electrolaser has two rounds because one round is a MOSRotating that gibs into the lightning bolt, and the other round is an MOPixel that is pretty much just an ineffectual trail. As for how the bolt itself works... well, its complicated. I don't have time to get into it now.

Give him a bit of both, give him a jump-jet (as an infrequent burst) that allows him to push up into the air about a metre, and then have him with a jetpack that can very slightly lift an unarmed Shogun, so that when he's kitted out, it allows you to have a more easily controlled jump-jet.
So like, jump into the air, and then hover for a few seconds.

What makes you decide whether a weapon should be shogun only or not? Why should I bother with the electrolazer when I have the shock mortar? Even though they're a stealth faction, do the DarkStorm have a giant mecha tucked away somewhere?

You may be wondering why the shock mortar can be used normally, then. Well, when the mortar goes off way up in the air, the bolt spreads out a lot more. It can damage quite a few enemies if they're below it, but its also a lot more random in what it does and doesn't hit, and isn't always lethal because of that. Sure, you can launch the mortar directly at an enemy to get a direct-hit effect similar to the electrolaser, but thats difficult and not the best way to use the mortar at all.

What makes you decide whether a weapon should be shogun only or not? Why should I bother with the electrolazer when I have the shock mortar? Even though they're a stealth faction, do the DarkStorm have a giant mecha tucked away somewhere?

so basically the jetpack has massive burstscale/size etc, and then a weak float effect? the problem with this is that it allows you to use the jumpjets whenever you like, for example you can tap jump 3 times and then hold it to do a 9 story leap then glide down.

I did say infrequent, as in, slow recharge.

Also I just had an idea for the Shogun specialists.
Make them separate actors with the backpacks on their back, so that it looks right (sometimes aiming with backpack weapons looks stupid) and so that you could incorporate an exploding system into said backpack

wow, i suppose.. except you can still burst fire while its recharging.

Also I just had an idea for the Shogun specialists.
Make them separate actors with the backpacks on their back, so that it looks right (sometimes aiming with backpack weapons looks stupid) and so that you could incorporate an exploding system into said backpack

Could you then do an exploding death for shoguns/actors holding a flamethrower? It only seems logical that a flame-spewing tank would go boom when shot to bits.