A new class of Blaster. It's an Ion Cannon which sacrifices damage for more velocity and delay. In summary, it fires much faster than the neutron blaster but causes much less damage. I can see it as the newbie neutron blaster.

Pulse Blaster MKI

DMG: 300
VEL: 185
ENE: 10/BL
DEL: .12 s
MAS: 200 kg
GRD: 4
TAR: Okay
LEV: 1/1/-/-/-

Pulse Blaster MKII

DMG: 350
VEL: 190
ENE: 10/BL
DEL: .11 s
MAS: 200 kg
GRD: 4
TAR: Okay
LEV: 2/2/-/-/-

Pulse Blaster MKIII

DMG: 375
VEL: 200
ENE: 10/BL
DEL: .10 s
MAS: 150 kg
GRD: 4
TAR: Okay
LEV: 4/4/-/-/-

-1
There are already far too many unused blasters. We don't need another.

I like it.
I'd rather see a popcorn Mk3 or a buff on the mk2

Perhaps beefing up one of the phase blasters so it's actually useful? I think I posted a suggestion similar a while back.

There are lots of unused weapons in general but this is aimed at newbs who are more limited.

+1

I don't see any reason to take anything outside of a neutron blaster when it becomes available. I even tried other systems but they are just too slow. At least this gun can somewhat compete because of its high rate of fire, velocity and light weight.

+1,

but balance them more, because they look too good for newbs.

Hmm, start with raising licenses and make them unique to minor factions. Then I suppose you raise power grid usage.

And btw Pulse Blaster MKIII looks very deadly weapon at all. 150 kg weight is awesome for light fighters: compare it to Ineubis blaster and you'll see PB mk3 is better, while maintaining awesome velocity, ENE, grid..

and license requirements to get it are fun.

+1.

The more choices the better. What we also need is more choice in high-end weapons, preferably enough weapons that each has specific combinations of traits... but that's off topic. +1 to more newb weapons.

Hmmm, here are some more stats to compare:

At level 1/1/-/-/- most newbies use the HX, so here it is compared to the Pulse Blaster MK1:

DPS for the HX: 2750
DPS for the Pulse Blaster MK1: 2500

DPE for the HX: 68.75 (highest in the game, if I'm correct)
DPE for the Pulse Blaster MK1: 30 (I think that's right around the Gauss cannons and similar plasma weapons, which are pretty low)

Then, of course, the HX has a velocity of 160 m/s while the Pulse Blaster has a velocity of 185 m/s. I think this is an excellent choice for newbies to have, as they are currently almost absolutely restricted to the HX.

At 2/2/-/-/- newbies will still be using the HX (which I think is an incredibly boring bit about the game), so compare these stats of the Pulse Blaster MK2 with those of the HX that I posted above:

DPS: 3181.82
DPE: 35

And the velocity this time, of course, is 190 m/s. Again, I think this is a fair choice for newbies to have. They could stick with the HX and go for efficiency in collector killing or they could go with the pulse blaster and have something that can go up against some more combat-oriented enemies.

4/4/-/-/- is when newbies unlock the N2, which is still my preferred weapon to date. The damage and energy stats don't come anywhere near those the N2 for the Pulse Blaster MK3, of course, but there is a slight velocity upgrade to 200 m/s from 195 m/s and, of course, a 450 kg drop in weight. It frightens me what Maalik could do with this thing as it'd be a super light weapon that also has high velocity. If I could provide any suggestion, it would be to up the weight of these guys by another 100 kg across the board. That's just so that they're more in the range of weapons like the HX and Ineubis Raven Ion Blaster weight-wise.

The name of the weapon gives the the idea that perhaps, instead of a constant fire rate, the "Pulse" blaster could fire a very rapid triple burst, pause, and fire another rapid triple burst, pause, fire again, etc. If it fired each of the triple shots with a delay of .01s between, a .09 second pause could be introduced for the MkI, a .08s pause for the MkII, and a .07s pause for the MkIII.

I heard something about VO having a minimum delay between effects like weapons' fire, so this may not work.

/me likes Nahins idea of "pulse firing".

We agree too often as of late... something is wrong.

Yeah. I like Nahin's burst-fire take on the idea. Maybe repurpose the Orion XGX Phase Blaster for it (its waaay too similar to the TPG Sparrow as it is now. Give it some flavor).

I expected a lot more out of special weapons like the XGX and Sparrow...

Actually, make that a +1. Also, +1 to spidey because there REALLY should be a beef up of popcorn.

Nahin... Could be the holidays. Could be our bitter, hate filled hearts are more in tune... could be lots of things.

I dunno... maybe burst fire for some other weapon.

I guess you can simulate this with a very high ROF + high Energy consumption...

I would really love to see something to use other than a neutron blaster which weighs the ship down a lot and hard to get if you go to a different station. It's discouraging to move to a station in Odia and have guns with REALLY slow acceleration meant to combat collectors. It's like I have to go there and spend a lot of time mining or trading in order to get anything useful, then I have the ability to fight with a decent weapon, and then because I spend so much friggin time mining I can't shoot for crap anymore. Plus, it's pretty annoying having crap for PvP at the early stages. I would have loved to have some kind of gun with a high rate of fire and acceleration to have a chance against pirates.

I felt a new class, "pulse blaster," would do just that. If you want to take on collectors go with other high damage weapons that are slower. For PvP and combat bots this gun gives players a better chance of surviving without making other weapons obsolete.

+1, with bursts.
what is its auto-aiming level?