Suggest making a version of avalon that adds a "freeze" effect that does zero damage, but freezes in place all units in sphere of blast influence for 5 seconds and drains all energy until freeze is lifted.

So an EMP weapon.

You know what, why not. This will make killing other pilots in a furball cake. I would use an instant nuke set up, set it off, and let mywing persons wipe everyone out.

+1

More than an EMP. That would basically just "short out" people's computers and flight control, but their ships would all continue to drift in the directions they had been going.

This would actively freeze them all in place. Interesting concept. Might require a bit more custom code than some ideas, to synchronize the freeze across all type of connections. Some people would have to see themselves "skip backwards" in time, to freeze, based on their network latency.

Bad idea in my opinion -
We have enough weapons of similar types already, why add another
Dev have more important things to do that go through all the trouble to create this type of weapon.

What other freeze weapon do we have?

Some kind of EMP might be much simpler and more easily explained [edit] without elaborate visual effects, although not quite the same in use-case. But, anyway, that's getting a bit off topic.

Could use for an effect the same one that surrounds a lightning mine on ships under it's effect. As for the blast, I'd say an overpowering white flash, think the initial flash of an atomic bomb.