Shoulder Cannons - Grenades, but better.

[ImMadeOfNinjas]

Grenades are pretty neat. Big guns are really neat, too. Power Armor? Now that's pretty dang neat.
Why not slap all that shtick together and see what happens?

someone else: but you can use a big gun and power armor and a grenade anyway

>_>;
I'm not doing a good job pitching this, let me try again...

Let's get all Pip-Boy up in here.

Shoulder Cannons: Grenades, but better.

 

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Basically a modification for your Power Armor that lets you fire your grenades out of a large, shoulder-mounted cannon instead of throwing them from your hand like some kind of caveman. The type of grenade you have equipped turns into the type of payload your weapon fires. There's a few variants I've come up with:

1. The Mortar - Able to launch the grenade, in an arc, much further than you can, but aims at what you're aiming at instead of whatever distance ahead of you. Will not launch the grenade beneath a certain minimum distance so you don't accidentally catch yourself in splash damage, unless you're aiming at the wall directly in front of your face like a very silly person.

2. The Cluster - Similar to the Mortar, except it uses and fires 5 grenades at once in a spread around where you aimed at. I suppose this could be an upgrade to the basic Mortar, but you could also upgrade this further to use only one grenade to fire five clusters. Essentially, carpet bombing.

3. The Launcher - Fires your grenade straight forward, like a cannon, and causes it to explode on impact. Dude. If you're firing a mine, however, it will attach to the target point and behave relatively normally. Simply put, this is... a grenade... cannon. An RPG. A Rocket Launcher. But it does fire whatever grenade you have equipped, so, bonus points?

4. Homing Missile - Similar to the Launcher, except it requires you to stand still, keep your aim on your target, and release when the lock has been established, at which it will fire a homing missile loaded with your grenade of choice. Can be upgraded to lock onto multiple targets and fire one missile per target. Duuuuude.

5. Laser Cannon - Wait, this one doesn't use Grenades!? Whatever. When you have no Grenade equipped, it uses up a Fusion Core (or some of your Core's energy) to fire off a devastating laser cannon blast similar to the Assaultron's Head Laser. Requires a charging time, for which you need to stand still, but boy howdy does it feel good when you vaporise an entire horde of raiders with one blast of this bad boy. Or close enough. Developer's choice of how powerful it is ofc... but I'm sure we can all agree that this is what we want to see.

Other simple ideas for variants:
> Mounted Broadsider that fires Cannonballs.
> Vertical Missile Salvo that locks onto targets in sync with VATS.
> Mounted Minigun or Laser Gatling that function similar to their normal counterparts.


But why would you want this when you can do most/all of this already anyway?
Because it's cool? Also not having to switch weapons for big guns, or having two big guns at the same time, and having more unique ways of firing grenades. See reference to caveman above.

 

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I really hope this choice of font style didn't gouge anyone's eyes out. To be honest, I hope it only helps make my suggestion more memorable. ^^;
Even more so, I hope someone actually picks this up, but I get it if nobody does. At the very least I hope this idea entertained you all, and that the image of some of these weapons made you think "Nice."