I am quite close to being done with making these collections for a while. Don't see these as spam.
About Collections. Skip if you just want to get to the weapons.
Since I have a large amount of weapons systems, I have decided, for my sake, to create collections of the systems that I have made through the use of forum posts.
This greatly helps me in helping other users find the perfect weapon that they want to mount on their builds.
"But why are you separating the systems into what will be about 4 forum posts?" I have many reasons for that, and none of them involve maximizing upvotes. My first reason is that I have many of these subassemblies, and many posts about them.... I do not want a huge list of links. That would defeat the purpose of me being able to take a few seconds to find the weapon that I need.
There is a larger reason, too. I won't stop making weapon systems after these posts. I would rather not edit an existing list every time I post a new system. The solution: simply make a new post about a new generation of weapons.
Now for gen 4.
Generation 4 weapons take fine tuner and scaling to theoretical limits. These weapons are the products of processes such as gravity manipulation, as well as more mundane functions that were previously inaccessible to me, such as the angle function from the fine tuner mod. These weapons include lock-on missile augments and hives, as well as EM Stasis weapons. This generation came to a close at an integral part of my arsenal, the vortex cannon.
AG-L MAW: anti-ground, high arching missile hive
AG-AA LAW: Anti-air, fast response missile hive
Preliminary EM storm Weapon: launches a projectile that spits out tons of damaging sparks
Heavy EM storm: Scaled up version of the preliminary
And now for my favorite, the vortex cannon.
The vortex cannon's predecessor, the gauss cannon, had two huge problems. Its heavy boom 50 projectile could really mess with an aircraft's CoM, and it couldn't be mirrored, so it could only be mounted on the center of a craft. In contrast, the vortex cannon is light and easy to install, and cannot be messed up with mirroring.
The vortex cannon looks cooler, too. Its explosion vibrates slowly, which was a side-effect of the scaling of the bomb.