When do I unlock Sniper Rifles and Light Shoulder Weapons?

[Tentacule Un Seigneur]

I am already on chapter 4, but have not unlocked any weapons in the shop that carry the term sniper rifle.....which is odd, they have been in every prior Armored Core game.

The same goes for Light Shoulder Weapons, every shoulder projectile weapon or energy weapon I have unlocked in the shop is a heavy weapon, there are no light ones, like a shoulder mounted Machine Gun or small Chaingun, or a shoulder pulse gun.

For that matter, haven't seen any rocket pods, which were also a staple of past games, that fired a salvo of unguided explosive rockets.

Are these things truly not present in this iteration?

[RX-3DR]

They don't exist.

Closest you'll get of sniper rifles is the linear rifle, but that stops you in place. Light shoulder weapons are completely scrapped with only minor replacements like the laser cannon and a shoulder pulse gun that can be fired without stopping.

[Tentacule Un Seigneur]

Originally posted by RX-3DR:

They don't exist.

Closest you'll get of sniper rifles is the linear rifle, but that stops you in place. Light shoulder weapons are completely scrapped with only minor replacements like the laser cannon and a shoulder pulse gun that can be fired without stopping.

Well......that is unfortunate, maybe they thought the sniper rifle and rockets would be a bit overpowered with the wide open levels? ~sighs~

I mean, nuts, I was hoping to create a AC loaded with four chainguns, one on each shoulder and one on each arm, like I did back in AC3.

Well, hope they bring them back in the next one.

[AscendingHope]

Originally posted by Tentacule Un Seigneur:

Originally posted by RX-3DR:

They don't exist.

Closest you'll get of sniper rifles is the linear rifle, but that stops you in place. Light shoulder weapons are completely scrapped with only minor replacements like the laser cannon and a shoulder pulse gun that can be fired without stopping.

Well......that is unfortunate, maybe they thought the sniper rifle and rockets would be a bit overpowered with the wide open levels? ~sighs~

I mean, nuts, I was hoping to create a AC loaded with four chainguns, one on each shoulder and one on each arm, like I did back in AC3.

Well, hope they bring them back in the next one.

Yeah I kinda was hoping to see a back mounted chain gun, but the closest you get is the back mounted pulse gun lol which is weak as ♥♥♥♥

[Tentacule Un Seigneur]

Originally posted by AscendingHope:

Originally posted by Tentacule Un Seigneur:

Well......that is unfortunate, maybe they thought the sniper rifle and rockets would be a bit overpowered with the wide open levels? ~sighs~

I mean, nuts, I was hoping to create a AC loaded with four chainguns, one on each shoulder and one on each arm, like I did back in AC3.

Well, hope they bring them back in the next one.

Yeah I kinda was hoping to see a back mounted chain gun, but the closest you get is the back mounted pulse gun lol which is weak as ♥♥♥♥

Well, at leas this one gave us chainsaw blades, kicking, and actually made plasma a viable weapon type. Oh, and brought back napalm and flamethrowers, haven't seen those since the earliest Armored Cores.

[AscendingHope]

Originally posted by Tentacule Un Seigneur:

Originally posted by AscendingHope:

Yeah I kinda was hoping to see a back mounted chain gun, but the closest you get is the back mounted pulse gun lol which is weak as ♥♥♥♥

Well, at leas this one gave us chainsaw blades, kicking, and actually made plasma a viable weapon type. Oh, and brought back napalm and flamethrowers, haven't seen those since the earliest Armored Cores.

I thought the back mounted plasma cannons were viable in ac4a?

[Tentacule Un Seigneur]

Originally posted by AscendingHope:

Originally posted by Tentacule Un Seigneur:

Well, at leas this one gave us chainsaw blades, kicking, and actually made plasma a viable weapon type. Oh, and brought back napalm and flamethrowers, haven't seen those since the earliest Armored Cores.

I thought the back mounted plasma cannons were viable in ac4a?

True, but the plamsa rifles not so much, and in most other AC games they sadly were a bit sub par. They often made them more powerful than laser weapons, but gave them pitiful ammo counts and slow projectiles that were easily dodged. I thought they looked cool though, so every single AC game I would make a mech focused around using Plasma. I was so happy when I saw the Plasma Rifle had 90 rounds, I felt like doing a little nerdy dance.

[AscendingHope]

Originally posted by Tentacule Un Seigneur:

Originally posted by AscendingHope:

I thought the back mounted plasma cannons were viable in ac4a?

True, but the plamsa rifles not so much, and in most other AC games they sadly were a bit sub par. They often made them more powerful than laser weapons, but gave them pitiful ammo counts and slow projectiles that were easily dodged. I thought they looked cool though, so every single AC game I would make a mech focused around using Plasma. I was so happy when I saw the Plasma Rifle had 90 rounds, I felt like doing a little nerdy dance.

The projectiles still seems pretty slow, but I haven't tried them in pvp yet. Seems like the fast firing one is the best one for that though? idk