Well, seeing as I won't be able to work on anything while i'm over in las vegas visiting family. I've decided to start working on making a covie shotgun again. The last one I tried sucked horribly. I am still looking for ideas on how it should look like. All I know it that it will be firing crystal shards. Like the needler does. But it will be just as powerful as the human shotgun. I might make it slightly stronger but have a lower ROF. So, what do you guys think it should look like? I'll need some concepts as to what it will look like. So by the time I get back home. I'll be ready to start modeling it. So any ideas?

Top half needler bottom half plasma rifle.

That will look very crappy dude. I need something more original.

snafubar is/was working on one. Pester him about it, maybe he'll show you his design.

Then he/she stole my idea!!!!! lol I swear I was the first one to think of making a covie shotgun. The original thread is somewhere her thoguh. Don't know where. I'm too lazy to go find it though.

Nope. I thought of it too. Grunt also put it in Captus.

When was that?

Captus was released a few months ago. I tried to do it a few weeks before that. Then I offered to model one for Grunt to put into Captus. It turned out crap :\

lol, Then they stole my idea. Dang, I wish people would be more original.

Or maybe, it's just a general idea, that everyone has thought about, and you're just another person who thought of it. However, you're special, because you accuse everyone of stealing that idea.

They can't steal your idea if they thought of it before you, because it wasn't your idea yet because you hadn't thought of it yet. Anyways, it's Bungie's idea, cause Bungie thought of it before anyone else, as in a prototype build of Halo, they had something resembling a Mauler. Case closed.

IMO Covenant warfare doctrine doesn't include the use of a spread weapon such as the shotgun, thus making attempts to make it fail. It just will never seem Covenant enough. The shotgun is one of the many things that makes the Covenant and Human weapon set unique. Stop trying to match all human weapons with Covenant equivalents, and vice versa. Come up with unique weapons that actually make you want to pick them up over a human shotgun.

What weapon does this? ever?

None. simple.

true. But I hope I made my point.

Make it beam-styled, those types of spread-fire weapons are stupid for the Covenant. Make it (slightly) accurate, as a beam should be, but make it larger. So you use it like a regular shotgun, but it could be good for sniping. Don't make it too effective against health, however.

In short - replace projectiles with beams. Not plasma, it's too slow. Not crystals, that too will result in spread fire, which is the shotgun's best advantage - so it isn't exactly a shotgun.

*sigh* So you just make a beam-rifle-style shotgun. Try to make it mag-fed like the FRG, though - with small rods as ammo.

make something totally new,with no relation to other weapons the covenant has.I've got a few ideas,but I want you to think of some

Isotope? No.
Beams? No.
Ballistics? No.
Plasma? No.
Crystals? No
Explosives? No.
Battery-based? No.
Heat-based? No.
Uranium? Go for it. Or better yet Titanium. Nah... No.

Give me something completely new.

Maybe some organic matter, how about... Tiberium? DUH

No we really already did everything, from flames to ice, from metal to plasma, there is nothing completely new anymore

Fail gun is fail. rofl meh. I'm scrapping the idea anyways. Forget it.

make it just like the shottie but make it have plasma tubes on the side. and make it shoot buck shot plasma.

You know how in Metroid Prime 2, the Ing fire laz0rz out of magical orbs that apper? just do something similar to that (for SP, make it spawn friendly AI that fire one laz0r, and the firing effect destroys them) have like 6 orbs apper, and make them fire laz0rz at any enemies