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Wasteland Weapon Concepts
A few examples of the type of weapons found in my Wasteland.
1. Submachine gun, sleek, complex design with modular mounting points. The Old Guard tend to be supplied with well maintained weapons like this.
2. Machine pistol, original design nicked from a museum, simple mechanics, easy to use and maintain, favoured by many.
3. Mark 1 Infantry Laser Gun. First generation, mass produced laser weapon for infantry units. Introduced into service just before the war. Complex design, hard to maintain without knowledge of the weapon's workings, but incredible accuracy for it's size.
4. My fallout favourite: the sawn-off rifle. Very powerful yet inaccurate at range, simple mechanics and will probably break your wrist.
5. Saturday night special submachine gun made from plumbing parts and scrap. Notoriously unreliable but very common through out the Wasteland.
6. Automatic rifle. Quite common design for those who prefer a bit more reliability and power than number five.
7. Grenade rifle, for those that throw like little boys. A museum design that launches various types of grenades and rockets.
8. Micro Laser Pistol. Bare basics for a point blank range, one shot laser pistol. Runs on four AAA batteries. Cheap, prone to not working when you really need it the most. Not something a mercenary or soldier would bother to carry around.
1. Submachine gun, sleek, complex design with modular mounting points. The Old Guard tend to be supplied with well maintained weapons like this.
2. Machine pistol, original design nicked from a museum, simple mechanics, easy to use and maintain, favoured by many.
3. Mark 1 Infantry Laser Gun. First generation, mass produced laser weapon for infantry units. Introduced into service just before the war. Complex design, hard to maintain without knowledge of the weapon's workings, but incredible accuracy for it's size.
4. My fallout favourite: the sawn-off rifle. Very powerful yet inaccurate at range, simple mechanics and will probably break your wrist.
5. Saturday night special submachine gun made from plumbing parts and scrap. Notoriously unreliable but very common through out the Wasteland.
6. Automatic rifle. Quite common design for those who prefer a bit more reliability and power than number five.
7. Grenade rifle, for those that throw like little boys. A museum design that launches various types of grenades and rockets.
8. Micro Laser Pistol. Bare basics for a point blank range, one shot laser pistol. Runs on four AAA batteries. Cheap, prone to not working when you really need it the most. Not something a mercenary or soldier would bother to carry around.
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When it comes to designing these type of things I like to give some thought on how they would really work, whether the mechanisms of what I have in mind for the object would really work with the shape and size of what I'm drawing. It helps that I've looked up on the various mechanics of weaponry and I've got a basic idea of the various types of firing and reloading and such like. And when the need arises I can always have a quick look in goggle images for some ideas and pointers.
I don't want to have weapons like plasma guns and super sledgehammers. The technology is a bit more grounded in reality, although it's still alternative tech to ours. I want most of the weapons to feel more mechanical than modern day streamlined weaponry. The Old Guard are the remains of military forces and had easy access to complex weapons like number one and three, while the tribal punks had to make do with simpler designs like number two, five and six. The only sci-fi/fantasy weapon are the laser based weapons and they are rare and a bit beyond many people in the Wastelands.
If I remember correctly there was an early weapon in the first and second Fallout games that was basically a sawn off rifle turned into a pistol. I loved that weapon, and decided to put it in the concepts. It's seemingly ridiculous, but the setting is a post-apocalyptic land and having any kind of weapon would be a lot better than none.
Well all the important mechanical parts for the magazine, barrel and bolt action is located in the length of that part, so the rest of it was all surplus metal and wood. Yes, it's a stupid weapon, but in this post-apocalyptic world beggars can't be choosers, unless they want to be eaten by ghouls.
The Saturday Night Special looks like the Bastard from Metro 2033 and Last Light. The Sawed Off Rifle could use some work as the mag size implicates its 7.62x51/54, 300 Win Mag, 338 Lapula. 30.06. 30.30 etc etc. The weapon wouldn't even be usable from any stand point as the recoiul would be absolutely ridonkulous. The other weapons seem fine, pretty that Tek 9mm is gonna suck hard, even if it is a museum piece lol Good Art.
I have to admit you did some good research on these; my only critique is the lack of a revolver style weapon, as it would be much less prone to breakdowns then an automatic system, and a pump action shotgun of some type, but then you only have so much paper to play with; overall a very nice bit of work and quite realistic:)
It would also depend on the world Lore. It could be like Fallout and be Retro Futuristic. Or be like Mad Max and be Modern Apocalypse. Considering how there are a few weapons that are current and a few that are not, I'd say something like Retro Futuristic, but not exactly so.
There are differences in the technology I've detailed in my Wasteland Reference Guide (link in my profile). It's not complete but you can get a gist of the technology available. I would say the setting is more Alternative Modern. Cybernetics is very advanced, while other spheres of knowledge is very lacking, like space technology. There are no satellites, no orbiting objects and certainly no visits to the moon. There are no wireless networks, every communication except for radio was transmitted through a massive network of cables.
Lasers and cybernetics may sound very futuristic, but the ideas I'm basing them off on are advanced versions of current knowledge and research. I remember hearing about the US military experimenting with lasers to shoot down missiles several years ago, and as for cybernetics I remember there's been some success with restoring a basic form of sight with blind people with an implant.
The laser weaponry I've imagined for this world don't work like the lasers from Fallout. The beams are invisible to the naked eye and it does not produce any recoil. There's no need for a long barrel as the actual part that fires the laser is quite short, and all the bits that turn the electricity into a laser beam doesn't have to be arranged like a barrel. Accuracy depends on the steadiness of weapon being held.
Lasers and cybernetics may sound very futuristic, but the ideas I'm basing them off on are advanced versions of current knowledge and research. I remember hearing about the US military experimenting with lasers to shoot down missiles several years ago, and as for cybernetics I remember there's been some success with restoring a basic form of sight with blind people with an implant.
The laser weaponry I've imagined for this world don't work like the lasers from Fallout. The beams are invisible to the naked eye and it does not produce any recoil. There's no need for a long barrel as the actual part that fires the laser is quite short, and all the bits that turn the electricity into a laser beam doesn't have to be arranged like a barrel. Accuracy depends on the steadiness of weapon being held.
The weapon you are referring to is a Microwave Gun. If anything the core idea sounds like Cyberpunk. As for the laser shooting down missiles, yes that is true but it was scrapped due to it being too advanced and the tech did not exist nor could be created. Still can't actually. Laser weapons are still in experimental phases irl. Cybernetics are steadily going forward but at a slow pace. The amount of tech this idea shows makes it very strange that space exploration was completely ignored, if anything, with that amount of time, tech and intelligence we should be on Mars or further. But its your idea, not mine. If I had a copier I could send you some private mail pictures of some weapon concepts, depending on what you want, style, form etc etc. I love me some guns lolv
Just because our civilization has progressed to sending manned missions to the moon does not mean that a similar civilization of the same technology level would be doing the exact same. Take the ancient Mayans for example. They had a huge empire, advanced farming, mathematics, astrology, yet they did this all without the use of wheels. It's a myth that they didn't invented the wheel, however for them they didn't use it beyond toys.
The same idea goes for my pre-war Wasteland civilization. Our rush to space came about from the Cold War rivalry and much of the knowledge of modern day rocketry was developed by the Nazis. Many of the scientists that worked on the V2 where acquired by the US, British and Soviets after the war. In the Wasteland universe, civilization never had any success in getting a satellite into orbit and it's due to those failures that funding for the space program was cut down drastically. Interest in other technologies forged ahead: cybernetic prosthetics, advanced power generation and storage.
The same idea goes for my pre-war Wasteland civilization. Our rush to space came about from the Cold War rivalry and much of the knowledge of modern day rocketry was developed by the Nazis. Many of the scientists that worked on the V2 where acquired by the US, British and Soviets after the war. In the Wasteland universe, civilization never had any success in getting a satellite into orbit and it's due to those failures that funding for the space program was cut down drastically. Interest in other technologies forged ahead: cybernetic prosthetics, advanced power generation and storage.
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