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It’s been a while since I played Mass Effect so I’m not sure about this but did they really only use kinetic weapons for ship combat? Are you going to ignore lasers and particle beams etc and focus 100% on missiles and railguns? What about NPRs that use lasers or particle beams? Oh and unless it will be a plot point for the campaign, how are you going to ‘paint’ the spoilers?
For most combat they used Mass accelerator cannons or other sorts of kinetic weapons. Lasers were used for point defense and very close in combat, so either i will end up using them for it or am just gonna call railguns that. Particle beams were used though mainly by collectors or other forces over distance compared to systems alliance, but with the construct being 80% direct fire it gives incentive to invest in laser weapons and railguns.
In terms of spoilers.
Invaders are obviously the reapers
Raiders will be batarians/early alien race
Swarm will be rachni
Precursors and ancients will be protheans
Rakhas not sure on.
for MACs
I plan to use railguns for small ones (think thallax). while for big ones on dreadnoughts etc am gonna use Very very large missile launchers with mass decoyers and fragmentation and all sorts that represent a massive slug firing out over into space and then taking time to recycle