MENACE - Dev Diary #4

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Dev Diary #4 - Weapon Types and Stats

Weapons in MENACE: Stats, Strategy, and Firepower.

Happy New Year everyone! In the first Dev Diary of 2025, we will give an overview of weapon types and weapon stats in MENACE, as these are key elements of how the game plays and what the player has to consider when making his decisions before and during the battle.

Squad Weapons and Special Weapons
In MENACE, there are two fundamentally different types of weapons: "squad weapons" and "special weapons."

Equipping a squad weapon will outfit each individual element of a squad with a copy of this weapon. Supply costs are multiplied accordingly, making a bigger squad more expensive to equip. Squad weapons are regular infantry small arms ranging from shotguns and submachine guns over assault rifles to battle rifles and the like.

As the name suggests, special weapons fulfill more specialized roles upon equipping a special weapon; a single element of the squad exchanges its squad weapon for that special weapon.

Special weapons are generally speaking more cumbersome, specialized, and powerful than squad weapons. Examples would range from rocket launchers over mortars and machine guns to sniper rifles. Oftentimes, a squad will have to deploy and be stationary in order to use heavy weapons.

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