New Energy Launcher: Wave Type#381

There’s currently only one type of Energy Launcher in the game. What if there was another one?

These drones would begin the mission offline, and would have to be triggered using the Energy Launcher button. Once put online, they move to a position immediately in front of the player and begin charging, remaining stationary and no longer tracking the player.

After a few seconds, the drones fire a massive beam directly forward, draining energy and inflicting heavy damage over time. This continues until either the drones run out of energy (at which point they return to the user to recharge) or the user manually turns them off. In either case, they go offline and return to the user’s position until re-activated.

This idea would admittedly take a bit of visual and mechanical work to implement, so I suspect it would take a fair bit of time, but “giant sci-fi laser attack” sounds cool enough to be worth the wait.

Similar ideas have been presented in #311 [Energy rework ideas].