Dev Diary #1 — Machine Gun Concept! — Guardians Planetfall Steam update #679699

Welcome to the first Dev Diary for Guardians Planetfall!Today we are giving you a small tease of the machine gun you all saw in the trailer, because yes, the belt handling is pure dopamine.This gun falls into the Support category and is called in via a stratagem from your ship during an operation. Its strengths come from the huge ammunition capacity, excellent crowd control, and even some penetration capabilities.But how do we decide what a weapon will be and how it will behave?Everything begins with a Weapon Design Document, where the gameplay requirements are defined. From there, we work closely with the concept artists, exploring body shapes and silhouettes, how the grips should feel in VR, the mechanical movements the player will interact with, the realism of how the weapon operates, and how feedback like ammo counters or visible rounds should be presented. And, of course, we always ...