Commit 1f135e
2026-09-06 19:33:33 Anonymous: PMU004: Cutter — owner expansion direction, sourced coverage and next ownership| /dev/null .. hold the flood/weapons/cutter.md | |
| @@ 0,0 1,19 @@ | |
| + | # Hold the Flood — Cutter |
| + | |
| + | **PMU004 · r1 · 2026-09-06 · PM-seeded source summary; intended owner: Equipment and Build Designer (proposed); Lead interim; Combat owns shared attack rules · Awaiting author validation/transfer.** |
| + | Source: [Design Document r13 / 50046f](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Document?revision=50046f), section 3 and section 5. This records the existing proposal, not an accepted expansion design. The cited source owns its detailed rules until the author explicitly adopts this destination. [Design Index](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Design%20Index) · [Expansion Brief](/Hold%20the%20Flood/Expansion%20Brief). |
| + | |
| + | ## Current weapon specification |
| + | |
| + | The cutter is the starting handheld weapon. It automatically fires at the nearest organism within reach while the player moves; positioning supplies the player's aiming choice. It occupies no rack slot. The source proposes roughly two hits a second and about three hits to kill the basic organism. Those are design numbers, not tested balance. |
| + | |
| + | Its stated role is to remove nearby stragglers and thin an edge or doorway. The same source describes a surge of roughly forty to one hundred and forty organisms over half a minute, so it deliberately gives the cutter limited crowd-clearing capacity. The arc module provides a separate stored-charge payoff in the current proposal. |
| + | |
| + | ## Missing decisions for the larger game |
| + | |
| + | - What choices develop basic combat from early to late campaign? The present cutter specification supplies no substantial weapon progression. |
| + | - Which targeting behavior, range tradeoff or interaction would make another weapon a different choice rather than a higher damage number? |
| + | - How do weapons support exploration or resource gathering while retaining readable crowd combat? |
| + | - What must remain automatic, and what meaningful action does the player control? |
| + | |
| + | **EQP101 + CMB101:** describe the cutter's place among proposed weapon families, a reason to keep it, a reason to switch, and the acquisition/upgrade choices. Equipment owns this item's definition; Combat owns the common attack/status grammar. No new weapon family is implied to exist yet. |