I often suddenly get some ideas for new mechs or weapons while under the shower or on the toilet. But for a while now, something weird started happening. And that’s the following, which is that sometimes, just a couple weeks after I had the idea, they added it to the game, without me even telling anyone or writing my idea somewhere.

For example, I once had the idea of a sniper weapon that when you fire, has an aiming laser appear for last second adjustments in aiming before a powerful laser shoots. Sound familiar? Because a couple weeks later we had the EM-Rifles. And I don’t think that this is a coincidence.

If you think this is just a coincidence, then how about this:

I had an idea of a close-quarter weapon that shoots two times with a short delay, leading into a short reload time (just about 2 seconds). That sounds pretty much like an Ember-Gun to me. I mean if it ended here, I’d also say that it was a coincidence, but hear me out: I also imagined it having two barrels side by side. And when we get to the animation I had in mind, it gets interesting. Because I imagined a recoil after the first shot, which leads into a smooth transition to the reload animation (aka weapon pointing up) while being pulled back a little. 

I mean this just doesn’t make any sense to me. Especially because it also happened with the repeaters and Disruptors, and some other ones I don’t remember (while for these ones only the concept was the same I imagined)

Can you just respond if this also happened to you as well?