There's only so much I can do with such a boring style of weapon. Shoots a single projectile in a straight line, what am I supposed to do with that? Make it travel in bizarre patterns? Make it home in on enemies? Bullet types already do that. There isn't much I can do to guns besides make them shoot faster, do more damage or have auto reuse. If you have some UNIQUE ideas, I'm all ears. And no explosion bullets, that's rockets shtick!
We may not get any weapons which happen to have super-mega-unique-functions, but the guns we use throughout the game are just 7 when there are 21 guns in total. We need guns which are good to use, variety among them, not just those 7 that everyone uses. The others aren't useful, at all.
Chaingun, have you ever used it? Revolver? Gatligator? Red Ryder? It's becouse instead of the Chaingun we all stick with the Megashark which has the ammo saving functions, instead of the revolver we all prefer the Handcannon/Phoenix Blaster/Venus Magnum, instead of the Red Ryder we use the Sniper Rifle, even the Vortex Beater is absolutely useless as soon as you get the S.D.M.G, becouse it has lower damage and the exploding projectile isn't even that good. It's not that we require super-amazingly-unique weapons, we need those which are useful. Not just a pile of 7 guns, some of which you won't even get.
If you only wish to make
Unique weapons, then you still haven't answered on my PM and I'll make some up right now.
"Double Trouble"
A Pistol that will both shoot bullets, and is a melee weapon. How does it work? When you swing it as melee, it acts like a shortsword but with decent range and somewhat damage, it'll also shoot in the direction of the cursor at the same time. Mostly, the weapon would be used to push enemies a lil' bit forward, or to just double-damage.
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Coin 1-15"
A shotgun that has a chance to consume 1 bullet, but to shoot either 1 or 15 projectiles with 7% chance to shoot out more than 1 projectile.
(may be useless, according to my own logc)
If you want more
Unique designs, try googling stuff to maybe make up an idea for something. I get it, the modding is supposed to be used to add more unique content to the game, and make it more interesting, but then make the Gunslinger more interesting. Not just 7 weapons which everyone uses, becouse most people won't even use the hardmode ore guns. They already hang around with a decent weapon if they're at this state. Modding isn't always used to make super-mega-sparking-chocolate-flavored-unique content, it's also used to tweak stuff or add missing content - guns in this option. We don't use 14 guns out of all 21.
I'm not saying that Guns are unique, they just shoot a bullet in a straight line, yea, but nobody said it's bad. Nobody's complaining about it. It's sad how every mod ignores the existance of guns, somewhat forcing people to move from the Gunslinger class.
We don't need sparking guns which shoot out super-cats which explode in 3 more cats spreading rainbow everywhere, we need stuff that buffs up that dull number of 7 guns we use.
now i don't wanna brag or anything but this took me 20 minutes to write down