New style of Corpus weaponry?

[(PSN)LeBlingKing]

Ever since The Index, I've been noticing a whole lot of style changes in recent Corpus weaponry. 

Usually, Corpus weapons are based upon a singular subject, with multiple parts combining to become one working machine.

Lately, it seems the weapons we are getting are putting a LOT of emphasis on the "multiple parts" section of their usual design, to the point of ridding the design of its usual sleek form, and more of a blocky Legoesque look. Not that I'm complaining. 

Any idea why this might be the case?

 

[Corvid]

Well, the Corpus does consist of multiple companies. It's entirely plausible that we're simply seeing weapons made by a different manufacturer.

[o.0-]

An in-lore plausibility, is that the first gen weapons were what the Corpus have used for ages after the fall of the Orokin; cheap and simple to make, and were enough to deal with Grineer encroachments.

Now that Salad V has instigated so much and the Tenno are awake, causing havok, new arms manufacturers likely have been stepping into the new marketplace and are developing new weapons to better deal with the evolving situation in the Sol system.

[Cacharoes]

Apart from just them changing it because they can, a lore wise explanation probably would involve that they are developed by different corpus groups. We already know lore wise that Alad V and Anyo Corp have a variety of different products they sell and they they could in theory have different design styles along with countless other corpus. The Gas City Tileset also shares similarities in terms of colour palette and some of the shapes. The Porta Corpus armour is also the same way which sort of combines traits from that Tileset and of new corpus weapons.

[(PSN)LeBlingKing]

3 minutes ago, SPARTAN-187.Thanatos said:

An in-lore plausibility, is that the first gen weapons were what the Corpus have used for ages after the fall of the Orokin; cheap and simple to make, and were enough to deal with Grineer encroachments.

Now that Salad V has instigated so much and the Tenno are awake, causing havok, new arms manufacturers likely have been stepping into the new marketplace and are developing new weapons to better deal with the evolving situation in the Sol system.

So basically Adapt, Evolve, and Overcome? Seems possible.

Except the new designs have only shown up after the Index with the introduction of Javlok's older brother. 

Were they just in development for a long time, or is the new style rather recent?

 

Edited October 11, 2017 by (PS4)LeBlingKing69

[Bronjun]

Arca bundle and Lenz are prototype weapons, Ohma is likely no exception. 

[Firetempest]

Its a series. Just like the tenno weapons.

Soma/ Akstiletto/ Dual Raza. or Boltace/ Akbolto/ Boltor

The next group will look slightly different as well I'm sure with some overarching similarities. Its about time corpus had better sets, it was becoming a homogenized bore.

Edited October 11, 2017 by Firetempest

[Cacharoes]

The Sonicor is more inline with the designs of newer corpus weapons which was released long before the Index was around. So it really does not have much to do with the Index. It is more than likely they are going based off internal inspiration. The Grineer have weapons that have various designs while in general all similar they have subsets that are reminiscent of grineer Tilesets the Harpak being like the Underwater Set, the Javlok being like the Shipyards, The Zarr being like the Kuva fortress, it stands to reason they would theme corpus weapons around their tilesets as well, however since Most corpus sets look nearly the same you only really have the Ship/outpost style being the older one and the Gas City the newer one which as mentioned before is more like the newer corpus weapons.

[Grimm]

points at art Mynki being gone from the art team.

[o.0-]

3 minutes ago, (PS4)LeBlingKing69 said:

So basically Adapt, Evolve, and Overcome? Seems possible.

Except the new designs have only shown up after the Index with the introduction of Javlok's older brother. 

Were they just in development for a long time, or is the new style rather recent?

 

It's possible that the gear used by Nef's Brokers has been seen as exotic and/or novelty items by the Corpus who watch and bet on those games. And they look expensive to maintain compared to the ones used by Crewmen.

And so Tenno involvement to help the Myconans, allowed us to gain access to building our own from what's been used against us, there.

 

The Arca series could be a new Lab that has emerged to compete with Luxor products, which could be one of the dominant Corpus Syndicates as there should be multiple ones operating.

I hope the devs can get into more of this in future Corpus quests and that new system for dealing with other organizations.

[Archistopheles]

12 minutes ago, Grimm said:

points at art Mynki being gone from the art team.

When did that happen?

[Grimm]

Just now, Archistopheles said:

When did that happen?

idk, i didn't notice till he wasnt at tenno con art panel 

[Lost_Cartographer]

Several possible lore reasons:

1.  Different manufacturers.

2.  Wartime production.  Hek did openly declare war on the Corpus.  Going to need more than some cheaply made weapons good mostly for fending off pirates.

3.  Ran out of real world hardware tools to mimic in their weapon designs.

[Rakosta_Kai]

Aggressive marketing and Branding to get the other members of the Corpus faction to select their submissions.

Of course, The Tenno have since stolen the plans for those weapons which is probably making that Group look bad presently.

[DonGucciRice]

2 hours ago, Archistopheles said:

When did that happen?

Some time in feb

 

[Archistopheles]

2 minutes ago, XxDarkNeko said:

Some time in feb

Thank you for the link!

[(PSN)i7081277]

well what I need is a corpus rapier

[Newnight]

I thought different companies in the corpus designed various weapons, wouldn't that explain the change besides just innovation? 

[Newnight]

47 minutes ago, (PS4)i7081277 said:

well what I need is a corpus rapier

So a french lightsaber?

Also i just noticed there are no corpus swords.

Edited October 12, 2017 by Newnight
forgotten info

[ChaoticEdge]

you also forgot they has vandel weapons littery.  Yet we did forget the prisma weapons of course including the unused no one want to used the tetra weapon.

thats tetra prisma.  As yet no one want comment about it.

[(PSN)i7081277]

2 hours ago, Newnight said:

So a french lightsaber?

Also i just noticed there are no corpus swords.

Rapiers are Spanish 

[(PSN)Silverback73]

8 hours ago, (PS4)LeBlingKing69 said:

Ever since The Index, I've been noticing a whole lot of style changes in recent Corpus weaponry. 

Usually, Corpus weapons are based upon a singular subject, with multiple parts combining to become one working machine.

Lately, it seems the weapons we are getting are putting a LOT of emphasis on the "multiple parts" section of their usual design, to the point of ridding the design of its usual sleek form, and more of a blocky Legoesque look. Not that I'm complaining. 

Any idea why this might be the case?

 

Someone graduated to Legos and K'nex once they outgrew blocks and simple geometric shapes.

I guess shape-changing nanotech weapons are next.

Edited October 12, 2017 by (PS4)Silverback73

[(XBOX)calvina]

I would call it modernization, and of course, different manufacturers.

The Grineer are also going through the same phase, thier first line of weapons look like cobbled junk, but recently they're becoming more streamlined. (they also have htier own canon manufacturer, Harkonar)

Edited October 12, 2017 by (XB1)calvina

[TheBrsrkr]

5 hours ago, (PS4)i7081277 said:

well what I need is a corpus rapier

Lightsaber when?

[Zandermanith222]

What others said about different manufacturers and whatnot.

But also in general, DE likes to do things that they've never done before, they like to make intricately designed weapons these days, always with gimmicks of some type. It only makes sense that their weapon designs would deviate from the simplicity of their old stuff, for better or worse. I like Corpus design in general, but I was especially a fan of weapon designs like the Dera and Prova (Although maybe that's also because the idea of using the same weapons enemies utilize appeals to me~)

Now if only the Corpus could have just as much variety in their enemy designs. The idea of making variations on an existing template (Eg; the MOA design or Zanuka design) fits the factory built nature of Corpus Robotics, but it's...kinda lazy from a game design standpoint. And just makes it all the more clear that DE favors Grineer designs over everything else.

Edited October 12, 2017 by Zandermanith222