5. Equipment

The most important aspect of XMP is, without a doubt, the arsenal available to players.

You'll use a selection of weapons, vehicles, and traps to take down your enemies.

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Weapons

- "Grace"
A powerful pistol used by Aida. Packs a punch at medium-close range, but loses effectiveness when used from longer distances.

- Assault Rifle
Exactly what it says on the tin. It's Dalton's preferred weapon, and a solid rock that you can always rely on.

- Shotgun
This weapon packs a powerful punch when used against Rangers and Techs, but due to the spread of ammunition, it is recommended for use at close range for maximum impact.

- Grenade Launcher
The ever-powerful GL makes a comeback, still sporting four types of ammo.
Frag Grenades: They do just what you'd expect - go boom.
Smoke Grenades: Again, useful, although often neglected - they're still good for a quick distraction.
Whiteout Grenades: A powerful tool for distracting enemy pursuers - just.... make sure that your fellow players don't have their brightness set too high, m'kay? =]
Incendiary Grenades: These grenades burst into flames on impact, causing heavy damage. A nice way to relight someone's fire...

- Widowmaker
Ah, yes, the queen of long-range weaponry. The sniper rifle still remains a powerful weapon, but now snipers need to be as cunning as they are accurate, since counter-measures have been brought in to prevent them from being unstoppable killing machines.

- Rocket Launcher
Again, the name explains itself pretty well. Why let tivial little things such as walls get in your way, when you can use a handy little toy like this to get through?

- Shocklance
The shocklance fires electrical discharge in two varieties. This weapon is rather ineffective against humans, but works very well on vehicles and turrets.

Vehicles

- Raptor
The Raptor is the basic ground-based buggy in XMP. It's armor is very thin, and without a team-mate manning the turret it's useless as an offensive force. It is, however, very fast and agile, so a skilled driver can outmaneuver most heavy weapons. In addition to being a good "pancake maker", the Raptor is equipped with front-mounted grinders. Hit an opponent fast enough and you'll be treated to an especially gory lesson in human anatomy (provided you have gore enabled, that is).

- Juggernaut
The tank of XMP. It's slow, durable, and carries some heavy damage material. The driver has control over a flamethrower weapon, whereas a teammate acting as gunner controls the main cannons. Great for midfield play and point defense.

- Harbinger
The only plausible description of this vehicle is "hybrid". It's a jack of all trades but master of none, with moderate speed, armor and firepower aspects. Again, the driver is unarmed, but two teammates have access to a rapd-fire rocket launcher and tail-mounted EMP gun respectively. Perfect as a swift assault vehicle.

Boys' Toys

Don't think the weapons and vehicles are the only things to have fun with. Oh, no, they're not...

- Landmines
I think it's obvious what these do. Plant them in clusters in a 16 player server and watch the fun begin. Just make sure you're nowhere to be seen.

- Lasermines
It just wouldn't be an FPS without tripmines. Like above, only they explode when the beam is broken.

- Medpacks
Dispensed by Rangers and found in the game by default, these are nice little fix-me-up's for dealing with injuries.

- Turrets
These little babies can be used by players of either team, providing enough energy is available. They come in several flavours, but they all operate just the same. Bear in mind that turret usage requires you to be in the control pod, and while the weapon itself can take a beating, the pod can't.

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