The Weapons in Alien 5?

[Inverse Effect]

Do you think we'll get like updated Pulse rifles and Smartguns? aka Pulse Rifle MKII etc?

[OpenMaw]

If they have Pulse Rifles and Smart Guns I just as soon they don't touch anything. Those designs are flawless as is.

One of the most annoying things to me in Colonial Marines was seeing the Pulse Rifle done up like an AR-15 pattern rifle with the stupid rails and irons added on it. No.

[Corporal Hicks]

Nah - that made sense. It had no sights. Not even iron sights. And you never saw it used with their HUDs. It was a silly concept as a weapon.

[HuDaFuK]

Nah - that made sense. It had no sights. Not even iron sights. And you never saw it used with their HUDs. It was a silly concept as a weapon.

It fairness, we never really see it all that clearly in the film. I always just assumed it had some iron sights in the groove along the top of the carry handle - something ACM added to the few oldschool Pulse Rifles that were in the game.

OT: All these "do you think this will be in the new film?" threads crack me up. How the hell do we know what will be in the new film and what won't? We don't even know what the new film's about yet.

[Inverse Effect]

Better yet, we never really seee that much of any of the weapons. I suppose the only real clip we get of the Pulse Rifle is from this scene



I suppose the grove on top of the handle is where you look through to aim.

[Xenomorphine]

It really depends on how many years are meant to have passed - if any.

[Vermillion]

No years. 

Leak in cryotubes caused advanced aging.

Expect Aliens level tech. Including sharp sticks.

[Born Of Cold Light]

Aliens takes place over two hundred years in the future.  Can't we get something a little more advanced?

[OpenMaw]

Interesting that you say that. The treatment for Aliens indicates that the intention originally was that the USCM weapons were plasma-energy based and not "10MM explosive tipped caseless." 

[NetworkATTH]

Aliens takes place over two hundred years in the future.  Can't we get something a little more advanced?

Aliens takes place 57 years after Alien, actually.

[OpenMaw]

Aliens takes place over two hundred years in the future.  Can't we get something a little more advanced?

Aliens takes place 57 years after Alien, actually.

...And? It still takes place roughly two hundred years in the future. 

[whiterabbit]

If this is an Aliens sequel the M41A pulse rifle had better be in it.

Also, I thought the thing kind of aimed themselves, like the smart guns did? Just point and shoot, and things end up dead.

[Son Of Kane]

If laser weapons can be done tastefully like in Prometheus sure, but I'd really like to see realistic weapons akin to the pulse rifle honestly, the weapons from the Halo series would be good inspiration.

[NetworkATTH]

Aliens takes place over two hundred years in the future.  Can't we get something a little more advanced?

Aliens takes place 57 years after Alien, actually.

...And? It still takes place roughly two hundred years in the future. 

I missed that.

[Infected]

Just keep the Industrial look of everything.