So I see no one has converted the weapons from Battlefront over to the Edge or even Age but was wondering of anyone has played around with converting the weapons over, I am just looking for two in paticular the RT-97c Heavy Blaster and the TL-50 Heavy Repeater these are the weapons I like the most out of them and actually the TL-50 I use alot for the Walker missions as it helps me defend the uplinks quite well. If you never played with this one I recommend trying it. I would try to convert but do suck when it comes to balancing them for play. or even comparing them with other guns in the system and modifying from there.

The RT-97C is just a HBR and a basic weapon.

Yeah, the RT is just a standard heavy blaster rifle, and the TL-50 is in Forged in Battle.

Yeah. . .

Video gamers amirite

Nah, It's okay. I can understand if you want more special gear, than the "standard" you get in the CRBs. But yeah the others are right, the RT-97c is just a heavy blaster rifle with a scope, ruleswise. The TL-50 is indeed in forged in battle, though it's name is just Imperial Heavy Repeater.

The Weapons in Battlefront aren't all that unique, that they warrant a conversion into the game. Even the K-16 Bryar can be easily written over, by using one of the new attachments for dumping your energy cell to increase damage.

The Imperial Heavy Repeater in Forged in Battle is a slugthrower. The TL-50 is a blaster.

The description of the weapon in FiB doesn't include 3 barrels and its a slugthrower, not a blaster. The only similarity left would be the "expend all ammo" option, but even that is different. The IHR of FiB describes this as giving the weapon a blast radius as it expands all of its ammo covering an area. The TL-50 from the video game fires one powerful shot using up more energy.

I think the "heavy repeating blaster" name that we see for the TL-50 in Wookiepedia is a misnomer. Yes its a repeater, but its carried around by one man easily and doesn't need a bipod let alone a tripod. Its more of a unique heavy battle rifle (autofire) with modifications to give it a higher rate of fire (3 barrels) and the optional big shot. For game purposes perhaps it can run out of ammo like the Heavy Blaster Pistol, its Autofire gets to apply a Bonus die, and it can fire single shots which have an increased chance for an out of ammo result while giving increased damage and/or a blast rating?

Edit: Reading the canon entry for TL-50 its a blaster. Reading the legend entry it mentions using the "metallic bolts" mentioned in FiB and the sidebar says its a slugthrower. FFG went with the legends tab apparently. However, there is a mix of the two used by FFG since the legends tab says the blast/concussion shot is actually a grenade and its called a "rifle". The IHR doesn't mention either.

Either way I would personally toss the name "heavy repeating blaster" which makes it even more confusing.

3 hours ago, Sturn said:

The Imperial Heavy Repeater in Forged in Battle is a slugthrower. The TL-50 is a blaster.

The description of the weapon in FiB doesn't include 3 barrels and its a slugthrower, not a blaster. The only similarity left would be the "expend all ammo" option, but even that is different. The IHR of FiB describes this as giving the weapon a blast radius as it expands all of its ammo covering an area. The TL-50 from the video game fires one powerful shot using up more energy.

I think the "heavy repeating blaster" name that we see for the TL-50 in Wookiepedia is a misnomer. Yes its a repeater, but its carried around by one man easily and doesn't need a bipod let alone a tripod. Its more of a unique heavy battle rifle (autofire) with modifications to give it a higher rate of fire (3 barrels) and the optional big shot. For game purposes perhaps it can run out of ammo like the Heavy Blaster Pistol, its Autofire gets to apply a Bonus die, and it can fire single shots which have an increased chance for an out of ammo result while giving increased damage and/or a blast rating?

Edit: Reading the canon entry for TL-50 its a blaster. Reading the legend entry it mentions using the "metallic bolts" mentioned in FiB and the sidebar says its a slugthrower. FFG went with the legends tab apparently. However, there is a mix of the two used by FFG since the legends tab says the blast/concussion shot is actually a grenade and its called a "rifle". The IHR doesn't mention either.

Either way I would personally toss the name "heavy repeating blaster" which makes it even more confusing.

Yeah, this is just another example of the mess you get when you've got different companies making different games with different teams and priorities but all trying to use the same material.

The TL-50 originally appeared in Jedi Knight II (Dark Forces III) as the Imperial Repeater. It was an evolution of the Imperial Repeater from Dark Forces I&II with the change/improvement of adding a concussion blast as the alt fire mode where the original version had a weird 3-shot spread. FFG, being old grognard, used the original description. EA tring to push out a cheap game even the dumbest dudebro can follow called it a blaster. It's still, mechanically, the same thing.

This is one of those (many) situations where trying to figure out "canon" is pointless. Too many cooks in the kitchen and the story group doesn't care for buttons and bootlaces, only big picture story continuity.

Battlefront weapons are too... balanced to convert easily to EotE. For example, a certain blaster that I can't remember the name of has one of the slowest rates of fire in the game. Yet, it is actually a repeating blaster. (According to Edge) EA tends to buff the big/expensive blasters so that they struggle in other areas, like rate of fire or cooldown.