This is namely just building bionics to become less universal. Namely, by making it more Brand Name and specific products made by preexisting companies with different goals as part of lore. This would namely mean having a lot of variants of the same bionics, as well as more meticulous attention to things like
Having slight differences between similar brands
Such as different forms of integrated armor with different material types that incur different encumberment and weight penalties for example. (Speaking of which, make most bionics incur weight penalties until they are uninstalled.)
Laser integrated weapons having variant powers, efficiencies, etc
Different brands generally having different ease of installation and durabilities, etc
Company exclusive bionics and companies generally having a specific preference in how they are built in terms how each bionic is balanced.
Having some bionics have improved unity with similar brands depending on whether they're made for it.
For instance, having armor or structural bionics conflict or otherwise make more difficult installation of adjacent ones if they aren’t the same brand or otherwise cross-fitted for them to slot together properly.
Cross interactions for bionics, as well as bionics modifiers/addons that are easier to install if they can fit upon the previous bionic. For instance, a scatter lens for a hand laser, an exo-chassis frame that can have armor plates attached on it, hydraulic muscles needing a rigid reinforcement of skeleton to use to maximum potential etc
This could make the bionics get a feel more varietous and could even make more possibility to make them more prevalent in general society before the apocalypse happened without making everyone super soldiers, as well as giving enough variety to make every build feel unique.
What do you all think of such a developement path? It may need more collaboration and more of a development arc to do more than simply adding a bunch of different bionics to do new things, as well as some lore writing and such. Do any of you have any specific ideas to contribute to this? Writing short stories, lore of bionic manufacture companies, etc would be welcome (in this thread, in case it’s considered).
There would be slightly less focus on coming up with new shinier bionics, but rather making more varieties of the current ones we have. This still leaves quite a bit of room for new bionics that may be more relevant if due to more inter-bionic applications. I’ll post subsequent posts here when I come up with enough for a specific thing.
