I'm here to talk a little about handheld and integrated weapons in my AU In my AU, both are used. In the early years of the war, handguns were the standard, as both sides believed the war would end soon. As time went on, they realized that it wouldn't be like that. (1/?)

As the war progressed and its scale increased, both armies began developing more advanced weaponry. Some bots, with the vision of never finding themselves defenseless at any time, began to integrate weaponry into their chassis.

@Weonilustrado I know nothing about your AU but I like to think that the decepticons began developing them first with Shockwave creating the first successful prototype for himself, but then the race became for concealed weaponry specifically

@Weonilustrado Had me till you called red alert “its”

@Weonilustrado So I assume that hand held weapons do exist as some weapons are simply too massive and or energy draining to be incorporated fully into a bots body unless they transformed into said instrument of destruction.

@Weonilustrado Ide like to know more of this Au. This is very interesting and I fucking love it 🧍🏼‍♂️

@Weonilustrado I also like this approach. In my AU, they always existed but were heavily monitored because it's effectively carrying a concealed weapon as well as requiring a certain amount of skill with a t-cog and drains your energon quicker.

@Weonilustrado me gusta la vercion de prime es como esa arma tecnologica del brazo multiusos

@Weonilustrado I always liked the idea that integrated weapons were typically weaker than hand held ones because if you had your weapon and it got knocked away you would be defenceless and so they made backup weapons in the form of integrated blasters

@Weonilustrado I always thought of it as the integrated weapons were typically less powerful than their handheld counterparts, but I like the way you've approached it.

@Weonilustrado I’ve always loved when transformers have integrated weapons it’s so much cooler