I dont know what weapons will be in Reborn yet, but to my mind attacking weapons that make game faster must be countered with the defencive ones, like railgun, which make the game slower.

My idea about such weapon would be:

Sniper rifle/railgun that shoots not when you click a button, but when you release it. It works like this: once you chose the railgun, you pull the trigger and when your enemy appers in crosshair, you release the fire button. If you just choose other weapon, railgun disappears without shot.

The advantage of this method is that you actually shoot faster like this, because it takes slightly less time to release button than to click. And that is significant with weapons like railgun, because you need to shoot at the enemy very quickly before he leaves your crosshair area.

Also the good thing is that it allows you to make railgun a really badass destroyer without overpowering it - because with that setup you couldnt fire every second - it must take a while, I would say that 1 shot in 2-2,5 seconds would be comfortable.

And also its kinda some new way of shooting and it could help Reborn to differ on the market of fps and its good when weapons radically differ from each other.

Everybody could try it in Quakelive, cvars aint difficult at all.