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Posted by: The Fjonis
To forumrunner (and anyone else who approves of the idea of having flamethrowers)
The definition of plasma is superheated material in which the protons and electrons are separated. This takes many million degrees - like in the core of the Sun. Now, as someone mentioned, flametrowers usually give temperatures of around degrees Celcius - which is at the most 1/1000 of the temperature of plasma.
In addition, plasma is actually viscous, while the flamethrower burns gas. So, the amount of mass given out pr unit time by the plasma weapon pr unit time would be vastly much greater than that released by the flamethrower, and so would the total energy due to mass.
So in short, it simply wouldn't make sense if a flamethrower could in any way harm a spartan - the fact that his shields can withstand a certain amount of plasma means that they should be able to withstand flamethrower fire for a very long period of time. And as his armour can also cope with a certain amount of plasma even when the shields are down, means that the flamethrower wouldn't be effective even after the shields are gone.
That is, if there's any such thing as logic in this game. I know that Halo is not an entirely realistic universe, but still, such elementary logic as that described above should be taken into consideration in order to maintain a certian credibility.
It can also be argued that ballistic weapons used by the UNSC forces would be no match against plasma fire, as the energy of plasma is so high. This might be true, but at least, for ballistic weapons, you have the element of kinetic energy - the human bullets move at a greater velocity than plasma fire. This argument falls when dealing with plasma fire vs. flamethrowers.
I agree completely. If Mark V can stand plasma, and fire may damage it but for the Mark VI it may be impervious to fire. As Fjonis said, comon plasma VS fire....... I'd take plasma any day. Anyways why would the UNSC take fire when they could steal plasma technology from the covenant.
[Edited on 6/12/2004 7:03:37 AM]