- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
PLASMA is SUPER HEATED IRON
Not entirely true, plasma is super heated ionised gas. When a gas is heated to high enough temperatures, it starts losing electrons and becomes ionised, and this is why it can be contained by magnetic fields (or shaped).
It doesn't really matter what the gas is made of, but the gas which requires the least energy to heat up is probably preferable, since it requires less energy to achieve the same effect.
As for the flame thrower, and fuel rod, I felt they were poorly balanced. The fuel rod is meant to take about 5 - 10 seconds to charge up, but in the PC version, you can fire 5 rapid shots.
The flamethrower can continue burning you for a long time after you get out of the way of the blast, and is lethal at close range.
I'm a little dissapointed with the weapon balance in PC, gearbox changed the weapons too much. The pistol - one of the most powerful weapons in multiplayer - was made to fire even faster than the xbox version. What were they thinking?