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Subject: Why can't the guns have a more realistic kick to them?

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Posted by: Welsh Mullet
ever though it may be another part of the weapons mechanics,perhaps it vents hot liquid or gas out the fornt at high pressure

Now I feel like an idiot. It's so evidently clear. I love you.

The Laser being a very focused beam of light has to create a lot of heat energy. It also must require a very large battery which is why a simple laser pointer is such a large shoulder mounted weapon. When you fire the Laser, it clearly vents itself. Thus even if what it fires doesn't cause recoil, the expended energy from the weapon itself still may create that effect.

  • 06.02.2009 3:18 AM PDT

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Posted by: TheJadedTarget
Posted by: Welsh Mullet
ever though it may be another part of the weapons mechanics,perhaps it vents hot liquid or gas out the fornt at high pressure

Now I feel like an idiot. It's so evidently clear. I love you.

The Laser being a very focused beam of light has to create a lot of heat energy. It also must require a very large battery which is why a simple laser pointer is such a large shoulder mounted weapon. When you fire the Laser, it clearly vents itself. Thus even if what it fires doesn't cause recoil, the expended energy from the weapon itself still may create that effect.

Right I see then. It is just a poorly designed venting system. Funny how human technology seems to get worse over time in games.

  • 06.02.2009 3:39 AM PDT

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You seem to just like nit-picking at things which don't require nit-picking so that people who actually understand the science-fiction portion of failed realism get pissed. <.<

It doesn't need to make sense if it works. It's a video game. The Laser kills things. Whether it does it well or not, it functions by the design of the developer. Not reality.

  • 06.02.2009 4:00 AM PDT

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Does anyone remember Johnson on the last level while trying to protect you? He was jittering like there was no tomorrow when he was firing (although that might have been a glitch)

  • 06.02.2009 4:03 AM PDT

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Posted by: H2M
I mean i know this guys are strong but there not Spartans? In the demo they handled the spartan lazer n' sniper with ease. Even when they ran they swayed side to side with all that heavy gear on but when shooting those guys it was like a toy to them.

It's because they are chuck norris's sons (And doughter) in disguise. I know, grammar check. But my school doesn't have that program. P'hfor real.

  • 06.02.2009 4:26 AM PDT
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Posted by: LarsBars17
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Can someone explain to me why a laser should have recoil?

Can't explain that to you.

Can anyone explain to me why ODSTs can pick up and carry turrets? that was a spartan thing, for sure. :(
EDIT: It seems counter-productive to include this feature in a game focusing on stealth, even if there is some ridiculous action sequences in it.


only about half the game is based on stealth. when your the ODST at night your trying to use stealth but when you go into the flashback part and you play as your squadmate during the day all your going to do is shoot like in the normal halo campaings

  • 06.02.2009 4:29 AM PDT

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The Spartan LASER is an advanced directed-energy pulse-accelerator. It must use a secondary source of power, that when mixed with the intense heat of the LASER produces a volatile chemical Explosion. It has never been called a particle beam (what the X-men's Cyclops shoots).

  • 06.02.2009 4:47 AM PDT

If it makes you feel better, the camera shifts a little as you walk.

  • 06.02.2009 4:48 AM PDT

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