- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Hmm... slugthrower? That's another contradiction. If we can safely say the ones in the E3 03 demo were plasma weapons of some sort, and the book version was a grenade launcher, what the heck is going on? I wonder if there are in fact 3 weapons that the Brutes use. Sounds like quite a variety so far. Anyways, the only weapon in the demo that could be called a slugthrower is the new gun mounted on the Warthog, as it appears to be a gauss gun. It uses magnets to accelerate the projectile to hypersonic speeds. I don't know why you get that funky "yellow streak" effect in games, as in real life you'd just hear a loud crack and the taget would have a nice clean hole in it. Ideal for anti-armor applications, no so good for anti-personnel. You'd want jacket hollow point rounds for that kind of work, or maybe the hi-explosive tipped rounds the M6D fires.