- PLUT0NIUM 235
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- Honorable Member
think your all missing the point, the UNSC are supposed to be a modern force, based on todays modern forces since the developers didn't want to go into stupid laser pistols and such with the humans. also why bother? lasers aren't some incredible end all weapons, you would likely do more damage by tearing through someones body with a high velocity solid projectile than a beam of energy. you really think in five hundred years all soldiers are gonna be running round with directed energy weapons? get real, how much are these weapons gonna cost? don't think the projectile weapon is going anywhere anytime soon, if it ain't broke, why fix it..?
the only things that really need improved with projectile weapons are things like jamming, metal storm style weapons could fix that since they have moving parts. the only thing i dislike about the halo universe, and human technology is how old fashioned their implimentation of modern firearms is, think about it this way, the XM-29 or OICW as it was called was a neat weapon, 5.56mm assault rifle with a 20mm cannon (yes, a cannon) which could be programmed to detonate at a set distance after leaving the barrel, it also had cameras on the gun which could be linked via fibre optics to the soldiers head-up display, letting him/her physically point their gun round a corner, without risking themselves. things like that have a home in the halo universe potentially, to demonstate human thinking and to offset the technological divide between the two enemies, the covenant plasma weapons should be horrific, maiming or killing you, not just causing a minor inconvienience. personally think UNSC weapons should be projectile, but innovative and clever and covenant weapons advanced, energy based and lethal.