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Now i get to invade another thread! yay!
alright first, i dont mean to be mean, but stop being so damn arrogant! Or perhapes short sighted. what i mean is there is a gun (that an infantry unit can man single handedly), that blows all the guns you have mentioned, to pieces, very hot, and very small pieces. And useless, they are also useless.
click this.
(note: video included)
if you are too lazy to click that link then let me lay down the facts.
1. no heat..
2. no sound.
3. no recoil.
4. no visible fireing signature (muzzle flash).
5. no jams.
6. fires .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second)
7. infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute)
8.capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire.
9. can be mounted on almost any type military vehicle.
10. it will soon be able to fire at 5,000-8,000 fps range with no difficulty.
now that i might have your interest, you can take a look at the rest of the information in that link. but something worth noting, is that it doesnt use "conventional", methods of propelling a small metalic projectile. This weapon uses centrifuge. so instead of using self-contained cartridges containing powdered propellant, or gunpowder, it will literaly spin the projectiles out at speeds as high as 8000 fps. Master Chief eat your heart out.
So if you still care about what i have to say, i do think the weapons are alittle odd in game. one thing is that plasma isnt hard to create (so long as you have a nice energy source), a few crisscrossing lasers, shoot some gas in the focal point, and then apply some magnetic direction bam plasma projectiles. the thing is you could make plasma that is 100,000F easy, so why dont you (or your marines who have no armor or shields on their faces), go down when you take a shot to the face? i suppose its not unreasonable to assume that the covenants technology doesnt allow for enough energy to be created. but still what they are able to achieve should take you out.
Another thing is the fuel rod gun. in halo 1, and halo 2 the fuel rod guns projectiles arched downwards, but if it is super heated plasma, it should be arching upwards.
other than those things its so so bad, especialy when you consider they are going for fun, not extreme realism. perhapes some things could be changed, but i like it as it is (mostly).
-Fooluaintblack
ps. some of what i have said was directly quoted from the linked website, please excuse my lack of quotation marks to indicate them.
[Edited on 2/17/2006]