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Posted by: PLUT0NIUM 235
not sure what the fascination with energy weapons are, bullets work, its as simple as that. simple, effective and ease of use/manufacture makes them perfect weapons, in the time-frame of Halo would guess propellants have improved giving greater muzzle velocities, bullet design would have improved to increase lethality and bullet materials changed to improve penetration power. so what is more effective, a complicated, dangerous plasma weapon or a weapon that uses stored chemical energy to propel a projectile at high velocities, also kinetic weapons are energy weapons, nobody can argue with kinetic energy.
You neglected to note the fact that, without the very recent advancement of personal energy shielding, plasma technology according to cannon would decimate any individual in standard UNSC body armor (as well as Mjolnir, for that matter). Plasma weaponry bypasses the standard 'stop the kinetic attack before it hits you' tactic because it simply melts/disintegrates whatever armor an individual would have before passing into the wearer anyway.
That is the fascination with energy-based weapons. They negate the defense of armor which, to date, has been the only effective protection (again barring energy shields) from kinetic-based weapons.
[Edited on 06.23.2011 8:00 AM PDT]