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Well, that would be more of a sludge launcher, not a plasma launcher.
But still, the FRG and all the plasma weapons, in that exact phrase, launch plasma. Why make a new weapon?
Now, for you
Posted by: DARK COYOTE
Posted by: UL71M4 G33K
A Flamethrower just isnt practicle though. I dont care if this is halo, the flamethrower just wasnt a good weapon for this game. I actually think Halo is the only FPS game that i have played that has tried the flamethrower. And in this game, it just didnt work.
Today's military abandoned incindiary weaponry for more precise ballistic weaponry. Even in halo that is true. Why shoot a giant piece of metal out of the MAC guns when you could shoot a giant warhead? Because the metal has a higher density and mass, making it hit harder. It will also release all its energy in one direction rather than in all directions like a warhead.
Warfare is different now than just having things blow up or light on fire.
wow.... flame throwers were primarly used in the world wars and vietnam, because they were good for clearing out brush areas where enemies might be hiding. They were also needed to clear out napam excesses, nerve gas, etc.... anyways, my point is, they had a specific use.
IN the Halo UNIVERSE, they have a very specific purpose... BURN FLOOD. The Forerunners apparanetly skipped fire and went straight to plasma, so they never though to develp something like a flame thrower. The plasma launcher cold evolve from the COV stealing human flame thrower tech and incorporating there own forerunner plasma tech into a new weapon they use to combat the flood, since the flamethrower is quite effective.
As for the rest of your post... the MAC Guns shoot Uruniam incased in metal if I'm not mistaken, which means they do shoot a warhead. Now, what the space weapons have to do with this post, I don't know, but its useless hera and completely off topic.
And for your last statement "Warfare is different now than just having things blow up or light on fire".... lmao, lets see, warfare began as blunt objects and fists, evolved to spears and arrors, then catapults, then the gun, cannons, then machine guns, huge turrets, flamethrowers, biologcy weapons, nuclear bombs, bunker busting bombs, stinger missiles.... anyways, thats what, the past 500 years mostly (besides catapults and everything before that).... so imagine what we can do in the next 500 years...but as you can see, its never just been blow up or light on fire... its been point and shot, and occasionlly blow and burn stuff.
anyways, flamethrowers are effective, they instantly incinreat flood, and they could be pratical for MP as well.
The flamethrowers were never integrated into Campaign, so they really dont have a purpose. 2) Halo PC wasnt atually made by bungie, and the flamethrower was just an addition to get people to think it had more than 1 new weapon. 3) We stopped using the flamethrower after Vietnam becuase of friendly fire issues and ucontrollable brush fires. It would explode if shot (the armor was fairly old by Vietnam and was weak to new rounds) and was only good at a certian range.
The flamethrower was just an added weapon for Halo PC multiplayer, it had no specific use than just being there.
[Edited on 7/16/2006]