Vile Heathen
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Posted - 2013.06.05 06:44:00 -
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I say approach it scientifically.
For instance, if you're gonna say it takes time to "heat up", then maybe range should increase over time as well?
Also, if you're going to say it has a limited range, it can only be because it's bloomingGÇöa phenomenon where the photons are disrupted and dispersed as the beam ionizes its way through the thick atmosphere. This means as it reaches its effective range, the beam becomes weaker.
And lets face it. It's a goram laser! It's "muzzle velocity" is the fastest possible. It SHOULD shoot as far as a railgun, and certainly the TAR. It also looks ridiculous when the laser sudden drops off a meter from your face.
The blooming would be a great way of balancing it, keeping it from being OP at long range, perhaps only good enough to kill shields, and allow it to be semi-useful at a hip-fire range.
Another thing that could make it more interesting is pulse mode/variant. If you fire a laser in short, fast pulses, the first few pulses "cut a hole" through the atmosphere, allowing the later pulses to reach the target without blooming, hence unlimited range. The photons would hit the target and would cause thermal damage, as well as a shockwave, as the targets atoms evaporate so quicklyGÇösomething the "cutting laser" more doesn't do. This of course would require a massive buildup of power, and the laser rifle would have to be fitted with a capacitor, like the forge gun. But imagine how cool it would sound hearing the capacitor fill up like a camera flash, and a strobed blink of light appears for but half a second, followed by a line of ionized atmosphere which fades away into the wind? |
Vile Heathen
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Posted - 2013.06.05 15:51:00 -
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Rynx Sinfar wrote:Vile Heathen wrote:
It also looks ridiculous when the laser sudden drops off a meter from your face.
Don't have experience to comment on the laser's new design but in Chromosome I always laughed when people would fire at me, the laser would end 4-5 meters from me, and they'd hold the trigger down while running at me like some sort of jousting knight. It can have one of two effects. First it's either an intense moment where you can "see" the bullet inches from your face and you go "holy crap that was close!", or it's no where near you and you laugh at the guy wiggling around a laser hoping for a hit. Otherwise all I can add is that I haven't seen a laser in a couple weeks. I've seen more plasma cannon kills.
The funniest instance of this is when someone is lasering you and they don't realize they're not hitting you. And then you retaliate with you own laser which (in the chromosome build), had a higher sharpshooter proficiency.
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