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Iron Wolf Saber
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Posted - 2013.07.13 20:06:00 -
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BL4CKST4R wrote:It's always bothered me that the Assault rifles show no sign of having anything to do with Plasma. Currently the Assault rifle is a typical magazine fed projectile weapon. Plasma is created by the ionization of gases and thus has no actual shape or volume, although you can manipulate plasma by a magnetic field to change its to be like a beam sort of. Due to how plasma is heated gas it means that once fired it will disperse quickly in the atmosphere. We could also use plasma and apply it to a projectile by giving the projectile itself a magnetic field and thus plasma will follow, but we would still need a way of generating said plasma. So currently our "Plasma rifle" shows no sign of any relation to firing plasma and/or manipulating plasma in any way, it also shoots projectiles thus our Assault rifle is not a Plasma rifle.
You don't know the Gallente that well it seems.
Notably plasma weapons is relatively new to the to the arsenal, before we had blasters but they're more akin to a slag cannon than anything and they don't perform as well in an atmospheric environment versus the better contained bottling of the plasma weapons offer. Reasons we probably don't use them in space combat is the slow speed they travel at or lack of damage for energy/material input or the tech hasn't been upscaled yet.
First off the gun draws its power from the suits they're attached to hence the power grid requirements and the plasma rifle does have a cyclotron similar to the shotgun, and plasma cannon but its far smaller. The barrel for the plasma rifle would make it more of a gallente plasma weapon and not a traditional blaster weapon. Most of this power is used to maintain a magnetic bottling field.
Charges for the weapon on the other hand are age OLD tech well perfected. Dissimilar to bullet which feature a separate propellant and warhead the entire charge is the warhead which has to rely on the weapon to provide the means of propulsion. So charges for the plasma rifle are likely very specifically designed for the plasma rifle itself, that it would likely be the high potential energy gas and the reactionary means to achieve a plasma state once influenced by the cyclotron, the shell is most likely decomposed in the process to help form the magnetic bubble which is then propelled down range containing the ball of plasma until an significant exterior material forces the bubble to collapse into it resulting in an injection of plasma towards inside the target hit.
Evidence of this is that the plasma rifle does not eject shell casing whereas the SMG does.
Blaster tech is a bit different and the plasma shotgun is far closer to the function but basically charges are feed into the already running cytron and shot out with little consideration other than having enough magnetics to guide the shot out the barrel. Charges used are generally have a metal core when shot out to act as the anchor and precursor for the energies developed by the charge detonation. The reason why it may not be for infantry sized weapons is maybe the power requirements to keeping the cyclotron running constantly is beyond most suit's reactors capabilities.
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Iron Wolf Saber
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Posted - 2013.07.15 05:27:00 -
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The sound of the gun is probably the coolant getting forced around though the gun. The change of material states suddenly from metal to plasma and the vacume the magnetic bottle launched causes. |
Iron Wolf Saber
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Posted - 2013.07.15 19:46:00 -
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It's not about being scientifically right its the ability to suspend the ability of belief for a short bit to allow a player to immerse themselves into the reality of the universe not their own.
Most games do this without having to bore a person to death with out of game fiction generally. |
Iron Wolf Saber
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Posted - 2013.07.19 19:32:00 -
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Jeremiah ambromot wrote:Just wanted to point out that plasma is not gas it is a separate state of matter. Also if it is hybrid could it not have a highly charged, therefore magnetic liquid or solid center, and be surrounded by the plasma. The plasma could be so strongly attracted to the charge that within a given range it would remain around the projectile until it cools or disperses. Therefor making it a projectile and plasma bullet, hybrid.
Gas ammunition for plasma weaponry is common considering its the lowest containable state of the matter/energy state without requiring more energy to contain it than its potential.
Similar to how we use solid black powder, we're not storing the explosion in its energized state but in a state that's easily readable to the energy level required later.
Also the Plasma Cannon operates using solely the gas medium based on the sound the charge tube makes when reloading. |
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