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Lasers in the Gearhead universe?

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Anticheese:
Lasers would have to be the perfect cantidate for the LINE attribute, and yet only about 3 weapons have it - None of them lasers.

Light travels at 299,792,458 meters per second, not the speed of a BMX bike and yet the "Laser Cannon" shoots a projectile that moves slower than plasma! The only problem that I can see with having a staple weapon set to LINE is that it would go straight through a ton of things and become overpowered, but would it be possible to make a small patch that would improve all lasers by making them at least look like a LINE weapon? It may be a small thing but it would add a fair bit of flavour to the game.

Cheers!

Sabin Stargem:
Maybe lasers might not pass through an object if it is of sufficient density or toughness?  It might go through a bunch of common helicopters or supply trucks easily, but when confronted with something that has thicker armor, it simply won't happen unless it hits an particurlarly weak section?

Perhaps an new property could be added, called <CUT THROUGH> that carries out this sort of thing.  B ut how would the value of this property be determined?  Maybe it could be like <CUT THROUGH H60) Meaning it would go through objects of 60 HP or less.

Anticheese:
Insightful!

The way that GH reads weapontype tags is that one word and occasionally one number make up one "block" of weapontype, so it would read CUT THROUGH 60 as CUT and THROUGH 60, so how about PENETRATE 60?

I have to say, I really like that idea.

P.S, Consider registering an account!

macksting:
Damnit. That was my post. Twice that's happened lately. Can we kill guest posting?

(Post fixed by moderator)


I suspect this has more to do with the breadth of the attack than its power. Often, in anime, the two are closely linked; a massive beam plays over the lead character, probably obliterating anything behind him/her while, somehow, the magical chi shield thing or the character's massive, rippling muscles allows said character to hold out against the brilliant white light.
However, I think this is, itself, indicative that the attacks with the Line attribute have more to do with breadth (area) than anything else.
After all, you can dodge a laser. Apparently, you can't dodge a line.

Coincidentally, yes, plasma would have a certain spread.

Anticheese:
On the DoomRL boards we killed guest posting because I had to delete about 8 spam messages daily, It's not a fun job I can assure you.

I dont think that guest posts will get the axe, we have had some pretty good guest posters (Chief of all Sabin Stargem) and it encourages new members.

Tell you what I'll do though, I'll edit your post to have the guest post in it and delete the old one.

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Quoting: Anonymous
After all, you can dodge a laser. Apparently, you can't dodge a line.

I cant see any reason why a successful dodge roll would have you or your mech jump a space to the side to dodge the blast, that's what reflexes are for.

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