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Philip Defranco, ladies, and Space Marine. Yessssssss. and some other stuff that no one cares about.

H.B.M.C. wrote:

Mr.Church13 wrote:-(Question) As far as the plasma gun firing in a "weird" lobbing way. Isn't this how a plasma gun would fire IRL? I mean it is a "ball" of plasma suspended in a magnetic field. Would lobbing not make more sense?

Heh. "In real life". A blast of plasma fired from a gun would likely fly straight up, because it would be so much lighter than air it's not funny. And even if you could find a way to launch out from the barrel of the gun at any sort of speed, it would be akin to throwing a balloon at someone (we've all seen what happens when you throw a balloon).

A valid assessment. I suppose this would depend on how much mass real plasma has.

There seems to be a lot of people throwing around logic in this thread. Plasma bolts floating straight up, regenerating health making more logical sense than health packs, and on it goes.

Now this might just be me, but I want my game to be fun more than I want it to be logical. If I wanted realism, I'd go do something real, rather than playing a video game. When I sit down for an FPS, I want to blow away scores of enemies with a dizzying variety of bizzare and entertaining weapons. The regenerating health thing may be more popular recently, but I don't personally enjoy the mechanic. I think it was a Halo gimic that encourages more downtime and less combat. I'm glad to hear the possibility that this game encourages you to be out and about rather than hiding behind a wall.

Again, I understand that my opinions aren't those of the majority, but I just thought I would weigh in.

H.B.M.C. wrote:But Marines don't have shields/force fields (as standard). We know this. Now, of course, the Marine in the first clip may have a shield, and, in fact, given that he's a Captain he may even have a basic form of field as standard (making the Iron Halo an upgrade), in which case fine, I've obviously leapt to a conclusion and I'm quite capable of admitting that. I just don't want 'recharging shields' on my Marine without some justification outside of "every game does it these days".

So you're upset about a game mechanic that was introduced ten years ago making into a modern game? Really? And you're assuming they put it in there...just because?

You should rethink your priorities here.

Maybe they could call it armor and have their integrated armor repair systems be the answer for the regeneration? I mean, all space marines do have power armor with a lot of resilience in each set. Just a thought.