What's your favorite high-tech, futuristic energy type weapon in gaming? Mine is pic related, from fallout 3.
The Tenloss Disruptor rifle from Jedi Outcast. It literally disintegrates enemies so there's no corpse left.
>>345390316
Pennsylvania
>>345390316
Energy weapons are so boring...
>>345390316
Ivan makes a railgun out of railroad parts, some copper and a generator. Shit kills mutated hawks and humans with a single hit from a ball bearing.
>>345390316
I don't get how the Guass rifle works in 3/NV.
Does it shoot the microfusion cell?
![2809504-needler2[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/8NZG8Pl.jpg "2809504-needler2[1].jpg")
She's so pretty.
>>345391616
I think, but it Fallout 2 it was a rail gun designed to magnetically shoot normal bullets.
>>345391384
RAILGUNS ARE WHERE ITS AT BOYS.
Its also why Battlestar Galactica remains my favourite sci-fi.
No shields.
No teleporters.
Just a fuckton of artillery, missiles, and armor.
Also dem tribal drumbeats
>>345391820
Actually it was a rail gun designed to shoot really small energized bullets.
>>345390316
>>345391616
>>345391820
I guess the devs were just too lazy to code it so it consumed one bullet plus one microfusion cell at the same time.
>>345390316
I like the gauss rifle from 3/NV more then the one from 4 it just look more ...put together
>>345393793
Didn't even know there was one in 4. Granted I only played it for like 5 hours
>>345392004
I think that's quake, but I don't remember what the gun is called.
>>345394043
It's not bad i dont like how you have to charge it for each shot or else it dose piss poor damage
It also uses 2mm EC so its more like the Original in that respect
>apply berserk patch
>oneshot everything
Two words:
VECTOR CANNON
Halo 3 sniper. So many intimate memories
>>345391616
it works in Fallout 4 in that it is now a Unique Weapon.
It fires ballistic projectiles at a high velocity powered by a battery. It consumes 2mm EC which is half battery pack and half ammunition.
>>345391789
That's not an energy weapon though.
>>345390316
this probably.
The Institute is a joke. They make shitty oversized toy guns and claim that is "highly advanced technology".
Meanwhile, this baby is commonly found in the West coast. Even random nameless thugs use this gun. Bethesda has no grasp on the technological achievements of that world.
this thing from the infinite warfare E3 trailer just because the muzzle flash looks cool
i don't even like CoD
Hail to the King
Also the Holorifle from NV.
>>345396489
What the shit are the needles then?
The Sleeper Simulant from Destiny. It's been shit since they nerfed it but just the look and sound are enough to still use it.
THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK THUNK
1. railgun from q2
rest are ut99 weapons
The Fusion Cannon from Turok
>>345397273
Crystals
http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Type-33_Guided_Munitions_Launcher
>>345397273
Not him, but halo lorefag here: The needles are a mineral called Blamite mined from one of the moons of Sanghelios (the elite homeworld)
That said, I came here to post the needler because even though it's not an energy weapon, it's still a high tech futristic weapon, and it's the best example of an alien gun in vidya that actually feels alien. It'd just so fundamentally different and esoteric compared to typical laser or plasma guns which are just futuristic normal guns.
The needler feels like something a totally alien soceity might make to use as a weapon if they never invented normal firearms.That said, the halo novels handle the more traditional covenant weapons really well too, since the plasma and radioactive ammo they fire actually acts realistically. More people need to read the novels.
>>345398582
Don't use the wikia halo wiki, it's shit. Use halopedia.
http://www.halopedia.org/Blamite
http://www.halopedia.org/Type-33_Needler
http://www.halopedia.org/Type-56_Needler
http://www.halopedia.org/Type-31_needle_rifle
http://www.halopedia.org/Heavy_needle_cannon
http://www.halopedia.org/Blood_of_Suban
http://www.halopedia.org/Energy_cutlass
Here are all the articles involving blamite.
>>345399231
Which Halo should I play on the PC? Or are they all good.
Why they removed this in 4? Literally no reason to do that.
>>345399231
>it's the best example of an alien gun in vidya that actually feels alien
Not even close.
>>345400182
Only 1 (CE) and 2 are on PC (though wars/wars 2 will be on PC next year), and 2 has GFWL shit and the port is iffy as a result.There's also Halo online but that's not really worth talking about if you've never played the other games
Play CE, and try to get 2 working, and if you can, play it.
That said, ideally, you'd find a friend who owns an xbone and play all the games on it, since literally every halo game worth playing is on it (CE/CE remake, 2/2 remake, 3, ODST, and 4 are all in the MCC running at 1080p/60fps, and then Wars and Reach run on xbone with backwards compatbility)
>>345400784
I was thinking of that as well, but I like the needler just a little more and think it's a better example, because even for aliens, using biotechnology as weapons is a little unrealistic.
>rrrrrrrrrBZZZZZZT
>>345390316
>What's your favorite high-tech, futuristic energy type weapon in gaming?
BFG 9000
Shame the sequels were so bad.
>>345403070
its bretty bad gun, i prefer the one in 2 or 3 which you shoot an assload of bullets. Wtf was it called again ? wasp ?
>>345401270
>even for aliens, using biotechnology as weapons is a little unrealistic.
Explain further.
![PLASMA_RIFLE[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/KC72y9C.jpg "PLASMA_RIFLE[1].jpg")
>>345390316
it looks really cool and the mechanical sounds are nice but it literally shoots green poo poo balls.
>>345391384
I agree, in Halo I use the human weapons even though they're weaker because they feel better
>>345401446
>harvester under attack!
>>345403948
>Anything about crysis 2 and 3 better than crysis 1
kill yourself my man
>>345404020
Even assuming that there's intelligent life on another planet with a different course of evolution and environments, intelligent life as advanced as humanity is likely to share a lot of traits with us just by virtue of how evolution and things work.
I can't get tooo into it right now since I have to go actually, but the tl;dr is a lot of scitneists think that bipedalism, our lack of fur, and many other particular physiological traits actually is what led to our intelligence, or that at least they are intertwiened enough that any other speices on an alien planet that happens to get to be technologically advanced is likely to at least share a few key things in common with us like that due to just how physics work logically.
I'd argue weaponry would follow similar logic. no matter what conditions you evolve in, it'd almost always be more efficient to discover and devolp tech that shoots objects really fast rather then to invent biotechnology first and build weapons around that.
Even if you go "yeah, but they had guns, but then they were so advanced they made this shit", that's not really sensical because then you have to argue what makes the hive gun so much better then normal guns to make it worh investing so much time end energy making them, and the answer is "it isn't".
This is why humans in halo still use normal bullets and guns for the most part evenin 2552
>>345405017
>This is why humans in halo still use normal bullets and guns for the most part evenin 2552
they could have at least made explosive bullets akin to the needler
>>345405370
They do, the magnum uses explosive ammunition. They also have caseless ammo, and make use of railgun and coilgun tech for a lot of things, as well as a limited amount of laser weapons.
But generally, they use modern (IRL) ammunition, because the other stuff isn't generall as cost effective when a normal bullet will do the trick.
That's part of why I like halo lore: Despite the fact it's so far future and it has stuff that on the surface seems unrealistic, it's actually pretty damn grounded in reality, to the point where /k/ loves it.
As for why the covenant having plasma guns and the needler is realistic and worthwile over normal ballistic ammo, in case you are wondering: Both the main races that founded the covenant (The elites and the prophets) had a lot of forerunner artifacts (the foreunners being a interstellar empire that was around for many millions, if not even billions of years) on their homeworlds, and almost all covenant technology is basically just forerunner tech that they managed to figure out enough to use and then modify.Ironically, the prophets had a civil war if using forerunner tech was sacrifiglious or not, and the side that thought it was DID devolve biologically based technology like the hivegun after the civil war broke out and the other prophets all left, so they wouldn't have to use forerunner tech, but were otherwise too dependent on it to re-invent normal guns.
>>345394496
It's called The Thunderbolt
>>345399231
>Blamite
>Blam! ite
man I miss bungie inside-jokes
