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Ghost Leviathan posted:Gas superheated to plasma form I think, the ammunition for them is actually gas canisters. Also why you very rarely see anyone reload a blaster, since they're good for hundreds of shots even from a small bottle relative to the gun's size. I'm not sure how video games handle them, though I wouldn't be surprised if overheating was more of a concern than conserving ammo.
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The old games treated them like guns in DOOM, where you fire from a large ammo count, and some weapons shared the same ammo but cost more per shot Battlefront 2018 uses an overheating mechanic where you can fire continuously, then time a "reload" to either instantly empty the cooldown bar or get a burst of infinite ammo
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Vinylshadow posted:The old games treated them like guns in DOOM, where you fire from a large ammo count, and some weapons shared the same ammo but cost more per shot IIRC doesn't Dark Forces literally use the Doom engine? Either way, that was exactly what I was thinking of. Even makes sense, if it's the same base material but bigger guns can use more of it at once with a more energetic reaction, effectively working like a gas tank, or a battery.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:IIRC doesn't Dark Forces literally use the Doom engine? Either way, that was exactly what I was thinking of. Even makes sense, if it's the same base material but bigger guns can use more of it at once with a more energetic reaction, effectively working like a gas tank, or a battery. It doesn't, it uses its own engine (which had some cool features that Doom didn't).
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Yeah, the "Jedi Engine" lol There's a project to get it up to modern speed now: https://theforceengine.github.io/
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The jedi engine was very much a reverse engineered and improved version of the doom engine. The sith engine is the same thing for the quake engine, where they added some features that would show up in quake 2.
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Does any Star Wars game have a battery stat for lightsabers? You'd think they'd consume a lot of energy too. First time I saw AotC I thought Anakin's stopped working because it ran out of battery at the worst possible moment.
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YaketySass posted:Does any Star Wars game have a battery stat for lightsabers? You'd think they'd consume a lot of energy too. According to Legends lore, the stasis field that encloses the blade of a saber recycles the energy of the blade back into the power cell, thus the saber only draws power when it's actually cutting something, making battery replacement a rare issue.
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It's not officially Star Wars, but the No More Heroes games make you shake the wiimote to charge up the "beam katana" weapon.
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Robot Style posted:It's not officially Star Wars, but the No More Heroes games make you shake the wiimote to charge up the "beam katana" weapon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e56eOBxQVds
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YaketySass posted:Does any Star Wars game have a battery stat for lightsabers? You'd think they'd consume a lot of energy too. The only time I can remember lightsaber fuel coming up in a story was in a comic book where the Jedi Librarian built a lightsaber rifle to try and kill Darth Vader.
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I remember there being an pre-Old Republic thing where lightsabers had to be powered by a battery pack you'd wear on your belt, but I don't know how canon it ever was. It certainly isn't now. Kinda cool idea for first gen lightsabers, though.
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And if you're wondering if it's meant to look like jacking off, it is. No More Heroes is silly.
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Is that what Cloud City was mining? Gas for weapon ammo? No wonder it's important. I think Farscape had a similar idea but in that case the gas was made using the roots of a plant. So farming it became a huge industry.
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I assume everyone's using some kind of hydrogen fueled mined from gas giants like that. Lightsabers should have a built in shakeweight. You must learn control!
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The only time I can remember lightsaber fuel coming up in a story was in a comic book where the Jedi Librarian built a lightsaber rifle to try and kill Darth Vader. “I’ve got a way to kill Darth Vader” is the best sub-movie trope. Better than “there’s a new Death Star” and “somehow this dude survived order 66”
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I always felt like the armor against blasters was hilariously inconsistent. Seems like 90% of it does gently caress all and you just die anyway (unless you're a featured character), and the other 10% just completely reflects everything. I'm sure there are tomes explaining it in the EU that I do not know.
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One explanation for Stormtrooper armor's variable effectiveness was that it was made of "plastoid", a type of futuristic material that could disperse energy from stuff like blasters, but was also literally just plastic so was next to useless against blunt force trauma (like getting lightly beaned in the head by a rock thrown by an Ewok).
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sort of like how the terrifying concept of microwave radiation weaponry can be blocked with a thin sheet of aluminium foil, i guess.
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thrawn527 posted:I remember there being an pre-Old Republic thing where lightsabers had to be powered by a battery pack you'd wear on your belt 
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thrawn527 posted:I remember there being an pre-Old Republic thing where lightsabers had to be powered by a battery pack you'd wear on your belt, but I don't know how canon it ever was. It certainly isn't now. Kinda cool idea for first gen lightsabers, though. I like that because it makes a weird kind of sense, like early mobile phones. (Thanks, Yakuza 0)
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Today I learned that actress Fiona Johnson, aka The Woman In The Red Dress in The Matrix, was also in AOTC as an Easter Egg on the request of Lucas. 
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Her forehead could use less cooking oil in that cameo
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Gonz posted:Today I learned that actress Fiona Johnson, aka The Woman In The Red Dress in The Matrix, was also in AOTC as an Easter Egg on the request of Lucas. The guy who plays Mouse in Matrix also appears as fan-favourite Elan Sleazebaggano, while parts of the bar scene are fleshed out with duplicated ‘twin’ characters to make it appear more populated.
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Robot Style posted:One explanation for Stormtrooper armor's variable effectiveness was that it was made of "plastoid", a type of futuristic material that could disperse energy from stuff like blasters, but was also literally just plastic so was next to useless against blunt force trauma (like getting lightly beaned in the head by a rock thrown by an Ewok). That doesn't explain why it's ineffective against slingshots.
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You have to understand They were very sharp rocks Or maybe the troopers didn't want the Ewoks to feel bad and played dead Then got eaten
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Stormtrooper armour is a heat-resistant ceramic, imo.
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Upsidads posted:Her forehead could use less cooking oil in that cameo Gonna edit an explanation into Wookiepedia
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The MSJ posted:Gonna edit an explanation into Wookiepedia It's from all the jizz-wailing in that club.
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The MSJ posted:Gonna edit an explanation into Wookiepedia This was my instinct as well Her species (woe-mans) secrete a powerful pheromone, as well as possess "breasts" (links to breasts article)
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Blood Boils posted:This was my instinct as well "alright yoda, show em"-Kit Fisto
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still in awe that they claimed a minor human character played by an asian man was a member of the 'near-human' 'epicanthix' species
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ungulateman posted:still in awe that they claimed a minor human character played by an asian man was a member of the 'near-human' 'epicanthix' species 
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It's like they say, "there's no minor human characters, only minor human actors."
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shoutout to Yun and all of Jerec's dark jedi. a handful of video game bosses that were a more enjoyable squad than the knights of ren
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Ingmar terdman posted:shoutout to Yun and all of Jerec's dark jedi. a handful of video game bosses that were a more enjoyable squad than the knights of ren Before Orensten and Smaug there were Gorc and Pic.
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ungulateman posted:still in awe that they claimed a minor human character played by an asian man was a member of the 'near-human' 'epicanthix' species What's wild is the actor's not even Asian.
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ungulateman posted:still in awe that they claimed a minor human character played by an asian man was a member of the 'near-human' 'epicanthix' species holy christ
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Robot Style posted:What's wild is the actor's not even Asian. i see
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