Elite: Lore

today, 3:39am
...Then that makes a person in some wimpy suit to be almost as tough as a spaceship made of several tonnes of steel. How can something like a Corvette, a war machine with several inches thick armour, be destroyed by repeatedly shooting it with small arms at a random spot on the hull? While the said small arms also require you to go through like a half of a mag to kill an on-foot opponent. That's gamey shit, I'd say.
today, 3:40am
Meowers...Then that makes a person in some wimpy suit to be almost as tough as a spaceship made of several tonnes of steel. How can something like a Corvette, a war machine with several inches thick armour, be destroyed by repeatedly shooting it with small arms at a random spot on the hull? While the said small arms also require you to go through like a half of a mag to kill an on-foot opponent. That's gamey shit, I'd say.

Right, but what I am asking is I've already gotten anacondas flying low with my grenade launcher, but in lore, can I bring them in closer to hit them with my sword?
today, 3:42am
Use the in-game 'sniper rifle' as a sword, it's the best application of that thing, lol.

(Yes, it sucks at it, but slightly less sucks rather than at being a sniper rifle)
today, 3:44am
MeowersUse the in-game 'sniper rifle' as a sword, it's the best application of that thing, lol.

(Yes, it sucks at it, but slightly less sucks rather than at being a sniper rifle)

I do believe you mean, my plasma musket.
today, 3:46am
"Plasma musket", LOL. It's the best description of that piece of garbage I've ever heard. At least they don't muzzle-load it in animations.
today, 3:57am
Meowers"Plasma musket", LOL. It's the best description of that piece of garbage I've ever heard. At least they don't muzzle-load it in animations.

I've always called it a musket after me and an npc had a "Let's see who reloads first" at 30 meters on a lunar surface. It was like watching a revolutionary war film.
today, 4:10am
Exactly. And a highly-visible, slow-moving projectile that barely makes it past the 100m mark is what you certainly want your sniper rifle to shoot.

Personally, when writing stuff, I pretend to think that those over-the-counter toy nerf blasters from Pioneer Supplies kiosks are 'civilian-grade' shit tier weaponry made to give simple schmucks at least some fighting chance. Against aggressive wildlife, for example, or other aggressive simple schmucks. While keeping all that comfortably below the proper weaponry performance. And possession of military-grade firearms is strictly prohibited so that we don't have it in the game, but that's what superpower armies use when they really want the fucker dead, so those minor faction troops, civilians, and overly lawful PilotFed commanders with their garbage rods don't stand a chance. Against, to say, a proper assault rifle that can drop a person in body armour in like three to six shots from 400 m away. Not to mention HMGs that can turn 'covers' into 'mess of blood and rubble' skipping the 'concealment' stage. Or other kind of stuff with parallels to modern day weaponry.

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