Elite: Lore
today, 4:10pm
It’s more the on foot weaponry that looks rather questionable to me. And where’s our actual railgun weapon? (Or a coilgun, for players in terms of the gameplay purposes and effects they would likely end up being the same)
today, 4:20pm
Kasumi GotoI don’t have an issue with the ship weaponry and the way it’s designed, to be fair (though I think Vipers and Cobras in wars have a tendency to be abnormally bullet spongy for a ship of their size… meanwhile, you start blasting at an Asp and you just shred it to pieces), well, ignoring that capital ships are kinda jokes in how much of a threat they pose to a player ship when they show up in conflict zones.
It’s more the on foot weaponry that looks rather questionable to me. And where’s our actual railgun weapon? (Or a coilgun, for players in terms of the gameplay purposes and effects they would likely end up being the same)
I think the reason they seem so off to you is they just moved ship weapons into handheld instead of making them a unique set which imo, frontier needed to do.
In space, you see everything measured in mps, you have slow moving plasma orbs and pathetically slow missiles but you can chalk that up to seeing a sort of Doppler effect. You can dodge beam lasers... Which... What but anyway the point is that your mind maintains a fair suspension of disbelief because spaceships.
Fast forward to ground combat, now the weapon absurdity becomes apparent. The energy globs of plasma look out of place, the handheld multi cannons now seem tacky. So on, so forth because we're measuring in meters not mps. You naturally as a player go "hey, wait a minute..." As this goofy stuff starts happening and unlike ships, can't be reconciled.