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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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the design is beautiful, don't get me wrong, but details like the one i mentioned always bring a smile to my face because it seems to add to the realism/brutality of the weapon in question.
keep up the stellar work.
In video games, one might look at the plasma rifle in Doom or even the BFG. Although an energy weapon may not have recoil in the sense the a slug throwing weapon does, for the sake of aesthetics and convincing illusion of power... I find that at least a slight recoil is very pleasing. Seeing a weapon fire(that delivers massive amounts of damage) should give some kind of sensory (audio/visual/kinetic) feedback that communicates it's violence. I figured the recoil would add a gameplay element of fairness from the standpoint that devastating round after round couldn't be delivered since re-aiming would be necessary; a cooldown period would also suffice, but seems lamer than the effect of being rocked backward by a hefty kick from your gun. btw, read the BLAME! manga for a ridiculously powerful hand held energy weapon (and because it's awesome in general!)
It's all my opinion of course, since this is a work of fiction, but what is fun to me about the fantastic is that we are allowed to bend the rules in favor of style over realism (although realism is still important form the standpoint that we can ruin credibility/believabiltiy by being overly fantastical).
Still, I do see your point about bending the rules, and I do so from time to time. Having lasers appear as glowing streaks is unrealistic when applied to starships, but it certainly conveys a sense of power more than simply watching the target melt/vaporize/explode.
Amazing work thought, keep it up.
now if i could only buy one somewhere