Plasma Weapons

[Peter]

as we know, ark will probably be getting plasma weapons. Devs please read this, plasma weaponry is possible, however it would be tough to make. I want you guys to know how to make it more accurate. since in order for plasma to be plasma it needs to stay hot! So you cant just shoot out plasma it would cool down to a gas or liquid before it even gets close to its target, so you need a cover around the plasma with some sort of advanced plastic that heats the plasma inside and keeps it plasma and the outside of the advanced plastic would have to be really weak so then when it hits the target. Something that would be also really awesome, is so that it has a very high range as well as the ability to dodge projectiles like plant turret stuff, ejecting some of the plasma to keep it in the air and dodge incoming projectiles. Devs please do what you will with this info, I have done quite a bit of research on plasma.

[Desertworld]

It's a videogame. realism isn't the most important point here. they can make plasma as they want and it can stay the same even 1000 kilometers after it was shot.

[Spurs]

Nice ideas, but I want to see plasma jet packs :3 and Gravity Plasma guns

[Spurs]

Originally posted by Desertworld:

It's a videogame. realism isn't the most important point here. they can make plasma as they want and it can stay the same even 1000 kilometers after it was shot.

It's a survival game, it needs to make sense, realism is the second priority.

[Peter]

I didnt say 1000 KM, i said a very high range but it would loose power after going a longer distance due to the loss of plasma.

[Acandri]

even in reality, a plasma cloud fired from a "gun" would move over 100km before cooling down to a gas.
but it is a game so everything is possible^^

[ClippedWings22]

Ok, ignoring the other things, who else wants a squadron of plasma firing pteranodons?

[Peter]

Originally posted by Acandri:

even in reality, a plasma cloud fired from a "gun" would move over 100km before cooling down to a gas.
but it is a game so everything is possible^^

well, its possible, it depends on what material you heat and to what temp

[Desertworld]

Originally posted by ImpureFrost:

Originally posted by Desertworld:

It's a videogame. realism isn't the most important point here. they can make plasma as they want and it can stay the same even 1000 kilometers after it was shot.

It's a survival game, it needs to make sense, realism is the second priority.

oh really? realism is important to survival games? please tell me more... just look at games like the forest and explain my why creatures that have 20 legs from different humans and babys that jump on you to kill you are realistic in your opinion.

[Peter]

Originally posted by Desertworld:

Originally posted by ImpureFrost:

It's a survival game, it needs to make sense, realism is the second priority.

oh really? realism is important to survival games? please tell me more... just look at games like the forest and explain my why creatures that have 20 legs from different humans and babys that jump on you to kill you are realistic in your opinion.

Are you kidding me? Thats a different game, this is a realistic dinosaur survival game, they are adding diseases, that spells realism to me.

[Desertworld]

Originally posted by DCAssumedJam682:

Originally posted by Desertworld:

oh really? realism is important to survival games? please tell me more... just look at games like the forest and explain my why creatures that have 20 legs from different humans and babys that jump on you to kill you are realistic in your opinion.

Are you kidding me? Thats a different game, this is a realistic dinosaur survival game, they are adding diseases, that spells realism to me.

so ark is considered realistic to you? do you know that you are playing on an island that is probably created by aliens, you see some deap see cables, changed dinos that are not as the ones we know from museums and most crafting costs don't even make sense?..

[Spurs]

Originally posted by Desertworld:

Originally posted by ImpureFrost:

It's a survival game, it needs to make sense, realism is the second priority.

oh really? realism is important to survival games? please tell me more... just look at games like the forest and explain my why creatures that have 20 legs from different humans and babys that jump on you to kill you are realistic in your opinion.

Oh my god, dude.. Thats the theme.. The theme of the game doesn't have to be realistic, (I love that game) but the graphics and mechanics need to work real. Look at the swamp cave, you must wear a gas mask, that makes sense.. To wildcard realism is the second priority

[8015]

Originally posted by Desertworld:

It's a videogame. realism isn't the most important point here. they can make plasma as they want and it can stay the same even 1000 kilometers after it was shot.

Realism means different things to different people. For some the notion of unshielded plasma state persisting in an atmosphere would be akin to ... fish swimming on land/air or rain falling from the ground into the sky maybe? It would just make no sense, like loud explosions in vacuum. If you create a game and go btw the laws of physics as we know them don't apply here ... Then what kind of laws do apply? I mean we only know that one set of rules, and i somehow don't think devs would like to create a entirely new set of laws including their consequences.

There is nothing wrong with plasma weapons, it just needs to be plausible. Its the difference between Sci-fi and Fiction. Between Star Trek and Star Wars, between a virus creating zombies and a necromancer magicing them in etc.

In other words its the difference between "hey this could be in the future!" and "this is never ever going to happen". Both can be nice story telling experiences, but ark seems set on a path of sci-fi already. I wouldn't advise to mix the two elements, it would be like a cross between star wars and star trek, you just piss of everyone :D.

[Peter]

Originally posted by Desertworld:

Originally posted by DCAssumedJam682:

Are you kidding me? Thats a different game, this is a realistic dinosaur survival game, they are adding diseases, that spells realism to me.

so ark is considered realistic to you? do you know that you are playing on an island that is probably created by aliens, you see some deap see cables, changed dinos that are not as the ones we know from museums and most crafting costs don't even make sense?..

That is possible, the dinos are a subspecies, and the crafting is usually for more balancing. Humans could get that kind of stuff, and theres a limit to how realistic video games could get, they are trying to make a realistic dinosaur survival game, would it be more realisitc to you if there was no explanation to anything?

[8015]

Neither dinos, aliens nor artificial islands are unrealistic, unlikely maybe, but not unrealistic. Its a hard line between could be and couldn't be. Thats the beauty of Sci-Fi, you look at it and say, thats not possible ... yet.

[Peter]

Originally posted by jpqu:

Ok, ignoring the other things, who else wants a squadron of plasma firing pteranodons?

Would love that, pump a lot of speed or just keep it the same, like the new wings hit from JC3.