So do the devs actually know what a gauss rifle is?

[Dorque]

Because the effect of the basic necron gun is just bizarre. It's a modulating green beam that lasts a full second in game. In real life it's a slug thrower.

"But I'm a fanboy and think it is perfect and you are a jerk head for complaining."

A cool gauss effect could still be made that was physically correct. People who don't know what gauss means are fine either way. But deliberately making a random green pulse laser effect is just lazy.

Do better art.

[Vaneshi]

I know what a Gauss Rifle is yes. Not sure what a Gauss Flayer is, how it works or what it does... which is why the Omnisiah demands we explore the tomb of these foul xenos.

[Keemperor]

A Necron Gauss Rifle has nothing to do with its real life equivalent. The name is just cool and GW appropriated it, because it felt mytsterious.
Necron Gauss weaponry is better described as an atomic disruption beam, that is a beam that disrupts the cohesion between atoms and literally disintegrates the target.
And yes in the lore Necron beams are green, its part of the racial character at this point, regardless of how a real weapon like that might look in real life if ti was even possible

[A Big Hairy Monster]

Originally posted by Dorque:

In real life it's a slug thrower.

Umm.... you do realize that it's Games Workshop who decided this, not the game devs, right? Maybe you should spend a little more time looking into what Warhammer 40k is actually like, because that's how the weapons are in Warhammer. Don't blame the game devs for the setting's lack of actual science, lmao. That's idiotic.

What you're demanding is that the devs deviate from actual Warhammer lore and art 'because science'. Which would by suicide on their part.

[A Big Hairy Monster]

Originally posted by Keemperor:

And yes in the lore Necron beams are grey

Grey? Or green? Because every necron weapon I've ever seen is green in any kind of artwork for them was green.

[Belsamuel]

From the Warhammer Wiki... just so you know that it was depicted true to lore.

"Gauss Weapons are a form of exotic energy weapon used exclusively by the ancient and extremely powerful xenos species called Necrons. These weapons destroy the enemy by firing a green-tinged blast of lightning-like energy that shears apart the target's atomic bonds, literally stripping their bodies apart atom by atom and molecule by molecule."

"At their most basic level, Gauss Weapons can be described as linear induction motors. When fired, they appear to produce focussed bipolar magnetic fields so that anything the weapon is targeted at, such as a human body, will be "pulled" (at the sub-atomic level) towards the gun..."

Also, a Gauss Rifle is called such because it uses a gauss powered linear motor to accelerate a ferromagnetic projectile (fun fact, a gauss rifle isn't a rifle since the barrel isn't rifled). A Necron Gauss Flayer... a beam of focused bipolar magnetic fields using a gauss powered linear induction motor... see the connection?

[kazaddum]

Originally posted by Dorque:

Because the effect of the basic necron gun is just bizarre. It's a modulating green beam that lasts a full second in game. In real life it's a slug thrower.

"But I'm a fanboy and think it is perfect and you are a jerk head for complaining."

A cool gauss effect could still be made that was physically correct. People who don't know what gauss means are fine either way. But deliberately making a random green pulse laser effect is just lazy.

Do better art.

Read the lore before claiming something is wrong.

[Corseth]

As others have stated, this is a Games Workshop thing. Also a 'gauss rifle' does not have to be a slug thrower. Gauss is a reference to a German mathmetician who made advancements in electromagnetics. While magnetically propelled projectile weapons are sometimes called 'Gauss Rifles' the term 'Gauss' does not strictly refer to a solid slug, but the magnetic principles that make it possible. The basics of Necron Gauss Flayers are also supposed to be grounded in a hyper advanced form of electromagnetic effect that tears apart atoms. It's all sci fi anyway, but the use of the word Gauss is not inapproriate for describing a electromagnetism-based beam weapon.

[Burninator]

Originally posted by Corseth:

As others have stated, this is a Games Workshop thing. Also a 'gauss rifle' does not have to be a slug thrower. Gauss is a reference to a German mathmetician who made advancements in electromagnetics. While magnetically propelled projectile weapons are sometimes called 'Gauss Rifles' the term 'Gauss' does not strictly refer to a solid slug, but the magnetic principles that make it possible. The basics of Necron Gauss Flayers are also supposed to be grounded in a hyper advanced form of electromagnetic effect that tears apart atoms. It's all sci fi anyway, but the use of the word Gauss is not inapproriate for describing a electromagnetism-based beam weapon.

Correct which makes OP especially goofy. You can use Gaussian forces to actually CREATE a plasma rifle as well as plasma is highly influenced by strong magnetic force. The technology is light years beyond us right now, but you could use magnets to propel a plasma through the barrel and guess what? You now have a 'green laser' LOL, kinda exactly like what is show in game.

And BTW, there are walking corpses, space warps, and consciousnesses built into machine bodies but let's get hung up on a single weapon. Pedantic poster is pedantic.

[Partisan]

Originally posted by Dorque:

Because the effect of the basic necron gun is just bizarre. It's a modulating green beam that lasts a full second in game. In real life it's a slug thrower.

"But I'm a fanboy and think it is perfect and you are a jerk head for complaining."

A cool gauss effect could still be made that was physically correct. People who don't know what gauss means are fine either way. But deliberately making a random green pulse laser effect is just lazy.

Do better art.

Boy, oh boy that was a textbook example of sounding like a complete gobshite whilst not knowing what you are talking about. Bravo, you made a complete ass out of yourself and everyone saw it.

[MakeLoveNotWar]

the gaus rifle that the necrons use is a mix but its mostly energy thats why you see the green beam and the devs are just following what all the 40k artwork and dawn of war potrays necron gauss rifles as

[Poljanan]

I dont know but Necrons gauss rifles had similar beam weapon effects in Dawn of War too. This is purely a GW thing.

[Saxman Steph]

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Gauss_Weapons

Do *you* know anything about Gauss Weapons, in the context of WH40k?

[Shrinkshooter]

OP's username seems on point at least.

[Gogopher]

i imagine the devs' are simply using lore as their guidelines not some primitive 21st century interpretation of what a guass rifle is or is not....

[gwackmung]

yells "heretic" while waving a big banner with an aquilla on it...