Idea for new VS weaponry

[SumYungGui]

vanu weapons all have CoF. the most frustrating CoF for me personally would be the lancer. it's got a sniper rifle style CoF...move the reticle a pixel to the side and the CoF explodes forcing you to either take your luck with any medium-long range shots or wait for a few seconds while the CoF closes again and hope the (fast moving) vehicle to passes through where you placed the crosshairs.

the darker frustrated side of me says, that not having a CoF would be an advantage for vanu and we can't have that.

the more realistic side says, maybe it's not lasers maybe it's plasma or some such and also realizes only having one empire with direct fire hit-scan type weapons would really be truly unfair.

[shinken]

the CoF makes scince air can refract lasers depending on the weather, but the recoil does not, cept for the lasher mabye, but that seems to be electricity cause of the lash

[Katanaboy]

Also, if it is laser/plasma, wouldnt the projectiles go fast (as fast or faster than a bullet...come on, metal most certainly weighs more than light/energy matter stuff)

[Hexen]

I dun think we can really make any arguments about what velocity energy projectiles should move at, I don't think we even have that kind of technology IRL whereas we can simply hold a bundle of "energy" together and propell it at stuff.

The only explanation I can think of is that maybe energy projectiles would require to not exceed certain speeds in order to remain stable, reducing risk of the energy simply dissipating and grounding into the earth.

[Katanaboy]

that is actually a very good point, though i'm not so sure the devs thought that hard about it