Taste this beamer!

Coreldan · 2011-11-25, 02:48 PM

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...09775182400434

I don't understand. How does a single barney kill three NCs? Makes no sense just like the T-Rays 1k screenie!

wildcat140679 · 2011-11-25, 03:00 PM

I'll not reason logic, but I'm quite pleased to see the Beamer fires a beam instead of bolts of energy. Better suits it's name

Coreldan · 2011-11-25, 03:01 PM

Morto, enhance on the dead NCs weapon on the ground

Hamma · 2011-11-25, 03:19 PM

Added!

http://www.planetside-universe.com/m...hp?img_id=1782

Bruttal · 2011-11-25, 03:40 PM

Originally Posted by wildcat140679

I'll not reason logic, but I'm quite pleased to see the Beamer fires a beam instead of bolts of energy. Better suits it's name

I like the fact that it suites its name more but am also worried about damage. Most Laser type Weapons do Tiny bits of damage and are easily countered by moving in any direction

Coreldan · 2011-11-25, 03:53 PM

I don't think it has to really effect the damage. It can still be a "single projectile", but the range could be short enough that the beam seems intact as long as you hold trigger.

EDIT:

The turnaround vid mentioned two different firing mechanisms:

1) High Intensity Photonic Beam Discharge - would indeed sound like a continious beam that goes on till you stop
2) Single shot trigger mechanism - the more common single shot mechanism!

Death2All · 2011-11-25, 04:37 PM

I asked this in the Vanu Twitter Q&A but...

"In the VS turn around video when showing the diagram for the Beamer there's a window that says "High Intensity Photonic Beam Discharge/Single Shot Mechanism" does this mean that the Beamer will have two different firing modes? Do the rest of the weapons in the VS arsenal follow suit?"

It looks line a continuous beam instead of a single shot coming out of the Beamer. So is this perhaps it's secondary firemode, the "High intensity photonic beam discharge (that just rolls of the tongue, AKA "The Rainbow) as opposed to the single shot?

It seems that the "Rainbow" beam would only be effective at maybe close to middle range, anything beyond that would fail, perhaps it's not as strong as a single shot but the continuous fire makes up for it.

FastAndFree · 2011-11-25, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by DeeTwoEh

It looks line a continuous beam instead of a single shot coming out of the Beamer.

A single pulse from a laser still looks like a beam in a still shot

Remember the Shock Rifle primary from UT

Death2All · 2011-11-25, 04:52 PM

Originally Posted by FastAndFree

A single pulse from a laser still looks like a beam in a still shot

Remember the Shock Rifle primary from UT

That's what I thought too, but the beam eventually leaves the muzzle of the gun. So either the screenshot was taken exactly at the time it was fired or it could possibly be a secondary fire mode.

Nothing wrong with a little harmless speculation

Elude · 2011-11-25, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by Bruttal

I like the fact that it suites its name more but am also worried about damage. Most Laser type Weapons do Tiny bits of damage and are easily countered by moving in any direction

Yea? what about the lightning gun or rail gun from quake, those are not easy to dodge!

FastAndFree · 2011-11-25, 05:23 PM

Originally Posted by DeeTwoEh

That's what I thought too, but the beam eventually leaves the muzzle of the gun. So either the screenshot was taken exactly at the time it was fired or it could possibly be a secondary fire mode.

Nothing wrong with a little harmless speculation

Photons aka light travel almost 300k kilometers per second.
You never see that move with human eyes or even with a superfast camera.
It's either off or bridging the entire distance from the source to target, there is no transition to perceive (in the ranges we are interested in)

Elude · 2011-11-25, 06:24 PM

Then again it is a game and the rail gun from quake will have the same effect as the lightning gun from quake in a still shot even though both do completely different things.

SuperMorto · 2011-11-25, 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by Coreldan

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pi...09775182400434

I don't understand. How does a single barney kill three NCs? Makes no sense just like the T-Rays 1k screenie!

We have lightsaber guns! And you have no max units about

Sifer2 · 2011-11-25, 06:34 PM

Looks very Star Trek phaser to me. Must be set to stun since the NC are not being disintegrated.

SKYeXile · 2011-11-25, 06:49 PM

Originally Posted by Sifer2

Looks very Star Trek phaser to me. Must be set to stun since the NC are not being disintegrated.

thats my plan, then drag them back to my house of...pleasures...yes.