Modern Technology
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Join Date: 2013-03-14 Member: 183963Members
Join Date: 2013-03-14 Member: 183963Members
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But movies like Aliens have the same problems. Only the motion tracking aimhack gun (I think it's called Smart Gun) is pretty modern.
Starship Troopers, again: simple bullet based weapons.
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Obviously Bilebomb technology is far superior to landownership, chrome spell check WTF windshieldwipers :P
Don't be hatin on the bullets, as long as its squishy, bullets should kill it, and they're cheap.
The mechanics are just there to make the game work. Better this way, than some ship that can instantaneously kill any life within light years of radius, lol! Wouldn't fit the model
Luxury model also comes with enough leg-room to physically allow a marine to realistically fit inside the cockpit.
Or maybe it was beacause in this parallel universe, religion was more prevalent...
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Really?
We are less than 20 years away from colonizing other planets? From being able to precisely teleport matter (including humans) over huge distances? From developing a nanite bullet that has advanced friend-or-foe detection system and is able to dissolve itself before hitting friendly target? We are 20 years away from being able to construct advanced, complex machines and computers from scratch in literary several seconds?
Whoa there must have been significant scientific advances while I wasn't looking....
I mean seriously, just because TSF marines are not running around with pew pew ray guns and anti-gravity boots and forcefields doesn't exactly mean that we are anywhere near their level of technology.
So called "lo-tech" stuff like ballistic weaponry is still around because they are still efficient, cheap, and reliable. It's simple economics, people. We don't need fancy laser cannons to take care of a couple of bugs. Plus, we want to keep these facilities intact, not nuke the entire site from orbit.
Someone took the thread too seriously.
Nah, someone just has minor pet peeve about people thinking that ballistic weapons are primitive/easily replaced. :P
Also common people, the exo actually doest have cockpit windows, it has a small camera stuck on the front armor, how would even windshield wipers work? /srs mode.
I don't care how low tech bullets are in this great and glorious TSF future, just give me my Heavy Machine Gun. It can use brass cartridge bullets propelled by refined Gorge dung and I wouldn't care, just get that Alterra HMG factory back online, stat!
Btw, although I'm not one to take this thread seriously, you may be happy to know that all those things you mentioned so seriously in your response to me are indeed possible today, albeit expensive and not perfected to large scale applicability. In 20 years it may indeed be very common in the laboratory setting. But again, relax, I was only coming up with some humorous response on the spot. I didn't sit there and sketch blueprints like perhaps some of us <.< did.
Meh
Why not
Link to relevant science articles? Or at least relevant wiki pages?
Lets turn this into glorious NS2 lore/current technology comparison thread. :-B
And it was written: "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human windshield-wiping hand."