Shadowrun
Shadowrun General => Gear => Topic started by: deathbat21 on <05-15-13/1531:10>
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I stumbled across laser weapons in Arsenal, and I immediately had one question. Can you use mirrors to bounce the laser around corners and whatnot?
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I don't think so, I'd imagine they're too powerful to reflect like that. Instead, they would probably just burn through the mirror.
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That's what I thought. Worth asking though. Cause how cool would that be? ;D
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The other bit could be, that 1, the surface of the mirror would have to be completely perfectly clean or any little bit on the mirror would cause defraction and catch fire. And the other would be, the surface of the mirror would have to be flawless, so your average house mirror would cause the laser to diffuse and immediately begin blooming losing much of its power, if the mirror didn't just catch fire from other impurities.
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Warning in the manual: "Do not shoot a laser at a Disco Ball." ;D
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In that case, I'm pretty sure everything would be reduced to soap bubbles, pretty sure. Just like a genie comes out when you twist the spray setting half way on a spray bottle.
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Oh, but imagine the possibilities of a drone rigged with a perfectly machined mirror setup to crate an omnidirectional turret.
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That's pretty much word for word a hard science laser turret.
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something like this?
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=FC2JDiq2_HNK5M&tbnid=FSwSg_-D2JUhuM:&ved=0CAgQjRwwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tangibleinteraction.com%2Frd-fridays%2Fneurone-prototype&ei=wkGVUb-gBqOtigLw7YEY&psig=AFQjCNFBkvOtXVDPF7skk3MGFlvqA5cnKA&ust=1368822594132146
:o
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That would appear to be some sort of series of defusers and refractors, pretty much the opposite of weaponizing lasers, looks cool though.
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I was actually trying to find a clip of Metalocalypse, when the spinning laserbeam diced the whole London Philharmonic. Engage the laserbeam!
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This is why you don't let fatty dingdongs near the expensive laser.
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Warning in the manual: "Do not shoot a laser at a Disco Ball." ;D
What? You mean Disco-ball armor is NOT going to be an vehicle option for SR5?
:o
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I'd like to know of laser weapons make a sound.
Other then the runner making mouth noises. "Ptchooo Ptchooo"
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In atmosphere a laser would make a sound as it vaporizes the air around the beam, and then the air would then rush back in to fill that void.
Then of course, the capacitors of the laser would probably make some sort of discharge sound. Though I'm less certain of that.
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In atmosphere a laser would make a sound as it vaporizes the air around the beam, and then the air would then rush back in to fill that void.
Then of course, the capacitors of the laser would probably make some sort of discharge sound. Though I'm less certain of that.
Yeah. The 250 farad cap banks I've worked with were fairly silent.
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So the only sound you're going to hear really is the dust and air getting excited/superheated, and then the interaction with the cold air around it. From what I've seen of real lasers, most anything hit by them catches fire, or conflagrates in some way. If it's strong enough to go through something, it'll push right on through, if not it'll burn the surface, causing varying degrees of burns.
I wouldn't be surprised if a few people had programmed their lasers to go *Bwoooooo* while it charges up before firing though. So your experience may vary.
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In atmosphere a laser would make a sound as it vaporizes the air around the beam, and then the air would then rush back in to fill that void.
Then of course, the capacitors of the laser would probably make some sort of discharge sound. Though I'm less certain of that.
Essentially a sizzle and a hum.
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Essentially a sizzle and a hum.
Mungo lahkz da zisslez. "Is he using the laser to cook meat again?" "I don't even look any more."
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Essentially a sizzle and a hum.
Mungo lahkz da zisslez. "Is he using the laser to cook meat again?" "I don't even look any more."
Dude, seriously, I want to see you actually build Mungo :P
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I stated him up a while ago, at least my conception of it... Hey CanRay, are Mungo's stats IP, or under NDA?
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I stated him up a while ago, at least my conception of it... Hey CanRay, are Mungo's stats IP, or under NDA?
Ask Jason.
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Oh, but imagine the possibilities of a drone rigged with a perfectly machined mirror setup to crate an omnidirectional turret.
It would be cool, but I don't think that we're going to be doing a Venom-Beam Cannon trick to bounce killer lasers over hills.
What? You mean Disco-ball armor is NOT going to be an vehicle option for SR5?
Mirrored armor to resist lasers is already proposed now. It hasn't been economically needed, which is probably why it isn't proposed as an option. How effective it would be to diffuse directed energy weapons I don't know, but it probably wouldn't be as expensive as the structural and surface modification for stopping kinetic weapons (bullets, rockets).
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I remember in Interstate '82, the armor to protect against lasers was CHROME. ;D
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I remember in Interstate '82, the armor to protect against lasers was CHROME. ;D
Oh LAWDY. I'm having flash backs. I can see the Rifts. I am so building a glitterboy out an Iron Will or whatever that walker bot from that fashion book was.
Attitude. Yeah. Sholder mounted gun can be modded from a cyberware piece I've seen somewhere. Mount a good ol'fashioned gauss rifle on there. Coilgun would be more accurate, but I don't know of a statted coilgun in SR. foot anchors are a thing. Don't need jets if I'm using an assault cannon. Oh my yes.
I wonder how l long it'll take the group to notice...
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Attitude. Yeah. Sholder mounted gun can be modded from a cyberware piece I've seen somewhere. Mount a good ol'fashioned gauss rifle on there. Coilgun would be more accurate, but I don't know of a statted coilgun in SR.
Arsenal p30: Ares Thunderstruck Gauss Rifle.
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Attitude. Yeah. Sholder mounted gun can be modded from a cyberware piece I've seen somewhere. Mount a good ol'fashioned gauss rifle on there. Coilgun would be more accurate, but I don't know of a statted coilgun in SR.
Arsenal p30: Ares Thunderstruck Gauss Rifle.
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