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| Re: Energy shield questions | |
| Posted By: TelTura <hyperlink.teltura@gmail.com> | Date: 1/20/07 4:14 p.m. |
In Response To: Re: Energy shield questions (ActiveCamoElite) that makes sense (kinda) for bullets and plasma, but what about impact? a rock gets thrown at you, whoops, magnets aren't helping....introducing: Flatster Chief. I always imagined that magnetism was used to keep an electric field around the suit that served no greater purpose than to act as a sort of burglar alarm...once the field is penetrated, it creates a vaccume...vacoom...vacuom...thing, of sorts, causing a sudden, speed-of-light overcompensation of energy from the suit's capacitors (no way there's only one), which doesn't deflect the penetrator, but rather attempts to vaporize it. now, this costs much less energy to do for small items (e.g. AR rounds) than for large ones (knives, sniper rounds, etc), which explains why it takes a whole clip of halo 1 AR rounds, sometimes, to break through someone's shields, where usually only one or two sniper rounds will do the trick. also, because of the massive amount of shards from a shotgun round, the shield is overloaded almost instantly. now, as for plasma, I imagine it's the same thing, only because the plasma itself is held together in a magnetic field, it disrupts more of the suit's field than it's size would suggest, resulting in a more massive depletion of the suit's capacitors. now, as for why it takes a moment for the shields to start recharging, that behavior (like the game mechanic) is likely preprogrammed...the designers likely found that if the suit was constantly recharging against, say, an AR being pumped into it, the system overheated, the capacitors melted, or the fusion core went meltdown. I'm sure that's not a wanted behavior on the field...
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| Energy shield questions | Twitch | 1/20/07 11:54 a.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | Slimby | 1/20/07 12:13 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | Twitch | 1/20/07 12:37 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | Wayward Spleen™ | 1/20/07 1:10 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | Guesty-Persony-Thingy | 1/20/07 3:27 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | Twitch | 1/22/07 4:43 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | houseoftang | 1/20/07 1:18 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | ActiveCamoElite | 1/20/07 3:24 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | TelTura | 1/20/07 4:14 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | houseoftang | 1/20/07 5:11 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | TelTura | 1/20/07 5:30 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | Xaos | 1/20/07 6:08 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | houseoftang | 1/20/07 7:20 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | TelTura | 1/21/07 1:52 a.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | Xaos | 1/21/07 4:33 a.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | raptor117 | 1/22/07 5:56 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | Hikaru-119 | 1/20/07 5:11 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | Mister Froggy | 1/20/07 5:20 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | Hikaru-119 | 1/20/07 5:27 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | Xaos | 1/20/07 6:17 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | houseoftang | 1/20/07 7:04 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | Xaos | 1/20/07 8:22 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | Omega | 1/20/07 10:38 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions | Xaos | 1/20/07 8:13 p.m. |
| Wow. *claps hands* | ActiveCamoElite | 1/20/07 10:54 p.m. |
| Re: Energy shield questions *NM* | Twitch | 1/22/07 4:49 p.m. |
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