They both have PLASMA in names but while plasma gun deal em damage the plasma arc deals thermal, there is nothing wrong with them just possibly to change name one of them.
Indeed. Thermal arc. Lightsaber.
And Plasma web too
well it gets even more confusing if you think about physics
thermal - in real life - is electromagnetic
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Thermal arc doesn’t sound as cool.
well it gets even more confusing if you think about physics
thermal - in real life - is electromagnetic
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? Thermal would be anything producing heat. I get how plasma could be thermal it is a couple million Kalvin…
For this game though, it is a bit misleading.
Thermal arc doesn’t sound as cool.
Hot arc
? Thermal would be anything producing heat. I get how plasma could be thermal it is a couple million Kalvin…
its just a game, but you would only feel the heat because of infrared radiation, which is photons, and photons are partly an em wave.
“thermal energy” itself is roughly electron/atomic movement in the matter, which is actually therefore kinetic
i am no physicist tho
i dont have big problems with the naming, but i know that people do assume that plasma arc and plasma web do em damage.
could be explainable, because em weapons are just different kinds of damage than direct heat.
Hot arc
maybe there are other scientific words we have not harvested yet, before it comes to this
maybe it just works differently.
but i agree, thermal arc just sounds like a cheap brother of thermal lance.
atm ALL module and ship special deal thermal, so everyone stacks thermal resist.
it would be nice is some module did different damage types.
tho in counter balance they might need to up global resists a little if they did (coz right now eveyone gears to shield from the specials)
Call it an energy sword (like in halo). Sure looks like one too!
But, yeah I get the nomenclature confusion. Maybe thermal lance for the plasma arc and molten paste for plasma web?
atm ALL module and ship special deal thermal, so everyone stacks thermal resist.
it would be nice is some module did different damage types.
tho in counter balance they might need to up global resists a little if they did (coz right now eveyone gears to shield from the specials)
I agree with you, almost everything is just thermal, so thermal resistance might me superior.
Plasma Arc - EM Damage, would increase the CO kills Guard rate.
Plasma Web - Change Damage to EM, increase damage by 20%
There is no damn module which deals Kinetic damage, for EM there is at least the Particle Purge.
“kinetic” gives the idea of a projectile. Wouldn’t be right for modules to deal kinetic damage
I don’t know why, but when I hear plasma, I think about napalm. So for me, thermal seems logic.
well it gets even more confusing if you think about physics
thermal - in real life - is electromagnetic
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Thermal= EM and Plasma= Thermal. What-what?
Thermal= EM and Plasma= Thermal. What-what?
And then you suddenly realize that shields somehow block lasers. And that somehow, lasers travel at less than the speed of light.
And then you suddenly realize that shields somehow block lasers. And that somehow, lasers travel at less than the speed of light.
Last time I checked, laser is still hitscan.
Thou y can you see lasers beam in space?
You’re forgetting about heavy blasters. It’s a laser weapon with a projectile speed, just like Star Wars.
You’re forgetting about heavy blasters. It’s a laser weapon with a projectile speed, just like Star Wars.
Blaster are not lasers, blaster is an energised particle weapon.
The lasers seen in Star Conflict probably aren’t lasers, as indicated by the fact that they emit light in all directions along the entire length of the beam. My guess is they use some kind of ultra-hot fuel / ammo that can be fired as a continuous, mostly coherent beam.