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[fenrif]

Shotguns are seriously badass. Especially when you have that perk that allows the assault to shoot at anyone coming within 4 squares of him.

[Urist McSpike]

Its the same reason that assaults reload their shotgun with one hand

No they don't...

That isn't... reloading.

Neonovik, I'm aware that reloading a shotgun and pumping it aren't the same thing.  It was a slip of the fingers.  From your post, its obvious that you know what I meant.  Which means that you recognize that my overall statement was correct, and you were just being pedantic.

Next time, if you're going to correct me on what's basically gun operating jargon, leave out the condescending pauses.

Well since you have to manually eject a spent round, I suppose you weren't too far off. It's not really all that important.

Except you have to do it for all shotgun-type weapons. Even the laser ones. Especially the laser ones.

w-what? That... doesn't make sense. I can't even think of a reason for that to be required.

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I haven't used shotguns at all, I only use support, heavies, and snipers.

I especially like how the laser shotgun (Scatter Laser) makes a shotgun-booming noise...  And for the record - I think Assault's are my second favorite class (Snipers first).

[EnigmaticHat]

Major Zed on defeating Mutons: Run the **** away.
On Crysalids: Run the **** away.
On Sectoids: Shoot it in the head.

Going up against cryssalids with the name Zed is pretty much putting on a red shirt and talking about how much you love your kids back home, then trying to make it through your last day before you retire from the force.

Seriously, if he gets turned into a zombie, I called it.

[GlyphGryph]

You goes don't understand. The shotgun SHOOTS LASERS.

No, that came out wrong. I mean, it shoots laser BULLETS.

That's still not right.

It shoots POINT BLANK LASERS. As in, BULLETS that FIRE LASERS until they are at POINT BLANK range.

Imagine, like, a laser pointer. Now shrink it down, and stuff a half dozen of those in a cartridge. And then FIRE.

BOOM.

This is in fact how all laser weapons work. And now you know why they are so expensive to make.

[Hanslanda]

You goes don't understand. The shotgun SHOOTS LASERS.

No, that came out wrong. I mean, it shoots laser BULLETS.

That's still not right.

It shoots POINT BLANK LASERS. As in, BULLETS that FIRE LASERS until they are at POINT BLANK range.

Imagine, like, a laser pointer. Now shrink it down, and stuff a half dozen of those in a cartridge. And then FIRE.

BOOM.

This is in fact how all laser weapons work. And now you know why they are so expensive to make.

...
I lol'd. But I still don't understand.

[Wrex]

It fires a bullet, and this bullet fires a laser when in close proximity.

[MaximumZero]

Or, it could be "stupid" feedback. So that the grunt doesn't set it to "flashlight" mode and then try to shoot something with it. Or shoot his own face off because he doesn't believe it's firing.

[alway]

Not sure any of you noticed, but some of the armor deco choices have ammo on their exterior (sniper ones do at least). When you switch to laser weapons, there is still ammo; they appear to be heat-clips or somesuch; which makes sense given that every laser research project complains about how much heat they generate. So reloading such things does make sense; and isn't exactly uncommon, given we've also seen such things from Mass Effect's weapons. Or they could be power cells.

As for the noise, I highly suspect all laser weaponry is actually silent. The engineering team just added speakers, Toys-R-Us style, to the guns, to make noises which help keep up troop morale. No one wants a silent gun; that would both be unnerving and lead you to question the integrity and usefulness of the weapon. I mean, would you want to give up your comforting DAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKADAKKA for an eerie silence over which you hear the noises of deadly, hostile aliens all around you?

[MaximumZero]

What makes less sense, though, is the recoil from the laser weapons.

[Wrex]

What makes less sense, though, is the recoil from the laser weapons.

Lasers cast a shadow in the orginal X-Com. Don't think about it.

[alway]

Well they couldn't just leave sound effects without recoil; that would just be cheesy!

They weapons contain a big lead weight which is thrown forward within the weapon when it fires, to give it that real, live-action feel.

[LoSboccacc]

Big capacitors does make a buzzing sound, the higher the capacity the higher the pitch

[MaximumZero]

Big capacitors does make a buzzing sound, the higher the capacity the higher the pitch

Do they recoil upon discharge? That would be awesome. (I'm betting that the answer is no, but I've never dealt with capacitors of significant size.)

[Zangi]

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ken levine
joe kelly
otto zander

[LoSboccacc]

I don't think they recoil.

Oh, btw, I went and checked and the pitch is a function of the frequency, the sound result of magnetical charges of alternate current acting with the surroundings

So we can say in future the lasers runs on AC?