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Heckno12
Patroxclus
Fading Memory
I'm gonna go on a bit of a rant here, and since I'm not a GM it doesnt really count for much, but this is something I need to get off my chest since its a trope I see in a lot of sci-fi military RPs. So I'd suggest you stop reading here if you dont care... still here? Dont say I didnt warn you.
So, as I said before, this is something I invariably see pop up every single time a sci-fi military themed RP pops up on this website. There's always a single person who brings "current day" weapons (I use quotation marks since even by today's standards a Beretta 92FS and Python are old) to a sci-fi mix. Just to repeat what the very first thing in this RP says, this takes place in "It's the year 8560..."
8560. That's over 6500 years into the future, and your character is using weapons from the 70's? That's like going into a present day gunfight with a decked out rifle, complete with variable holosight, extended magazine, laser range finder, foregrip, tactical stock and every fancy thing you can imagine... Only to look to your side and see your teammate standing there with a musket.
And I get it, maybe coming up with sci-fi guns is hard? Maybe the only thing you know of guns is that you pull a trigger and lead comes out of the barrel. I mean, imagine playing Mass Effect and you find a new weapon, only its an M1911... Sure, it serves the same gameplay purpose as any other firearm, but it would be immersion breaking among weapons that are all far more futuristic. Why not take the weapons you want to bring, but giving them a sci-fi spin? Instead of Beretta's, bring something that has a miniature gauss barrel, capable of firing off three projectiles in a matter of milliseconds, causing all projectiles to hit the same location? And instead of a regular revolver, have it shoot super heated plasma that sticks to a targets and burns like a corrosive substance. Hell, even just changing the name from modern day firearms to something sci-fi sounding would be enough if you just want simple firearms! I mean, just look at the kind of crazy tech we already have today... Caseless ammunition, gyrojet powered bullets, explosive bullets, fin stabilized bullets... Nothing that's currently being used, mind you, because its all still too expensive, but this is 8560! We could probably have a gun 3D print bullets on the fly! Go nuts!
Basically what I'm trying to say, is that that Beretta and Python would be the equivalent of comparing a bow and arrow to an Apache attack helicopter. You're hopelessly outdated.
Or maybe I'm just overthinking things? I was under the impression that we were gunning for hard sci-fi here, grounded in some realism. But maybe the tone is more light hearted?
So, as I said before, this is something I invariably see pop up every single time a sci-fi military themed RP pops up on this website. There's always a single person who brings "current day" weapons (I use quotation marks since even by today's standards a Beretta 92FS and Python are old) to a sci-fi mix. Just to repeat what the very first thing in this RP says, this takes place in "It's the year 8560..."
8560. That's over 6500 years into the future, and your character is using weapons from the 70's? That's like going into a present day gunfight with a decked out rifle, complete with variable holosight, extended magazine, laser range finder, foregrip, tactical stock and every fancy thing you can imagine... Only to look to your side and see your teammate standing there with a musket.
And I get it, maybe coming up with sci-fi guns is hard? Maybe the only thing you know of guns is that you pull a trigger and lead comes out of the barrel. I mean, imagine playing Mass Effect and you find a new weapon, only its an M1911... Sure, it serves the same gameplay purpose as any other firearm, but it would be immersion breaking among weapons that are all far more futuristic. Why not take the weapons you want to bring, but giving them a sci-fi spin? Instead of Beretta's, bring something that has a miniature gauss barrel, capable of firing off three projectiles in a matter of milliseconds, causing all projectiles to hit the same location? And instead of a regular revolver, have it shoot super heated plasma that sticks to a targets and burns like a corrosive substance. Hell, even just changing the name from modern day firearms to something sci-fi sounding would be enough if you just want simple firearms! I mean, just look at the kind of crazy tech we already have today... Caseless ammunition, gyrojet powered bullets, explosive bullets, fin stabilized bullets... Nothing that's currently being used, mind you, because its all still too expensive, but this is 8560! We could probably have a gun 3D print bullets on the fly! Go nuts!
Basically what I'm trying to say, is that that Beretta and Python would be the equivalent of comparing a bow and arrow to an Apache attack helicopter. You're hopelessly outdated.
Or maybe I'm just overthinking things? I was under the impression that we were gunning for hard sci-fi here, grounded in some realism. But maybe the tone is more light hearted?
