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[tenderloving]

trycksh0t, on 01 November 2011 - 02:04 PM, said:

While we're on the topic of weapon animations, I'm going to throw out my overall preferences of what I'd personally like.

Lasers - customizable would be fine. The novels have differing colors of beams for every size.

PPCs - I think MW3 hit it dead on. I couldn't stand the blue-blob from MW2, and MW4 looked weak.

Gauss Rifles - None of that swirling-blue around a yellow beam **** (I'm looking at you MW4). Also, the green-gas from 3 was terrible. Just let me fire my 120mm metal slug and have it look like a giant BB, ala MW2.

Missiles - I preferred the individual launches that are in MW2 and MW:LL. Seeing that stream of death flying across a battlefield was amazing.

That should cover it.

Real-life gauss rifles/rail guns actually have that green plasma trail.

[Frostiken]

[Labb Ratt]

CobraFive, on 31 October 2011 - 04:06 PM, said:

Don't lie to yourself. The color of the three laser types is more important to you then you want to admit.

However, I believe we already have our answer, and Mechwarrior Online will be going to the MW2 style:
Blue for Large Lasers, Green for Medium Lasers, and red for Small Lasers.

(This is in contrast to, for example, MW3 with red LLas and blue SLas... or MC2 "Everything's red!"... or whichever game you remember most fondly).

The reason I say this is from the 3 released 'mechs. Specifically, the Hunchback: if you'll notice, the small laser mounted on top of his torso has a red lense, whereas the other lasers (mediums) have green lenses. This holds true to the Jenner and Atlas' medium lasers as well.

So what do you think? A small detail to some, but hearkening back to the MW2 times... that gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.

I With you on that...

Color matters, lasers that is.

Labb Ratt

[Deceptor]

S-M-L R-G-B seems logical, since the shorter wavelength of the color would indicate higher intensity of energy.

[Vodkavaiator]

I demand all lasers be blue and yellow.

So I can shoot people in the colors of the Swedish flag.

[Todd Lee]

I want to paint the rainbow all over your mech. Maybe if I'm lucky I can get a double rainbow and we can blissfully share the Covenant.