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[Ch_R0me]

I want to continue the Shortz's thread about the laser colours, because I'm very interested, how PGI will handle the brand new toys we'll get in Civil War update.

I'm mostly interested, how will look the clan Heavy Lasers...

[El Bandito]

I prefer violet, or basically a shade of purple.

[jjm1]

I would just make the beams brighter (lighter colour and fatter glow) for heavy lasers.

edit: there is also a trick of putting a green tint inside of the white hot interior of the beam to make it look like its really damaging your optical equipment.

Edited by jjm1, 26 April 2017 - 01:53 AM.

[The6thMessenger]

Heavy lasers would probably have a thicker beam.

[Vellron2005]

The6thMessenger, on 26 April 2017 - 02:40 AM, said:

Heavy lasers would probably have a thicker beam.

Yeah, probably that.. noticeably thicker beam.. no need for them to have different color..

but Micro Lasers... that's an entirely new laser type, and since each laser type (small, medium, large) has it's own color, I say Micro Lasers should also have their own color..

I vote purple or orange.. just to make them distinctive..

[The6thMessenger]

Vellron2005, on 26 April 2017 - 03:13 AM, said:

Yeah, probably that.. noticeably thicker beam.. no need for them to have different color..

but Micro Lasers... that's an entirely new laser type, and since each laser type (small, medium, large) has it's own color, I say Micro Lasers should also have their own color..

I vote purple or orange.. just to make them distinctive..

Considering that on the visible spectrum, violet is actually the highest, whereas red is the lowest. The laser colors follow that trend.

[Shifty McSwift]

Too many colors would be very confusing, but certainly very pretty.

But TBH if pulse lasers don't get their own colors I doubt micros or heavies will either.

They just need a long burning laser with high damage and tiny range... So I can pretend its a lightsaber...

[Wildstreak]

Sienna Brown, Burnt Orange, Hot Pink, all the Crayola colors are available except Dandelion, he retired recently.

Edited by Wildstreak, 27 April 2017 - 05:25 AM.

[Y E O N N E]

Shifty McSwift, on 26 April 2017 - 03:29 AM, said:

Too many colors would be very confusing, but certainly very pretty.

But TBH if pulse lasers don't get their own colors I doubt micros or heavies will either.

They just need a long burning laser with high damage and tiny range... So I can pretend its a lightsaber...

Micros should because they are a size, not a class, and each size gets its own color per faction. Heavies are a class, not a size, so I expect nothing for them except thicker beams or something like that.

[Mister Blastman]

Yellow for heavy lasers, because that's how MW:LL does it.

[FireDog]

Go with the Book's Lore... it's Battletech!

[Zergling]

I still want to make a rainbow laser vomit boat.

Edited by Zergling, 26 April 2017 - 05:48 PM.

[Vellron2005]

Zergling, on 26 April 2017 - 05:48 PM, said:

I still want to make a rainbow laser vomit boat.

Hahahah, make it on a pink Kodiak - it can be a care bear!

[Lily from animove]

ManganMan, on 26 April 2017 - 12:10 AM, said:

I want to continue the Shortz's thread about the laser colours, because I'm very interested, how PGI will handle the brand new toys we'll get in Civil War update.

I'm mostly interested, how will look the clan Heavy Lasers...

heavies will prbably have a bigger diameter, and the IS gets it's cyan ones too.

micro lasers may be thiner, like between regular laser and tag. But they are a new size class, so they need an own color. Maybe orange? (eve if that would be more logical to be ebtween small and medium) but there aren't many colors left that are distinquishable aside:

orange, pink, purple. And pink may not happen I guess.

Edited by Lily from animove, 27 April 2017 - 04:52 AM.

[Alan Davion]

FireDog, on 26 April 2017 - 05:35 PM, said:

Go with the Book's Lore... it's Battletech!

Except the colors of lasers in the books were often quite different than they are in any of the previous MW PC games, including this one. So that's a bad precedent to follow.

In the books I remember medium lasers were often referred to as blue beams, where as blue is typically the color of large lasers in the games. While large lasers were often referred to as red beams, and red is typically small lasers in the games.

[Dogstar]

Do you think we could get a black laser beam? Not possible in the real world but eminently possible in a game!

[Amsro]

Red - Micro
Pink - Small
Green - Medium
Blue - Large
Violet - Heavy

If lasers are skittles then it will follow the rainbow.

[Alan Davion]

Amsro, on 27 April 2017 - 07:17 AM, said:

Red - Micro
Pink - Small
Green - Medium
Blue - Large
Violet - Heavy

If lasers are skittles then it will follow the rainbow.

There's three types of Heavy Lasers, and two types of Micro Lasers, remember?

Edited by Alan Davion, 27 April 2017 - 07:19 AM.

[Tordin]

I think there should be some slight tweaks to existing, and add new colors for the new toys aswell. My wish and perspective.

IS Standard lasers/ ER lasers

Beam thickness: medium/ standard
Small : Red
Medium: Green
Large: Blue

IS Pulse lasers

Beam thickness: medium/ standard
Small : Red
Medium: Green
Large: Blue

Clan Micro ER lasers

Beam thickness: thin
Small : Green
Medium: Blue
Large: Purple

Clan Micro pulse lasers

Beam thickness: thin
Small : Green
Medium: Blue
Large: Purple


Clan ER lasers

Beam thickness: medium/ standard
Small : Purple
Medium: Yellow
Large: Cyan, change to -> Orange, cyan is a tertiary color. Change it to orange for some consistency wit hthe six main colors including the IS ones.

Clan Pulse lasers

Beam thickness: medium/ standard
Small : Purple
Medium: Yellow
Large: Cyan, change to -> Orange, cyan is a tertiary color. Change it to orange for some consistency wit hthe six main colors including the IS ones.

Clan Heavy lasers

Beam thickness: thick
Small : Yellow
Medium: Orange
Large: Red

Just an example of mine. Could use different colors for heavy and micro lasers than what I suggested.

Like with clan lasers, I feel its just out of placethat suddenly theres a cyan laser instead of adding the last missing colors for laser including.
Also I tried to use small, medium, large to gradiant some of the colors, like with the micro lasers, the biggest one there is purple, bridging that colors to the "larger" small laser which is also purple. Yeah Im odd like that.



Ok when it comes to laser colors or colors on anything. I've got massive OCD on that when something is color coded we need the primary colors red, blue, yellow. The secondary colors purple, orange and green. And possible the cromathic colors (not really colors) white (all colors reflected) and black (all colors contained). Add grey for the sake of it.
You can bet I get an headache trying to add above colors, spread among say 5 variants of a mech and to which role they will have *sigh*

Amsro, on 27 April 2017 - 07:17 AM, said:

Red - Micro
Pink - Small
Green - Medium
Blue - Large
Violet - Heavy

If lasers are skittles then it will follow the rainbow.

No pink in the rainbow

Edited by Tordin, 27 April 2017 - 07:38 AM.

[Y E O N N E]

Micro lasers are a size, not a class. They slot in under small lasers and there are only two of them: one for ER and one for Pulse.

Personally, I would prefer the IS be on the warm spectrum (smalls are yellow, mediums amber-orange, larges as red) with the Clans being cooler (micro as violet, smalls as blue, mediums as cyan, larges as green). Longer wavelengths are less powerful but attenuate less through atmosphere. Both factions blast through more watts to compensate for this behavior where appropriate, explaining the heat trends.