Quote Originally Posted by Kornman00 View Post
Don't mean to get offtopic, but Just Cause 2 seems to acknowledge that 40-50 yards. The damn AI EATS my fucking health with shotguns, even when far away. Makes me want to cry

Also, if they wanted they could just as easily write off saying that some kind of round was used which gives it more instant UMPH! but at the sacrifice of range. That and they said that in previous games (or was it just Halo2 or 3?) the projectiles sometimes went outside the reticule? Something which DOESN'T happen in Reach.

In the end: artistic liberties.
Only continuing this because there's nothing else to talk about.... I know it's like the water + gravity in vidya game argument but i'm bored. :P

Read only if you want to knwo the effect of Water and Gravity in a video game

Yeah but that explanation would be bunk because there's no real way to transfer power/force without transferring speed and size. I'd buy the "UMPH" argument if they used the "NEW TECH" argument but currently they're trying to explain human weapon behavior based on already existing tech. With already existing tech you'd have to basically have hollow bbs for that to work, which at that point there's nothing out of that because they're so light they'd do no damage or they'd go MUCH farther than 5 feet.

Artistic Liberties my rear end. If there were artistic Liberties the UNSC would have destroyed a covenant cruiser by repurposing their antigravity mechanisms.