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COD4 mod, Galatic Warfare. Looks pretty hawt.

- By Scott Johnson on September 6th, 2009

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  1. Splotsh
    Splotsh
    September 6, 2009 at 12:44 pm | | Reply

    When looking at star wars and science fiction in general, I always wondered: why do laser-weapons have barrels? It’s not like it makes the laserbolt go in a more straight line. A scope should be all you need to be 100% accurate up to the maximum effective range of the laser weapon. Or am I missing something?

    • idogis1
      idogis1
      September 7, 2009 at 8:11 pm | | Reply

      If you look at most sci-fi after the ’60s, including Star Wars, the weapons aren’t laser based, they are plasma. The term “laser gun” is really just a remnant of sci-fi from the ’50s and early ’60s when lasers were cool, exotic, and the audience had no idea how they worked.

  2. S
    S
    September 6, 2009 at 12:58 pm | | Reply

    StarWars is not science fiction it’s fantasy (a long long time ago…)
    That’s why ships explode with a lot of noise in space and why the good guys have green lasers and the bad red ones….

    • Splotsh
      Splotsh
      September 6, 2009 at 1:01 pm | | Reply

      Exactly, that’s why I said star wars AND science fiction in general.

  3. cirby
    cirby
    September 6, 2009 at 2:21 pm | | Reply

    Longer weapons help accuracy due to inertia – the gun won’t wiggle as much with some weight out front. Regular barrels need length for extra velocity (and accuracy, in general), but a laser sniper rifle would still need some mass. Lever arms and moment of inertia…

    (Not a comprehensive answer, but a decent rule of thumb)

  4. Masterwabbit
    Masterwabbit
    September 6, 2009 at 5:36 pm | | Reply

    Why bother about the physics behind laser weapons and barrels? You can throw thermal detonators and shoot up Stormtroopers! Where is the problem in that?!?

  5. Nobrain
    Nobrain
    September 7, 2009 at 1:41 am | | Reply

    Thank you masterwabbit! That was needed to be said. Shoot first, dont ask questions later.

  6. usagizero
    usagizero
    September 7, 2009 at 12:04 pm | | Reply

    That’s not Star Wars unless the Storm Troops always miss. ;)

    Also, who said it was lasers they fire? Just because they look somewhat like lasers doesn’t mean it is, actually all evidence shows it’s not. It’s advanced technology we can’t understand. And Star Wars is a “Space Opera” science fiction, where story > hard science (and those are always more enjoyable in my opinion)

  7. Chris
    Chris
    September 8, 2009 at 3:18 pm | | Reply

    NIce to see the Star Wars full mods keep on keeping on. I was a huge fan of the Galactic Conquest mod for the Battlefield 1942 engine back in the day. Looking at this trailer reminds me that BF1942 really cornered the market with vehicles. All of the maps had great vehicles; snow speeders, AT-ST and AT-AT on Hoth, Cloudcars on Bespin, land speeders, T-16s, skiffs and Jabba’s sailbarge on Tattoine. They also had several massive space maps, I mean very massive maps; Death Star trench run as well as capital ship battles with Corellian Corvettes and Nebulon-B Frigates.

    If you have a copy of BF 1942 sitting around, dust it off for some Star Wars action.

    * http://www.galactic-conquest.net/ <- seemingly dormant

    * http://web.archive.org/web/20080124143100/http://www.galactic-conquest.net/

    The installer for GC is/was hosted on several download sites like FileShack, etc. Yea, the graphics are old looking, but the vehicles and maps are very well done.