Lore: Weapons and Customisation

Well, as far as the Qunari go I think that general consensus is that their best iteration was the DA2 one. The DA:I changes were a huge mistake. 
The lack of consistency between different games is kind of sad, since I stopped caring about reading the lore. If it's fluid and always changing, why should I try to memorize the rules written in codex? It would be possibly a waste of time.

Well, the pistols seem to have a slide, too (why would a gun without shells containing chemical propellant need to be ejected via a slide? Why would such guns need to chamber a round like an RL handgun?) now...

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WHich is terrible as it sacrifices the uniqueness of the setting and makes it just like every other bland, flavorless shooter out there.

Yea, but advance to what? Space magic? The mere fact that there is an equally advanced society - let alone multiple - in a galaxy far away from our own is a stretch already... let's just hope they don't also use mass effect technology in the same way too, or ME will be the next IP I'll have to write off...

in which case they should be as advanced as the Leviathans.

This is just a lore guess. But plasma can become quantum entangled with the mind quite easily. Hence, with the will of the wielder. So it bends to the willpower of the mind, which naturally wills to hit the target.

Mind-over-energy.

If you think that's too far fetched, order a copy of the parapsychology textbook from Amazon. Read it and weep.

I know Clark's laws... maybe, we'll know if it makes sense when we actually see the whole picture.

Why are Plasma Weapons suddenly an Issue? Plasma Weaponry with tracking capability was already introduced with Mass Effect 2 with the Incinerate Power and the Geth PLASMA Shotgun (which also has minor tracking). Plasma Weaponry isn't really new technology.

Same as lasers. GARDIAN systems are installed on every military vessel.

How and why plasma weapons are tracking: If I'm not mistaken plasma needs to be contained somehow, else it just flies apart as soon as it leaves the gun. Could be that at the center of the plasma balls is a projectile generating a magnetic field that is also capable of making minor adjustments to the flight path of the projectile.

Cryo Technology seems pretty insensible, thermodynamics would fuck that technology right over.

Introducing ThermoClips to Mass Effect and therefor an "ammo" system to the Gameplay was a really, really good decision for the sake of gameplay.

Space Battles seen in the cutscenes never looked like what was described in the codex.

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Geth Plasma Shotgun
"This three-barrelled geth weapon fires miniature but potent cluster rounds of superconducting projectiles and has a longer range than standard shotguns. A two-stage trigger system allows for either quick-fire capacitors or a charge-and-release attack to electrify the projectiles as they exit the weapon. As the rounds hit the target, they fragment and electricity arcs between the pieces, flash-converting the air to conductive plasma. The resulting impact, heat, and electrical charge overloads shields and barriers and causes massive trauma to unarmored targets."

Geth Spitfire
Like the geth plasma shotgun, the Spitfire is not a true energy weapon. Instead, the minigun magnetically flings clusters of superconducting toroids. These donut-shaped projectiles are designed to shatter upon impact, arcing electricity between the fragments and flash-converting them to plasma. The gun's punishing, automatic blasts impact with the heat of a cutting torch.

Geth Plasma SMG
This geth weapon works on the same principles as the Spitfire: it shoots superconducting toroids that break apart on impact, retaining an electrical charge that flash-converts the shrapnel into plasma. Unlike the Spitfire, however, the plasma SMG has been modified to take thermal clips. Holding down the trigger speeds up its rate of fire, rapidly depleting the gun’s heat sink in exchange for nearly continuous fire.


The plasma is only created on impact, but yeah no one can deny that the technology is already known to the Mass Effect universe.

Please do (I know it's painful, but I have my own list of gripes with ME3 especially (two and one have some, too but then again it's only minor stuff there, like the fuckig "ammo" (thermal clips!) in ME2 (and 3)), don't mind us

(or don't - as I said, I've got a ton of gripes, too!)

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