Quote from: HuDaFuK on Mar 18, 2015, 02:50:31 PM
Actually what we see in Alien 3 is probably quite accurate. Armour-piercing rounds are generally pretty crap against people, because they go straight through soft flesh without causing much damage. The W-Y guys in the film have to unload on Aaron to actually put him down because the explosive-tips don't do their thing.
Of course, if it was guy with heavy body armour on, they'd likely go boom inside...
I'd assume they'd have fuse settings by that time, so that they'd explode when registering penetration.
Quote from: Born Of Cold Light on Mar 18, 2015, 09:35:04 PM
Oh, and despite how iconic they are, flamethrowers should be used sparingly as most soldiers today don't use them.
I'm actually hoping that it will be canonised flamethrowers have
zero effect on an Alien's health. That they might veer away from it because of proverbial sensory overload, but little else. So many comics and, especially, games, have Aliens being killed with flamethrowers, but we never actually saw it in the films (if anything, the lack of harm from the escape shuttle's thrusters should indicate fire wouldn't do much).
Something I was pleasantly surprised to see '
Alien Isolation' did.
Quote from: HuDaFuK on Mar 18, 2015, 09:58:00 PM
Because a Smartgun is such a realistic weapon...
It is when you have motion tracker technology.
In terms of 1986, it was a logical man-portable extension of CIWS systems for navy ships, like the Phalanx.
As of today, you could probably make something rather like a smartgun. We'd probably use thermal imaging for the guidance system.
However, Cameron got his technological predictions
slightly wrong... What are now being made are guided
bullets. Primarily for sniper use, but I can't imagine it will be very long before the basic technology starts to become standard.
Then again, who's to say they weren't firing those from pulse rifles, too?
Technically, they don't even call Vasquez's and Drake's weapons 'smart guns' on screen. They could be retconned as just about anything in another film, including a massively powerful and heavy gun which simply needs the harness to haul it about.