Quote from: Milan on Mar 04, 2011, 05:31:19 PM
...So there lives a Neo from the matrix within each Alien cause one dodged bullets in Ailien: RE and the other managed to dodge plasma bolts in AVP... so what about the several other Aliens who have been killed by the same type of attack, did they choose not to move cause they were playing chicken race with a bullet or plasma bolt...WTF, the Alien is one dangerous creature, so scary that a bullet or a plasma bolt would find away around it to avoid confrontation... Them dodging bullets are random at best, from whatever distance, it's an Alien, not Chuck Norris. Them dodging shots is as regular as a Predator dodging head bites...
I would also had that 5/6 of joner's shot were completly missed (no matter if the alien moved or not).
+ the "micro-grenade"s shot by joner have a speed that can't not even be compared with regular bullet (they are incredibly slow. The projectils are even visible at such short range!).
I agree the projectils were fast , but not comparable with regualr rounds.
Quote from: AliceApocalypse on Mar 04, 2011, 04:48:46 PM
^ Don't forget the Shuriken! Would environmental variables have an adverse effect the plasma shot in terms of speed and distance? For example, Anytime had no trouble firing quick shots in the jungle heat but it seemed (to me) that Scar's plasma shots were a little slower in the Arctic temperature. Maybe the reaction of the plasma bolt is not as quick to discharge or possibly loses it's speed in the colder temperatures.
Don't worry i didn't forget
About the plasma bolt speed. I could make a "predxeno like theory" (it means pretty complex)
The plasma bolt (plasma being an gas ionized to a hight temperature) is stabilized into a bolt shape by an electomagnetic field (if i remember well, Blain's study of the yautja)
Given the AvP confrontation is in Antarctica, then the magnetic activity is completly different ( than Anytime's jungle) and could affect the plasma bolt in some ways , like his speed.
Just a theory nothing serious.