User talk:Reaper with no name

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'A warship's kinetic barriers reduce the damage from solid objects, but can do nothing to block GARDIAN lasers, particle beams, and other forms of Directed Energy Weapon (DEW). The inner layer of warship protection consists of ablative armor plate designed to "boil away" when heated. The vaporized armor material scatters a DEW beam, rendering it ineffectual.'

'Lasers are not blocked by the kinetic barriers of capital ships (bar the ones employed by the Reapers, whose barriers are capable of blocking them to an extent). However, the range of lasers limits their use to rare 'knife fight'-range ship-to-ship combat.'

Both from in-game. Although when he starts complaining about laser hand-held weapons, just tell him what I've told him twice now: They haven't been developed due to them being too energy intensive for the time.

The Bloody Bell-Hooded Jester (talk) 21:40, June 10, 2014 (UTC)

I assume you're watching the conversation I was having on the PR wiki. All that means is that warship barriers work differently from standard kinetic barriers, because kinetic barriers do indeed work against particle weapons and lasers in the game. This can be easily demonstrated by the Collector Particle Beam in Mass Effect 2, which has to break through the enemy's kinetic barriers before it can damage them, thereby proving that (for infantry, at least) kinetic barriers do stop directed energy weapons. --Reaper with no name (talk) 01:50, June 11, 2014 (UTC)

Yes, I have been watching it, and have tried once before to explain to him that this whole pointless debate is one-sided against WW1 Earth.

Also, in regards to KE barriers and particle weapons/laser weapons in-game, there is no hand-held laser weapons in-game that fit the standard idea of a laser rifle/pistol, but there is particle weapons. For those particle weapons affecting shields, I tenatively want to say 'game mechanics', but there isn't any disagreement on that regard from in-game lore, so I am split down the middle.

And Slug continues to make me want to facepalm.

The Bloody Bell-Hooded Jester aka ARMofORION (talk) 03:30, June 11, 2014 (UTC)