We have lasers a fraction of the power in the real world that could blind you but how come weapons like the beam lasers and other laser weaponry in game not blind the commanders? Is there a lore reasoning?
How does laser weaponry in game not blind the Commander?
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Same reason they don't in every other game ever - I should imagine.
Mk iii eyeballs.
They do blind you... but simultaneously vaporise your head, which distracts you from the blindness.
The trick is polarised glasses and canopies. This is how night vision works too. A really smart cmdr can instantaneously fry the pilot in his/her chair by spinning around and around as they fly towards the ship they are attacking. This defeats the polarised screens in the canopy! If you see a cmdr doing this while attacking you, then you should immediately go into a spin in the same direction of spin as the attacking cmdr! If you go into a spin in the opposite direction then you will be fr.....
I mean, if a multi cannon hits you in the eye, you are probably blind, too. At least.
The real question is why can we see the laser beams in space at all? Lasers are very focused light/energy beams that are only visible when they hit something (object, dust, vapor) and the light scatters.
In a vacuum they would be invisible.
The real question is why can we see the laser beams in space at all? Lasers are very focused light/energy beams that are only visible when they hit something (object, dust, vapor) and the light scatters.
In a vacuum they would be invisible.
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The same reason why an exploding nuclear bomb has such a nice mushroom cloud: For show.
They have tried different cloud shapes in the 50's, but they liked the mushroom cloud best, although there was a small minority who preferred the donut shape.
Some preferred no cloud at all. The Russians experimented in the 60s with nuclear explosions that had no cloud, but they too decided a nuclear explosion looked better with a cloud.
Indeed they should be HUD simulations that disappear/are invisible when you lose the canopy
Personally I would have gone with broccoli-shape. Or maybe butternut squash.
I'm gonna assume it's the same reason you don't get blinded from staring directly into the sun
That would have been great. But as we all know the McCloud incident put an end to that.
And the lightsaber ?
It does that, whrn you bust your canopy, all the markers on your hud disappear in the broken places