Blastfoil
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This is how I'm looking at it.
Cortosis on this site can be used to mitigate a lightsaber strike (but only 1 right?) if that is the case...since lightsabers have the ability to cut through hella stuff and if a material is able to resist that super cutting power wouldn't it also be able to mitigate a weaker power like blasters?
addition: would blasters on THIS weapon have the same effect as an XPC would on a lightsaber?
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made an addition on my previous comment. but i guess that's a valid statement.
what you're saying is that it's not that it "can't" exist it's just that it can't be "used" on this site. just like a force wielder should be able to use a HUD but for the sake of balancing armour functions are not permitted by force wielders.
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Pretty much, yeah.
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The mods and admins would state as much. They probably saw it and approved it because it may be a finished product they are comfortable with. This might need some more work. or some other reason. you can guess all day at that and still be wrong so i'd just sit tight, and wait to find out or if it needs editing do that...and then wait after that. either way you'll have to wait for the mods and clayton. they don't run on our schedule, they run on their's.
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Cortosis/Phrik on weapons can block lightsabers indefinitely. The "1 hit" rule applies only to armour in order to maintain balance, because otherwise we'd have people trying the ol' last timeline trick of "I put my arm in your way and you can't cut me while I shoot you with my pistol or w/e."
Anyways, a couple things - first off, this is essentially no different to the other blastsword (yes I know it came out after this app was submitted, many apologies, but it's also not much different from the wookieepedia article). But, owing to some of the differences, that is why I'm here now. Yay!
1. That ammunition capacity needs dropped to 20 at the most. Realistically, this thing isn't going to be any stronger than a heavy blaster pistol (given the constraints of fitting in the mechanism and all that), similar to the other blastsword, so I'm going to say it falls under the same ammunition capacity rules as blaster pistols do. Besides, you don't want rifle-strength bolts flying out of this thing. Recoil, yo. #BrokenWristsAreBad (Trust me, I know, I had one. It sucks for about 3 or 4 months.) And besides, the damage is still going to be ridiculous if/when you make contact.
2. The energy cutter. If you intend it to be continuous thing that doesn't incur some sort of drain on your power cells similar to the blaster tip (which, I mean, would be weird to implement in PvP but still), then against armour it's going to have the same effect as a vibrosword rather than a blaster (since most armours do better against vibroswords than blasters, basically), just to try and preserve balance and all that.
Joke edit suggestion: Your intent. That bit about traditional fencing doesn't match up to everything included under traditional western fencing, and that bothers me and my sense of required historical accuracy. #AutoDenied
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Reason for not just going "meh, generic" : The mechanism is slightly different due to lacking an edge and being focused on thrusting and all that with the energy cutter tip coupled with the blastsword bit, so I figured I'd actually go to approve it. That and the ammunition capacity & bolt strength bit.
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Did some tweaking; thank you for all your input. Hopefully it looks better?
I feel like I should explain the cutter a bit better, though. It's a setting that would be horribly inefficient in any sort of combat; it would continuously drain the power cell, rather than just taking some energy with each impact. I really intended it as being something like a blowtorch for cutting through obstacles, not for use in PvP. It doesn't really provide an advantage there anyway; the weapon is meant for quick, precise strikes, not slashes or any sort of prolonged contact with the average opponent.
Did some tweaking; thank you for all your input. Hopefully it looks better?
I feel like I should explain the cutter a bit better, though. It's a setting that would be horribly inefficient in any sort of combat; it would continuously drain the power cell, rather than just taking some energy with each impact. I really intended it as being something like a blowtorch for cutting through obstacles, not for use in PvP. It doesn't really provide an advantage there anyway; the weapon is meant for quick, precise strikes, not slashes or any sort of prolonged contact with the average opponent.
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You can expect your power drain to be pretty significant trying to cut through a door, then. Probably something like an entire cell to make a hole large enough for the average being to get in.
But, anyways.
Approved!
But, anyways.
Approved!
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Hey, just wanted to ask if I could edit my post to add in a new image URL. My current image hosting site is closing at the end of the month, so I'm going around updating image links for all my stuff made for the current timeline.
This is the new link: https://image.ibb.co/eKkZYF/blastsaber2_2.png
Hey, just wanted to ask if I could edit my post to add in a new image URL. My current image hosting site is closing at the end of the month, so I'm going around updating image links for all my stuff made for the current timeline.
This is the new link: https://image.ibb.co/eKkZYF/blastsaber2_2.png