(06-06-2015, 04:55 PM)Chris Ganale Wrote:(06-06-2015, 04:36 PM)Zelmanov Wrote: Using the Futures Perfect cutscene, you can see that most of the time the traveling bullets are visible. This is quite impossible in the real world, even old timey flintlocks managed to fire at velocities much faster than the human eye could see.
Given that we can see these bullets, one may argue lower velocities, velocities that could be dodged for the more combat inclined.
I do believe, especially when it comes to the MCN of Eorzea, a majority of the power of them comes from a combination of tech and Aetherial hand waving. They might punch hard, but their visual representation shows them to be quite slow.
Then of course you have Merlwyb against the Sahagin and her bullets are like those light gun games.
Consider that Gaius' wrist-mounted firearm seemed to fire an energy projectile, which, as Star Wars and Fallout have shown us, are typically slowed down way below the velocity they should be at for the benefit of the audience. His gunblade fired proper steel projectiles, which weren't visible except as tracers until they were explicitly shown to us in bullet time. The Admiral's guns also fire real steel.
Do we know if their bullets are steel or lead?
