lasers can be collimated where they stay in a straight line or divergent where the light spreads out like a flashlight. light along any path is absorbed by a number of objects, including air molecules. eventually the laser will be absorbed. it may or may not go into space depending on the total energy
Actually, the bolts shot from guns in star wars aren't lasers. It's plasma. More specifically, superheated liquid Tebanna(a highly corrosive and explosive chemical in the star wars universe) contained in a magnetic field. So really, they'd keep going as long as they didn't hit anything, though like conventional guns, they do eventually have a projectile arc.
Even if they are plasma, they would still dissipate when shot and especially so in an atmosphere. Interacting with the air and radiating away heat would cool the plasma until it's no longer a hot plasma.
Short answer: NO. For details, read below. Lasers can be made to be completely in a straight line, and typically are designed exactly that way. However, as the light travels, it's going to hit molecules in the air. That'll cause the light to scatter in multiple directions, depending on the wavelength of light and the molecules it hits. It can also be absorbed, more on that later. That's actually why the sky is blue during the day. Blue light scatters more than red light. When you see a sunset it is typically red, because the blue light becomes so scattered that it all gets absorbed before it can reach your eye. Places with a lot of particles in the air (ex: Arizona, Nevada, and deserts in general due to the dust) have very vibrant, red sunsets as a result. That being said, the laser will NOT become a cone as time goes on. Molecules also absorb light and turn it into vibrations between the atoms. Any scattered light will quickly be absorbed by molecules, so a cone won't form. Edit: if the laser was in a vacuum, such as space, then it would go straight until it ran into something.
I would like too believe that they sense he is the son of Anakin Skywalker and have a blood feud with him. What if the Tuskin Raiders actually killed Luke's aunt and uncle out of revenge and he just assumed that it was the stormtroopers?
It's actually revealed in the Darth Vader comic, issue #25, I believe, that a lone Tusken Raider survived Anakin's first massacre. I say first because in issue #1, Darth Vader is shown having killed a village once again, after he had dealt with Jabba the Hutt. The lone Tusken is then taken by another Tusken tribe, and is burned at the stake of a massive wooden effigy of Lord Vader. They worship/fear Vader as a deity, as they should.
This game was my childhood. I'm actually holding the cartridge right now. God I remember using the get the lightsaber early glitch and then getting stuck at the Death Star and then being really sad. Y'know what? Screw it. I'm gonna go play it now.
I'm a physicist from Ireland doing a Masters in Applied Physics and yes, laser beams spread out over time and dissipate. Any beam of light will diverge after travelling a distance in space. Lasers are usually designed to be very narrow beams, with very low divergence when compared to other light sources, but given enough distance traveled they will diverge just like any other beam of light. The divergence of the laser is measured as an angle in either milliradians or degrees. If the laser is producing a good quality beam then the divergence is proportional to the wavelength of the light used. This means that a red laser (which has a longer wavelength) will diverge/widen more over a certain distance than a blue laser (which has a shorter wavelength). The divergence is also inversely proportional to the radius of the beam at it's narrowest point. if we were to take Cell's kamehameha from the last episode and apply this theory, and assumed that it acted like a high quality laser, we can calculate how much the beam would have diverged. Assuming the narrowest point of the beam was about 15 cm, and the wavelength of blue light is about 450 nm, the divergence would be about 4.774 x10^-7 degrees. If the beam travelled out of the atmosphere as far as the moon, the beam would have a radius of about 3.218 m and an area of about 35 square meters, or 376.737 square feet for americans. If it traveled as far as the sun it would be almost 2 square miles. So if the beam had enough energy to continue for 1000 light years, probably more than just New Arlia would have been destroyed, although since the energy of the beam decreases as it spreads out it probably would have faded into the background radiation given enough distance traveled.
Actually Lani, the bolts fired from blasters aren't lasers. It's plasma. More specifically, superheated liquid Tebanna (a highly corrosive and explosive chemical in the star wars universe as you may likely know already) contained in a magnetic field. So really, they'd keep going as long as they didn't hit anything, and like conventional guns, they do eventually have a projectile arc. So they wouldn't dissipate, rather they'd just eventually hit something like a bullet would, but with a much longer time before it actually hits the ground.
First, you guys totally need to make this into a full playthrough. Because second, you guys seemed really refreshed by it. Your banter was top notch. Great job!
Luke is in the desert, and whining, Luke is in the desert and whining... (sung to the tune of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" -- if you haven't heard that, I highly recommend. The whole album is fantastic for Beatles and/or Star Wars fans, of which I am both.)
If I am not mistaken, the "bolts" from blasters and similar weapons are lasers encased in some kind of mild containment field to keep the laser from dissipating for long distances, or something like that.
basically a laser is focused light where all the photons are lined up and going the same direction so no it won't dissipate over time nor does it get larger as it gets further away from its source it'll just keep going forever until it hits something but after a long time it will lose its destructive capability
so a laser has to be focused and collimated separately. collimation cleans the beam of noise while focusing reduces spread. a laser focused to infinity will, in theory, go on forever. However, optics are never perfect and even the best focused beam will eventually disperse. Star wars laser are actually more akin to contained plasma bursts in the lore, they fire energised gas via high energy impulse, with tibbana gas having the highest energy density. This means the bolt will disperse once whatever containment method used fails via loss of energy. This also explains, lore-wise, why Star Wars lasers are not continuous beams.
I'm not a particle physicist - if anything, I'm the opposite because I'm a journalist (and we suck) - but I watch these three because it's one of the few things that can genuinely make me smile. Plus, Kirran's hair.
Blasters work by projecting ionised packets of sky-jellyfish farts. Said ionised farts would have to be magnetically sheathed to stop them from immediately dissipating. So the projectile would last until the magnetic sheath collapsed, at which point a small (but deadly) fartsplosion would occur as the ionised gas dissipated.
I remember having a GBA cartridge that had both Shrek and Shark Tales. I don't remember if they were bit-crunched or shitty or what not, but they were the full movies.
Insane dps, and they took way to long to kill, cant even hold back and use the blaster, all of them can just throw their axes at you, and they're impossible to get the block timing down
And on top of that there's the pits. If they make a series out of this they're gonna have some major trouble, not exactly the type to pick up all the slightly hidden health boosts
The guns in Star Wars are blaster rifles/pistols, they don't shoot lazer, they shoot something akin to plasma. Though I think lasers are supposed to go in straight forward in eternity in theory, my closest experience is a laser pointer and those have a very narrow cone.
I'm a condensed matter physicist and I watch you guys 'cause you're hilarious. Things with really bad sci-fi like Star Wars or Dragonball are WAY more fun when you know some real science, and have to figure out ways for bad sci-fi to work.
I actually am a physicist and I can explain. The reason the beam from a flashlight gets wider is because of optical refraction, also known as light scattering. When light passes through a gas, the gas particles absorb the light and release it again in all directions. The beam widens as the air molecules scatter the light outward. This is why the entire sky lights up during the day rather than just a single beam directly from the sun, the atmosphere scatters the light all across the sky. Now a high power laser beam would eventually scatter and dissipate when traveling through atmosphere, but in space it would theoretically go for a very long time since the particle concentration in the vacuum is so much lower than an atmosphere. So if the laser doesn't dissipate before it exits that atmosphere, it'll keep going for a while.
You know what? An RPG where you can choose Luke's path sounds pretty fucking cool. You could follow the main story like a chump or you could make your own decisions, like tell Owen to fuck off and go party at Tosche Station. Events unfold and you can become a smuggler. Or you could go to Mos Eisley on your own and join the Empire. Then you go to the academy and become an expert TIE pilot. Or if you're really good you could go kill Obi-Wan at the beginning, take his lightsaber and conquer Tatooine as a dark jedi crime lord. I'd play the shit out of that. Especially if Bioware made it.
You literally play a tabletop RPG then. Of course, Luke is typically an NPC and players make their own characters, but you could play as Luke if you really wanted to and the GM okayed it.
+Piccolo Junior I don't really see that happening and you could go on sites like Roll20 and find people there. I play tabletop rpgs a lot and it hasn't been too much of an issue for me.
Piccolo Junior Roll20 is AMAZING for people like us. I live in a small town in Alaska and have managed to play multiple DnD and Star Wars tabletop game campaigns. Highly recommended
Not a particle physicist, but an engineer none the less: Anything with a type of intensity, whether it be sound, energy, or light, is constrained by what's called the Inverse Square Law. Long story short, the intensity decreases by the distance squared. As Kirran pointed out, a laser is a point with minimal area, meaning that it seems like light shouldn't dissipate. BUT WAIT, it does! It takes forever, but it will eventually go away! As to why we watch you all, simple: entertainment!
Everyone below me is 100% correct about Lani being right (albeit for the wrong reasons) about lasers. However, it's worth noting that blasters in the Star Wars universe use a magnetically-shielded plasma bolt that explodes on contact, and not a true laser. Generally by utilizing an energy-rich gas and agitating it into a particle beam, but depending on the gas mixture and the specifics of the weapon in question could have other methods to the same ends. For more information, please consult your local Wookiepedia.
They're looking into setting up a table top gaming section and it could possibly be soonish (they're getting a second studio to work with) but it may deal with time constraints and other problems. BTW this is just from a fan so I don't know when or how they may do this.
Blasters in star wars fire charged, space-magically-contained gas (or plasma bolts). They dissipate after a bit because the energy ceases to be contained by said space-magic (a.k.a. SCIENCE). The turbolasers on star destroyers and such, however, do keep going until they ruin the day of someone, somewhere.
I'm guessing in that universe they don't dissipate since their starfighters angle their cannons to make sure to blasts collide if they miss after a certain distance
Sorry, Kirran. Light does not go in a straight line, nor does it stay the same width. Just goes with the territory of it being a wave-particle mix. (Laser engineer) The photons will just curve away from each other as they interact with matter, and space STILL has atoms floating about, it's just not very dense. In addition, light IS only a straight line if you account for curved geometries, because it will bend around gravity (it's how we detect black holes, we can see star behind them because their light bends around the black hole and apprears as two separate, identical stars) As for why I watch you guys, *shrug* HBI's dad puns are top notch, mostly.
Nerd Lore Alert: They don't use lasers in Star Wars, they use Blasters. The difference is the shots from blasters aren't light, they are ignited bursts of gas (the stuff that was gathered at Bespin, for reference).
recently got my physics bachelors. the laser would spread out and dissipate in a vacuum like space if given the chance but long before that it would be absorbed by other matter or break down by colliding with other ambient waves of light/ radiation or just hitting space debris.
Dude, I fucking remember playing this as a kid. Got big into Star Wars during the release of Ep III, and got this after watching the original trilogy. Seeing this brought back so many memories.
Quick trivia thing. Ubisoft is actually meant to be pronounced as "You be soft." according to an official in Ubisoft. Just more of a "u" sound due to it all being part of one word. This is the trick I use when remembering how to pronounce it. It seriously is meant to be like a taunt to other game developers.
it's star wars, you can't apply the real world laws to it as it operates by it's own laws. Within the star wars universe a blaster bolt(not a lazer) does disipate eventually but it will maintain the same force for a considerable distance but is highly inaccurate at longer distances due to them not moving nearly as fast as a bullet.
TheScourge8765 nope. It was intentional. Back when Taka and Lani played SWTOR, Taka accidentally referred to John Williams as Brian Williams. Hilarity ensued and the joke stuck. Fast forward some time later and the joke gets a reprise, this time on Bloodborne. It came up during their time with bloodborne because the couch wound up singing duel of the fates while attempting to defeat a specific enemy in bloodborne. Going forward, that enemy was then referred to as Brian Williams.
The lasers are some kind of plasma, so eventually they will cool down and no longer be hot enough to even be visible. While they say they are lasers, the lore indicates that it's actually plasma. Same with light sabers. The more you know.
Alright, so about the blasters... Due to the fact that they have a knockback effect on most people they hit as opposed to going straight through them, we can assume the blaster shots have mass. And in addition to that, were it a laser, it would be an instantaneous shot rather than something that would be possible to dodge (even with Jedi reflexes). More likely than not, it would be a form of plasma being fired. Sooooooooo... no infinite distance. On a side note, these Troopers aren't THE worst in terms of accuracy...
Kirran. First of all the laser is likely plasma, not a laser beam, as evidenced by Kylo Ren being able to suspend a blaster shot in mid-air which, as far as we can tell, can only be done to matter. So the question is, would the blaster shot dissipate? Very likely, yes, whether it be light or plasma. The light would be coming from a source that is not as small as an atom,so there are multiple photons, and as such the light will disperse. Only if there is a single photon being fired can you be sure that the light will remain straight, and only in a vacuum. For plasma, plasma is so high energy that it can't exist for very long before it flies apart, unless there is a huge mass involved causing a gravitational force to keep it in place and in its plasma state, such as stars, or when Kylo Ren suspended the shot in the air, keeping it stable with the Force. It'd also be likely that blasters use some sort of electromagnet to develop an electromagnetic field that the plasma produces as it flies, alloeing it to maintain its state for longer than the time of a lightning strike (lightning is plasma as well). However, as the blast flies through the air it would lose energy to the air and also the EM field would become destabilized as the plasma bounced around within itself, causing the blast to dissipate after a while. With smaller blasters this likely takes less time due to their small size onlg allowing for a small electromagnet, but with larger guns the electromagnet that could be fitted within could be larger, allowing the blast to remain stable for longer (i.e. the long barrel of a blaster rifle likely has emitters along its length on the inside to keep the blast stable longer allowing long distance targets to be hit). So yes Kirran, the blasts dissipate. That's just the way energy works when conveyed by some matter medium.
Laser (Optics) Engineer is a thing, and we watch because you're funny and nerdy like us. Also, for most everything you're ever going to experience a laser for, it's a line that doesn't degrade or spread out like a flashlight. However depending on how the laser was made, it's energy source, what it's flying through (air, water, intensity of gravity, other particles etc..) it will spread out eventually and dissipate it's energy... So girls, you're both pretty, now drink your blue milk.
Imagine if these games were how some people got introduced to star wars. Like they've never seen the films, show, books, or parodies and then see these lets plays as the very first step into mastering the force.
I am a mathematician that took physics. I won't talk about light since their weapons aren't actually shooting light, in all the movies it is referred to as bolts and with the way that kylo person stopped the bolt mid flight they may keep all their momentum they seem to not stop until something hits it.
"Do the children also have those dumb masks?" Yes. It's been established that they're wrapped up, pretty much at birth, and almost never take their wraps off.
Why would they introduce a dashing feature in the mission where you're tied to a slow-moving droid and not in the previous one where you had to do practically pixel-perfect harrowing leaps over 1-hit death pits?!
Please tfs, if you read this, play Star Wars Republic Commando!!! Its a starwars themed squad based first person shooter. The story mode is kinda short but its REALLY fun.
You think the sand is your ally? I was born in it; molded by it! I didn't moisturize until I was already a man, and by then it was nothing to me but slimy!
lasers can be collimated where they stay in a straight line or divergent where the light spreads out like a flashlight. light along any path is absorbed by a number of objects, including air molecules. eventually the laser will be absorbed. it may or may not go into space depending on the total energy
Actually, the bolts shot from guns in star wars aren't lasers. It's plasma. More specifically, superheated liquid Tebanna(a highly corrosive and explosive chemical in the star wars universe) contained in a magnetic field. So really, they'd keep going as long as they didn't hit anything, though like conventional guns, they do eventually have a projectile arc.
NERRRRRRRDDS! sorry just wanted to say that, very informative posts
Wow... I actually learned something from UA-cam comments. Thank you sir
Even if they are plasma, they would still dissipate when shot and especially so in an atmosphere. Interacting with the air and radiating away heat would cool the plasma until it's no longer a hot plasma.
Unless it's like Cell's Kamehameha which traveled 1000 years.
Short answer: NO. For details, read below.
Lasers can be made to be completely in a straight line, and typically are designed exactly that way. However, as the light travels, it's going to hit molecules in the air. That'll cause the light to scatter in multiple directions, depending on the wavelength of light and the molecules it hits. It can also be absorbed, more on that later.
That's actually why the sky is blue during the day. Blue light scatters more than red light. When you see a sunset it is typically red, because the blue light becomes so scattered that it all gets absorbed before it can reach your eye. Places with a lot of particles in the air (ex: Arizona, Nevada, and deserts in general due to the dust) have very vibrant, red sunsets as a result.
That being said, the laser will NOT become a cone as time goes on. Molecules also absorb light and turn it into vibrations between the atoms. Any scattered light will quickly be absorbed by molecules, so a cone won't form.
Edit: if the laser was in a vacuum, such as space, then it would go straight until it ran into something.
It doesnt really matter given that Blasters in Star Wars use Plasma
but it would be dissipated by the atmosphere
If it were shot from Earth absolutely, it would not reach into space. But if the laser was in a vacuum then it would behave as described.
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Joshua Paul True, everything you said is true. But I think it's prudent to note that I don't believe the blasters fire lasers but concentrated plasma.
Once again the Skywalker family spearheads a Tuskin genocide.
Like animals and not just the men, but the women and the children, too.
I would like too believe that they sense he is the son of Anakin Skywalker and have a blood feud with him. What if the Tuskin Raiders actually killed Luke's aunt and uncle out of revenge and he just assumed that it was the stormtroopers?
Whiterun Guard that actually make sense after all not like stormtroopers can't hit anything to save there lives.
Kyle Trathen and I can't imagine they would do it anyways. the stormtroopers always come off as bumbling idiots rather than bloodthirsty murderers.
It's actually revealed in the Darth Vader comic, issue #25, I believe, that a lone Tusken Raider survived Anakin's first massacre. I say first because in issue #1, Darth Vader is shown having killed a village once again, after he had dealt with Jabba the Hutt. The lone Tusken is then taken by another Tusken tribe, and is burned at the stake of a massive wooden effigy of Lord Vader. They worship/fear Vader as a deity, as they should.
Am I the only one imagining R2 talking like Padme from the Episode 1 game?
Or hearing Luke yell "The door is open, let's go!"
Tossing a Thermal Grenade!!!
The door is go; let's open!
"My name is Luke Skywalker, the door's open, LET'S GO!"
Chewie: HEY! Guys...?
"You're in my line of fire!"
"Jizz is a national treasure here" Kirran, 2017
For those not familiar - "jizz" is the name of the Cantina Band's genre of music.
Anthony Grant Ahh, A long time ago... such an innocent age.
My favorite part of A New Hope was when Luke went Rambo on a bunch of sand people.
This game was my childhood. I'm actually holding the cartridge right now. God I remember using the get the lightsaber early glitch and then getting stuck at the Death Star and then being really sad. Y'know what? Screw it. I'm gonna go play it now.
Did you end up beating it this time? This is an update I need lol
I'm a physicist from Ireland doing a Masters in Applied Physics and yes, laser beams spread out over time and dissipate. Any beam of light will diverge after travelling a distance in space. Lasers are usually designed to be very narrow beams, with very low divergence when compared to other light sources, but given enough distance traveled they will diverge just like any other beam of light. The divergence of the laser is measured as an angle in either milliradians or degrees. If the laser is producing a good quality beam then the divergence is proportional to the wavelength of the light used. This means that a red laser (which has a longer wavelength) will diverge/widen more over a certain distance than a blue laser (which has a shorter wavelength). The divergence is also inversely proportional to the radius of the beam at it's narrowest point. if we were to take Cell's kamehameha from the last episode and apply this theory, and assumed that it acted like a high quality laser, we can calculate how much the beam would have diverged. Assuming the narrowest point of the beam was about 15 cm, and the wavelength of blue light is about 450 nm, the divergence would be about 4.774 x10^-7 degrees. If the beam travelled out of the atmosphere as far as the moon, the beam would have a radius of about 3.218 m and an area of about 35 square meters, or 376.737 square feet for americans. If it traveled as far as the sun it would be almost 2 square miles. So if the beam had enough energy to continue for 1000 light years, probably more than just New Arlia would have been destroyed, although since the energy of the beam decreases as it spreads out it probably would have faded into the background radiation given enough distance traveled.
Actually Lani,
the bolts fired from blasters aren't lasers.
It's plasma.
More specifically,
superheated liquid Tebanna
(a highly corrosive and explosive chemical in the star wars universe as you may likely know already) contained in a magnetic field.
So really,
they'd keep going as long as they didn't hit anything,
and like conventional guns,
they do eventually have a projectile arc.
So they wouldn't dissipate,
rather they'd just eventually hit something like a bullet would,
but with a much longer time before it actually hits the ground.
First, you guys totally need to make this into a full playthrough. Because second, you guys seemed really refreshed by it. Your banter was top notch. Great job!
Luke is in the desert, and whining, Luke is in the desert and whining... (sung to the tune of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" -- if you haven't heard that, I highly recommend. The whole album is fantastic for Beatles and/or Star Wars fans, of which I am both.)
If I am not mistaken, the "bolts" from blasters and similar weapons are lasers encased in some kind of mild containment field to keep the laser from dissipating for long distances, or something like that.
basically a laser is focused light where all the photons are lined up and going the same direction so no it won't dissipate over time nor does it get larger as it gets further away from its source it'll just keep going forever until it hits something but after a long time it will lose its destructive capability
so a laser has to be focused and collimated separately. collimation cleans the beam of noise while focusing reduces spread. a laser focused to infinity will, in theory, go on forever. However, optics are never perfect and even the best focused beam will eventually disperse. Star wars laser are actually more akin to contained plasma bursts in the lore, they fire energised gas via high energy impulse, with tibbana gas having the highest energy density. This means the bolt will disperse once whatever containment method used fails via loss of energy. This also explains, lore-wise, why Star Wars lasers are not continuous beams.
I'm not a particle physicist - if anything, I'm the opposite because I'm a journalist (and we suck) - but I watch these three because it's one of the few things that can genuinely make me smile. Plus, Kirran's hair.
Blasters work by projecting ionised packets of sky-jellyfish farts. Said ionised farts would have to be magnetically sheathed to stop them from immediately dissipating. So the projectile would last until the magnetic sheath collapsed, at which point a small (but deadly) fartsplosion would occur as the ionised gas dissipated.
crying..... i wish this was a full series because that was hillarious
I remember having a GBA cartridge that had both Shrek and Shark Tales. I don't remember if they were bit-crunched or shitty or what not, but they were the full movies.
Aww shit, I think I still have this game lying around somewhere, glad to see TFS messing around with this.
Dark Phantom35 Can't wait to see them getting angry over Endor's pain in the ass level
Gallifrey Gaming Oh god, Endor was a pain, but Jabba's palace was my personal hell as a child
I forget, were the guards instant kills or did they just have insane dps?
Insane dps, and they took way to long to kill, cant even hold back and use the blaster, all of them can just throw their axes at you, and they're impossible to get the block timing down
And on top of that there's the pits. If they make a series out of this they're gonna have some major trouble, not exactly the type to pick up all the slightly hidden health boosts
This is another masterpiece made by the one and only legendary Johnny S.W
The guns in Star Wars are blaster rifles/pistols, they don't shoot lazer, they shoot something akin to plasma.
Though I think lasers are supposed to go in straight forward in eternity in theory, my closest experience is a laser pointer and those have a very narrow cone.
Actually in the star wars universe the lasers can be set to dissipate after a certain distance depending on the blaster
Luke hits the edge of the screen without R2; "You must gather your party before venturing forth."
The Cantina's open, let's GO.
Tractor Beam's active, let's GO!
Oh I remember I loved this game! This was so fun back in the day haha
Finally! As close as we'll get to the Return of the Dicks of the Old Republic!
"I hear it's blue...? That's weird, I don't like that. What does it come from?" *flashbacks to episode 8* Oh, the innocence they had in the question
I'm a condensed matter physicist and I watch you guys 'cause you're hilarious. Things with really bad sci-fi like Star Wars or Dragonball are WAY more fun when you know some real science, and have to figure out ways for bad sci-fi to work.
Wow this brings back memories of middle school afternoons. Still have my copy here somewhere.
I actually am a physicist and I can explain. The reason the beam from a flashlight gets wider is because of optical refraction, also known as light scattering. When light passes through a gas, the gas particles absorb the light and release it again in all directions. The beam widens as the air molecules scatter the light outward. This is why the entire sky lights up during the day rather than just a single beam directly from the sun, the atmosphere scatters the light all across the sky.
Now a high power laser beam would eventually scatter and dissipate when traveling through atmosphere, but in space it would theoretically go for a very long time since the particle concentration in the vacuum is so much lower than an atmosphere. So if the laser doesn't dissipate before it exits that atmosphere, it'll keep going for a while.
"Give me your milk!"
That accidental AH reference tho
You know what? An RPG where you can choose Luke's path sounds pretty fucking cool. You could follow the main story like a chump or you could make your own decisions, like tell Owen to fuck off and go party at Tosche Station. Events unfold and you can become a smuggler. Or you could go to Mos Eisley on your own and join the Empire. Then you go to the academy and become an expert TIE pilot. Or if you're really good you could go kill Obi-Wan at the beginning, take his lightsaber and conquer Tatooine as a dark jedi crime lord. I'd play the shit out of that. Especially if Bioware made it.
You literally play a tabletop RPG then. Of course, Luke is typically an NPC and players make their own characters, but you could play as Luke if you really wanted to and the GM okayed it.
I mean yeah I could. But I want one of them vidya game versions. Plus I have no friends to do that with.
+Piccolo Junior I don't really see that happening and you could go on sites like Roll20 and find people there. I play tabletop rpgs a lot and it hasn't been too much of an issue for me.
Piccolo Junior Roll20 is AMAZING for people like us. I live in a small town in Alaska and have managed to play multiple DnD and Star Wars tabletop game campaigns. Highly recommended
Basically what I'd picture is Knights of the Old Republic, except obviously based on the original movie plots.
the Droid was a force user and after listening to R2 and C3PO it gives itself a lobotomy via explosion to the face so Luke would buy them.
The door's open.
LET'S GO.
"Power Converters"? Is Luke going out to buy an AC Adapter?
Light does spread out. all equipment has focal range. Lasers infact are highly ineffective with out focal points.
Not a particle physicist, but an engineer none the less:
Anything with a type of intensity, whether it be sound, energy, or light, is constrained by what's called the Inverse Square Law. Long story short, the intensity decreases by the distance squared. As Kirran pointed out, a laser is a point with minimal area, meaning that it seems like light shouldn't dissipate. BUT WAIT, it does! It takes forever, but it will eventually go away!
As to why we watch you all, simple: entertainment!
I still play this from time to time. It's not bad. Though the vehicle levels drove me nuts....DAMN YOU SPEEDER BIKES!!
Everyone below me is 100% correct about Lani being right (albeit for the wrong reasons) about lasers. However, it's worth noting that blasters in the Star Wars universe use a magnetically-shielded plasma bolt that explodes on contact, and not a true laser. Generally by utilizing an energy-rich gas and agitating it into a particle beam, but depending on the gas mixture and the specifics of the weapon in question could have other methods to the same ends.
For more information, please consult your local Wookiepedia.
Thank you, for being one of the few people here to actually know that.
Lani: "It's like staying in Phoenix!"
Me: "But with a LOT more sand!"
XD
this use to be my favorite gba starwars game
Have they played DnD before? I kinda want to see that
They're looking into setting up a table top gaming section and it could possibly be soonish (they're getting a second studio to work with) but it may deal with time constraints and other problems. BTW this is just from a fan so I don't know when or how they may do this.
They said that it's something that they are looking into, as they are working on getting a new studio, however it's not a priority at the moment.
They had tabletop games wayback but they got discontinued if u look back far enough u might find a dnd or a magic the gathering
11 months later, one of the most popular series they produce is a DnD campaign
Blasters in star wars fire charged, space-magically-contained gas (or plasma bolts). They dissipate after a bit because the energy ceases to be contained by said space-magic (a.k.a. SCIENCE). The turbolasers on star destroyers and such, however, do keep going until they ruin the day of someone, somewhere.
"Jizz is a natural treasure here." You uh, want a minute to rephrase that there, chief?
The door's open, lets go- R2, I can't leave you behind.
I'm guessing in that universe they don't dissipate since their starfighters angle their cannons to make sure to blasts collide if they miss after a certain distance
Sorry, Kirran. Light does not go in a straight line, nor does it stay the same width. Just goes with the territory of it being a wave-particle mix.
(Laser engineer)
The photons will just curve away from each other as they interact with matter, and space STILL has atoms floating about, it's just not very dense. In addition, light IS only a straight line if you account for curved geometries, because it will bend around gravity (it's how we detect black holes, we can see star behind them because their light bends around the black hole and apprears as two separate, identical stars)
As for why I watch you guys, *shrug* HBI's dad puns are top notch, mostly.
I mean, sand blowing everywhere would probably be bad for a guy breathing through a respirator.
lazers spread out really slowly, but mostly they would dissipate in the atmosphere, those little bolts aren't going to space
Nerd Lore Alert: They don't use lasers in Star Wars, they use Blasters. The difference is the shots from blasters aren't light, they are ignited bursts of gas (the stuff that was gathered at Bespin, for reference).
The door's open R2, LET'S GO!
A laser still widens as it travels away from its source.
recently got my physics bachelors. the laser would spread out and dissipate in a vacuum like space if given the chance but long before that it would be absorbed by other matter or break down by colliding with other ambient waves of light/ radiation or just hitting space debris.
Dude, I fucking remember playing this as a kid. Got big into Star Wars during the release of Ep III, and got this after watching the original trilogy. Seeing this brought back so many memories.
Quick trivia thing. Ubisoft is actually meant to be pronounced as "You be soft." according to an official in Ubisoft. Just more of a "u" sound due to it all being part of one word. This is the trick I use when remembering how to pronounce it.
It seriously is meant to be like a taunt to other game developers.
Oh my god I played so much of this game when I was younger!!!! My favorite thing was playing new game plus where you start with a light saber!!!
I remember this game! I actually really enjoyed it back in the day. Now I kind of want to find it and play it again because of you guys.
The thing about starwars lazers is that it's basically plasma. It's not really just a thing of light.
They are minitiarized mass drivers firing tiny chunks of super-heated metal.
Slaughtering Tusken Raiders definitely runs in the family
I have fairly fond memories of this game. It went missing at some point.
Really looking forward to that Casual Friday! This was a lot of fun.
it's star wars, you can't apply the real world laws to it as it operates by it's own laws. Within the star wars universe a blaster bolt(not a lazer) does disipate eventually but it will maintain the same force for a considerable distance but is highly inaccurate at longer distances due to them not moving nearly as fast as a bullet.
Isn't it John Williams, not Brian Williams? Either Lani or I'm confused.
It's an inside joke of theirs. Taka messed that up once and it stuck. At least that's what I've gathered.
it's a joke from the drunklstiltskin bloodborne streams
TheScourge8765 nope. It was intentional. Back when Taka and Lani played SWTOR, Taka accidentally referred to John Williams as Brian Williams. Hilarity ensued and the joke stuck. Fast forward some time later and the joke gets a reprise, this time on Bloodborne. It came up during their time with bloodborne because the couch wound up singing duel of the fates while attempting to defeat a specific enemy in bloodborne. Going forward, that enemy was then referred to as Brian Williams.
Kerunou
Are we sure the joke hasn't gone on so long that Lani has actually started to refer to the real person as Brian Williams?
I was actually expecting my question to get lost in a sea of comments! Thanks for the context! (HEY! Guys...?)
I'm pretty sure that the lazer would lose energy as it left its source, but it would be sustained until then
Lani's right. Even lasers will spread out when you get far enough away from the source.
The lasers are some kind of plasma, so eventually they will cool down and no longer be hot enough to even be visible. While they say they are lasers, the lore indicates that it's actually plasma. Same with light sabers. The more you know.
Alright, so about the blasters... Due to the fact that they have a knockback effect on most people they hit as opposed to going straight through them, we can assume the blaster shots have mass. And in addition to that, were it a laser, it would be an instantaneous shot rather than something that would be possible to dodge (even with Jedi reflexes). More likely than not, it would be a form of plasma being fired. Sooooooooo... no infinite distance. On a side note, these Troopers aren't THE worst in terms of accuracy...
Kirran. First of all the laser is likely plasma, not a laser beam, as evidenced by Kylo Ren being able to suspend a blaster shot in mid-air which, as far as we can tell, can only be done to matter. So the question is, would the blaster shot dissipate? Very likely, yes, whether it be light or plasma. The light would be coming from a source that is not as small as an atom,so there are multiple photons, and as such the light will disperse. Only if there is a single photon being fired can you be sure that the light will remain straight, and only in a vacuum. For plasma, plasma is so high energy that it can't exist for very long before it flies apart, unless there is a huge mass involved causing a gravitational force to keep it in place and in its plasma state, such as stars, or when Kylo Ren suspended the shot in the air, keeping it stable with the Force. It'd also be likely that blasters use some sort of electromagnet to develop an electromagnetic field that the plasma produces as it flies, alloeing it to maintain its state for longer than the time of a lightning strike (lightning is plasma as well). However, as the blast flies through the air it would lose energy to the air and also the EM field would become destabilized as the plasma bounced around within itself, causing the blast to dissipate after a while. With smaller blasters this likely takes less time due to their small size onlg allowing for a small electromagnet, but with larger guns the electromagnet that could be fitted within could be larger, allowing the blast to remain stable for longer (i.e. the long barrel of a blaster rifle likely has emitters along its length on the inside to keep the blast stable longer allowing long distance targets to be hit). So yes Kirran, the blasts dissipate. That's just the way energy works when conveyed by some matter medium.
The door is open...LET'S *GO!*
A blaster rifle fires bolts of plasma and is not a laser gun. They create projectiles that are mistaken as such.
PLEASE play kotor. Best star wars game ever.
Laser (Optics) Engineer is a thing, and we watch because you're funny and nerdy like us. Also, for most everything you're ever going to experience a laser for, it's a line that doesn't degrade or spread out like a flashlight. However depending on how the laser was made, it's energy source, what it's flying through (air, water, intensity of gravity, other particles etc..) it will spread out eventually and dissipate it's energy... So girls, you're both pretty, now drink your blue milk.
Lani is right overall, but it's immaterial; even a good laser will be disrupted by atmosphere before it gets into space.
Imagine if these games were how some people got introduced to star wars. Like they've never seen the films, show, books, or parodies and then see these lets plays as the very first step into mastering the force.
I REMEMBER PLAYING THIS GAME!!! if u hold down both L and R u can aim downward.
Lannie is back I love his rages
Those Storm Troopers are hitting way too much.
I am a mathematician that took physics. I won't talk about light since their weapons aren't actually shooting light, in all the movies it is referred to as bolts and with the way that kylo person stopped the bolt mid flight they may keep all their momentum they seem to not stop until something hits it.
I died when Kirran noticed the health bar lol.
"Today I cleansed universe of some Tuscans and some of those scavenging Jawas"
the laza beams in star wars are explained as energy held together by a gas
Interestingly enough, blue milk comes from the Bantha. As if it wasn't unappetizing enough already :P
Blasters fire bolts of plasma. They are not lasers.
Came back from the 0THER Star Wars game they JUST played and this game looks so godly compared to the other one
One more step closer to Episode III for the GBA
yes, because the last thing that i needed was the mental image of storm troopers "milking" jawas
Man i hope they do a full play through of this game. It seems like so much fun and the Stuff they came up with this episode is hilarious...
"Do the children also have those dumb masks?" Yes. It's been established that they're wrapped up, pretty much at birth, and almost never take their wraps off.
The animation on this really reminds me of 'Out of This World'
Why would they introduce a dashing feature in the mission where you're tied to a slow-moving droid
and not in the previous one where you had to do practically pixel-perfect harrowing leaps over 1-hit death pits?!
Please tfs, if you read this, play Star Wars Republic Commando!!! Its a starwars themed squad based first person shooter. The story mode is kinda short but its REALLY fun.
Lani is correct, lasers eventually dissipate over range.
You think the sand is your ally? I was born in it; molded by it! I didn't moisturize until I was already a man, and by then it was nothing to me but slimy!
Careful Lani; your Vegeta is showing.
Oh I love this game! I emulate it every so often and it's fun to this day. Also it gets so much better once you get the lightsaber
fun fact: r5 DIDNT have a bad motivator until r2 got to him....r2 literally commited robot murder to get off the jawa sand crawler.
I played this! It starts out fun but frustration reached critical in the Endor stages. Also play the pit droid puzzle game it's actually fun!
Despite some funky looking animations, this is actually a pretty cool game. Much better than I was expecting.