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Originally Posted by JCurwen3
Strangely though some sci-fi seems to have this kind of scenario "fit". In the Stargate franchise, the Earth HT automatic projectile weapons like machine guns seemed at least the equals of the UT energy weapons much of the time. The aliens mostly had the advantage due to non-weapons tech, like personal force shields, occasional mind control, hardier metabolisms, and, of course, having powerful assault vehicles that could fire from the air or from space. When they faced off against the replicators, it was pretty much only the HT weapons that could deter them, with the UT blasters being worse than useless against them.
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Heh, good point. Still, that feels like a conceit of that particular genre. I'd just prefer if it wasn't the basic assumption for most of UT. (I don't think it
was the actual intent, just the result of UT being the vanguard of the equipment books)