One shot clips the side of your knee, and you collapse in a screaming heap, and remain there bleeding to death for the rest of the game, unless someone puts you out of your misery...
He goes into all these issues, and many, many more. You'll probably get a migraine just thinking about some of it. I know I did.
Of course, he does have some extremely dodgy science thrown in as well -- but if he didn't, it would be true... and you really, *really* don't want that.
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I know it didn't involve maglev, bit didn't anyone else immediately think 'When Worlds Collide' when they heard about this?
Um... A more realistic Quake would be /boring/.
One shot clips the side of your knee, and you collapse in a screaming heap, and remain there bleeding to death for the rest of the game, unless someone puts you out of your misery...
Fun.
You should read Permutation City, by Greg Egan.
He goes into all these issues, and many, many more. You'll probably get a migraine just thinking about some of it. I know I did.
Of course, he does have some extremely dodgy science thrown in as well -- but if he didn't, it would be true... and you really, *really* don't want that.
And the best damn aliens ever.
Anyone into robotics that wants to build a skrode for my geranium?