This is an ultra simple, borderline-silly suggestion. It can be assumed that there will be laser beam weapons. It can also be assumed that some will be more powerful than others. My suggestion is that different colors of laser can indicate the power of the laser, to some extent. In the visible spectrum, red light has the lowest frequency (or the largest wavelength, depending on how you look at it) and the lowest energy in general. So how about if laser weapons can emit beams any color of the rainbow, and the farther along in the spectrum the color is, the more powerful the beam? This wouldn't have to be a hard and fast rule. A very bright or big red laser could still be more powerful than a smaller or dimmer green one. This would give some neat variety to lasers, and add a semi-intuitive way to gauge the danger of a given beam, plus it's science fiction-y. In most games they're always just red red red. Boo to that.
I think it's been confirmed that there will be weapon mods. If so, there could be laser-specific mods that increase frequency, changing the color. Of course, these would be of no use to violet lasers.
I expect that the color of each player's laser weapons will be based on the favorite color chosen upon creation, like the gravity gun. EDIT: But I do like the idea of being able to have other colors among my weapons, so...
I do like this... but I like choosing how my weapons look independent of worry about power and use of it. Sorry, but I disagree.
Are you trying to say that you think rare purple lasers would be something other than fearsome and cool?
You ever play Master of Orion 2? You learn to fear the purple beam of death. (Death Rays and the Black Hole Generator had dark purple)
Saw the title. Saw the message. I very much like increasing the frequency and power of lasers. I also like you greatly. I dont mind the color of my laser as long as the explosion is made of pure 100% Bloody Incredible.
Even if players end up having free choice of beam color as has been suggested, perhaps this spectrum of danger idea could be applied to non-player lasers. I guess the devs might want certain factions to have certain colors, though. The whole green versus red thing worked real well in that "Star Wars" movie. I still favor color-coded power, though. I think it'd be great.
I thought this already suggested before, which I clearly understand there is strong point of laser by its colors (I would be surpised if we get black laser beam in the real world).
