Poll: Something that's been spinning my head around for a while now.

[Vrex360]

So I've always been a big fan of the Sci Fi FPS and of course relish the idea of using inventive weapons, usually alien weapons. However recently a question has popped into my brain, in regards to the logical result of what would happen if an alien was shot by his own technology. For a while I always followed 'Halo reflexes' and assumed this meant that the alien was naturally vulnerable to this weapon... but then I played Republic Commando and that made the assumption that never is a weapon more useless then when it is fired on it's makers. This created a dilema that first I never understood but now I think I'm getting it.. I'll explain. Let's just say this is a Bio Gun or something, but in my mind there are two possibilities. Either:

A.
The weapon made by the aliens is more effective against them as it was at one point made by them to kill each other so therefore it would be concievable that they would be weaker because of it.

B.
These aliens may well have lived through this weapon for many years and thus adapted to it and developed a tolerance for the weapons effects or know how to treat the wounds so that means a weapon they are unused to would be more effective against them.

Which of the two do you think is more likely, I just thought this would make for decent conversation which is always on my mind when I make threads.

 

[[Cold-Shoulder]]

Definently option A

 

[Soulgaunt]

Well, I guess killing each other would be the use for the weapons in the first place, so A.

 

[Time Travelling Toaster]

Option A it makes more sense than the evolved and adapted to being more...immune to it.

 

[Cherry Cola]

I'd say A. Although it's all irrelevant, because there are no aliens anymore. Chuck Norris took care of them.

 

[Nargleblarg]

A makes more sense

 

[dieland]

1.A obviusly

 

[Jandau]

Let's look at it this way? Have humans developed a resistance to bullets over the years? Yes. It's called Kevlar (and other such materials).

Option B makes more sense.

 

[SomeLameStuff]

Option A would be a more logical choice. To adapt to a weapon's effects would take years and I don't think anyone has grown immune to bullets yet.

 

[101194]

Well, Its deffinatly retarded, If humans adapted to bullets, We'd simply kill eachother with something else, Once it becomes unfunctional, Then you change, Common adapting, Like everyone stoping from using armour in the discovery age because of lack of mobility and uselessnes to firearms, As with castles because they could be blown up by cannons ext, War allways moves with its technology.

 

[Vrex360]

Option A would be a more logical choice. To adapt to a weapon's effects would take years and I don't think anyone has grown immune to bullets yet.

No not naturally but as Janadu said, we have found ways to manufacture protection from bullets, armour and the like... plus we have learnt to better treat bullet wounds.

 

[[Cold-Shoulder]]

Definently option A

Ignore my first comment I wasn't thinking properly when I typed it.
I personally think that it wouldn't be any of the above options.
In every sci-fi game the alien race always have greater technology thus better equipment and weaponry, it sounds more plausable but if I couldn't choose this option then definently option a

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Think of it in human terms. We know how to treat bullet wounds and wound sinflicted by all of humanity's weapons. But if aliens came along with weapons that had effects we'd never seen before, we'd have no idea how to treat wounds inflicted by them and we'd lose many more people than if aliens used bullets like we do.

 

[bodyklok]

Well really it depends, both options are entirely possible so theres no way of knowing. You could have option A for one race and then option B for another.

In the case of option B, humans are unlikely to ever build up a 'resistance' to bullets, and if we did that resistance could probably be overcome.

EDIT:

Definently option A

Ignore my first comment I wasn't thinking properly when I typed it.
I personally think that it wouldn't be any of the above options.
In every sci-fi game the alien race always have greater technology thus better equipment and weaponry, it sounds more plausible but if I couldn't choose this option then deficiently option a

You know you could of just edited you original post.

 

[Latinidiot]

depends. if they designed the weapon to be extremely harmful to humans, and not to themselves, it won't harm them if you start shooting them with it. if they designed it to kill eachother, and attock you with it, it will be very effective if you get your hands on one

 

[Chiddy]

Could be B if the gun was made to say kill humans then it would not be affective on them so it would be better, and yes they may have adapted the gun so it wouldnt hurt them, so i go for B

 

[Mr Sunday Night]

Option A makes a load more sense. Becoming immune to a deadly weapon doesn't seem too likely...

 

[Knight Templar]

Option A would be a more logical choice. To adapt to a weapon's effects would take years and I don't think anyone has grown immune to bullets yet.

No not naturally but as Janadu said, we have found ways to manufacture protection from bullets, armour and the like... plus we have learnt to better treat bullet wounds.

And we also make better guns, which to a degree cancels out that argument.

 

[Rigs83]

Let's look at it this way? Have humans developed a resistance to bullets over the years? Yes. It's called Kevlar (and other such materials).

Option B makes more sense.

But humans quickly created armor piercing bullets to overcome kevlar so you still wind up at Option A. The only reason the armor that the US military uses is (mostly) effective is the fact that the US doesn't pick on anyone who can either afford to give their troops armor piercing rounds or have third parties provide it like the USSR would do during the Cold War.

Now if the aliens are a hive mind or have evolved to the point that they don't kill each other anymore (which begs the question as to why they want us dead) then maybe they would create a weapon effective against us but useless against them. This actually reminds me of an old MAKE engine game called Redneck Rampage where one of the weapons was a wrist mounted plasma gun that you could not detach from the enemies so you ran around with a severed alien forearm pulling a tendon to shoot it.