Question about sci fi guns...

...why are they so shit?

If you look at a lot of sci fi guns it becomes apparent that the designers of such weapons were too focused on what is high tech than what's actually effective.

Take the blasters from Star Wars, famous enough right? Their bolts travel at around 75kph

With if we're talking projectile speed? That's shit...honestly lol how does anyone in that universe hope to win a war? Then again, laser swords are a common weapon in the universe (I wonder why)

Any other sci fi weapons that compared to what we have now is terrible?

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SatyrService · M

you are SO RIGHT! seeing the lazer blast travel DUHUH
Just use a laser pointer in a smokey room to see what ti would really look like,, and in clear air you would be unlikely to see it at all.
anything slow enough to see travel has little energy in it anyway.
I did like one in the ringworld series,, that used two complimentary ionizing "beams, to hyper charge matter. the two beams strike very next to each other causing the oppositely charged matter to, well tear itself apart.
In Space, you could accelerate mass to really high velocities, impacts start to be titanic. you got to aim with orbital mechanics tho..
laser swords are only common in the least scientific of stories Str WRS is way more fantasy than Scifi,,