for stealth character, gun sound do make a lot of different. If i sniped someone with silenced gun and if it wasn't being noticed then i can keep snipe the other, but energy weapon doesn't seem to have this add-on for it. or am i missing anything here?

even if you could reduce the noise from energy weapons....most of them have a really easy to see trail unlike bullets...both laser and plasma give off a lot of light, its not just sound the enemy are using to track you down when you fire these because they can see you much easier than they could hear you.

yea if it is fly infront of their face, but it can be like snipe in the other room that we have a wall in between. silenced weapon works fine in this case but not energy weapon.

okay science fiction time, with a ballistic weapon its easy to silence it because the majority of the sound it produces comes from the barrel with explosive power projecting the bullet out of the barrel and that sound is suppressed by a silencer..now energy weapons don't use that mechanism the sound isn't being made by explosive gun powder and most of it isn't isolated to the end of the barrel, the whole gun needs to produce that sound to generate the energy to fire...that means you would need to suppress the majority of the weapon somehow, not just the end of the barrel.

Actually no, it's not easy to silence firearms (catapult is also ballistic weapon as is sling and they are silent) at all. Large portion of the sound comes not from explosion but from the bullet breaking sound barrier. You can suppress most weapons (make them less noisy) but you can't silence them for this reason.

The way "silent" weapons work is to make bullet be fired at less then speed of the sound. In normal weapons it is made by decreasing propellant in the cartridge. But that affects considerably their range and penetration power. In purpose build weapons you can partially solve this issue by using very heavy bullet. Solves penetration problem but not range.

do I really have to be that specific without a gun nut picking on semantics when I only want to explain why they aren't silencing energy weapons, fine "Guns" are easier to "suppress" (I mentioned suppress in my last post anyway because nothing that uses that much energy can be silent including slings if they're generating enough force) because most of the force that creates noise when firing a bullet is expelled when it leaves the barrel and the "silencer" suppresses that force, guns use firing pins to trigger a bullets' primer causing the explosive powder to create enough pressure within the barrel to generate the force to propel the bullet so most of the noise from the gun is produced by firing the bullet and energy weapons fire pure energy...their ammo is literally just powerful batteries so the energy weapons themselves are the ones creating the majority of the sound so you would need to suppress the entire thing not just the projectiles like most firearms do with silencers.

"Power" (energy) does not create sound per see. Batteries does not create any sound. Sound is vibration inside matter and thus is mechanical in nature. Laser is a beam of light and as such is made of electromagnetic radiation. It does not produce sound waves. Plasma is of course another thing as it is ionized matter.

which is exactly why I just fekkin said that the energy weapon itself produced the sound did you even read it?! they generate the lasers and plasma thus creating sound(and probably heat but you don't get affected by that) now you're picking on things you obviously misread, I literally specified that it was the energy weapon and not the ammo producing the sound

and I literally specified that it was the energy weapon creating the sound and not the ammo why?!

It looks like it, though you can silence a Gauss rifle.

Really, the silencer is nearly the size of the gun itself, it's comically large.

hm... interesting, need to find myself a Gauss rifle i guess

Makes no sense.

erm, even if you could put a silencer on an energy weapon, you'd be spotted immediately due to the bright energy beam/plasma shot

although a gauss rifle might be suppressible due to its near-hitscan nature, but i haven't come across one yet to find out.

i think you guys thinking too much on science... we are talking about a game that can shoot mini-nuke with a launcher, using fusion core in power armor. with weapon technology that advance a silence energy weapon shouldn't be too hard

Do photonic crystal lasers even produce visible rays?

It would make more sense for the beam to be a result of igniting the atmosphere where its traveling, but even then it would only be a smoke trail IRL, just like the trail left by the bullets, because of how fast it travels. If it came down to dampening the noise of the origin point, it would be simple to change the housing to something that reduces noise.