Re: Coming soon: a PC combat game that shoots back!
 

volts do not kill, amperes do. It does not matter how big voltage is, important is how big is current that is going through your body. Current over 10mA (25mA DC) is considered not safe. Sparks from wool clothing or piezoelectric lighters have tens of thousands volts and still are harmless, because current is practically zero. This is also a reason why someone can sometimes survive lightning struck.

Re: Coming soon: a PC combat game that shoots back!
 

@all: to cut this straight, it's a combination of both.

Huge amperages won't kill if there's little or no voltage.
Small amperages CAN kill if there's high voltage.

The amperage/voltage relation can be viewed this way:

Electricity is like water falling off a tap.
VOLTAGE is how high this tap is from the ground.
AMPERAGE is how much water gets out at once from the tap.

Now, the electrical conductivity is only determined by the orientation of the atoms (since electrical current is just a flow of electrons leaping from an atom to another). If the atoms are regularly aligned, like in iron and in most metals, the current will flow very fast. If that's not the case, this material will have much more resistance to current.

Water is another topic. The electrons in water and in liquids do not leap from one atom to another (since there's a HUGE gap between molecules in liquids), but instead they take one atom in hostage and form a ion. It's this ion (over-charged in e-, i.e. "overdepleted" atom) that serves the electron as an "embarcation" to cross the water.

Electrons, and through them, the movement of matter itself can be influenced a lot by Laplace forces, but that's also another (long) story.

Re: Coming soon: a PC combat game that shoots back!
 

Either way, i concider this kinda retarded.. There is 'realism in games' and 'taking the piss' seriously, this is taking the piss.

Science out the way, if this has a potential chance of being harmful, in ANY way, shape or form, it shouldn't be sold.

Prolonged exposure to even the mildest of shock can be potentially dangerous.. allmost like stabbing yourself with a pin (You don't really notice one or 2 pricks, but when you have been stabbing yourself for hours, and there are thousands of holes on you.. well.. yea..)

Games nowadays give a good impression that you are being shot, and tbh, i'm gonna be sticking with that ;)