As ridiculously advanced the VF-1 might be in comparison to robots from other franchises, its main weapon is quite pitiful.
Any laser/beam cannon is an order of magnitude more destructive than what's basically an Equalizer cannon that's been upgraded with alien tech.

>>23375721 (OP)

>>23375733
Why would a dazzler work on a cockpit? Those things are computer displays. The computer should adjust the cameras's exposure.

>>23375721 (OP)
55mm cannon on a plane is kinda nuts though

>>23375735
welcome to gundam is this your first time?

>>23375739
Twin 40mm and a 105 howitzer.

>>23375735

>>23375735
It's been sort-of canon for a while now that it splashes very low insanity beams and it potentially causes physical damage to the cameras. That's why it's called a beam weapon and not a big strobe light.

>>23375744
too big

>>23375721 (OP)
A VF-1's head laser is more powerful than RX-78's beam rifle. The gunpod does more damage than a head laser.

>>23375735
You've never been flashbanged by the bandai logo when you boot up a video game?

>>23375923
No, I do not play From Software's crap.

>>23376198
It's funny because off top of head most of From's Bamco joints actually use the black-screen version of the Bamco vanity plate.

>>23375743
I think people forget this is Norris losing like a chump too.

>>23375735
>Why would a dazzler work on a cockpit?
You can saturate a camera, the real question is how to make this LAST when a camera has no remanence effect.
And the answer is minovsky particles, always, those fucking particle somehow keep the light saturating the camera in, or some shit.
If magic particle can create slow moving energy beam, it can keep a flash going in a given direction.

>>23376198
I said Bandai

>>23375721 (OP)
Killed things just fine in the show. That's all that matters and all that ever matters. This is just like complaining about the VF-1 leg transformation. It never ever failed in the show.

>>23375721 (OP)
im not actually have a problem with its caliber, its 55mm, it pretty much shreds everything.

the problem I have with the Valkyrie gunpods that it has a 200 rounds capacity. that shit is like 6 seconds of continous firing and its completely spent. how the fuck in animations the VFs can continously fire these gunpods more than 6 seconds and not completely spend all their ammo?

>>23376557
Decades of gunplay on camera have done this so it's not like Macross is at fault. It's just cooler to show long bursts than tiny spurts.

>>23376545
That meme you're referring to relates to FromSoftware, which has a dark background for both their logo and games, compared to Bandai Namco's blinding white.
People must've complained a lot about it, since they changed it for Elden Ring's DLC.

Great, now I'm fucking angry about Macross not getting anything new despite being conceptually better than Gundam overall.

>>23376612
Not that anon but I thought you were bullshitting until I went through the Dark Souls ports I had on hand and oh my god how did Bamco keep getting away with that.

For fuck's sake Activision had a rare win on this front for Sekiro because their logo plate is black with white text very much like Fromsoft. What the actual fuck.

>>23376612
I believe this is just Bamco's new logo entirely that has the black background, but the only ones I've played with the new logo are all From Soft games. Either way I miss the old orange logo, it was charming dammit. At least I can see when I boot up Ace Combat 7.

Was the vf1 machine gun ever showed to run out of ammo In the anime? Same with the missiles.

>>23376940
Pretty sure we see the gunpod get reloaded at some point.

>>23376940
>ever showed to run out of ammo
Yeah, the second episode of the original Macross. Near the end, Hikaru encounters his first battle pod he completely unloads the on it.

>>23376978
VF-1's gunpod can not be reloaded on the field. It needs to be brought back to base for a reload.

Many instances of VF-1s using up all their missiles.

https://www.macross2.net/m3/macrosstechman/tech-gunpod.html

TL;DR the alien tech makes the gunpods capable of firing rounds at almost railgun-like velocity so lower estimates for the 55mm gunpod round put it at maybe 24 times the amount of energy as the real life 30mm round from the A-10' gatling cannon

for comparison an M1 tank gun M829 sabot round is around 13 megajoules of energy, compared to the theoretical 4.8 megajoules for each 55mm gunpod round

>>23376978
>>23377027
only later model VF gunpods get a reload feature, definitely not for the VF-1 gunpod

>>23377029
>only later model VF gunpods get a reload feature

Not all of the later ones can be reloaded on the field. The 21/22's gunpods is one example.

>>23377027
>>23377029
Hmm, then where's this scene I remember of a VF slapping a fresh mag on top of its gunpod from? Plus? 7?

>>23377072
Most likely. The 11 and 19 have spare mags.

>>23377072
Plus, I think Isamu reloads in the paintball battle and vs gul

>>23377076
>>23377082
It was in the very beginning of the OVA when he's fighting rogue Zentraedi. Thanks for helping sort this out.

>>23377072
>>23377076
>>23377082
>>23377111
Also when he's fighting Guld on Earth

>>23375733
Why didn't she just shoot it with her chest?

>>23377154
used up all her luck the first time she got blinded

>>23375721 (OP)
The fucking gunpods shred everything.
Even fucking ship hulls. Its insane how potent their gunpods are. It took like 50 years before they transitioned to proper beam gunpods