User blog comment:Luperza/PlanetSide 2 Roadmap: March Preview/@comment-99.184.196.9-20130313170039/@comment-81.156.235.55-20130314165433

Actually the VS projectiles are made of plasma, which has POTENTIAL energy and is not simply 'pure energy' so the projectiles are still affected by gravity, wind resistance etc. If it was a laser it wouldn't have any of these traits, which I think is what you are referring to.

Just sayin'.