Talk:MAX Anti-Vehicle/@comment-75.173.224.148-20121129185643/@comment-173.60.29.9-20121130003239

You're correct about plasma weapons in reality acting more like a flamethrower, but typically in sci-fi, like Planetside 2, the plasma is wrapped in a magnetic, and occasionally gravitic, containment field which helps keep the plasma in some sort of shape and allowing it travel further than a few feet or whatever.

Though your idea about particle weapons and lasers creating a path of least resistance for the particle beam to travel through is both cool and scientifically realistic.