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What does the Plasma Beam do in Super Metroid?

What does the Plasma Beam do in Super Metroid?

The Plasma Beam is a Chozo-designed upgrade to Samus’s Arm Cannon. The powerful beam gives Samus’s beam a much stronger blast and grants it the ability to pierce through any number of foes, dealing a large amount of damage to multiple targets at once.

What does the Spazer do in Super Metroid?

The Spazer allows Samus to fire a wide shot that has a faster rate of fire and increased damage. Once in Brinstar, got to the room left of the underwater Maridia area (the room with two claws in the water that try to grab Samus).

How much damage does a missile Do Super Metroid?

In the Metroid Prime 2: Echoes Multiplayer a Super Missile deals exactly 50 damage, enough to take down a player with max energy in two shots.

How much damage does the Plasma Beam do?

Damage

Source Amount 2x
Ice Beam 30 Geruta, Holtz, Mellaꜝ, Multiviola, Space Pirate (red)
Spazer 40
Wave Beam 50
Plasma Beam 150

Are plasma weapons real?

So, how do plasma weapons work? Strictly speaking they don’t, since no plasma weapons exist today. The electromagnetic confinement field would keep the plasma coherent on its trajectory, so that it’s still hot enough to cause damage when it arrives to the target.

What does Spazer mean?

Spazer is a reference to Special relativity. As suggested earlier, it can also be seen as a portmanteau “Space Laser”, meaning a laser beam that covers a lot of space. Actually Word of God is that “Varia Suit” was originally “Barrier Suit”.

How do you break the pink doors in Super Metroid?

When you walk near them, an eye on the door will open and fire unfriendly energy balls at Samus. Blast the eye with missiles or super missiles to destroy the door.

Would a laser gun be possible?

They are impossible, Beason said. A burst of laser light moves too fast from its source for our eyes to track as a unit. Many lasers actually consist of pulsed light, but the pulses flash by so quickly that the eye renders them as a continuous beam.

How does the Spazer beam work in Super Metroid?

The beam’s mechanics differed between the games. In Super Metroid, if one beam hit a target, the other two would disappear as well and the target received the full damage of the three-beamed shot. However, in Metroid II and Samus Returns, the three were separate, and would not do this, exactly as the similar Wide Beam upgrade does.

Which is the strongest upgrade in Super Metroid?

Plasma Beam is the strongest beam upgrade with respect to damage, and causes the beam to pierce vulnerable enemies. Note that it does not allow the beam to penetrate objects and surfaces like Wave Beam does. Plasma Beam’s piercing effect allows the player to be able to “hitbox” enemies.

When did the plasma beam appear in Metroid 2?

The Plasma Beam made its debut in Metroid II: Return of Samus. In this game, it (along with the Spazer Beam) had the ability to penetrate solid walls. This ability was removed in all later appearances, but the beam often retains this ability from the Wave Beam via Stacking.

Which is the most powerful beam in Metroid Prime?

The Plasma Beam was the second-to-last beam acquired in Metroid Prime, and as such, apart from the Phazon Beam it is perhaps the most powerful beam weapon in the game.