its going to get so crazy when ballistic armor tech improves and develops materials lightweight enough to construct entire suits from. probably some kind of carbon bullshit. head to toe plate body armor, with little slits for visors and shit. stops practically all small arms fire. guns wouldnt even be shit anymore but it wouldnt be like dune where everybody has to go and stab each other and shit. overpressure would probably be the easiest way to kill each other at that point. like the gm94, that thermobaric pump action cqb grenade launcher. everybody gets some shit like that, or a bazooka of some kind. of course heavy weapons would still be useful, like anti-materiel rifles and HMGs and cannon and mortars and shit. but then the sheer destructive force would probably make fighting from structures an outright liability. you could just get crushed under the rubble. the increase in ordnance would render most cover into concealment. urban fighting would fucking suck. at that point itd probably just be like WWI style remote bulldozing via howitzer. just picture it. great big formations of guys in medieval lookin armor, probably puffier-lookin, weird semi-matte sheen to it. runnin at each other across a bunch of smoldering craters, fuckin blowin each other up with bazookas and grenade launchers. people honest to god getting turned into soup. everybody worth blowing up already has been so theyre all like dumb conscripts and try rocket jumping and dont know about backblast and shit so theyre all killing each other their bazookas. all their bosses are sitting in trucks with absurdly massive machine guns on em, just indiscriminately firing into the crowds, through both sides, trying to hit the trucks on the other side. their brains are all microtears from being around explosions all day so they see like ghosts and dragons and shit. they work for some obscure government offices run by guys who invented child gambling. theyre fighting over some three thousand acre splinter-nation that just came up with a new semiconductor production method. nobody even knows what the actual fighting looks like cuz everyone everyone who goes out just gets evaporated immediately so its just like a giant constantly exploding crater in europe we keep shoveling human soup into. birds love it. ghey get huge from all the anabolics and testosterone and shit in the tissue of the souped bazooka knights. so theres just like giant dickhead birds going around fucking everything up all over the world. that would be crazy huh
