Quote Originally Posted by masamuneehs
A final technical note: as Mannequin noted early on "high humidity lowers the effectiveness of particle weapons". Now, in light of that, when they're suddenly fighting underwater, which I believe is 100% humidity, how the hell are there any beam weapons firing at all? Are they just super useless pretty lights down there? (I guess Lockon's shots were pretty useless...)
I think that is why they are 'developing a new underwater mobile suit' plus it is another reason why Tieria/Al didn't blast the hell out of it after he pushed it away and they let Setsuna take the head count.