there is a difference in resistance....that and shields do not work to well for those types of head on attacks.
Not really, it's the same basis on how Disruptor Torpedos and Javelin Missiles work. Their artifical mass effect fields let them crush local barrier arrays before exploding, ripping the target apart with rapidly fluxuating gravitational fields. You can simply replace the Eezo warhead with a Nuclear warhead.
nukes are too primitive to be used in most circumstances. we have better things than that already, let alone by mass effect's time: fire a lump of metal at the ground from orbit and you'll have the same effect but no fallout.
That's the reason why every country in the world has nuclear stockpiles right? Oh wait...they don't, because creating nuclear weapons is an incredibly complex and technological demanding pursuit. Also, firing a mass accelerator through an earth like atmosphere saps 1/4th of the round's energy (from the codex itself.) this doesn't even account for what the gravity is, the lost energy is even worse if your firing it from the surface of a elcor planet.
Also, 38 KT is not even remotely close to 25 MT.
Even if humanity/other races would be STUPID enough to use Nuclear Weapons, they would first have to go through their Kinetic Barriers, which is nigh impossible, and when that's done, it's easily ripped apart with "conventional" weapons. And before Nuclear Weapons are even a possibility, they'd have to disable/confuse their equilevant of GARDIAN. And yes, the heat would get through, at least partly, but it would still be able to work, with catastrophic overload/suicide things, ramming, etc.
I love that cop-out "stupidity" when it comes to nuclear weapons. Obviously their use is still real enough in Mass Effect's very own canon for a convention that prevents the use of said weapons on garden planets. (But weapons free on your typical unliveable hell rocks of the galaxy.) As for being impossible, that's a joke, right? Top of the line Dreadnoughts have a punch of 38KT, a B41 has the punch of 25MT, that would be like if a dreadnought fired it's spinal mass accelerator 650 times at the same target instantly.





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