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Here are some things that lightsabers cannot or have trouble cutting through:

Cortosis
Mandalorian Iron
Lightsaber blades
blaster bolts

Anything else that you guys know of?

that weapon Vong has

The Amphistaffs

and certain forcefields

Such a stupid concept... why EU writers always see the need to trump things, I don't know.

the green stones in JKII

yes..i agree with ush...the first time i heard about cortosis was in JEdi knight 2. There are some "shadow troopers" that seemengly have a cortosis armor. Didn't seem saber resistant to me

What it is, really, is lazy writing.

In ANH and ROTJ, we have Death Stars, weapons that can destroy planets. In order to trump that threat, instead of using imagination, some writers created weapons that could destroy solar systems, or whatever.

By the same token, we have lightsabres, a weapon that can (within common sense limits) penetrate anything. And again, lazily, writers trump that by introducing 'lightsabre proof' stuff. It is very lazy indeed; luckily this sot of thinking does not infest the films.

Even in EpI a blast door holds up for a minute.... so I guess that could be considered resistent

That was the common sense limit, wasn't it? Obviously an extremely thick object is going to take time.

Doesn't explain why QGJ's hands didn't burn, though...

ah true.....must be a jedi trait

well, his blade barely got through the other end if it did that already

But you saw how hot the metal was becoming, how did QGJ escape that heat unscathed?

aaah the ways of the jedi unknown to us for many reasons

we still have the forcefields ...in the finale battle with maul. Unpenetrable

how did you get that name?

malformations of language

The forcefield seemed resistant rather than impenetrable, but again, that's only logical.

As a sabre has a physical presence it can penetrate a forcefield slowly like any physical object can, so literally spekaing it will never 'cut' through a forcefield at all. Though if you follow the logic that enough firepower will bring down a field then it might.

dunno but I like it that u can't cut through a forcefield with a sabre
think ush explained it nicely

dunno..that forcefield seemed pretty solid. Don't think they could've pierced it...

they probably could...perhaps if they worked together, but they were too busy trying to kill each other

Maul touched the forcefield with his blade...seemed solid to him.
Anyway..maybe it could be pierced...dunno

I don't think it could be pierced otherwise Maul would probably have persisted and tried to do so. It's possible that an energy sheild cannot be penetrated by the energe from a lightsabre. I would think that's another on the list along with the Sith made swords.

idd, but the force shields make sense
ppl wearing resistant armour doesn't

these resistant things are stupid creations. People go wooow when they see lightsabers cut through anything and the go woooooow again when they see a resistant thing.

well, it IS in TPM, well semi-resistant, I think

well..the force fields fitt pretty well, but cortosis and other thinggies don't
They're tellin me that i can't cut throught the m*****fu**er if he's wearing corosis armors?

There would have been no point Maul trying to force the sabre through! It would have been no possible threat and without being to move through himself it was no good at all!

And there is no sabre resistant mateiral in TPM!

Dexx is right; sabre resistant material is silly. And in JK:O it was just an excuse to give the Shadowtroopers shedloads of hit points- VERY lazy. Sabre combat should be one hit kill but hard to score a hit!

i've actually take shadowtropers in one hit. Strong style, true

one hit kills make for very hard games......but truer to "real life"...oh well

fast style, not much power, but great to tease them

are u being ?

oh, I'm always choking/lightning those succers, just a bit, just give them a little pain... and then I chop their heads off with a 3 60

or those swamptroopers, with a fast, but soft fighting style some teasing... hitting their helmets and arms... then stop and switch to hard and chop their heads off...again

It's strong style in that game that renders laughable Raven's claim that the sabre fighting is like that from the films. Nick Gillard would never have such dumb moves in.

i mostly never use strong style...but it happened one and i got lucky. I usually use medium style...fast too...deppends.
I like to force pull their weapons and then just play around with them.
*thinks about kotr*
so very long...

Strong style works fine in the game, and it is, after all, only a game. Only Raven should not make statements that are so blatantly untrue- the arcade style of fighting in the game is not remotely like the films.

the fights in kotor will be much more supperior i think....
I liked these ones too.

Well, if the fights in KOTOR are much like Neverwinter Nights they will look a bit slow; also, based on the Star Wars RPG system as it is, the damn things don't do enough damage.

well..the fights look pretty kewl..not too slow...in the trailer

I haven't watched the trailer to KOTOR yet. Isn't it around the time of Exar Kun and all that stuff?

I like the duels in JO. While the "many hits to kill" rule is unrealistic (that's why you enter the realistic combat code), it's still fun.

I think a Reborn killed me in one hit in the JOD (Jedi Outcast Demo).

never had any problems with those reborns, give me five at a time, and I can beat them with one hand

one hand..that would either imply only movement, or only attacking.
The action in kotor happens 4000 years before the movies...something like that

actually, with one hand I can move, attack and jump

that just leaves the force powers....ya do that

wow I feel lost...all this video game talk. I just play my x-box Obi wan game.....so much simpler

nvr played jedi knight II: jedi outcast?

nope....I just never bothered to go out and spend the money to buy the game....it sounds nice though

who said anithing abput paying? ...

There is no pride in admitting you are a thief, Dexx.

right on

and there's no point in being hypocritical

i am no thief....well...so they say

What do you mean, Mah?

Yea what's being hypocritical got to do with being a thief?

*best tweety voice*
oh! what a hippotwit!

ah, never mind

but I do!
revealed my opinion is

revealed? oh god...they've cought me......ruuun

nobody will catch you dexx, no one cares

idd

Any energy field - at least up until they're overloaded.

- Force fields,
- spaceship's energy shields,
- personal shields (which overload very quickly, though, because they obviously can't carry much of energy),
- beskar/mandalorian iron,
- yorik coral (the material from which yuuzhan ships are made),
- vonduun crab (animal from which yuuzhan armors are made),
- cortosis (obvious).

Valkorion's hands.

Akk dog hide.

My dick.

Yuuzhan Vong armour scales.