Lightsaber doesn't...light?

[rit]

I find it a bit ... odd that the light saber does not provide ambient light in the dark. Be it an oversight or a 'lets code it in so they HAVE To use the nightvision goggles which in this futuristic world have a 2 minute battery life" (yes, I know its a long time ago in a galaxy far far away but you'd think someone would have come up with better battery technology :ewok:), the lightsaber provides no ambient light in dark situations.

I lit my lightsaber in a pitchblack room in NS_STARPAD and the only thing it did was cast a very light blue glow over the Weequay I had just slain. I would expect the lightsaber to have an additional usefulness as a glowstick in a dark room; physically I would expect that something like that WOULD cast at least a small ring of light around its wielder. Yet mysteriously the only light the lightsaber seems to emit is that around its shaft.

Odd, isn't it?

[the_immortal]

No its not strange, people seem to think lasers cast alot of light around they're surroundings they don't they go to a point and cast light on that particular point at this point your thinking "what a geek its only a game dude!" and i do understand for a games sake that it should cast light around, but the raven team obviously did a ton of research on the lightsaber and stayed faithful to it, for more info on lightsabers go here:

http://www.synicon.com.au/sw/ls/sabres.htm

[rit]

No, I guess that's more what I was looking for.

I agree, it shouldn't cast alot of light but I would expect at least a small amount of light around it.

They definitely did their research however. It's also not a subject the movies have really touched upon so it would have been a hard call to put it in without knowing if it was correct or not.

I'm still pissed about the battery life thing though =)