ME's designs

[Zeeray13]

These are my most recent designs the second one is a railgun that can shoot at 5000m/s i got it from Horus Lupercal and i modified it to work on a warship

 

[8BitCosmonaut]

 

[Gecko Gekkota]

5000m/s

i'd ask how'd you measure the speed of the projectile, but I sadly doubt i'd get a response.

 

[TtTOtW]

I'll test it. But anything over 600m/s is actually mostly useless.

 

[SupremeDorian]

I'll test it. But anything over 600m/s is actually mostly useless.

Limits of the physics engine? I imagine something going that fast would just phase right through whatever you're shooting. Or just break upon impact and not do any damage to the target.

 

[Danny Batten]

Limits of the physics engine? I imagine something going that fast would just phase right through whatever you're shooting. Or just break upon impact and not do any damage to the target.

The first one, past 100m/s and it becomes a bit stupid, as in theory you only need to phase through 6 blocks at most

 

[TtTOtW]

Even at 70m/s it passes through 2 blocks if placed close enough to the projectile upon fire.

 

[Horus Lupercal]

i'd ask how'd you measure the speed of the projectile, but I sadly doubt i'd get a response.

Test firing from a ground bench. It's capable of striking targets on the Moon from the launchpad at just shy of 5200m/s. If you miss, it'll exit Earths SOI and will go quite close to the sun so you could theoretically nail Mercury and everything in between as well.

It's not the be and end all, as you say, kinetic energy doesn't matter in this game. One object tends to only break one object regardless of how fast its going. I fired it at my Komodo rocket and it cleared the side engines and a few tanks out but not what a projectile at that speed should be doing which is cutting things in half and going out the otherside.

Limits of the physics engine? I imagine something going that fast would just phase right through whatever you're shooting. Or just break upon impact and not do any damage to the target.

Yeah, if the target is harder than the projectile then it should just shatter on impact. That's usually the best way of stopping bullets. And also correct, at that velocity it should be going right through its target like a PaK88 through a Sherman

 

[Zeeray13]

Test firing from a ground bench. It's capable of striking targets on the Moon from the launchpad at just shy of 5200m/s. If you miss, it'll exit Earths SOI and will go quite close to the sun so you could theoretically nail Mercury and everything in between as well.

It's not the be and end all, as you say, kinetic energy doesn't matter in this game. One object tends to only break one object regardless of how fast its going. I fired it at my Komodo rocket and it cleared the side engines and a few tanks out but not what a projectile at that speed should be doing which is cutting things in half and going out the otherside.



Yeah, if the target is harder than the projectile then it should just shatter on impact. That's usually the best way of stopping bullets. And also correct, at that velocity it should be going right through its target like a PaK88 through a Sherman

The trick to this weapon is putting some stuff on the projectile so it phases through the solar panel armor and destroys the critical systems usuallly in the center

 

[Horus Lupercal]

The trick to this weapon is putting some stuff on the projectile so it phases through the solar panel armor and destroys the critical systems usuallly in the center

I tried adding things onto it a while back (seeing if it could be used as a one shot satellite launch system), but any added weight hugely affected its velocity

 

[Zeeray13]

I tried adding things onto it a while back (seeing if it could be used as a one shot satellite launch system), but any added weight hugely affected its velocity

Its not great for that purpose for a weapon system though you slap one or two structural pieces to it and boom you got something that can rip through any armored ship

 

[Horus Lupercal]

Its not great for that purpose for a weapon system though you slap one or two structural pieces to it and boom you got something that can rip through any armored ship

Point taken, but I've not made a weapon in ages and even managed to abstain from arming an actual Aircraft Carrier. I'd have loved for it to even have sent something sub-orbital as a ground launched first stage and only needed a tiny second stage to create orbit. Would have come in handy for some projects.