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[Cubivorre]

I think a more powerful sound effect would be a lot cooler for the GAUSS rifle. Nothing crazy, like the last laser sound.. That was awful. But something powerful, that makes me feel like I'm firing a super powerful projectile at extremely high velocity.

Edited by Cubivorre, 20 March 2013 - 03:37 AM.

[FromHell2k]

Something like that would be nice >



The sound would have to be at bit "more intense", but it's something you can work on.

A soundeffect while reloading would aslo be very nice, nothing like the ACs, more like something big gets insert by the ammo feeding system.

[Cubivorre]

Agreed. Make it so, PGI!

[Mr Andersson]

A gauss rifle fires a magnetically propulsed projectile. There is no exploding propellant as there is in a regular ballistic weapon. Hence it would be wrong to have any kind of sound that suggests an explosion took place.

[Kaeb Odellas]

Mr Andersson, on 22 March 2013 - 03:22 PM, said:

A gauss rifle fires a magnetically propulsed projectile. There is no exploding propellant as there is in a regular ballistic weapon. Hence it would be wrong to have any kind of sound that suggests an explosion took place.

Not necessarily. While there is no explosive projectile, there's still a lot of air being displaced as the slug is propelled out of the barrel. That would still sound pretty explody.



Above is a test firing of an experimental naval railgun prototype. While a railgun and a Gauss rifle are technically different types of weapon, they're still both magnetically propel slugs without the use of a chemical propellant.

Edited by Kaeb Odellas, 22 March 2013 - 03:46 PM.

[Dorynn]

Mr Andersson, on 22 March 2013 - 03:22 PM, said:

A gauss rifle fires a magnetically propulsed projectile. There is no exploding propellant as there is in a regular ballistic weapon. Hence it would be wrong to have any kind of sound that suggests an explosion took place.

...not exactly. A gauss rifle acquires it's muzzle energy from the tremendous speed of the projectile (which, if modern experimental railguns are any indication, is around 2-3.5 KILOMETERS/SECOND). This is enough to generate a sonic boom (whose actual decibel reading is dependent on the size of the displaced sound wave front, but for a battlemech-sized slug, I'm betting it'd be substantial).

TL;DR: while not as loud as, say, an AC/20, yes, they should be louder.

Kaeb Odellas, on 22 March 2013 - 03:43 PM, said:

Not necessarily. While there is no explosive projectile, there's still a lot of air being displaced as the slug is propelled out of the barrel. That would still sound pretty explody.

-snip-

Above is a test firing of an experimental naval railgun prototype. While a railgun and a Gauss rifle are technically different types of weapon, they're still both magnetically propel slugs without the use of a chemical propellant.

I'm pretty sure that's a chemically assisted railgun, actually. Chemical propellant to get the slug going, then coils to speed it up to .05c!

[Kaeb Odellas]

Dorynn, on 22 March 2013 - 03:49 PM, said:

I'm pretty sure that's a chemically assisted railgun, actually. Chemical propellant to get the slug going, then coils to speed it up to .05c!

I don't think so. A railgun doesn't use coils to propel the projectile. A railgun works by sending a tremendously large electrical current through two parallel metal rails, with the projectile completing the circuit. Something called the Lorentz Force propels the projectile down the rails at super speeds. I believe fireball is just the metal from the projectile spontaneously combusting.

A coilgun propels a projectile by activating a series of magnetic coils in sequence down the barrel, basically leading the projectile along like a dog chasing a bone. This is what a Gauss Rifle does.

Edited by Kaeb Odellas, 22 March 2013 - 04:07 PM.

[Dakkaface]

Dorynn, on 22 March 2013 - 03:49 PM, said:

I'm pretty sure that's a chemically assisted railgun, actually. Chemical propellant to get the slug going, then coils to speed it up to .05c!

That railgun is not firing at any appreciably fraction of c. Also, not chemically assisted. That's air friction setting shavings from the projectile on fire.