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Ayridynn, on 20 August 2014 - 08:15 PM, said:
Apparently physics isn't one of their strong points either.
Bullets follow different "rules and laws of physics" than tank shells and gauss slugs. Uhhhh... No? Physics is physics there's no "special physics for bullets and not tank shells."
Non-self-propelled projectiles all act the same in flight. Gauss rifles use magnets to propel the slug. Cannons and small cannons aka. rifles use compressed gas from the explosive for propellant. Once in flight, it doesn't matter if it's a baseball or a bullet as long as it can't propel itself. All that really matters in flight is drag/lift, spin, velocity (speed and direction), momentum (mass of surrounding objects for something like "the Coriolis effect") and normal force (mass and gravity)... from what I remember. I ain't no physics major.
The only point they have is something like the Dragon shooting the light on its head or a Jager that shouldn't be able to shoot things that are very close because the aiming servos are physically restricted by the design of the mech to converge the weapons that much. Lasers should be fine since they would have multiple lenses and you'd be able to refract them in really any direction you wanted.
Bullets follow different "rules and laws of physics" than tank shells and gauss slugs. Uhhhh... No? Physics is physics there's no "special physics for bullets and not tank shells."
Non-self-propelled projectiles all act the same in flight. Gauss rifles use magnets to propel the slug. Cannons and small cannons aka. rifles use compressed gas from the explosive for propellant. Once in flight, it doesn't matter if it's a baseball or a bullet as long as it can't propel itself. All that really matters in flight is drag/lift, spin, velocity (speed and direction), momentum (mass of surrounding objects for something like "the Coriolis effect") and normal force (mass and gravity)... from what I remember. I ain't no physics major.
The only point they have is something like the Dragon shooting the light on its head or a Jager that shouldn't be able to shoot things that are very close because the aiming servos are physically restricted by the design of the mech to converge the weapons that much. Lasers should be fine since they would have multiple lenses and you'd be able to refract them in really any direction you wanted.
But you already are limited by the servos... arm movement and torso twist movement IS limited...
