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[Davegt27]

It is supposed to be Ball lightning not the goofy lightning bolts (how do you aim a lightning bolt)

Sometime you see the ball lighting most times you don’t

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Ball lightning is an unexplained atmospheric electrical phenomenon. The term refers to reports of luminous, spherical objects which vary in diameter from pea-sized to several meters. It is usually associated with thunderstorms, but lasts considerably longer than the split-second flash of a lightning bolt. Many early reports say that the ball eventually explodes, sometimes with fatal consequences, leaving behind the odor of sulfur.[1][2]

http://en.wikipedia..../Ball_lightning



https://youtu.be/T3BkL67cDjQ?t=156

[Felicitatem Parco]

No, PPCs are basically weaponized mass spectrometers.

They use magnetic fields to accelerate a cloud of charged nuclei that are siphoned from the reactor. These particles are accelerated to nigh relativistic velocities, resulting in a kinetic-energy weapon (I.e. atomic bullets). It's not an electricity cannon or a lightning gun. It shoots a cloud of particles.

To put it an other way, all of the BT art is wrong, and all of the MW games were wrong. PPCs should have practically zero travel time to target since they move at over 10,000,000 m/s.

Edited by Prosperity Park, 20 May 2015 - 08:51 AM.

[verybad]

Davegt27, on 20 May 2015 - 08:40 AM, said:

It is supposed to be Ball lightning not the goofy lightning bolts (how do you aim a lightning bolt)

Sometime you see the ball lighting most times you don’t




http://en.wikipedia..../Ball_lightning



https://youtu.be/T3BkL67cDjQ?t=156

Incorrect, and highly impracticile. They're particle beams, not hippy balls. Ball lightning wouldn't do a thing to armor. Might affect some systems, but armor would laugh at it.

MW2 also had traveling times for lasers, so not everything in it was accurate...

Edited by verybad, 20 May 2015 - 09:09 AM.

[Davegt27]

I stand corrected

[Ragtag soldier]

Prosperity Park, on 20 May 2015 - 08:48 AM, said:

No, PPCs are basically weaponized mass spectrometers.

They use magnetic fields to accelerate a cloud of charged nuclei that are siphoned from the reactor. These particles are accelerated to nigh relativistic velocities, resulting in a kinetic-energy weapon (I.e. atomic bullets). It's not an electricity cannon or a lightning gun. It shoots a cloud of particles.

To put it an other way, all of the BT art is wrong, and all of the MW games were wrong. PPCs should have practically zero travel time to target since they move at over 10,000,000 m/s.

the lightning is a byproduct of the weapon, not the weapon itself. it's the magnetic field holding the agitated particles into a single projectile attracting whatever charge is opposite to it, if i remember the explanation. pretty, but probably harmless. now, the particle bolt itself....

[Scout Derek]

DONTOR, on 20 May 2015 - 08:04 AM, said:

I LOVE the MW4 PPC sound basically a VERY high pitched electrical discharge, kinda hard to describe but it was pretty alarming and badass.

The noise you hear before the PPC fires is its recharge also, and that sounds awesome also.

Love those things, especially in MW4 Vengeance intro:



Skip to 3:27 for the action

[Stealth Fox]

Juodas Varnas, on 20 May 2015 - 12:50 AM, said:

And this is how PPCs look in Battletech art.
I much prefer this over big ********** (blve balls is censored?)

Lol at PGIs stupid forum swear word catch.

and yeah, need we get into how stuff looked in art? There are plenty of terrible terrible designs that came out BattleTech Art.

it's how it looks in MW2, and it's a bug, So points on either side invalidated.

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Well , we are getting a hotfix.

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Seph MacLeod, on 20 May 2015 - 11:12 AM, said:

and yeah, need we get into how stuff looked in art? There are plenty of terrible terrible designs that came out BattleTech Art.
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^ Yep.

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Ragtag soldier, on 20 May 2015 - 09:31 AM, said:

the lightning is a byproduct of the weapon, not the weapon itself. it's the magnetic field holding the agitated particles into a single projectile attracting whatever charge is opposite to it, if i remember the explanation. pretty, but probably harmless. now, the particle bolt itself....

Yeah, the "lightning" is "little more than an intense burst of static":


(Tech Manual, p. 223)

[DaZur]

stjobe, on 21 May 2015 - 01:41 AM, said:

Yeah, the "lightning" is "little more than an intense burst of static":


(Tech Manual, p. 223)

Static eh?

So the re-charge should sound like two balloons being rubbed together?