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[MrEdweird]

"Introduced in 2590 by the Terran Hegemony, the Gauss Rifle utilizes a series of electromagnets to propel slugs of ferrous nickel-iron alloy at extremely high velocities..."

Well, there you go, it shoots metal snails.

[Y E O N N E]

I feel like some of you are missing the point in the lead image.

Look at the size of that missile emerging from the barrel...

[Sigilum Sanctum]

Yeonne Greene, on 02 October 2015 - 09:52 PM, said:

I feel like some of you are missing the point in the lead image.

Look at the size of that missile emerging from the barrel...

You should see Outreach. Everyone's trying to lecture me on gauss rounds; no jackass, look at the size of the projectile, it looks like my gauss rifle is shooting a minature Saturn V rocket.

[Alistair Winter]

My gauss rifle fires railguns.

[Juodas Varnas]

Faerie dust.

[Mad Porthos]

Yeah, you can see that in the freeze frame screen shot, looking right out his window at the right arm gauss rifle, he has captured the shot emerging from the weapon. The projectile is visible but overlapped by a cockpit window bar, which might make it harder to pick out at a glance.

What is absurd is that the projectile is physically wider than the barrel hole and super long too. It moves so fast though that we almost never could detect this, without freeze frame. I wonder if someone who is familiar with MWO/cryengine 3 could figure the length, width and diameter of the depicted projectile, finding its volume... then multiply that figure by the specific gravity/density of nickel-iron alloy, to figure how much that projectile would weigh. I am guessin' more than 200 lbs.

Edited by Mad Porthos, 03 October 2015 - 12:47 PM.

[RedDragon]

I guess it's the same projectile ACs fire: Some kind of rocket or missile. Back in Beta we thought it would only be a placeholder, but well ... PGI.

[ShinobiHunter]

I think most shoot metal slugs, but I have the upgraded version that shoots steel snails.

[Kira Onime]

The salty tears of my enemies.

[Felicitatem Parco]

Okay folks, quick lesson.

The special effects at the end of barrels when firing a weapon (autocannon or Gauss) are caused by the generation and subsequent detonation of missile objects. Looking at the history of this game's development, it's apparent that they generate a SRM at the tip of the barrel and apply a special detonation effect for it to produce barrel-effects. Just look at someone firing AC/2s... It looks like SRMs are generated and instantly-destroyed at the tip of the barrel to create faux muzzle blast.

Edited by Prosperity Park, 03 October 2015 - 02:27 PM.

[Lugin]

Looks like a sabot round.

[Bulletsponge0]

Sigilum Sanctum, on 02 October 2015 - 11:05 PM, said:

You should see Outreach. Everyone's trying to lecture me on gauss rounds; no jackass, look at the size of the projectile, it looks like my gauss rifle is shooting a minature Saturn V rocket.

looks like a 120mm sabot round to me

Edited by Bulletsponge0, 03 October 2015 - 03:10 PM.

[Random Carnage]

Lordred, on 02 October 2015 - 12:57 AM, said:

chunks of stuff.

(very old screenshot)

To much particle, not enough projectile.

[Triordinant]

Anvils.

[Y E O N N E]

Bulletsponge0, on 03 October 2015 - 03:10 PM, said:

looks like a 120mm sabot round to me

Since when does the diameter of a sabot round, or any round, equal or exceed the outer diameter of the barrel it is being shot through?

[L3mming2]

Yeonne Greene, on 03 October 2015 - 04:17 PM, said:

Since when does the diameter of a sabot round, or any round, equal or exceed the outer diameter of the barrel it is being shot through?

lol when its a fin stabalised sabot round (the fins only flip out after the lanch)

[Y E O N N E]

L3mming2, on 03 October 2015 - 04:23 PM, said:

lol when its a fin stabalised sabot round (the fins only flip out after the lanch)

Point, but until the sabot has dropped away, no.

[zagibu]

It's common practice to massively upscale fast moving projectiles in video games. It's done so that the player can see it better, although in the case of the gauss rifle, it's probably useless, because it moves so fast you don't see it anyway.

[Alstren]

BEES!

[Lightfoot]

Duke Nukem's bubble gum.