DiabetesOverlord Wilford Brimley, on 02 November 2016 - 04:33 PM, said:
There are a lot of things I would like but COF was never one of them. If we are that far advanced in the future I don't see missing as a logical thing. Uhhhh we can land on faraway planets but can't shoot 600Meters in front with accuracy? Just go look at navy guns, on water, shooting missiles out of the sky.
CoF/Dispersion will be a thing so long as we have weapons. CoF/Dispersion is simply to illustrate the deviation in the targeting computer, the sway and alterations of the weapons during movement, gun warp, all the stresses, elements and all those factors that prevents a shot from going 100% where its aimed at all times. Its a culmination of every factor that affects a projectile all bundled into 1 feature, CoF. Its 100% realistic in it's general purpose.
Even modern tanks today have like 2 feet of deviation at 1700m. This notion that some how were going to one day have weapons that are 100% pin point, put the same shot in the same hole from 1000 miles away 100% of the time is false.
Yes, we have projectiles that can shoot down other projectiles, we have laser guidance and all that, but the thing we never see is the misses, the faults, and never get told how all the different factors play into the actual behaviour or the projectile. We get shown the propaganda, the **** that says "OMG this is the best thing evar!!!!"
Our mechs, they would suffer from weapon sway while moving, targeting computer aim time delays, convergeance time as the mech's systems adjust the weapons and try to draw the firing solution. Then you go and fire like 5 guns all at once? There would be plenty of "CoF". you have a gun in each arm, like 20 feet apart, another 2 guns in each torso, above the ones in the arms, then a missile pack above the head, and somehow think it would all land on the same rivet on the enemy mech? IT would spread it all over the enemy mech, you would probably get the Torsos, but you wouldnt necessarily all hit the CT, or the Left Arm......
So, the simplest solution for all that, would be a very mild CoF system, one that increases as you get more speed, one that can be decreased with Targeting computers, waiting a little bit of time after hitting R on a target, using thingsl ike NARC and TAG, but at the end of the day, at 1000m, your Gauss Rifle still might hit the Left arm instead of the CT.
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