Gatling-type guns
Posted: 2005-09-12 18:07
It seems that the DICE people has gotten their knowledge about gatling guns from movies! They really need to be redone from scratch!
Firing delay: A gatling gun fires its first round as soon as it starts accelerating. Yes, it does need some time to wind up to its full speed, but no it doesn't have a delay between pressing the trigger and the first round fired.
Sounds: Any gun with a rate of fire of more than 2000 does NOT sound like a normal machine gun at all! You can't distinguish between individual shots from the steady noise. It's not like "RATATATATATA" or even "BRRRRRRRRRRR". It's more like "WHOOOSSSSSSSSSSHHH"
ROF and ammo consumption: You all must agree that this is way too low for all gatling-type guns, but If we were to actually make the Phalanx fire 6000rpm it would cause serious lag. Instead the Phalanx could for example fire 1000rpm, expend six rounds from the counter for each shot fired, and do 6x the damage per shot. The effect is just the same.
The guns, that need to be changed would be:
UH-60 miniguns (plus tweak the damage vs vehicles)
AH-1Z M197
A129 (AKA WZ-10) M197
Phalanx CWIS
F-35B GAU-12
F-15 M61A1
Firing delay: A gatling gun fires its first round as soon as it starts accelerating. Yes, it does need some time to wind up to its full speed, but no it doesn't have a delay between pressing the trigger and the first round fired.
Sounds: Any gun with a rate of fire of more than 2000 does NOT sound like a normal machine gun at all! You can't distinguish between individual shots from the steady noise. It's not like "RATATATATATA" or even "BRRRRRRRRRRR". It's more like "WHOOOSSSSSSSSSSHHH"
ROF and ammo consumption: You all must agree that this is way too low for all gatling-type guns, but If we were to actually make the Phalanx fire 6000rpm it would cause serious lag. Instead the Phalanx could for example fire 1000rpm, expend six rounds from the counter for each shot fired, and do 6x the damage per shot. The effect is just the same.
The guns, that need to be changed would be:
UH-60 miniguns (plus tweak the damage vs vehicles)
AH-1Z M197
A129 (AKA WZ-10) M197
Phalanx CWIS
F-35B GAU-12
F-15 M61A1