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Kinetic damage, rapid fire, with non dot but high damage, high cool down specials.

Think Predator... you know that HUMONGOUS gun that shot like 5,000 bullets and tore down a forest?

All I think is, I dont want a nerf AND

fix the weapons that we have first (HAR & Beamer Rifle)

That's a minigun in predator, a railgun fires projectiles using magnets. It would probably fire very slow, but do extremely high damage, if you play mechwarrior at all think gauss rifle.

that would be nice.

Not that it matters.. but the rail gun was in "Eraser". =P

Yeah, that's the Mini-Gun, or Chain-Gun.

It's a real gun, decommisioned though.

A rail gun is a weapon which uses Magnetics to propel the bullet at EXTREMELY high speeds.

There are "notches" in the gun's barrel(on?), which when the bullet passes through, the speed is multiplied.

That's the Rail Gun theory, if I recall correctly.

Theoretically, Rail Guns pierce through all substances, except maybe Diamond.

...Yeah, I want one too.

/bump helldog

Not to burst your bubble, but mini-guns are certainly not decomissioned. I see them all the time on PaveLows and PaveHawks, i.e. the MH-53D, E and Kand the MH-60D, E and J, depending on mission load-outs. I had even see a couple of FAVs tooling around with miniguns mounted on them, but they were never deployed since FAVs are supposed to fast and light, which is hard to do when you have to carry 6000ds of 7.62 or 5.56 just to feed the mini.

Now, regarding commandos in the imaginary world of SWG - I too would like a heavy weapon that does kinetic damage. Make it AR1, moderate damage and fast as the dickens, or AR3, slow and hit like a cement-mixer. Actually, I like that light and fast idea better, as we already have enough big/slow stuff.

Nyce Ta'Meetcha - Bela Imperial Division - FIREBASE GODZILLA, Tatooine
Master Smuggler/Master Commando

Erm the rail gun theory as I remember it is as such. The railgun is basicallya barrel aroundtwo, spiral betal things, that form a tube. and on the metal thing are two powerful electro magnets, or magnets. they then launce forward, catching a metal ball like device in their field. they then spin very rapidly, which cause the it to go faster and faster, and then when it reaches the end, both the magnets and the ball are launched out the end. problem with the rail gun is, that most of the time, the thing being launched, will turn into a plasma/

And rail guns wouldnt be rapid fire...they would be one shot wonders....

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Kammots-Ahazi wrote:
Not that it matters.. but the rail gun was in "Eraser". =P

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hehe i liked that gun,the biggest problem i seen with that gun is...."this weapon uses a magnetic field to propel aluminum projectiles at hyper velocity"anyone else see the problem with the way they describe the rail gun in eraser?aluminum?if i remember correctly alluminum is non magnetic,how do you propel aluminum with magnets? haha

but yes rail guns use a magnetic field,they consume ultra high amounts of energy.the power pack would have to be enormous.but it would be awesome.especially if you could make special rounds out of higher quality durralloy steel or some other substance.

i also agree,the commandos need their existing weapons fixed before they put another broken one in.

Well, actually you use aluminum *because* it is non magnetic. The magnetic fields are not acting on the projectile itself to propel it.

There are two rails, side by side, that form the "barrel" of a rail gun. There are a series of electromagnets all along the length of said barrel. These electromagnets are powered on in very rapid sequence forcing the rails togetherfrom one end to the next. The projectile is literally squeezed along the path and out the far end. It leaves with an extremely high velocity and no recoil. In theory this makes them very accurate.

If the projectile were magnetic itself, or even ferrous, the pull of the electromagnets would detract from the push of the squeezing rails.

Some rail guns are one shot wonders as the rails get fused by the force. More advanced ones, orweaker onesstill require considerable time to reset the rail mechanism. This is reflected in the fact that they often have the most heinous reload time in most video games.

OK fine, hehe I didn't realize what a rail gun was... they do sound really cool though.

However, I'm more interested in the super fast kinetic damage minigun type weapon. Something sorta like a carbine on steroids in terms of damage/speed/accuracy and AR1. The specials on it should be high damage but long cool down... think full auto.