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Destination SkillQueue
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Posted - 2011.05.27 04:31:00 -
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Are you sure there is recoil in the video? The only thing I see is a flash of light, but the turrets don't seem to move in any way. Now it might just be so subtle that I can't see it, but in the CCP's new turret video the whole gun clearly moves when it shows some turrets shooting and with others there is no recoil to be seen. I know it's a WIP, so some animations might be missing, but when it happens the recoil is obvious in that video, so it's not a huge strech of the imagination to assume it should be obvious in the new login screen, if the turrets actually had any recoil.
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Destination SkillQueue
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Posted - 2011.05.27 15:11:00 -
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 Originally by: Virtue Maulerant
The new turrets including what you like to call "recoil" are great. Who gives a **** about physics and realism.
Nerds care and most of them propably care just because they like arguing about it.
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Destination SkillQueue
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Posted - 2011.05.28 11:52:00 -
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Originally by: MotherMoon
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àand instead of an explosion, there's a magnetic field that pushes the slug along the barrel. The same magnetic field will also push the barrel along the slug in the opposite direction. Unless you've made some serious errors in your design, the slug is much lighter than the barrel and shoots offà if not, the barrel will shoot off and the slug will remain largely stationary. àbut either way: the same force that pushes the slug forward will also push the barrel back. Which of the two moves the most is merely a matter of mass ratios (and you can always cheat by bolting the railgun to the ground and make Mass|Barrel = Mass|Earth+ε).
Your 100% correct.
So the real question is, if yo took a rail gun, and put it in space. Like 100% in space, not tied down to ANYTHING. Would the rail gun and the buttle both move it separate directions at full speed since there is no gravity to give any of the objects weight?
When on earth the cannon of a rail gun does not recoil becuase the cannons is stuck there more than the slug is. But what about in space?
Now take that outcome, and bolt the rail gun cannon to a ship. Now the slug obviously has less "attraction" to the surface the cannon is bolted too.
So yeah I think the fact that space is weightless might effect recoil.
I'm not sure why this is so complicated to some people. Both the projectile and the gun just get equal force applied to them. That means if you hurl something out of the weapon there will be recoil. Depending on the weapon it just alters on how and where that force gets applied to, but the force is always there.
In space, because of the bigger mass the rail gun, it will accelerate less than the projectile and will end up moving at a lower velocity than the projectile. The same amount of force on the small projectile will accelerate it much more and it will end up with a much higher end velocity. It's the mass of the objects that is relevant here and mass doesn't change just because you enter a weightless environment. Weight =/= mass in physics.
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