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[SUGGESTION] Canister

Open ReichDoctor opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

Ever since the beginning of mounting bigass cannons on wheels, there was the idea to fill the entire barrel with tiny little pieces of shrapnel and blast it out like a shotgun. This is what canister is to a modern tank. It would be like fletchettes in the current ACF addon, but it can't defeat any armor that isn't paper and sprays a lot more shit out of the front of the barrel in a much larger cone. Pretty much only uses would be anti infantry.

ReichDoctor avatar Dec 16 '19 01:12 ReichDoctor

My only concern would be causing the server to become janky after being overloaded by traces. The 37mm SC and flechette spam is already bad enough, I do not think that going over the 32 max flechette count is a good idea personally unless the tracing can be made more predictable and lightweight on the server.

RedDeadlyCreeper avatar Feb 11 '20 15:02 RedDeadlyCreeper

Contrary to popular belief, traces by themselves are really lightweight on the server. The real problem is terminal ballistics, you can have thousands of bullets in the air and the server won't care about them as long as they don't hit something.

TwistedTail avatar Feb 12 '20 03:02 TwistedTail

I'd just like to point out that in the video provided the FPS drop is primarily due to drawing all of the line segments for each bullet.

Stooberton avatar Feb 12 '20 03:02 Stooberton

I'd like to give this a try and see how it does

Stooberton avatar Nov 02 '21 18:11 Stooberton