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Post by Durandal on Mar 8, 2017 22:26:11 GMT
I've tried this previously. It didn't do that much. It just made a tiny hole the size of the flare. I think I was using the stock 100MW flare at the time. It bounced off the fuel tank of the target I built I think, but not before penetrating the aluminum layer. I don't have the old design as I deleted it after the last patch. Edit: I just tested it. It doesn't seem to do much besides penetrate the outer layer of armor. This one was the big 300 MW flare being shot at the Beamcraft at about 700 m/s. P.S. The beamcraft killed my ship by blowing up the flare storage. Edit 2: After testing it twice more, the flares simply bounced off the aluminum armor layering. "The beam craft killed my ship by blowing up the flare storage" Great, now everyone in the office is wondering why I'm chuckling at my phone instead of working.
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Post by bard on Mar 8, 2017 22:48:55 GMT
I've tried this previously. It didn't do that much. It just made a tiny hole the size of the flare. I think I was using the stock 100MW flare at the time. It bounced off the fuel tank of the target I built I think, but not before penetrating the aluminum layer. I don't have the old design as I deleted it after the last patch. Edit: I just tested it. It doesn't seem to do much besides penetrate the outer layer of armor. This one was the big 300 MW flare being shot at the Beamcraft at about 700 m/s. P.S. The beamcraft killed my ship by blowing up the flare storage. Edit 2: After testing it twice more, the flares simply bounced off the aluminum armor layering. Wow. Shot with coilgun? What velocity?
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Post by AdmiralObvious on Mar 9, 2017 0:06:48 GMT
Wow. Shot with coilgun? What velocity? Nah, conventional gun. The first shot was the only one able to do this, the other 30 attempts now don't do this. As I said, they just bounce. I think it more had to do with the steel casing hitting the armor than the actual flare the first time.
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