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Post by RiftandRend on Dec 30, 2016 9:31:43 GMT
I have done quite a bit of designing on my own but only recently looked at the forum. Can someone please explain "Needleguns" and NEFPs for me? I can't seem to get them working.
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Post by newageofpower on Dec 30, 2016 17:50:59 GMT
Needlegun- railgun firing a needle-like projectile, usually a radshield or 'flak bomb'with extremely thin cross section (can be sub micrometers for flak) and multiple meters of length. High speed and range vs Capitals, low anti-heavy armor performance.
Flak has better anti-armor performance but generates incredible lag upon impact, unless you make them out of ductile, low fragmentation materials which are lighter and automatically have weaker anti-armor performance.
NEFP- Nuclear Explosively Formed Penetrator. Jury rigged nuclear shaped charge using a small nuke, and some combination of flak and radshields. Penetrates pretty much any thickness of armor, has standoff range approaching mid-size nuclear devices.
If you're at close range and the opponent is shooting these, you're dead.
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Post by David367th on Dec 30, 2016 19:34:03 GMT
I can never get NEFPs to work even if I'm using pt yield nukes everything magically disintegrates.
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Post by newageofpower on Dec 30, 2016 20:41:43 GMT
I can never get NEFPs to work even if I'm using pt yield nukes everything magically disintegrates. Use wider/larger flak "pills". I've gotten NEFP to work with kiloton devices; though it looks like a shaped flak/shotgun burst at that point. Insanely effective, though. |
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Post by Hicks on Jan 2, 2017 2:05:21 GMT
It occurs to me that a NEFP sounds very much like either a Casaba Howitzer and an Orion Drive pulse unit. I don't have much else to add, as I just got the simulator and trying to get it to run on my computer.
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Post by David367th on Jan 2, 2017 2:37:55 GMT
Yeah that's basically what they are, but unlike normal weapons we don't get warnings when everything breaks. Good luck with the game though!
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