| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | APDS |
| Date: | Wed, 24 Feb 1999 12:03:42 +0100 |
the street was...
> Lower drop off? That's something that a Smartgun system would have to
> account for when it calculates the bullet's trajectory, right?
Yes.
> Detail Oriented GMs could exploit this: switching out regular rounds
> for APDS loads in a Smartgun equiped firearm should require switching
> to a different balistic profile. Of course with all the other gun mode
> changes that are handled by Smartgun being nearly automatic (free
> action) over the Direct Neural Interface of the Smartlink, this
> probably wouldn't be too much of a hassle either.
> Another possibility is that different loads of ammunition have their
> balistic profiles encoded on the casing (similar to how filmspeed
> information is encoded on canisters of 35mm film in today's time).
> Just another detail to throw into the game.
That's the way I've always played smartguns as working: they "know" which
type of ammunition is in the chamber, and adjust the projected impact
point accordingly, as well as displaying it in the user's field of vision.
Exactly how this is done I've not bothered with, but some kind of dot- or
barcode would work well enough (that's to say, it works for the autoloader
in the French Leclerc MBT).
This does have some scope for GMs whose players like to hand-load their
casings, though -- PCs will have to be careful which bullet they load into
what casing, and experimenting with different propellants and bullets will
cause all kinds of unpredictable results because the smartlink thinks it's
a different round than is actually in the weapon. This is not something
I'd like to bother with, though.
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