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Small Ship Railguns

This is a small ship railgun that uses my Railgun Weapon Framework. You can find a large grid version here.



Railgun rounds have a damage pool of 5000 points and will penetrate through blocks until that pool is expended. 5000 damage equates to:

• 0.3 large grid heavy armor blocks
  
• 2 large grid light armor blocks
  
• 50 small grid light armor blocks
  
• 8.9 small grid heavy armor blocks

The power draw spikes after firing as the railgun must recharge. This power draw is very high to balance the high damage and long range against other weapons, including Large Grid Railguns. These stats can be modified in the config file this mod generates (see "Config" section).

This mod also interoperates with DarkStar's Defense Shield Mod! When a shield is hit by a railgun round, it will take 5 times the base damage of the railgun round. This damage multiplier is configurable in the config file.

• Ammo type: 35mm NiFe-DU Slug
  
• 5,000 max penetration damage | 50 meter max penetration
  
• 5 RPM rate of fire nominal. If you overload on power, the rate of fire is nerfed.
  
• 2,500 m/s muzzle velocity
  
• 3,000 meter max trajectory
  
• 1 MW idle power draw
  
• 30 MW power draw after firing. This returns to the idle power draw after the 12 second base recharge time.
  
• 0.05 deg max deviation: ~1.75 meter spread per 1000 m
  
• Projectile is affected by both gravity and artificial gravity
  
• 5x damage to Defense Shields

Railgun damage and other properties can be customized in the railgun config file located at:
When playing in a single player or locally hosted MP game.

This config is created after the first time you load a world with this mod!

Huge thanks to ChanceOfAwesome for the amazing railgun model and Gauge for setting up practically all of the SBCs! This let me do the easy part of coding the gun up :)

Please don't reupload a million and two clones if what you want to change is covered by the config system. I didn't a lot of time making each projectile property easy to personalize :)

The cool ship in the screenshots is Lord Comissar's Argos Heavy Strike Fighter!

If you notice any issues, please be sure to leave a comment in the bug reports section.

- Whiplash141

• Does this use WeaponCore?
  
  • No
• Why not?
  
  1. Personal preference. I like writing my own code :P
     
  2. WeaponCore weapons use little base game logic and instead replace it with a ton of cool custom functionality. The side-effect is that my in-game scripts will not work seamlessly with them. Seeing as I am primarily a scripter, that is a no-go for me.
• Can I change the damage and color?
  
  • Yes. Almost every property that defines the behavior is available for customization in the config.