Ballistic/Missile Weapons?

[Apohavnosis]

Hi, in the trailer I can only spot lasers firing from all ships, so I assume there will be no other weapon types?

[Arkangilos]

They have missiles and ballistic weapons. They have some dev diaries on their website forum.

[Nicky]

Balistic in space is weird. The recoil can deorbit you !

[Telfram]

Originally posted by Nicky:

Balistic in space is weird. The recoil can deorbit you !

Depends on the mass of the round, velocity and mass of the launching platform. Also an electromagnetic mass driver would produce little recoil that could not be counteracted by thrusters.

[Stone]

Wish this to be Expanse combat in Xcom setting..plz :)

[Person012345]

Originally posted by Telfram:

Originally posted by Nicky:

Balistic in space is weird. The recoil can deorbit you !

Depends on the mass of the round, velocity and mass of the launching platform. Also an electromagnetic mass driver would produce little recoil that could not be counteracted by thrusters.

The problem is more that any unguided weapon would be trivially easy to dodge (yes including things you can't see coming like lasers). Lasers at least have the upside that they don't require ammo so you can just guess where to shoot a randomly manoeuvring enemy and not worry that you're only hitting a fraction of shots. Though re: nicky, this is why we suspend our disbelief, otherwise it'd be boring.

[EvilTarium]

The six types are Ballistic Guns, magnetic weapons, missile/torpedos, lasers, particle beams, and plasma.

[Dashel84]

Lasers are so overdone in sci-fi games :D I second the ballistic/flak/pdc/missile/torpedo requests. Visually it is so much more appealing, never mind realism.

[corisai]

Originally posted by Person012345:

Lasers at least have the upside that they don't require ammo so you can just guess where to shoot a randomly manoeuvring enemy and not worry that you're only hitting a fraction of shots.

Actually lasers are most imprecise weapons without magic being involved (and excluding non-sense weapons like particle beams). Because of focus distance - you need to have correct and precise distance to target or your shot will deal no damage even if hit target. Even at point blank distance they will be very vulnerable to ECM (even more the missiles as they have near-miss correction).

[Seleck]

Originally posted by Stone:

Wish this to be Expanse combat in Xcom setting..plz :)

my thoughts exactly, at least at the beginning before we get into the alien energy weapons stuff

[Relendis]

Originally posted by Nicky:

Balistic in space is weird. The recoil can deorbit you !

The Expanse actually deals with this very well. In s5 when the Rocinante (a corvette) uses its railgun you can see its thrusters fire to counteract the recoil of firing. Really nice touch given that it happens in the space of seconds and most people would never notice it happen.

[Laiders72]

Originally posted by Person012345:

Originally posted by Telfram:

Depends on the mass of the round, velocity and mass of the launching platform. Also an electromagnetic mass driver would produce little recoil that could not be counteracted by thrusters.

The problem is more that any unguided weapon would be trivially easy to dodge (yes including things you can't see coming like lasers). Lasers at least have the upside that they don't require ammo so you can just guess where to shoot a randomly manoeuvring enemy and not worry that you're only hitting a fraction of shots. Though re: nicky, this is why we suspend our disbelief, otherwise it'd be boring.

Umm... depends on the engagement range, available delta-v budget and whether you have squishy meatbags to keep alive.

People assume ships can dodge indefinitely for free. They cannot. Railguns can get round this by being area effect weapons too. Shotguns would, in principle, be very effective in space so long as you are firing in a direction you really don't care about.

[Atlas MK II]

Originally posted by Relendis:

Originally posted by Nicky:

Balistic in space is weird. The recoil can deorbit you !

The Expanse actually deals with this very well. In s5 when the Rocinante (a corvette) uses its railgun you can see its thrusters fire to counteract the recoil of firing. Really nice touch given that it happens in the space of seconds and most people would never notice it happen.

Except the Roci's railgun isn't built in line with the centre of mass, so only using the main engine would still have it spinning whenever it fired.

[corisai]

Originally posted by Laiders72:

People assume ships can dodge indefinitely for free. They cannot. Railguns can get round this by being area effect weapons too. Shotguns would, in principle, be very effective in space so long as you are firing in a direction you really don't care about.

How you're imagine them being "area weapon" in space? At point blank distance about 1-5 km? Lol. Sure-sure, but how you're planning to survive enemy missiles long enough to reach it? :)
Railgun main advantage is major resistance to ECM while lasers are deadly vulnerable to it + ability to hit target on any range with same efficiency, thing that lasers are unable to do.
Plus while it's incredible hard - we still could have a small thrusters on railgun bullets allowing us to correct targetting mistakes if enemy is lacking strong ECM.
And final advantage of railguns - impact shock effects. While it's very easy to defend against lasers by combo of reflective dust launchers and ablative armor, currently it's seems to be impossible to make efficient ablative armor against kinetic weapons without bloating ship A LOT.

Honestly - lasers are unsuited to became weapons until we get magic spell "no beam dissipation".

[Subzero]

please Addrail guns that use electricity

[Atlas MK II]

Railguns are in, and all weapons require the ship's reactor to varying extents.

Also, no amount of ECM can stop your target just looking out the window and spotting you.