Range of Bullets

[Shadow Delta]

Can someone please tell me what the current range of gatling bullets are?

I built a fighter ship with a machine gun nest. I put in a camera in the center to snipe a ships turret with. Just the other day, I was able to take out turrets from a range of about 1000m, but today, I can't hit anything unless i'm like 600m away. And that's if my ship hasn't been torn to pieces by the time i get that close. I've tried dodging, changing course, I get ripped to pieces.

I just want to know did they change the range of ship fire? Because it seems like they've been terribly nerfed to the point that combat is bogus and not worth the effort.

[Shadow Delta]

Originally posted by RT:

i have no idea what they're meant to be but given the spread of the guns i've never been able to get a hit any further then 700 meters.
I've been hit by NPC turrets out to around 950 meters so the bullets will travel a bit further then they're practical accuracy.

That's been about my experience. You can't get close enough to take out their turrets. It defeats the purpose of raiding NPC Cargo ships.

[Pembroke]

Uh, not really. Just attack from a more suitable angle. Most of the cargo ships have dead sectors their guns don't cover.

You can also use decoys to draw their fire away from your vital parts. Either use the decoy blocks or mount cameras on your ship on expendable appendages.

[plaYer2k]

A gatling turret
<TypeId>LargeGatlingTurret</TypeId>
defines it's ammo as
<WeaponDefinitionId Subtype="LargeGatlingTurret" />
in the CubeBlocks.sbc

For that WeaponId, you find
<AmmoMagazine Subtype="NATO_25x184mm" />
in the Weapons.sbc

Within AmmoMagazines.sbc we find
<AmmoDefinitionId Subtype="LargeCaliber" />
for that type.

Checking Ammos.sbc we find the final resolution for that type and it has
<MaxTrajectory>800</MaxTrajectory>
by default.

So Gatling Turret shots should have a max trajectory of 800 m, like all projectiles.

[NeuNeu89]

It's 800m, and you can change the range of any wapons to your liking, so you can have one that shoot at 800m, then another at 500m or anything you want.