Railgun accuracy

[Aradner]

So i heard all over about how accurate fast shell railgun can be, but when i tested it on a platform, it was missing a crossbone from 2 km. Even after i put 10000 energy just to support accuracy. How do you achieve these"pin point accurate railguns" i keep seeing people writing about?

[CEPHY]

I'm gonna take a guess and say you messed up one or several of the following:

- Shell config
- Recoil
- Detection
- The gun itself

[Dakota]

People over talk railguns a lot without comparing them much to regular guns. They're usually less accurate than gunpowder guns in their optimal configurations. Though you should still be able to hit a crossbones 2km away pretty reliably, be sure to ensure you have enough recoil absorption per shot to not have an accuracy penalty.

[McTec Ind.]

Also don't forget to set required accuracy settings on your firing piece. It doesn't help making the most precise railgun if the AI shoots with the standard setting of 2° accuracy... it just means your gun shoots far too early and way off the mark. If your shells fly really fast you might as well use the 0.1° setting that most laser/hitscan type weapons use. Oh... and of course the other things that have already been mentioned.