Possible Railgun?

[Meanie]

If you look at the latest Canada map report you could see in end that Nelson will possibly add a railgun! I'm just wondering what weapon class it would be. Maybe a sniper due to it's incredible amount of power and accuracy? From IRL research these experimental railguns can be even more powerful than explosive based weapons 'cause of the incredible amount of kinectic energy from the projectiles. I know that if Nelson would add this weapon to Unturned it would be a lot more compact and less powerful. I'm just wondering where this weapon of mass destruction would have it's one shot kill radius, a.k.a which body parts it could one shot kill from. The speed of the projectile is so fast it creates an explosion. Would this be a replacement for other explosive weapons?

Think about the ammo. The ammo used in real life railguns can weigh up to 18kg, 40lbs. The ammo ingame would be gignatic compared to something like a drum mag. Also in IRL railguns takes multiple people to reload. Think about if it was in Unturned. My guess it would take about half a minute to several minutes just to reload a single shot.

Now I know someone will say "Oh it will be really rare and it would be hard getting it! No worry about getting one shot killed over and over by one of my most powerful weapons ever created!". And to that I say yes, it would be really rare. But what is the point of going around hauling a big ♥♥♥ railgun around the entire map taking up your inventory and not having ammo for it? The point of the railgun would be none. I guarantee that everyone who is not a hipster would still use their Eaglefire or Zubeknakov. Why? Because ammo is easier to find! When chests will be implemeted then I understand if you want to keep your incredibly rare railgun. But Nelson haven't said anything about chests yet, or at least from what I've seen.

I'm still fairly excited for this new railgun. Sure it will most likely a "pick it up, shoot, drop it" weapon but it will be a cool one at that. That it is if it even gets out in the first place.

Note that I'm not an expert of physics nor railgun mechanics. I'm still going in school and continually learning. My statements mostly came from some quick google searches and looking at videos.

[《ELIF_》]

I think the Railgun will probobly be like the ones in the MGS Series [The Portable Railguns BTW]
but if ever this railgun ends up in Unturned, It will be my new favorite weapon ^^

[moon]

is when there will be the map, I burn with impassience!

[moon]

I'll be mad when there is this map!

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Publicado originalmente por Sacripon:

is when there will be the map, I burn with impassience!

Publicado originalmente por Sacripon:

I'll be mad when there is this map!

what? please clarify.

[Meanie]

So I started to look more into this railgun theory of mine. There is actually some homemade railguns that actually works. Unfortunately these don't have much power to actually do much. The damage they do is about the same as a paintball gun.

Now I started to wonder what Nelson actually ment by "experimental railgun". Do he makes a reference to the homemade versions or the more bulky and massive? Experimental could mean that some lonely dude at home had boring and started to do experiments with railgun technology. Experimental could also mean that the military tried advancing to a new era of weapons.

Waiting to see is all we can do. >_<

[Lain]

it will be an extremely rare sniper that will bne found at some military cave, it exist in Dayz to

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Publicado originalmente por Meanie:

So I started to look more into this railgun theory of mine. There is actually some homemade railguns that actually works. Unfortunately these don't have much power to actually do much. The damage they do is about the same as a paintball gun.

Now I started to wonder what Nelson actually ment by "experimental railgun". Do he makes a reference to the homemade versions or the more bulky and massive? Experimental could mean that some lonely dude at home had boring and started to do experiments with railgun technology. Experimental could also mean that the military tried advancing to a new era of weapons.

Waiting to see is all we can do. >_<

Well this could only be fiction, as a hand held railgun may have been created, but has never really served its purpose to penetrate through any kind of cover in a certain radius.

The best way to describe how a hand held Railgun will look like is that, 2 long rails will be holding the projectile, and the 2 long rails will be connected to somekind of built in power source [Anti Matter Perhaps? :P], and a clip size of 5 [as the projectile will be very large and heavy].

Also the best Category to put the Railgun is on the Experimental Category, and not the normal Sniper or Assault Rifle, as a Railgun is still purely fictional as no one has ever created a proper Railgun that could be mass produced and used by countrys with high military power.
Basically the Railgun is still a Theory.

[JimB13]

A railgun is usually classified as an antimaterial rifle.

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Publicado originalmente por liamoneal:

A railgun is usually classified as an antimaterial rifle.

Ahh... damn forgot about this category of guns, oh well...

[Meanie]

Publicado originalmente por SNETCelthricAysen:

Well this could only be fiction, as a hand held railgun may have been created, but has never really served its purpose to penetrate through any kind of cover in a certain radius.

The best way to describe how a hand held Railgun will look like is that, 2 long rails will be holding the projectile, and the 2 long rails will be connected to somekind of built in power source [Anti Matter Perhaps? :P], and a clip size of 5 [as the projectile will be very large and heavy].

Also the best Category to put the Railgun is on the Experimental Category, and not the normal Sniper or Assault Rifle, as a Railgun is still purely fictional as no one has ever created a proper Railgun that could be mass produced and used by countrys with high military power.
Basically the Railgun is still a Theory.

I understand ya. I based my theories on real life research. I got kinda lost that Unturned doesn't need to be real life 100% all the time.

Basically the idea for my version of a railgun is a super rare weapon that can create incredibly amounts of damage. The ammo is huge and take up a lot of space in the inventory, even more so for the gun itself. As mentioned before the damage would be huge, blowing up a car with one shot huge. It would never miss either due to the speed of the projectile. The reload times would be horrendous however, taking somewhere from 30 seconds to 1 minute to reload. It would only load 1 projectile as well, so no magazine.

Basically an accurate rpg xD

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Publicado originalmente por Meanie:

I understand ya. I based my theories on real life research. I got kinda lost that Unturned doesn't need to be real life 100% all the time.

Basically the idea for my version of a railgun is a super rare weapon that can create incredibly amounts of damage. The ammo is huge and take up a lot of space in the inventory, even more so for the gun itself. As mentioned before the damage would be huge, blowing up a car with one shot huge. It would never miss either due to the speed of the projectile. The reload times would be horrendous however, taking somewhere from 30 seconds to 1 minute to reload. It would only load 1 projectile as well, so no magazine.

Basically an accurate rpg xD

The clip should take 2x2 just because for its clip size of 5 [1 in the gun 4 in the clip], also reload time will be normal, its the recharge time that should take 30 seconds before shooting another round [with this 30 second delay in play, this will give the person who is being shot the chance to take cover and run/flank the shooter], the main weapon itself should take 3x7 of inventory space.
Also it shouldnt be an accurate RPG, its just a projectile so fast that its passing through any kind of material in a certain radius, the projectile doesnt explode, it just destroys anything it passes because of the speed the projectile is goind, therefor its a sniper rifle with a super charged bullet that takes a ton of Power just to shoot one bullet.

[✠Kekard Kain✠]

Just letting you guys know i found the ammunition to the railgun ingame already, Its in some Research facility up in the snowy mountains. I havent a clue how i got there was lost, anyway in the facility is a small firing range room where i found "rails" but have yet to find the rail gun if it exists in this build yet.

[✠Kekard Kain✠]

The Facility is named Scorpion something if anyone wants to look for it

[benjamwes]

The item IDs are 300 for the railgun and 301 for the ammo :)

@give playername/300/1

[《ELIF_》]

The sound and and the model was quite dissapointing but oh well, atleast the railgun is there ^^