Guns Of Icarus Online
Info => Feedback and Suggestions => Topic started by: Riggatto on August 10, 2013, 09:02:18 pm
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So a 35mm AA gun is a four barreled machine cannon which shoots heavy flak rounds with a high rate of fire a miniscule accuracy. However, like in real life, in order to be used effectively, it must be crewed by 2 men. One man can shoot it as much as he likes, but it takes the second man to turn it.
Just a thought
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.... I actually like this idea. We already have a flak cannon, but a weapon requiring two people to use is awesome.
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Good idea yeah... captains would have to choose between 1 engineer and this big old gun, or less firepower but more bullets out or engineers running around...
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I'm not sure what you're thinking of (35mm Oerlikon is twin barrel) but your description makes me think of the quad QF 2-pounder "pom pom" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pom_pom_on_HMS_Kelvin.JPG).
It's an interesting design, and one that would be instantly recognisable to a lot of players. I'm not sure about the two-player requirement for any gun, I can't see how that would work and it's a big change from the current mechanic. What would each player be doing? How could an AI perform one role while a player performed tha other?
But as a heavy gun, something similar to four light flak barrels on the same mount, I could see that working. The animation would be very distinctive.
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I'm not sure an AI could actually use this, but as for the two man requirement I had thought that one man can move the individual barrels and shoot them (all at once mind you, he can't just take a single barrel off target), while the other man is on the ground and actually pushes or pulls to move the entire turret. Classically, You'd have a third man to load the gun faster but I don't know.