unique birch
A new lense for PAC that allows the particle to be fired at an arc.
Enables PAC mortars!!! Can fire around the armor of a front sider! Fires over hills!
-Adjustable arc amount setting with varying modifiers.
-adjustable arc direction
-ACB/Breadboard/Lua control for arc direction
unique birch
It would be cool if you could also modify the arc rotation
Oh whoops that's what I meant when I said arc direction
More or less
steady sentinel
keen bone
Doesn't make sense
unique birch
Doesn't make sense
Instead of a PAC firing in a straight line, inaccuracy and whatnot, the particle would fire in an arc. So it would go up, and then down and hit. But with an arc pac lense I'm thinking you can choose the arc direction for this lense
keen bone
Visually and aesthetically I mean
unique birch
It would first fire straight out of the lense like usual, but the particle would start to arc off. So the instant you fire, you can see the arc it traveled
unique birch
Visually and aesthetically I mean
How so?
keen bone
It just feels off
neat burrow
Particle beams can bend though as long as you have a magnetic field to bend them with, that's necessary to make the accelerators work
It'd just be very difficult to curve the beam far away from the craft
twin fern
Anti deck armour pac?
neat burrow
The realistic way to do this might look like a vertically mounted lens that fires the beam upward and then immediately bends it in any direction within a hemisphere
so you have about 10-20 meters of curvature and it's straight from there
A smooth parabolic arc wouldn't really be viable
austere fjord
finally, one-turn PAC
neat burrow
The only other realistic (in terms of what particle beams can actually do) way to curve PAC beams would be to put a drone somewhere that carries a magnet and you fire the PAC at your drone, which then uses its magnet to curve the beam toward a target, and that would be horribly complicated to make work
And if you could have beam redirecting magnets as standalone parts it'd call into question why you can't use them to protect yourself from PACs by bending the beams away from your ships
unique birch
@neat burrow I was thinking that the particle itself could be altered by the lense in that it's unbalanced when it fires, causing it to arc
neat burrow
<@201821340905242624> I was thinking that the particle itself could be altered b...
I have no idea what this means
austere fjord
PAC is magic anyways
we also have melee lenses which can curve the beam, and the beam naturally curves randomly
no need for a scientific explanation of how it works
vivid plaza
could call it a magnetic barrel as magnetic fields arc charged particles as they aply a centripetal force
hasty cave
we also have melee lenses which can curve the beam, and the beam naturally curve...
Plasma can be held in place and/or manipulated using magnetism, and melee PACs may be similar
What I'm personally more interested in is a vertical PAC lens that is centred on a diagonal, making (near)hemispherical coverage more practical, without needing to mount the entire system on a spinblock on a turret
uncut harbor
we need this
midnight plover
So like a mortar with extra steps
uncut harbor
No like a hitscan mortar