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Somebody, tell me, what is wrong with this picture (other than the railgun looking gay)?

62.5 meters per second?

Me want one........

Yes... only the average handgun fires 9mm bullets at an order of magnitude more than that.

That's not a railgun, it's a kid's toy!

That and there's no hole for the nails to exit from.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Yes... only the average handgun fires 9mm bullets at an order of magnitude more than that.

That's not a railgun, it's a kid's toy!

That's why I want it.

It will be a good thing to bond with Darksider Jr. over someday.


Slap a K infront of that mps and you've got a real weapon.

Since when did a railgun shoot nails?

That's no Railgun!

This is!

I hate the refire rate of the thing.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Yes... only the average handgun fires 9mm bullets at an order of magnitude more than that.

That's not a railgun, it's a kid's toy!

It's the engineer's weapon in Team Fortress. It's supposed to suck, the engineer is intended to serve his team by building sentry guns, fixing others' armor, giving out ammo, etc. Not by killing. Other classes fill that role.

9mm fires at...I(Off the top of my head) something like 750 fps, your average M-16A2, 1250 fps. God forbid someone get hit with a nail travelling 180 fps. cower ye enemies of the blue team, for your deaths are assured with the railgun of infinite pwning DOOM.








































Not.

They should have called it the Nailgun, it would have made much more sense then.

Typically, railguns fire slugs which are just bullets like any gun has, minus the propellant.

Pablo Sanchez wrote:It's the engineer's weapon in Team Fortress. It's supposed to suck, the engineer is intended to serve his team by building sentry guns, fixing others' armor, giving out ammo, etc. Not by killing. Other classes fill that role.

The projectiles of that rail gun have less then half the muzzle velocity of American Civil War era muskets. "Suck" is a major understatment.

Chardok wrote:9mm fires at...I(Off the top of my head) something like 750 fps, your average M-16A2, 1250 fps.

9mm Luger ~ 350 m/s (~1100 fps) and 5.56x45 ~ 970 m/s (~3200 fps).

Depends how big the nails are. If they're great big railroad spikes they'd hurt at that speed...

Vendetta wrote:Depends how big the nails are. If they're great big railroad spikes they'd hurt at that speed...

The muzzle says to me "not even roofing nail size", so I doubt any hurt comes from that thing that a normal nailgun couldn't do.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:

Vendetta wrote:Depends how big the nails are. If they're great big railroad spikes they'd hurt at that speed...

The muzzle says to me "not even roofing nail size", so I doubt any hurt comes from that thing that a normal nailgun couldn't do.

Probalby nailgun would hurt worse, since most non pneumatic nailguns use .22 blanks as propellant, IIRC.

You are correct.

Sir Sirius wrote:The projectiles of that rail gun have less then half the muzzle velocity of American Civil War era muskets. "Suck" is a major understatment.

It's the worst gun in TF, so bad that killing someone with it earns you major bragging rights, and it takes dozens of shots to kill anyone--so yes, saying that it sucks is being charitable.

Pablo Sanchez wrote:

Sir Sirius wrote:The projectiles of that rail gun have less then half the muzzle velocity of American Civil War era muskets. "Suck" is a major understatment.

It's the worst gun in TF, so bad that killing someone with it earns you major bragging rights, and it takes dozens of shots to kill anyone--so yes, saying that it sucks is being charitable.

So it's actually like this POS? Note: Not actual Q2 Blaster. It's for the (A-1 SUP4R!!!) Quake 3 Mod 'Generations'.

TFC's version is far, far worse, as I've remarked before.

Yes for weeny laser pistols!