Well, there should be plasma forming at the tip of the barrel after the shot... and while that doesn't have a cooling effect, a short flash of plasma accompanying the shot would look awesome.
Also, scale has nothing to do with the heat, you can blame the heat output on the friction of the spike on the rails and the fact that generally passing electrical current through metal tends to heat it up.

The larger the mass accelerated, the more work needed, the greater energy is consumed. Therefor, the energy use is greater, and without increasing the efficiency of the system, more waste will ensue. True, a more efficient system is possible, but there is still going to be some waste.
That said, when I wrote that originally I totally forgot we were talking railguns and not coilguns, so… yeah.

Related note; a coilgun would be better suited to fire shells like these ones, as they do not need to touch anything.
(Still should be more like a bullet, but that's the creator's call.)

Mega Update!

coming next: sounds!

seems like an overpowered version of the AAL Novastar

its the same class of weapon.

Because, you know. The NovaStar Totally wasn't overpowered. What with it's near invincible shielding and massive cannon, right?

Against some things, it was actually pretty useless without a really lucky shot. Such as an MPAM.

guess what you should never do? post .bmp screenshots.novastar was better, and possibly less overpowered. its slugs were just ugly as hell.oh god that thing needs more work. as does this apparently.
make it apply impulses with lua, dude who makes this. really, really big impulses.

I'm loving the "realistic" shells

But it had a weak spot: destroy the base and you will disable its shields. It wasn´t invulnerable at all. Nice monster, though.

This thing is completly unusable if you want to keep your hearing.

The shell doesn't gib until after a long while meaning that it starts to recieve wounds from the flames around it, creating an ear-deafening symphony of metal sounds.

A fix for this would be nice

Or, you know, you could turn down the volume. I personally think it's great if all you want to do is blow things up.

Or you could replace index.ini with this one.


EDIT: Oh, should probably explain this removes the sound from the wounds on the projectile.

701 screenshots? And I thought I was crazy with my ten.

Like hell I am, I like it when you can actually hear the intesity of a battle, having the same sound on a loop is neither fun nor good for my already bad hearing (playing lots of FPS games with headphones tend to do that), it's just annoying



Thanks Duh102