Modifications for the NE-700 Plasma Cartridge Mini-Gun...

Rimmer · Unread post by **Rimmer** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 10:45 pm

Sounds cool, will have to try them out.

Esckey · Unread post by **Esckey** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:18 pm

Naruni NE-700 Vulcan Plasma Cartridge Mini-gun in Naruni Wave 2 is listed as doing twice the amount of damage as a NE-200 Machinegun from Rifts: Mercenaries for about half the ammo expenditure per burst

Ya I noticed this too, I thought it might of been another error where the gun isn't using the standard Plasma Cartridge but a bigger version of it. The gun just seems to big to be using the standard ammo. It's 140lbs with a 60lb drum, most the regular hand-held weapons(not the big dual purpose ones) are of a normal size/weight and use the same ammo. So why should this be much bigger and do more damage with the same type of ammo.

grandmaster z0b · Wed Aug 11, 2004 11:26 pm

Thanks for that, I will use it as soon as I let an NPC have that much fire power (probably not any time soon).

Svartalf · Unread post by **Svartalf** » Thu Aug 12, 2004 1:48 am

I have a theory why the NE 700 should be so much more efficient than the 200.

It is twice as heavy as the other machinegun, apparently has a longer barrel, and also is a gatling ("Vulcan") design, with a higher rate of fire. Those factors should add up to a more shooting-stable weapon, with much less recoil induced jumping than affects the lighter weapon.

Those factors could explain why the weapon hits on a burst should be about 100%, where the 200 seems to have only a 30% hitting rate on a successful burst.

grandmaster z0b · Thu Aug 12, 2004 8:41 pm

Just a thought:

Modern mini guns fire aprox. 6000 rounds a minute. Even if the Vulcan only fired a third of that (I suppose that plasma rounds would overheat the barrels easily, still if we have guns with such a high cyclic rate now and this is technology from Phase World...) and each shot does 1d4x10, then imagine how much damage someone with one of these puppies could do to a very large target that you wouldn't miss, like a parked Deaths Head transport. If you had enough ammo and stood there shooting at point blank range into anything big and stationary for one minute, that's about
1d4 x 20 000 MDC - a bit ridiculous.
I think that a mini gun should have a really high cyclic rate but smaller ammo like the 5d6 rounds.

Braden Campbell · Fri Aug 13, 2004 12:59 am

A plasma cartridge mini-gun?

Mini-gun? Like in Termanator 2?

Man, there are times that I miss playing Rifts. Then I hear a phrase like "plasma cartridge mini-gun", and come to my senses. Other than that, I like what zOb said. It's ridiculous. Haven't the Naruni corporate got better things to build...like...heat rays?