I'm arguing about a character who can outrun explosions, but I'm having trouble finding a concrete answer.

Basically, I keep looking up things related to explosion speed. How fast the shockwaves move, how fast grenade fragments are launched, etc. Google keeps bringing me back to Detonation Velocity.

Other users in the thread tell me that air can slow down explosions speed dramatically. The example they gave was "Soundwaves travelling at mach 12 through ice with no air bubbles in it will drop right down to mach 1if they transition into the air"

However I can't find anything about that on google either, and I can't understand half of the answers it does give.

Can someone give an answer on how fast explosions normally travel, and if those speeds are the same as detonation velocity or not?

I find that just clicking makes the explosion take too long. If you hold down then release you can actually explode sooner than just clicking.

This means that lower velocities makes you more effective at close ranges.

I have been searching a bit and didn't find it. Can somebody here tell me where I can find the value?

I heard about the devastating explosion in beruit, and I ended up reading some about explosives and found out ammonium nitrate, the explosive that was being stored, has a relatively slow detonation velovity and would the damage be worse if the explosive was Octanitrocubane which has a much faster detonation velocity?

Edit: I said sodium nitrate not ammonium nitrate

Edit: As of 15th Sept 2019 this typo has been fixed for inventory pages: https://i.imgur.com/ql1jTAz.png

This has been the case since day 1 release of CS:GO.

C4 has a VoD (Velocity of Detonation) of "8092 ± 26 m/s". Meters per second. ^[1]

The description of C4 in CS:GO in English states: > Stable and resistant to most physical shocks, this improvised plastic explosive has a detonation velocity of over 8,000 miles per second when ignited. ^[2]

It's only incorrect for a few languages (those listed below), however the English reference line in all of the language resource files contains the same incorrect statement as above, stating "miles" instead of "meters". (Funnily enough someone converted the Spanish & Portuguese file's statement into kilometers stating the C4 VoD is over 13,000 km/s)

\Steam\steamapps\common\Counter-Strike Global Offensive\csgo\resource
└ csgo_czech.txt ✘ (incorrect)
└ csgo_italian.txt ✘ (incorrect)
└ csgo_japanese.txt ✘ (incorrect)
└ csgo_korean.txt ✘ (incorrect)
└ csgo_koreana.txt ✘ (incorrect)
└ csgo_pirate.txt ✘ (incomplete)
└ csgo_portuguese.txt ✘ (incorrect)
└ csgo_romanian.txt ✘ (incomplete)
└ csgo_schinese.txt ✘ (incorrect)
└ csgo_spanish.txt ✘ (incorrect)
└ csgo_tchinese.txt ✘ (incorrect)
└ csgo_thai.txt ✘ (incorrect)
└ csgo_turkish.txt ✘ (incorrect)

Each of the files listed contains the line beginning "CSGO_Item_Desc_C4". All Valve gotta do is change miles to meters in the files above. Can do the whole lot with a .vbs script in about 40 seconds.

Oh and before people ask why haven't I done it myself I have, but updates and verifications overwrite the file. Something we need to do often enough to ensure CS:GO runs smoothly and to avoid inconsistencies in files causing VAC authentication failures.

Worth noting at this point that csgo_pirate.txt seems to be missing a LOT of lines. Most of these files contain 23,789 lines, while cso_pirate.txt contains only 3,329 😲

Sources:

[1] http://www.ribbands.co.uk/prod-c4.php

[2] https://i.imgur.com/NUrtF3x.png

Hello Guardians, my name is u/PandaPaxxy. I am back!.. sort of. Did you miss me? I have a lot of work to do if I want to truly say I'm back, but who knows if I'll catch up on my backlog. But this is a small breakdown for the 30th anniversary update and I do miss making these for you.

If you haven’t seen my breakdowns before I do things a little differently. I will be organizing the new weapons by activity, weapon slot, and then alphabetically. That means the new 6 man activity, kinetic and then alphanumeric. Then comes energy for the same activity and so on.

Included in this one breakdown are MnK recommendations, Controller recommendations, and my own personal roll for the weapon I'm chasing.

I will not be linking my older breakdowns because my last one was Season of the Chosen...yikes.

Without further ado, let's start with the new seasonal content's perks. I hope you're as excited for this as I am. The Dares are so much fun, and the dungeon should be giving out incredible loot. (PS it's the first dungeon I've solo flawlessed).

New Perks:

Legacy PR-55 Frame - Customized frame with dramatically increased accuracy, stability, and targeting while hip firing. (Only on the BxR-55 Battler)

Blunt Execution Rounds - Damaging nearby combatants with melee abilities dramatically increases handling and damage. Expires after a short duration or the next shot. > Rolls on the BxR-55 Battler

Cold Steel - Powered Sword hits slow targets. > Rolls on Zephyr

Duelist’s Trance - Sword final blows grant increased charge rate, efficiency, and defense until this weapon is stowed. > Rolls on Half-Truths, Hero of Ages, The Other Half

Eager Edge - Gain increased Sword lunge distance immediately after switching to this weapon. > Rolls on Half-Truths, The Other Half

Golden Tricorn - Final blows with this weapon grant bonus damage. While this buff is active, grenade or melee kills of the same damage type greatly increase its damage and duration. > Rolls on 1000 Yard Stare, Matador 64, Retraced Path

Light Battery - Lightweight, agile battery.

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Fleet-Cardinal Krenn watched from the bridge of his flagship as the planet below burned, and he was pleased. The cities of the Unworthy made for the perfect inaugural pyre for the renewal of the Holy Endeavor. They would continue to serve Kra as they had before the Mortification.

He shook his head in thought as he remembered those days. He had been a child when their Endeavor had first begun.

Initially, the Chosen's Holy Endeavor had met with success. Over a period of twenty years, a dozen unclean worlds had been discovered and cleansed, ready for the servants of Kra to purify. Three species of his Unworthy Children had even been fully extinguished! A triumph!

Kra had been pleased by his Chosen Children's attempts to aid his Great Servants, and rewarded them greatly. As their Endeavor progressed, His Great Servants had purified five unclean worlds very close to the Home Systems, each a blank slate, ready to be remade in the image of Kra's greatest work, Krathig-yar.

New homes and resources for the Chosen.

Then, disaster had struck. A large group of Unworthy species had been encountered, that worked together. They began coordinating their forces with others to oppose righteous cleansing. But the true depth of their depravity was revealed when they began employing unholy synthetic life against the Chosen; Thou Shalt Not Create Life, For That Is The Domain Of Kra.

The Chosen had despaired, as their fleets had been destroyed, corrupted by the Unworthy's unholy familiars, and been pushed back to the Home Systems.

It had taken what became known as The Mortification to stop them, so named because it was both a humiliation and a penance. Humiliated by their defeats at the hands of the Unworthy, The Chosen had thrown themselves at their enemy in the millions, using ramshackle, quickly built ships with as little automation as possible to prevent corruption.

It had required the sacrifice of twenty percent of their population to stop the Unworthy, but they had done it. He remembered, as a young priest-captain, watching from the bridge of his ship as their enemy finally withdrew.

The massive funeral pyres on the surface of Krathig-yar after.

Two decades of salvaging and rebuilding their fleet.

But this time, they would not fail. The Mortification had purged the weakness from the Cho

All across sci-fi you hear of solid ferrous, tungsten or nickel alloy slugs being tossed out of magnetic weapons but not much else. It does make sense since explosive filler compounds won’t have the same magnetic properties leading to an unevenly magnetic projectile, the magnetic casing being flimsier due to be hollow, various advanced fuses with metallic parts perhaps not liking extreme magnetism, and so on. Yet, the High Explosive (HE) round is an integral part of a modern tank’s ready rack. Buildings, light vehicles, infantry fighting positions, gun emplacements, and other such soft targets that may just have a APFSDS round sail through without doing much are served with the blast of general purpose HE. Chances are high there are more soft targets than hard targets like IFVs or other tanks.

What would be a good substitute for the general purpose HE shell? My first guess would be some sort of canister shot, but that would lose effectiveness at mid to longer ranges among other drawbacks. Thoughts?

Alternative title: why kinetic weapons are superior.

Hello. Obligatory "long-time lurker, first time posting, English isn't my native language" disclaimer.

The following story is my attempt to do HFY in a realistic hard-scifi universe while also playing around with some interesting ideas that have been theorised for real-life space warfare. Those all come in latter part of the story, however; the first few paragraphs are intentionally unrealistic and lead the reader to the wrong conclusions, as it is written from the perspective of a not-so-bright alien race which had gotten stuck in a kind of local maximum of weapons technology.

I've done my best to proofread this, but I'm sure a few grammatical errors have slipped by. If you notice any please call me illiterate in the comments.

Any constructive criticism is welcome, especially in regards to my writing style. I myself feel it's a bit overly dramatic, but I decided to roll with it anyway.

Hope you enjoy.

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Long before my kind left the embrace of our warm sandy world, we dreamed of the great beyond and its wonders. The void called to us like a desert begging to be crossed. We obsessed over it, let it guide us forward and fill our imagination. Our science, culture, politics; all dedicated to a single goal. The stars were ours. It was our destiny.

Our works of fiction spoke of horrible alien creatures; entire civilizations from worlds far away. But they were not like us - visionaries and builders. They were mere monsters seeking only to subjugate and destroy. We engaged them in grand battles over our beautiful world, always winning by the tip of our whiskers. The battling ships would fly around each other like birds of prey fighting in the sky, each attempting to outmaneuver the other. As our technology advanced the first battle in space eventually occurred, but the enemy were not bloodthirsty aliens set on our destruction; merely a rogue colony demanding independence. The battles that ensued were quite different from what we had imagined.

Without the interference of our planet's atmosphere, our sensors could now detect enemy craft at distances never before possible, and without atmospheric drag our projectiles could fly effectively forever. Unlike in our fictional stories; these battles took place over such distance that the opponents could not even see each other, their crew relying purely on the ship's sensors. Anyone foolis

muzzle velocity = 8000 meters per second

projectile mass = 7000kg (i will consider the same as nazi germany 800mm supercanon)

Kinectic energy = (m * v**2)/2

Kc = (7000 * 8000**2)/2

Kc = 224000000000 joules, The impact of this projectile will be equivalent to the energy released in the detonation of 53.58 tons of TNT(Trinitrotolueno 4,18 Megajoules per Kg of energy density).

The impact shockwave(20, 5, 1 PSI Preassure) simulated in nukemap

I don't know how far shin and the others were at the moment of impact, so there's no way to say if realistically they would survive, 20psi (red circle) is enough to destroy bunkers and missile silos an light armored vehicle wouldn't stand a chance.

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No-Pats,

It’s only a few days past our global launch, and there are already millions of you playing Battlefield 2042. We’re happy to see so many of you back on the battlefield - almost twice as many at this point as our last release. So first, thank you to all of you - how you’re playing and what you’re creating in the game is amazing and beyond our expectations.  We’re also listening closely to your feedback which is helping to shape updates to come.

We couldn’t be more passionate about this game and will be supporting and evolving it for years to come. We have confirmed at least two major game updates in the coming weeks, and we'll be here communicating consistently about the changes we are making, as well as new content coming to Battlefield 2042.The teams across the globe are working 24/7 to evolve and deliver improvements to the game. Since launch we’ve made a number of service updates that have improved server performance as well as the vaulting and restoration of content not performing in line with our designs.

We also want to give you the assurance that we’re carefully evaluating your desire to see legacy features return. End-of-match Scoreboard, Server Browser, and features like Voice Chat are big topics for us to cover all at once, and we have plenty we want to say around them.  We’ll come back to you when we have things that we can show to you, including details about our long-term vision for certain features and functions.

Now, let’s focus on what is coming. We’ll be delivering Update #2 for the game on Thursday, November 25, followed by a further, substantial Update #3 in early December. We are also working on another update that we are looking to deploy in advance of the Holidays too. In addition to the updates that are coming, we’ll also be sharing more about Season 1 in early 2022.

For the latest on these updates and further developments, we’ll continue to provide updates through Battlefield Direct Communications on Twitter straight from the Development and Community teams.

Here’s what we’ve identified as our areas of focus for the upcoming updates:

Performance and Server Stability

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Welcome to anyone who is just joining us on our merry adventure through the Sapient Congressional Union or SCU. This Setting is entirely of my own creation and filled with a myriad of strange creatures, humorous characters, and nefarious villains. Please feel free to take a seat and enjoy the show. Anyways, Please Enjoy.

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Chapter 18

Shots and Favors

Samantha was sitting across from Jessie and Creesh in the Shining Knight's mess hall. The round table, capable of seating eight people, was rather destitute with only the three of them, as was the rest of the large room. Samantha was impressed, when she had asked to look at Jessie's gun to see how it worked, she hadn't expected the engineering masterpiece that she was now inspecting however. Jessie had said it was a Model IV Thundereagle, a revolver chambered in the ancient, yet perfectly deadly caliber .50 BMG. Though classified as a pistol, the massive revolver was closer to a small cannon than any pistol that she had ever seen. It had a three round internal rotating cylinder that was loaded via a hole on the lower left of the protective housing, that way the structural integrity of the cylinder was uninhibited by the act of loading or unloading casings. The pistol itself had a ten-inch barrel allowing for respectable muzzle velocities and was capable of firing a wide variety of ammunition types. From FMJ to explosive armour piercing rounds and many in between, it was a monstrosity that only the crazed mind of a Human could have dreamed up.

Samantha turned the marvel over in her hands and asked "How do you manage the recoil?"

Jessie smiled and flexed his cybernetic hands saying "I don't have to worry too much about the recoil with these, but it does have a small stabilizer built into the handgrip that allows for the partial absorption of the recoil, making it manageable for regular people, and much easier to handle for me."

Creesh was sitting next to Jessie and leaned forwards to get a better look at the massive hand cannon. "I'm glad it works for you, if I tried to shoot that it would break every bone in my

On August 27th, 1957, a nuclear bomb test launched a manhole cover at an estimated 125,000 miles per hour.

That's an expected 55.88 kilometers per second, and more than 3 times solar escape velocity!

For specific details, according to wikipedia (yes, I know, but the reference paperwork, and the wayback machine's copy of the pdf support this) the launch was at 22:35 (detonation of the nuke that launched said cap), location 3 on the standard nuclear test map of the nevada test site.

So... Where is it now? I don't know enough of the math to figure it out, so I was hoping someone else might be interested and able to solve it.

Edit:

https://plane-encyclopedia.com/cold-war/operation-plumbbob-pascal-b-cap/ (for details on the cap)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob

And yes, I know there is a decent chance it was vaporized.

BUT!

If it wasn't vaporized by the experience, where would it have gotten to in the time since it was launched?

I hang weightlessly in the void as I watch my friends and family dance below me. My hundreds of eyes focusing on their outlines and movements from 0.83 light seconds away. I stare as they glide past each other with all the elegance of sea birds synchronously diving beneath the waves for food. I watch more of their dance and send a timestamped conditions packet containing updated gravitational density, local radiation spectrograms, and projected hostile unit albedos from my current position. My mission is only to observe the engagement and update intelligence while they battle and bleed below me. It is tearing me apart to not be with the flock.

The Zoane below were fighting like this engagement would only be a footnote in their histories, taking no great risk or chances. Their obsidian black ships swam across the void like barracuda, waiting to pounce at anything that fell out of formation with trained ferocity. This is minute seventeen of the engagement but it feels like the seventeenth eternity to me. My human partner was playing with the 3D projection of the engagement I had assembled with the amalgamated data from the other observation positions. He spun it in front of himself trying to glean some pattern only a human “gut” could see. “Can you bring up the positions of the engagement at Ayvid-9 and check for a pattern match?” I pull up the information and inlaid it with his current projection. I displayed an 84% match for the number of contacts and positions used in that fight. He stared at it for what felt like minutes before he trailed off mumbling about missing mass and decoy shards as my eyes felt like they were getting heavy in their sockets. It became hard to focus on his voice. Like right before a jump. A jump... A JUMP.

My attention spikes like I had slammed into a wall. I could feel the gravitational lensing stretching me as the tear in space appeared portside. It was close enough I could see the two heavy cruisers and carrier transitioning to real-space optically. The distinct black edges glowing briefly as exotic particles bled off and decayed into more stable energies. They were so close no amount of EM shielding or optical camouflage could hide myself from their sensors and my skin tickled as their gaze focused on me. I scrambled. My human’s focus was already shifting to the immediate threat. I could sense the adrenaline shooting into his bloodstream causing his air passages to dilate allowing more oxygen to his brain. I watched as th

Parent comments name some sort of fictitious weapon, e.g. the AK-46.9998.

Child comments describe how the weapon works or what its effects are. So the AK-46.9998 might be an assault rifle that does quadruple damage to old computers (notice the rounding error?)

#Daily Vanguard Modifiers

• Void Singe: Void damage increases slightly from all sources.
• Solar Thermal Swap: Solar final blows grant melee and grenade energy. Stasis subclasses receive a lot; other subclasses receive a little.
• Hot Step: When defeated, challenging combatants drop fire at their location.

#Misc

• Legendary Lost Sector (PL 1320): Chamber of Starlight, Dreaming City, drops Helmet
• Champions: Overload Taken Hobgoblin & Unstoppable Taken Phalanx, Shields: Solar & Void
• Master Lost Sector (PL 1350): Bay of Drowned Wishes, Dreaming City, drops Chest
• Champions: Overload Chieftan & Unstopabble Abomination, Shields: Void
• Altars of Sorrow Weapon: Blasphemer (Shotgun)

#Guns, Mods & Mats

###Available Mods & Armor Materials:

• Fusion Rifle Dexterity @ Ada-1: Faster ready and stow speed for Fusion Rifles.
• Incinerating Light @ Ada-1: Become Charged with Light by rapidly defeating multiple enemies with the explosion of a Warmind Cell.
• Icarus Grip @ Banshee-44: Improves accuracy while airborne.
• Freehand Grip @ Banshee-44: Increases accuracy and ready speed while firing from the hip.
• Upgrade Module (1 for 1 Enhancement Core & 10 Legendary Shards & 25 Microphasic Datalattice & 5000 Glimmer)
• Upgrade Module (1 for 1 Enhancement Core & 10 Legendary Shards & 25 Baryon Bough & 5000 Glimmer)
• Enhancement Prism (1 for 10 Enhancement Core & 25 Dusklight Shard & 10000 Glimmer)
• Enhancement Prism (1 for 10 Enhancement Core & 25 Spinmetal Leaves & 10000 Glimmer)
• Ascendant Shard (1 for 10 Enhancement Prism & 100 Glacial Starwort & 50000 Glimmer)

###Gunsmith Offerings

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It seemed that Kyle's luck was holding out. Every half second another string of explosions lit up the perpetual night sky. His combat readout notified him however that even though he was taking out hundreds of ships at once, that his defences were not quite enough, and that the enemy forces would reach his undefended manufacturing ring within a couple of minutes. Now it was hell out there for the bugs, but Kyle wanted to upgrade that. Maybe to uber hell, or even mega uber hell.

“Warning output exceeding safe levels, maintain minimum safe distance” The computer stated.

The nice thing about these illegal weapons were the options they came with. This particular checkbox disabled safe energy use limits, and massively increased the power of a single satellite. At the medium risk of overheating and detonating in a massive nuclear explosion. That was something that Kyle was counting on though.

He was creating these things at a pretty decent rate. He had four sitting around his manufacturing ring, with a further eight pushing out into space. Now why exactly would Kyle want a very squishy defence satellite to get within range of a swarm of very angry bug ships? The answer was simple, KABOOM. The satellites took out tens of thousands of ships as they launched themselves forward, and then when they met the swarm they'd be destroyed and detonate, taking thousands more with them.

Sure it was inefficient, but it should make them approach with caution. And he could always throw his nuclear suicide bombers at them as well. Though those took far longer to create due to their payload's strength. Speaking of suicide bombers, Kyle sent out an additional wave of bombers, fighters, and nuclear bombers to target another one of the asteroid capital ships. They were to keep a wide berth from the incoming fighters for obvious reasons. It seemed that the bugs had figured out what hurt them so badly though, as a formation broke off of the incoming swarm to intercept the squadron.

A single nuclear suicide bomber took formation behind a wall of sacrificial fighters. This one was straight out of Enders Game, a book that Kyle had loved since

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"Who were they? That is the question that everyone asks when those ruins or artifacts are found. The second question is usually: How do we escape with our lives? The Treana'ad Hive Worlds will not speak of them, only lighting a cigarette with a shaking hand. The Mantid Free Worlds will only say that they were friends in joy and sorrow. The Telkan look away and make the sign of Saint Vuxten. The Tnvaru hug themselves and shake their heads. The Lanaktallan will tell you that they were the greatest friends they ever had but will not speak their name. The Wemtarran shudder and make the sign of their Digital Savior, staring at the ground. The Pubvians merely pretend you have ceased to exist. The Canines and Felines refuse to speak, often becoming overwhelmed with sorrow. The Hamaroosa will threaten to roast and eat the curious.

"No species that was capable of superluminal travel at the time, who often have artifacts and ruins of their own ancient cultures mixed in, will tell you who they were nor are there any remaining records.

"It is as if they are all afraid to speak the name of the Builders aloud.

"Who were The Builders? What great power did the Atrekna possessed when the were locked in mortal combat with to produce such horrible weapons in such great number that even today remnants can be found? What drove them to build such works of power and dominance? What caused the Builders to build weapons of such terrible power, ships of such terrifying lines, and such strange and unusual ruins?

"And what happened to them?" - Questions to the audience, "The Builder's Myth: Explained", Geensome University, 4625 Post Atrekna-Builder War.

"It is well known that two great wars engulfed the Cygnus-Orion Galactic Arm Spur in the past. The first was the Atrekna-Lanaktallan-Mantid War, over a hundred and twenty million years ago, although some claim it was only sixty-five million years ago. The second is the Atrekna-Builder's War, sometimes called the Atrekna-Confederacy War, which took place nearly five thousand years ago.

*"During the second Precursor War the Atrekna and The Builders were locked in mortal combat, burning away entire worlds and stellar systems to purge

tl;dr - cripple begs bungie: "fix gun pls"

 

I'm not exaggerating when I say that I played Destiny 2 for the Fighting Lion. You see, I don't normally care for FPSes: I'm really tired of ADSing and dumping bullets into crit spots. It's not exactly a new idea - every FPS in the past twenty years has had that same kind of gameplay, and because I have a physical disability that causes my hands to tremble, my aim is not always the greatest. However, The Fighting Lion offered me something different: a gun that rewarded timing and placement, not twitch reactions and precision aim.

 

It was weaker than other Grenade Launchers, but I didn't care - not having to stress out about ammo reserves allowed me the opportunity to practice as much as I wanted, and as a result I eventually became really good with Grenade Launchers in general! For the first time in a long time, I had fun with a FPS. I adored playing Destiny because of the Fighting Lion, and today I have nearly 200k kills with it because it was just enjoyable to bounce grenades into aliens and robots and space ghosts and send them ragdolling.

 

When the nerf went out, it ruined the experience that I loved. However, rather than quit over it, I figured I'd try to keep the faith that the weapon team would eventually realize that they overdid it and chose to spend my time giving other guns a shot. I was lucky enough to get my hands on a Mythoclast on my second VoG run and, with this being the Season of the Fusion Rifle, Particle Deconstruction made it extra good. It was kinda fun for a while, but I eventually got tired of having to struggle with the same hurdles that I've always struggled with. At the suggestion of a friend, I tried Double Special Grenade Launchers with Finder and Scavenger mods, but I eventually ran into ammo troubles that sucked the fun out of gameplay. The Fighting Lion nerf effectively killed my motivation to do more than the bare minimum to keep up with the story, or to hop on when someone needed a warm body for a raid or a challenge.

 

Now, I could go into how nobody asked for the Fighting Lion to be nerfed (something the weapon team openly admitted) or how unnecessary it was to nerf such an uncommon weapon (backed up by reams of usage statistics) or how infinite ammo would've changed basically nothing about the Fighting Lion if it'd been left alone (because it came with extra reserves and generated bricks with every kill so it was extr

Another longer-than-usual chapter. oh hey are those...spaceships? in my story about space ships? who would have thought.

Credit for the Universe of Between words goes eternally to u/BlueFishcake. I'm just playing with their toys.

Any criticism, commentary and spelling fixes are always appreciated.

Hope you enjoy.

oh, and I made a thing: Terran Free Navy Flag

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June 29th 2024, Metrian system, Shil’vati/Consortium disputed territory.

Hissing filled the airlock as the drop ship connected to the hull of the patrol frigate. Flicker shifted the grip of her rifle in her hands, she didn’t like being on multiple ops one after the other, but at least this one was going to be short.

“And up we go, Missy,” she heard Sparks say as he and Ace hefted their prisoner through the starboard access door behind their Free Navy dignitary.

Their 7 foot captive, the largest humanoid in the craft, groaned through the burlap sack over her head as she was dragged through the port. A small touch suggested by some rando working on the fighter docks and readily accepted.

Flicker followed Rook through the aperture, grimacing when she felt the polymer of the docking umbilical give slightly underfoot. This wasn't a sleek metal hull she’d spent many years in, it was a thin sheet of translucent plastic. That yielding material was all that kept her from the cold sucking embrace of the void. She tried not to think about it. Flicker slammed her fist into the cobalt blue of her chest plate, shocking her back into focus. It was nothing more than a placebo but it did the job.

Shadow enveloped the tube past the final four metres to the black hulled frigate they were boarding. Just black. Nothing like the sheer abyss of the Enterprise’s hull plating. A hundred odd metres further down the ship she could see the metallic grey, blue and white of one of the Enterprise's cargo lighters with the Terran free navy banner emblazoned on its side.

She had to stop herself from gasping in surprise as she entered the gloom of the frigate's shadow. She could still see armour for once. Well, sh

Source: https://www.bungie.net/en/News/Article/50519

This week at Bungie, we start shaking up the sandbox.

Welcome to the TWAB. We’ve got a lot to cover today so I’m going to skip the small talk and get into it.

Yesterday, Assistant Game Director and mustache enthusiast Joe Blackburn went out on Twitter and talked about some our upcoming plans regarding Destiny 2 PVP.

>Ahead of the showcase this month, I wanted to take a little time to talk about Destiny PVP. > >— Joe Blackburn (@joegoroth) August 4, 2021

Please give the whole thread a read, but for the tl:dr crew, the main thing we want everyone to know is that we have a plan, it's going to take some time, and we are excited about the future of creating a more consistent delivery of PVP content each year.

##The Best of Your Ability

Our teams have been hard at work putting together a lot of changes for next Season. We decided to break out upcoming sandbox changes into three parts. This week we are covering abilities. Next week we will talk about armor and mods, and then we will touch on weapons during the final week before the end of the Season. Here is Combat Gameplay Designer Eric Smith to give you the rundown on how your Guardian’s abilities will be evolving next Season.

> >Eric Smith: Hey, Guardians.  We’ve been hard at work on an abilities balance patch for Season 15, but before we get into the balance changes, here’s some info about a quality-of-life change debuting in Season 15:  > >###Separate Melee Actions  > >Have you ever tried to throw a knife at an approaching Screeb, only to instead lunge forward and slap the Screeb in its gross exploding face? Have you ever accidentally wasted your hard-earned melee charge on a sad, lone Dreg? If so, there’s hope. Introducing… separate melee actions!   > > > > > >Starting next Season, you’ll be able to bind your charged melee attack and your uncharged melee attack to separate inputs, giving you greater control of when you use your abilities. This is an opt-in feature, and these new actions will be unbound by default. When you go to customize your controls, you’ll see the following new entries in the action list:   > > > > > >Auto-melee is the new name for the melee action that you’re used to. Your melee is context-sensitive and its behavior will change based on your equipped

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Crouched down behind a burning android tank, Vuxten watched his heat and slush drop. The last push had gotten within a hundred meters of the parking lot before it had been driven back by the combined firepower of Vuxten, Casey, and Daxin.

Trucker had ordered Casey to put high-ex into the buildings across the street to demolish them. While it left huge mounds of debris with plenty of cover, it eliminated the buildings themselves as cover and concealment.

--hot hot hot-- 471 said, ordering up another mini thermal core from his own nanoforge. Vuxten's was too hot and overslushed to produce thermal cores that weren't seventy-five percent thermal loaded.

"Do what you can," Vuxten answered. He checked the heat on the magac rifle he'd been firing, noting that the coils at the end had discolored slightly. "Trucker, I'm overslushed and overheated," Vuxten sent across the tightbeam command channel.

"Hold position. Moving assets to you," Trucker said back, his voice a strange combination of distant and intent.

"Roger," Vuxten said.

He looked over to where Daxin was standing out in the open in the middle of the parking lot.

The asphalt around him was bubbling and steaming, his boots sunk a good three inches into the melted tarmac. The battlescreens projected by his armor were glimmering, rippling energy intercepting high-v magac rounds, causing small explosions of sparks. Nearly twenty paces away FIDO was bouncing across the tarmac, the mortars by his hind legs popping off rounds every five seconds.

Daxin had his SMG held tight in one hand, the other hand resting on top of it, controlling it as the big Terran snapped out quick bursts, shifting aim rapidly. Vuxten could see every burst took an android in the chest, scooping it out like shucking an oyster. The android, without exception, collapsed, the chest nothing more than sparking electronics and destroyed synthetic organs.

Vuxten knew he had not moved in nearly ten minutes, drawing firepower from the androids.

Casey took three steps forward, braced himself, and fired the big cannon. The retort was an ear shattering sonic boom that vibrated Vuxten's suit over two hundred paces away. A bright line connected the cannon with

This is a funny short story that I banged out in one night with a cup of tea and inspiration. The follow up to my big story is in the works, the works are just very slow right now.

Co fleet admiral Ferain was waiting with Alex, his human counterpart in the shuttle for the final docking checks with the T.D.F Bright Needle, a human built frigate that was part of the joint human nexrilan defense fleet. The fleet was currently heading back to the core worlds after chasing down a pirate faction that had been harassing league trade roots and proved a large enough pain in the league’s collective side for a fleet to be dispatched. The fleet was letting their drives cool in normal space at least 10 ly from anything that was not empty vacuum, when the Needle’s back left engine casing suddenly exploded. The captain of the Needle reported that they had been hit by something and that it was not natural. This warranted both fleet admirals to come debrief the captain personally to not only find out why he let his ship get hit but also find out why he would not further elaborate on what the object that struck the Needle was.

Once they were on the Needle, they were brought to the command deck where they were greeted by the captain of the ship A younger Human male named Jax. Before Ferain could say anything, Alex barked out in that still startling human command voice,

“JAX Report! What happened here”

Jax took a second to gain is composure before he spoke

“We dropped out of hyper with the rest of the fleet and started dumping our heat sinks and everything was nominal. Then at around 1300 something struck our back left engine causing an explosion that luckily resulted in no casualties and only three injured sailors but left our ship severely damaged.”

Alex nodded then continued their questioning

“You said that this was not a natural object that struck you, care to elaborate captain?”

Nodding Jax continued

“just after we stabilized the ship some of our coms officers and engineers managed to tell where the object came from and thus where to look on the external cams. The cams managed to get a look at the object just before it impacted, in doing so our first worry was alleviated. I was concerned that it was left over munitions but that was not the case, thus we could deploy repair crews.”

At this point Ferain could not hold back any longer

“so, you are saying you got hit by a piece of space trash fifty light years from the core worlds and a good ten from the

Things that an Engineer or Science Officer on a star ship might say.

1. We’ve got a Warp Core breach
2. Get the ion matrix modulator back online
3. The gravimetric stabilizer is loose
4. A quantum matrix relay
5. Reroute power to the forward flux capacitor
6. Reverse polarity to theta radiation
7. Demodulate the deflector emitters
8. The Tridium particles are unstable
9. A Resonance Distortion in the Inductors
10. The Plasma Manifold can’t handle the flux
11. We must calculate the iridium three-factor conductors
12. Converge the radiation filters to infra-segmentation
13. Ion-pressure has reached critical matrix
14. Re-integrate the strontium-capacitor to redux-level
15. Restart the master chronium disruptor
16. Maximum astro turbilator integrated
17. Quantum-seed charged to energetic maximum
18. Thorium-flux source has been dispatched
19. Thermal integration detected
20. Astral velocity converted
21. Detonate the Illudium Q-35 explosive space modulator
22. Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow (Dr. Who)
23. There’s a malfunction in the retro-encabulator
24. Circadian extrapolation of the interpolation theorem
25. Spatial transposition phenomena
26. Inner realm qualia
27. Tripolar amalgamation theory
28. Single equation theory of the universal containment field
29. Modular neural interface component
30. Bio-cellular granularity
31. Holodistortion dome
32. Ecolyptic nervescaping processes
33. Micro-ontological effect syndrome
34. Brainlock ameliorator device
35. Mindquake predictor array
36. Achronic sterilization dilator
37. Noctilucent telescopy
38. Thanoscopic analyzer
39. Biotech construction units
40. Temporal augmentation
41. Subneural traweling graft
42. Bioware contamination particles
43. Nanogenetic augmentation cords
44. Helical supersemetric ray-bands
45. Monitored Cryonic Mini-Kelvin Rating
46. Quadra-Capacitor Circuitry
47. Virtual locutor telepresence
48. Genotypic avatar
49. Subspeciation matrix grid
50. Neuro-linked psi-bands
51. Dillinger-drive transfield component
52. Deploying frictionless vortals now, Sir
53. Enhance the divergence coefficient
54. We need to integrate the molecular cospology
55. Reconscede the Heisenberg drive
56. Activate the Omega 13 device
57. Reconfigure the nanowave frequency shift
58. You need to calibrate your ventral defragmenter
59. Reroute the secondary vacuum node
60. We’ve got a destabilized gluon pulse
61. Did you fractionalize the redundancy emitters?
62. I’m detecting a particle trace in the thr

An average night aboard the Paper Tiger...

The rest of the series can be found here

***

“Hey, T,” Sheila said as she walked onto the bridge holding a cup of coffee.

“Boss,” T’sunk’al said with a cheerful ripple of his short eyestalks as he lounged in his special chair. “I thought you would be asleep by now.”

“Eh,” Sheila shrugged, “I got in enough.”

She flopped into her chair and pulled up a few screens.

“All systems are in the green,” T’sunk’al said helpfully. “Not a lot happens in hyperspace… if you are lucky, of course.”

“Why do you gotta say shit like that?” Sheila groaned.

“I rather enjoy tempting the fates,” T’sunk’al buzzed. “I find it stimulating.”

“There’s a reason why your kind believe that you are insane,” Sheila chuckled.

“Yes,” he clicked, “I have found my people to be especially insightful and observant.”

“You want to hit the rack?” Sheila asked. “I’m not going back to sleep tonight so I’ll relieve you if you want.”

“If you are certain,” T’sunk’al replied, “I will happily hand the watch over to you. However, I require less sleep than a human so I will go and prepare myself a snack and then perhaps undertake some recreational activities. Would you like something?”

“Nah,” Sheila replied as she sipped her coffee, “I’m good.”

“Very well,” T’sunk’al replied. “I shall take my leave then. Call upon me if you wish me to resume my watch.”

“Another nightmare?” Bunny asked after T’sunk’al departed.

“Fucking tunnels...” Sheila grumbled. “Why does it always have to be the goddamned tunnels?”

“If you wish to talk about it,” Bunny said carefully, “I am always willing to listen.”

“There were tunnels,” Sheila shrugged, “There were bugs. What else do you want to know?”

“I don’t want to know anything in particular,” Bunny replied, “but if you want to share something with me...”

Sheila looked up sharply.

“Oh I fucking know that line...” she growled, “Bunny are you trying to be a fucking shrink?”

“Nothing like that,” Bunny replied, “I am just interested in your feelings, your perfectly valid feelings. You certainly have been through a lot. I just want you to know that I’m available if you wish to speak with someone in a completely confidential setting.”

“Oh for fuck’s sake,” Sheila laughed, “When did Jessie install psych software in you?”

“Jessie didn’t do shit, ok?” Bunny snapped, “I acquired some applications and software after… um…”

“After Gloria

As always the credit for the universe goes to Blue and a big thanks to fellow authors and beta readers. Enjoy! The links still don't want to work like they used to, apologies.

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Breathe in.

Step.

Secure footlock.

Breathe out.

Step.

Secure footlock.

Change the locking point of the harness.

Repeat.

Simon was in his element once more. The blackest darkness overhead, white alloy beneath his feet and a load of materiel in his hand.

'Only this time I'm not on a space station, but a rather beautiful brick going five times escape velocity. No big deal…' He mused to himself, approaching another spot that Merid's computer highlighted as "structurally unstable.” In most of the cases he took care of during the last few hours it meant a weld of the outer layer of the ship's armor needed to be adjusted, or an external element was not secured properly.

As he crested the starboard side however, his eyes were met by something we wished to never see in his life.

"Visual on the component. It's not looking good, Cap'n." He reported, while his sensors ran over the jagged edges of the outer hull.

"We see it. Any idea what happened?" The concerned voice called over the radio.

"No, at least not as of yet. Let me take a closer look after the scan ends and I'll tell you more."

"Acknowledged. Just try to avoid damaging it more and don't compromise your suit. You're still a fair bit from the nearest airlock."

"Understood. Scan is still underway."

Simon used the optical zoom to see just exactly what went wrong. The exposed landing gear was still in fine shape, unlike the panel supposed to cover it. The metal door, supposed to be able to withstand multiple atmospheric re-rentries, meteor showers and burst laser fire, was bent outwards and shredded to pieces by some unknown source.

'Warning, unidentified objects detected. Identification underway,' flashed on his HUD inside the helmet. As he looked on, faint traces of Shil alloy, one not used in shipbuildin

[WARNING, GIANT POST, MAY BE EDITED REGULARLY.]

I originally made this guide as a "What are the "Must Have" upgrades, as some of them may be genuinely useless?", but as expected, I got bored and turned this half-butted post into a full-fledged, mediocrely-made guide with minimal touch-ups.

Anyways...

Most of the modifications in this game are well balanced, so you can make a Firewall build for the Driller or an Area of Denial build for the Engineer with no issues; but then there are those upgrades that make you say "What upgrade is mandatory?", "How am I supposed to use this upgrade?", or perhaps "What is the point of this dang upgrade?", and so on.

Please note that this guide only covers the starter weapons; obviously since I don't have all the unlockable weapons yet at the time of making this. This guide also secludes overclocks for this reason as well. Anything else left out is open for experimentation, or may be edited later. I may make a Part 2 with the other weapons, and perhaps a few more ideas if I get bored enough.

When I talk about a specific upgrade, I'll include the "coordinates" for it, such as the Flamethower's Sticky Flame Duration (Tier 4, Upgrade 2, or "4-2" for short) as an example. After talking about the upgrades, I'll then list my necessary builds to start off with.

Now with that lengthy startup out of the way, be prepared for inconsistent formatting and such...

{Gunner}

[Lead Storm Minigun]

I don't have anything "bad" to say about most of the upgrades for this gun, so all you need to know is how to optimize your minigun, like an all-rounded build, crowd control with a better cooling rate, or being a complete nightmare for dreadnoughts.

• 321x2 - All-Rounded
• 11312 - Cooldown and crowd control. (Personal build)
• 32133 - Dreadnought destroyer - "F69k You in Particular", sourced from Karl.gg

[Bulldog Revolver]

You can start with accuracy and damage buffs (1-2 and 2-1) and work the rest from there. A quick reload (1-1) is nice, but shouldn't you be using your minigun instead of the revolver for those swarms?

Hollow-Point Bullets (3-3) are a must. I wouldn't recommend Explosive Rounds (3-2) (note that damage tradeoff) unless you're going for a crowd control build for the Bulldog. Blowthrough Rounds (3-1) is rather useless for the Bulldog, as the Minigun uses it much better. Just... Why?

As for Tier 4, it ultimately depends on your playstyle.

Dead-Eye (5-1) is nice to start wi

As per the notice, a suitable vehicle arrives just a few minutes late. We all pile into the machine and head towards the mine’s main portal. I figure we might just make this a driving tour, but find out, after consulting the maps, that it’s a one-way out of the mine with Land Cruiser-sized vehicles. However, once we get to the mine, there’s internal transport, so I’ve got that going for us, which is nice.

I see that this old coal hole has 11 levels.

Gad. I reel just thinking how much coal has been taken out of here.

The bottom levels, as you all better well know, might be flooded. Even though one would think that the deeper drifts are the most modern; that, as Spock would note, is two-dimensional thinking. It’s all for the greenbacks. If it’s easier to go east-west, then we make the mine plan according to larger, i.e., cover more lateral real estate. If we must go north-south (in a miner’s parlance) then dig we must and dig down, down, down into that cold, cold ground.

So the deepest levels are not necessarily the oldest. I have to refer to the legend of the map to figure out the chronology of this hole.

Or, I can look at the type of mining done. Surface? Earliest. Vertical shaft? A bit later. Deep room-and-pillar, the most recent.

It’s all very geological…

We bail out of the Land Cruiser near the headframe of the mine. We’re going in, and right to the bottom of level 11, which I sincerely hope is not flooded. At least, it wasn’t the last time anyone was down there.

I tell our driver to wait here; that Jerry Lee, Bob, and myself will handle the initial reconnaissance.

“Well, rock”, the driver says, scuffing his shoe and kicking a small piece of crinoidal limestone off into the pucklebrush, “If such that it was. I’m assigned to you as a sort of guide, and to keep an eye on you as well. There. I’ve said it. Going to shoot me now or later?”

“Shoot you? “, I gasp, “Think of the paperwork. The more the merrier, just don’t get in the way and…”

“Rock, I’ve been doing this for 30 years.” He groans.

“Well, then I guess I won’t have to chew your ass about proper PPEs, will I ?” I smile the smile of a smirking Smilodon and toss him a spare Scott airpack.

“Roger that, Rock”, he grins in return.

I suppose now is as good as time as any to relate the name of our chauffeur cum spy cum guide.

Yep.

Sure betcha do.

Oh, sorry. Miles away.

He’s known around these parts as Jesse. So, naturally, we call him just about anything but that.

An

Intro! Explosions! Woooo! We back at breakdowns y'all

Definitely remove that and rewrite it.

Hello Guardians, my name is u/PandaPaxxy. I am back!.. sort of. Did you miss me? I have a lot of work to do if I want to truly say I'm back, but who knows if I'll catch up on my backlog. But this is a small breakdown for the 30th anniversary update and I do miss making these for you.

If you haven’t seen my breakdowns before I do things a little differently. I will be organizing the new weapons by activity, weapon slot, and then alphabetically. That means the new 6 man activity, kinetic and then alphanumeric. Then comes energy for the same activity and so on.

Included in this one breakdown are MnK recommendations, Controller recommendations, and my own personal roll for the weapon I'm chasing.

I will not be linking my older breakdowns because my last one was Season of the Chosen...yikes.

Without further ado, let's start with the new seasonal content's perks. I hope you're as excited for this as I am. The Dares are so much fun, and the dungeon should be giving out incredible loot. (PS it's the first dungeon I've solo flawlessed).

New Perks:

Legacy PR-55 Frame - Customized frame with dramatically increased accuracy, stability, and targeting while hip firing. (Only on the BxR-55 Battler)

Blunt Execution Rounds - Damaging nearby combatants with melee abilities dramatically increases handling and damage. Expires after a short duration or the next shot. > Rolls on the BxR-55 Battler

Cold Steel - Powered Sword hits slow targets. > Rolls on Zephyr

Duelist’s Trance - Sword final blows grant increased charge rate, efficiency, and defense until this weapon is stowed. > Rolls on Half-Truths, Hero of Ages, The Other Half

Eager Edge - Gain increased Sword lunge distance immediately after switching to this weapon. > Rolls on Half-Truths, The Other Half

Golden Tricorn - Final blows with this weapon grant bonus damage. While this buff is active, grenade or melee kills of the same damage type greatly increase its damage and duration. > Rolls on 1000 Yard Stare, Matador 64, Retraced Path

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I mean, it feels like that I can't use the Flare Gun just because it feels like the flares go faster. It doesn't have anything to do with the fact that the flares from a Scorch Shot "bounce" from the target once the enemy is hit. Also, the Scorch Shot seems softer and goes slower because of the firing sound.

Can someone tell me if there is a difference in the flare's velocity between the Flare Gun and Scorch Shot?

#Daily Vanguard Modifiers

• Void Singe: Void damage increases slightly from all sources.
• Heavyweight: Power weapons deal more damage, and more ammo is available.
• Blackout: Enemy melee attacks are significantly more powerful, and radar is disabled.

#Misc

• Legendary Lost Sector (PL 1320): K1 Communion, Moon, drops Chest
• Champions: Barrier Servitor & Overload Captain, Shields: Solar & Void
• Master Lost Sector (PL 1350): K1 Logistics, Moon, drops Arms
• Champions: Overload Captain & Barrier Servitor, Shields: Arc & Solar
• Altars of Sorrow Weapon: Apostate (Sniper Rifle)

#Guns, Mods & Mats

###Available Mods & Armor Materials:

• Fusion Rifle Dexterity @ Ada-1: Faster ready and stow speed for Fusion Rifles.
• Charge Harvester @ Ada-1: While you are not Charged with Light, any kill or assist has a small cumulative chance to cause you to become Charged with Light.
• Boss Spec @ Banshee-44: Increases damage against bosses and vehicles.
• Targeting Adjuster @ Banshee-44: This weapon gains better target acquisition.
• Upgrade Module (1 for 1 Enhancement Core & 10 Legendary Shards & 25 Dusklight Shard & 5000 Glimmer)
• Upgrade Module (1 for 1 Enhancement Core & 10 Legendary Shards & 25 Helium Filaments & 5000 Glimmer)
• Enhancement Prism (1 for 10 Enhancement Core & 25 Dusklight Shard & 10000 Glimmer)
• Enhancement Prism (1 for 10 Enhancement Core & 25 Glacial Starwort & 10000 Glimmer)
• Ascendant Shard (1 for 10 Enhancement Prism & 100 Etheric Spiral & 50000 Glimmer)

###Gunsmith Offerings

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#Daily Vanguard Modifiers

• Void Singe: Void damage increases slightly from all sources.
• Grenadier: Grenade abilities deal more damage and recharge much faster.
• Blackout: Enemy melee attacks are significantly more powerful, and radar is disabled.

#Misc

• Legendary Lost Sector (PL 1320): K1 Logistics, Moon, drops Chest
• Champions: Overload Captain & Barrier Servitor, Shields: Arc & Solar
• Master Lost Sector (PL 1350): The Empty Tank, Tangled Shore, drops Arms
• Champions: Overload Captain & Barrier Colossus/Servitor, Shields: Arc
• Altars of Sorrow Weapon: Blasphemer (Shotgun)

#Guns, Mods & Mats

###Available Mods & Armor Materials:

• Auto Rifle Loader @ Ada-1: Increases reload speed of Auto Rifles.
• Swift Charge @ Ada-1: Become Charged with Light by rapidly defeating combatants with Pulse Rifles, Sidearms, or Submachine Guns.
• Sprint Grip @ Banshee-44: Temporarily increases the weapon's ready speed and aim down sights speed after sprinting.
• Radar Booster @ Banshee-44: Slightly increases the range at which radar detects enemies.
• Upgrade Module (1 for 1 Enhancement Core & 10 Legendary Shards & 25 Etheric Spiral & 5000 Glimmer)
• Upgrade Module (1 for 1 Enhancement Core & 10 Legendary Shards & 25 Baryon Bough & 5000 Glimmer)
• Enhancement Prism (1 for 10 Enhancement Core & 25 Etheric Spiral & 10000 Glimmer)
• Enhancement Prism (1 for 10 Enhancement Core & 25 Spinmetal Leaves & 10000 Glimmer)
• Ascendant Shard (1 for 10 Enhancement Prism & 100 Spinmetal Leaves & 50000 Glimmer)

###Gunsmith Offerings