when your plane is faster than your bullets

from the unsung redux dev branch, plane ain't done yet.
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[willianyano]

It seems the momentum from the plane doesn't go in to the projectile's speed calculation.

[ArkayeCh]

"Sir, did you call in a bombing run or a gun strafe?"
" *Yes* "

[SeanMirrsen]

Fun fact: In the Megadrive version of the game "F-117 Night Storm", if you press the button to switch weapons at the exact right moment of firing/launching something, the weapon you fired will inherit the physics of whatever weapon you switched to. It was possible to have heat-seeking 1000lb bombs chasing down MiG-29s, as well as dropping precision-guided 30mm cannon shells onto bunkers, with varying effectiveness.

[whiterunguard]

“Remember, switching to your plane is always faster than reloading”

[charlesman]

- Pilot: "it's done sir, I've dropped the bullets and I'm about to fire the bomb"

- General: "wait, you did what?!"

[EmperorSigismund]

Reminds me of how this was a problem in Tribes Ascend and hows the devs adamantly refused, for a long time at least, to acknowledge that projectiles should inherit the velocity of their shooter in a game where you can routinely move faster than your own bullets.

[Femboi_Stilly]

conservation of momentum: aight, I'm out

[Torlonus]

Reminds me of the X-Com flight game. The final missile has a max speed slower than the ship it's fired from, so if you fired it off at max speed you'd run into it and explode.

[TheMozT]

"The plane didn't shoot bullets"

"But bullets shoot the plane"

[brianery]

U.S Airforce: damn planes are expensive to maintain

U.S pilot: brrr so fun

[danielsieker]

bro is dropping the bullets instead of firing them

[reviathan]

"I must kill fast, but bullets too slow" -A legend

[kam]

Doesn't this mean that you could find a critical speed at which you perfectly match the speed of your bullets, and create a gigantic patch of lead?

[michaelbarnard]

There was a case of a US test jet firing its gun and then going into a high speed dive. It managed to catch up to and collide with the bullets it had just fired. I don’t remember if the plane was actually shot down by the damage.
Though there was an F-14 that was speared by its own missile when the thing suddenly pitched vertical on launch.

[Savsgames]

This should remain a feature and call it "historically accurate"

[robdom]

Gotta respect a gun that ignores it's own momentum. That's one step closer to inter-dimensional exploration...

[ryancartwright]

Several jets historically have actually shot themselves down with their own fire.

But this seems like the dev messed up on the ballistic calculations for the velocity of the bullets by forgetting to account for the speed of the aircraft, and how it should effect the trajectory.

[johnm]

A supersonic jet shot itsself down years ago. Fired a burst, then went into a steep dive then pulled up. A few of the bullets hit the plane. It crashed and pilot was fine.

[songdechen]

bomb"stop pretending to be me😡:bullets: naw naw naw bro

[Chasedtuna]

I remember doing this in 90s flight games. Thought it was the funniest shit ever.

You don't have to outsmart boolet if you can outrun boolet.