In MP1, the gauss rifle is listed as having a speed of "2500". I assume this means 2500 meters/sec. What is the speed of a PPC and what was the previous speed of gauss?

Oh, and what is the airspeed of an unladen swallow?

*checks downloaded weapons data in excel*

Nope not in here.

Hmmm, i think only the Devs (ie. MT and MS) has access to this one.

But it would be nice to know this info.

I don't know the specific previous Gauss speed, but it used to be slower. Doesn't seem identical, but PPC and Gauss fired together have a better chance of hitting the same thing than before. May be a change made to reduce the predominance of ERLL by providing a viable alternative, but that's just a guess.

Whatever happened I'm not having to re-learn my gauss rifle lead times now that I'm back playing again. I used to be a decent shot with the old gauss, but not anymore!

Actually, it was to reduce NDB. Apparently faster-moving weps suffer less from NDB. As a side-effect, it threw off lead times.

Is that an African or European swallow?

Um... I don't know that... AAAAAARRRRGGGHGHHHHH!!

Hey! That was supposed to be MY line!

The European is approximatley 11 meters per second, or 24 miles per hour.

Err...I mean... 2.3 * speed_of_light.

didn't we cover this hijack before ?

http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/

holy crap...who would spend so much time just to figure that out?!?!?!?
the speed of an unladen swallow is as fast as it wants to go there's my opinion and im stickin to it!

But what if it's carrying a coconut?

Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

No a swallow brought it here!

We don't need a 7 month old thread that had already degenerated into spam being resurrected. Locked.