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My suspension of disbelief is destroyed every time I see missiles without proximity detonators.
by ferongr 9y ago
My suspension of disbelief is destroyed every time I see missiles without proximity detonators.
- Mithaldu 9y agoThe entire game design and physics of SC is built around "World War 2, BUT IN SPACE". I mean damn, they even have actual cockpit windows with no appreciable polarization (note the freighter pilot blinded by a simple laser scanner in the second video). That said, missiles with proximity detonation only make sense if they're actually built to be fragmentation weapons, not pure explosive-based, due to explosion shockwaves being useless in space thanks to a lack of medium to travel in. And even for fragmentation they'd need to get really close due to inverse square law.
- qbrass 9y agoFWIW, the proximity fuse was a World War 2 invention.