Bullet and railgun Projectile speed Thread - Brutal Doom mod for Doom

Hello, it's occurred to me recently that many weapon projectiles have 'a speed' they travel at, even shotguns to some degree.

Although it's more noticeably that shotguns have a spread and a range.

But- bullets seem to hit a target/surface the instant after you fire a gun- regardless of the distance between you and the target.

Railguns can and should fire much faster than bullets- but in game terms they seem to travel at slightly beyond light speed too.

Since other projectiles have some kind of travel speed code, will it be hard to give bullets and railgun projectiles a travel speed too?

Regards

As far as I understand the underlying mechanics and engine limitations, no one will bother because bullets and such are hardcoded as hitscan (most games up to and including Quake 3 had no bullet physics, using simple "cast a straight line and check if hits"). The visible flying tracers BD adds are just decorations to make it look nicer. There is no way to implement bullet physics and, frankly, no need.

Okay, thanks for the reply.

I guess I was thinking as a direct comparison to say rockets.

But maybe the in-game engine works differently with slow moving self propelled projectiles

So the closest approximation would be making bullets self propelled rockets with a tiny size, no exhaust,

and maximum or a few % short of maximum speed. I'd do it myself but I'm a total newbie regarding modding

Edited by: Gorefiend