Talk:Velocitus/@comment-107.145.170.73-20141120074033

This weapon is absolutely -NOT- hitscan. Doing some tests on the destructable asteroids and waypoints on Erpo, I roughly estimate the velocty to be around 1500m/s. At most practical ranges this would appear near hitscan, but moving targets definitely need a slight lead, even at somewhat close range. It's also got all the anomalies associated with bolt weapons, such as hitting walls in front of your character model when your reticle is dead on target. This shouldn't ever happen with a hitscan weapon.

It's also been pretty clear since the beginning, that it's not hitscan. The first couple days the velocity was notoriously slow. DE's buff included "increased velocity". They never claimed to have made it hitscan.

More thorough measurments on velocity can be done by counting frames between firing and hitting a target 1000m away, on a video captured with a constant framerate.