Talk:Reaper Leviathan/@comment-27356798-20160105234334/@comment-27532250-20160106034357

The possibility might be there, but the question would end up being: Does the Cyclops move fast enough to warrant damage? Its' top speed is 14.4 knots, so how does the physics engine in the game calculate momentum and impact, what constitutes 'causes damage', and how is that damage, if any, distributed? Does real-world physics apply where speed is lost during a turn, or is the Cyclops' momentum preserved despite broadsiding the water instead of traveling in as streamlined a fashion as possible?

Let's assume the player is traveling at maximum speed in a consistently straight line, 14.4 knots, and impacts the Reaper Leviathan, which is also traveling at top speed in a straight line, head-on, just to maintain some variables as constants. However, the top speed of the Reaper Leviathan is unknown. It's slightly faster than the Seamoth, in my experience (or maybe I'm a *really* bad Seamoth pilot, lol) so let's estimate the Reaper Leviathan's speed around the 30 knot mark?

Our theoretical impact is now a 44.4-knot collision. Let's go back to the origial question. Does the game's engine consider this a damaging impact? Yes, if ramming the Seamoth into a wall at 24.8 knots, at 100m below sea level, is anything to go by (okay... Yeah, I'm just a bad Seamoth pilot. Anyone got some scissors? Wanna cut my licence in half for me? I shouldn't be allowed to drive these things...).

So... An impact at 44.4 knots definitely equals damage! But who takes more damage? The Reaper Leviathan at the moment, since the Cyclops' hull integrity only seems to be implemented where depth is concerned (ie; go below crush depth and you're basically stuffed...). How much damage does the Reaper Leviathan take? No idea! We don't know what his base health pool is -if it's even implemented as a numerical figure instead of a percentage. Maybe it *is* possible to kill one with the Cyclops. Then again, the Cyclops' glass viewing bubble still bugs out occasionally and I've been slaughtered from the inside (by a Stalker, the shame...) so you may just end up a quick snack regardless...