Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20170505174118/@comment-27447621-20170601030430

1) True. That's why our skins and flesh have give- why I can push a finger against my arm and feel my arm cave. That's also why there's a ribcage around our heart and lungs and a skull around our brain- to mitigate impact blows. But if you could get directly at those organs, you can do huge damage. Thing is, flesh and bone don't stop shock waves- the wave passes through you and hits everything not surrounded by a vacuum. Its as if someone's punching you throughout your body without any form of cusioning.

2) True, it's possible it was contained, but it seemed to climb vertically to a little higher than shots from the Celica in the Yellow Trailer. May just be my imagination and the wierd angle, though.

3) Any specific examples? I just watched the explosions alone disorient a massive Nevermore so much that it lost control and crashed into a cliff face, so...

4) Ummm, no. Rewatch the Yellow trailer. During her fight with the Grunts, she uses her Celica's blasts (and not explosions from them, as they never hit anything, but purely the muzzleflash) to aid her her in a jump to elbow-check a grunt. the fact that she used it at all to aid her means that it definitely has the ability to move her around. From what I can remember, she generally takes a wide stance while firing to create a firm base so she doesn't fall over from the blasts. And during her landing, they created enough downward force to shoot her upwards from falling; bringing her mass back through 0 and up into the positives

But if you want an example not from V1, during V2's 'Painting the Town', she fires it behind her as she's flying through the air, being swung on Blakes Kusarigama. There are two potential reasons for this- 1) she wanted to waste ammo or look flashy or 2) it had a decent impact on her speed.

And as far as the Muzzleflash not being 1/3 as big as the blast, that's just wrong. Remember way back when I tried and failed to calculate meaningful pixel measurements? Well I asked you to disregard them because I calculated the scaled size of the muzzleflash. The second set of Pixel Measurements that I ended up not needing measured the size of an explosion at the prime of the blast, fired from the Ember Celica.

I don't want to bore you with the math (unless you want to check my work) but the muzzleflashes are over 1.75 M long (the blast I measured goes offscreen) and the explosion was a little over 3.5 M tall. The flash isn't as strong, but it's still something to be considered.