Since having specialized firearms testers, the Power of Faith weapons within the territory have now iterated to the fourth generation.
After the removal of the individual soldier cannon structure in the third generation, even the rifle series was cut in the fourth generation.
After all, the fundamental purpose of manufacturing these firearms is to adapt them for use by witches, rather than to sell them for other humans’ use.
Thus, the design of weapons naturally prioritizes the user experience of witches.
Both the individual soldier cannon and rifle were eliminated in this process of gradual improvement.
The former was because its design was progressively enhanced and perfectly replaced by sniper rifles, whose functions can be found within sniper guns.
Or rather, the individual soldier cannon hasn’t disappeared, but lives on in another form within today’s 4th-generation sniper rifles.
The current sniper rifle can perhaps already be called a sniper cannon.
Not only has it significantly accelerated the charging speed, but it also inherited and further strengthened the design from the second generation, allowing for instant switching between shelling and sniping modes.
However, due to firearm shooting reasons, continuous shooting can still only achieve up to triple shots, but the average firing speed can now reach one shot per second.
Of course, if needed, you can continuously increase the rate of fire by replacing parts at any time.
However, as a cost, its shape and feel will decrease to a certain extent.
It is no longer suitable for mobile shooting, but fixed-point sniping is unaffected.
The rifle faces similar reasons for elimination.
However, it wasn’t the design that led to its elimination, but rather the unique constitution of witches.
This realization came after the Lord formally joined, thinking from the witch’s perspective.
Then leading a team of witches into the Battle Zone to fight more than ten battles, observing carefully to finally notice the issue.
The design of rifles was originally to balance between portability and firepower.
In terms of power, it cannot match the higher rate of fire of machine guns.
However, compared to the recoil and weight combined, which requires high strength, rifles are more suitable for mobile warfare.
But witches do not care about these rules, relying on their powerful physical strength, they can even forcibly handle the full-recoil machine guns, using them as effortlessly as pistols.
This is also due to the improvements in machine guns themselves.
After updates over two generations, the machine gun’s recoil has significantly reduced with the help of runes, simplifying the bulky, heavy parts in standard machine gun design.
Relying entirely on runes and biological structure power for replacement.
Including clips, cooling, and pneumatic reloading parts, all have been removed.
The main structure of the entire machine gun now only consists of a biological reloading structure and firing structure.
Cooling and other functions have been integrated into the gun barrel’s rune set, mixed with runes replacing the gun line used in powder firearms.
The entire machine gun is not much more cumbersome than a regular rifle, and is even more portable than some specialized rifles.
Even if modified to increase firing speed, creating a multi-barreled machine gun similar to a Gatling, its size remains within the range witches can easily wield.
Thus, the value of rifles’ existence is infinitely compressed.
Ultimately completely replaced by machine guns with superior performance.
However, firearm alone is insufficient to supply today’s Power of Faith machine guns.
To achieve such high firing rates, it does not use the faith battery on-the-spot charging like sniper rifles.
Instead, it employs a specially designed logistical ammunition device, automatically filling with Power of Faith and creating special ammunition that exists only for a dozen seconds in regular environments.
Then, through the space logistics network connecting with the biological reloading structure in the machine gun, it is eventually triggered and fired.
So in some respects, the portability of these machine guns is actually achieved by embedding the largest parts in the rear through the special means of the space logistics network.
As for why this ammunition method cannot be adapted to sniper rifles, it’s not unwillingness, but inability.
Due to technical constraints, such ammunition must be used promptly once created, otherwise it will rapidly lose all Power of Faith in just over ten seconds.
The loss rate is not related to the amount of Power of Faith.
For machine gun bullets, because the individual amount of Power of Faith is minimal, wastage is acceptable.
But if sniper rifles wasted bullets in this manner...
Simply converting, each sniper bullet’s minimum consumption is one-sixth of a standard faith battery.
Average sniping requires shooting with at least one-third battery consumption to ensure firepower.
But if a faith battery is used for machine guns, it can provide firing for three hundred rounds.
Wasting one sniper bullet equates to squandering over a hundred machine gun bullets, which is truly uneconomical.
Thus, sniper rifles are ultimately converted into the current real-time charging mode, which naturally fits sniper use, further giving rise to the ability to adjust single-shot output.
However, after the fourth generation has been simplified to two types of firearms, a new demand quickly emerged.
In this report, Bai Yi saw the final suggestions submitted by the Lord.
Due to the "straight-line" nature of energy firearms, they easily encounter certain special situations requiring parabolic weapons.
The final suggestion was to manufacture a special type of cannon with considerable self-weight, capable of arcing shots.
In response, Bai Fa has already replied in the report, preparing to resume cannon research in the 5th generation of Faith Gun, although the format will differ greatly from the original handheld cannon.