Rorsch Mk-S8

The Rorsch Mk-S8 is a fixed anti-vehicle emplacement in Battlefield 2142. It is used by both the European Union and the Pan-Asian Coalition.

Description
The Mk-S8 is an advanced anti-vehicle weapon used in the 22nd Century, during The Cold War conflict. Once set up, the enplacement can be manned by anyone. It is a form of railgun: firing a round at incredible speed into a target with enough power to either cripple or destroy it.

When firing the Mk-S8, the gun takes roughly one second to build up the magnetic force before firing the round. This is heard as a rising high pitched sound before the weapon fires. There is next-to-no travel time of the round.

The Mk-S8 fires semi-automatically: it takes roughly three seconds for a new round to be loaded before it can be fired again. The Mk-S8 also has a very slow traversal speed, which means that there is little chance of the user being able to destroy a tank that appears behind them in time before it destroys them. It fires shots inaccuratly unless the user is using the in-built 'precision mode', that causes all fired rounds to head directly at the centre of the sights at the cost of even further reduced traversal speed.

In-game
The Mk-S8 can be found as a fixed emplacement at most Flag Sites and Launch Silos in Battlefield 2142. It is a very useful asset against enemy vehicles such as Tanks and APCs, but versus Infantry and Aircraft, it is fairly obsolete. It is particually useful for players who are not playing as the Engineer Kit and are vunrable versus vehicles.