[crizza]

Floating 50m in front of the beam cannon is my thing^^
but the best thing to disable a beam are two trebs.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

So...why don't you guys fly out of beam firing arcs on approach? Like approaching from another direction (does not apply to Deimos).

I was doing something similar to this.

[Destiny]

Well Rakshasa beams are...rather small so I understand where you're coming from. Been skewered myself by BFReds as well, nothing out of the ordinary.

[Deadly in a Shadow]

Stealthy Uriel ftw. But what is the meaning of this. I redownloaded the visuals and it didn't helped.

[The E]

Please post an fs2_open.log.

[Deadly in a Shadow]

Here is it.

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[Androgeos Exeunt]

Mmmm ... so the UEF has Coalition cloaking technology.

[The E]

Code: [Select]

Found root pack 'C:\Games\FreeSpace2\blueplanet2\SathMod.vp' with a checksum of 0x42fb4bfa
Found root pack 'C:\Games\FreeSpace2\blueplanet2\shiva.vp' with a checksum of 0xba89429b
...
Found root pack 'C:\Games\FreeSpace2\blueplanet\SathMod.vp' with a checksum of 0x42fb4bfa
...
Found root pack 'C:\Games\FreeSpace2\mediavps_3612\SathMod.vp' with a checksum of 0x42fb4bfa
You really only need that pack once.

AS for the error that ends the log, I have no idea about that. Seems that some tbl somewhere is wrong.

As for the invisible Uhlan, it looks like the textures for that model haven't been loaded, try loading it up in the F3 lab in a debug build to see what happens.

[Jeff Vader]

Err, how well do adv visuals and a GeForce 7900 GS go together?

[Deadly in a Shadow]

Err, how well do adv visuals and a GeForce 7900 GS go together?

They work very good, I've played this mod before, everything was working fine.

Problem solved. I've tried to implement another mod into Blue Planet 2 and it caused trouble.

[Destiny]

*ping* I'm curious, really. Why was the Ranvir armed with Hydras in Collateral Damage? Artillery units are supposed to be horrible at close range combat. It wasn't a fair fight for the Idomeneus just because the Deimos had the advantage of jumping in close enough so that the Apocalypse couldn't engage it.






...well it's probably going to be hand-waved as plot progression or that the Ranvir was testing out new missiles, no point asking in the beginning...but that's not the spirit, so I'd like to know why, in terms of FRED or how the team wanted the whole thing to progress.

[X3N0-Life-Form]

Maybe they can switch missiles if the need arise. They would keep hydras on board for this kind of situation.

[MatthTheGeek]

Re-read the tech description.

Hydra missiles are now in limited but expanding deployment aboard all ships that are outfitted with the Hwacha or Hwacha Mk 2 missile launchers, but are generally used only in emergencies, or when the ship has depleted its store of Apocalypse torpedoes.

They're switchable on the same launchers than the Apos. However, since they are efficient at closer range only and have less DPS than the Apos, they're used only in situation where the enemies PDS are overwhelming or all Apos have already been launched.

[Destiny]

Guess the Ranvir was lucky to have Hydras loaded after jumping away from Artemis.

[General Battuta]

Guess the Ranvir was lucky to have Hydras loaded after jumping away from Artemis.

Why is luck necessary? The Hydra is basically inferior to the Apocalypse in every way except for its ability to saturate point defenses at close range. Using them in a knife fight just makes sense - the big artillery Apocalypses can't track well there.

[Commander Zane]

Hydras make such pretty fireworks.

[Destiny]

Guess the Ranvir was lucky to have Hydras loaded after jumping away from Artemis.

Why is luck necessary? The Hydra is basically inferior to the Apocalypse in every way except for its ability to saturate point defenses at close range. Using them in a knife fight just makes sense - the big artillery Apocalypses can't track well there.

If the Ranvir happened to be (still) loaded with Apocalypses after jumping out of Artemis and ambushed, it certainly would've been destroyed. The crew nonetheless would be quite shaken by their defeat at Artemis, and even the best of commanders would think 'what could I have done better', for many times at once.



...which reminds me, there are lots of discrepancies with the nameplates and FRED-given names in BP-00. What happened? Conflicts in naming?

[General Battuta]

Guess the Ranvir was lucky to have Hydras loaded after jumping away from Artemis.

Why is luck necessary? The Hydra is basically inferior to the Apocalypse in every way except for its ability to saturate point defenses at close range. Using them in a knife fight just makes sense - the big artillery Apocalypses can't track well there.

If the Ranvir happened to be (still) loaded with Apocalypses after jumping out of Artemis and ambushed, it certainly would've been destroyed. The crew nonetheless would be quite shaken by their defeat at Artemis, and even the best of commanders would think 'what could I have done better', for many times at once.

Or, you know, they could have just switched magazine cells to the Hydras when they had to deal with a hostile in close. Not the hardest thing in the world.

[Destiny]

Guess the Ranvir was lucky to have Hydras loaded after jumping away from Artemis.

Why is luck necessary? The Hydra is basically inferior to the Apocalypse in every way except for its ability to saturate point defenses at close range. Using them in a knife fight just makes sense - the big artillery Apocalypses can't track well there.

If the Ranvir happened to be (still) loaded with Apocalypses after jumping out of Artemis and ambushed, it certainly would've been destroyed. The crew nonetheless would be quite shaken by their defeat at Artemis, and even the best of commanders would think 'what could I have done better', for many times at once.

Or, you know, they could have just switched magazine cells to the Hydras when they had to deal with a hostile in close. Not the hardest thing in the world.

Exactly, but it's an ambush for a reason, at least it seemed like one with Deimos corvettes and Aeolus cruisers all over the place. Unless the Ranvir was drilled to switch to Hydras at the speed of light every time they jumped out, time would be needed to switch missiles. Even three seconds is enough for a beam cannon to charge up and fire.

[General Battuta]

 

You seem to be operating under the impression that the battle began at the moment the Navaja Alpha wing arrived on the scene. The engagement had been underway before that, and there was time enough to switch cells.

Even if it had been thirty seconds or more (probably more), a Deimos carries TerSlashes. They're not going to hull a Narayana very quickly. Why do you think the three seconds required for a beam cannon to charge up and fire is any kind of problem when a Narayana can survive many many beam weapon hits?