Author Topic: Beam Alternatives  (Read 2563 times)

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Offline The Claw

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Sounds like some kind of food thing, don't it? "And today's Beam Alternative is a good helping of Helios torpedo". Anyways, better stop blabbering.
 As some of you may know, I am making a new campaign. The thing is, I don't want the new enemy or the Terrans (at the start) to use beam weaponry. The thing is, without beam weapons you get FS1 syndrome where capships are just large targets and they cannot fight each other.
 I have so far come up with three ideas- A kind of overdriven Plasma turret which fires something like the Siege Cannon from Homeworld:Cataclysm (although less powerfull), a large mass-driver and a fast moving torpedo- like the Fusion torpedo but more powerful.
 Now, I need more ideas. Especially for fighters... I mean, I don't really want to just up the power on the plasma turrets, so I need help. Any ideas will help  

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Jake Logan

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make something like the shivan super laser.

 

Offline Sushi

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I'd go for the Fusion turret. Get something that works sort of like Star Trek torpedoes going.  

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Offline Shrike

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Code: [Select]
$Name: Plasma Cannon
$Model File: none
@Laser Glow: Beamglow2
@Laser Glow: 2_laserglow03
@Laser Color: 147, 147, 255
@Laser Color2: 147, 147, 255
@Laser Length: 50
@Laser Head Radius: 20
@Laser Tail Radius: 5
$Mass: 4.0
$Velocity: 500.0
$Fire Wait: 6.0
$Damage: 275
$Blast Force: 1000.0
$Inner Radius: 30.0
$Outer Radius: 70.0
$Shockwave Speed: 86
$Armor Factor: 5.9
$Shield Factor: 1.0
$Subsystem Factor: 2.0
$Lifetime: 6.0
$Energy Consumed: 0.3
$Cargo Size: 0.0
$Homing: NO
$LaunchSnd: 114
$ImpactSnd: 88
$Flags: ("Big Ship" "Huge" )
$Icon: iconmissile08
$Anim: LoadMissile06
$Impact Explosion: ExpMissileHit1
$Impact Explosion Radius: 14.0

Knock yourself out.
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Offline Warlock

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I;m working on Cap to Cap torps...think Wing Commander movie  

Only hard part's gonna be getting Caps to FIRE them

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Offline Jabu

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Don't make railguns. I've got dibs on that  

 

Offline Martinus

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Railguns!! Hey no way man I thought of that one ages ago. It's just that I have no idea how to implement them...

Only kidding, go wild  

 

Offline Setekh

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Make it fast, give it an obscenely long trail, and make the trail take a long time to disappear. Voila  
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Offline Shrike

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Why would a railgun have a trail, hmm?  It's a projectile moving at hypervelocities. (3000+ m/s in FS terminology)
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Offline Warlock

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LOL I downloaded a rail gun back about a year ago or something  

Think it was on Decent Chronicles heh

Sides always remember the stead fast rule of "dibs" in modding:
If it's a mainstay of the game genre, it's open game, it's those "Hey why didn't I think of that??" things you need to lock down on  

*grabs his weapons tbls and runs*



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