[General Battuta]

Spoiler:

Believe me, you will. And the Balor is actually now fair (and better than the Subach) - before, it was easily better than the Kayser, and clearly more glitched than genuine.

[The E]

Spoiler:

The balance change to the Balor made me a bit sad, but I guess I'll be thanking you in WiH.

Spoiler:

No. You will not. You will curse the day the Balor was developed. You will wake in your sleep, awoken by the horrifying screams of your wingmen as they die under the relentless streams of silvery plasma the enemy will throw your way. You will come to fear the sound of your shields, as they fail under the onslaught of projectiles hurled at you by a cold, calculating, utterly inhuman enemy that does not know the meaning of mercy. Your hands will tremble at the very thought of facing them again, with their weapons of mass destruction. You will long for the days of safety long lost, when all you had to deal with were puny Shivan weapons.

In short, the Balor is evil. Very, very evil. Fear it.

Guess I went a bit overboard there  .

[Klaustrophobia]

so i gather the balor got nerfed from its original version?  i didn't use it much at all the first time around.  i thought it was rather weak when i used it in DC.

[General Battuta]

It's better than the Subach by a fair margin.

[Qent]

I've got what I think is a pre-3.6.10 Blue Planet .vp where the Balor is about 50% more powerful than a Kayser with half the power drain of a Subach. In the 3.6.10 edition the damage got nerfed, and now the power consumption is tripled multiplied by six.

BTW, why did you change the spelling to "Kaiser"?

Also too bad there's no tech description for Green Beams. I always wondered what they were.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, wasn't that Balor nuts?

[Klaustrophobia]

i must not have ever used that one, because i think i would have noticed immediately that it was stronger than the kayser.

[The E]

Also too bad there's no tech description for Green Beams. I always wondered what they were.

Oh, yes, there is. Forge Eagle, Forge Dove and Crypt Hammer are what you are looking for.

[Qent]

Sorry I wasn't specific. I read those, but I'm looking for this.

[General Battuta]

I couldn't figure out what it was. 

[The E]

Is that beam even used anywhere? (Wiki says no about that, BTW)

[blowfish]

I couldn't figure out what it was.  

It's something between the LTerSlash and TerSlash.  Not mounted on anything by default, but used on cruisers and corvettes in a couple of missions.

[General Battuta]

Yeah, that was what I figured, in which case it's simply an overloaded or underloaded version of another beam.

[Qent]

I couldn't figure out what it was.  

You wrote all those tech descriptions? If so, excellent job!

(BTW the SVas is called both "121b" and "221b." )

Holmes Cannon lol.

[Klaustrophobia]

I couldn't figure out what it was.  

It's something between the LTerSlash and TerSlash.  Not mounted on anything by default, but used on cruisers and corvettes in a couple of missions.

is it the one that has the ungodly huge arc path?

[Qent]

I couldn't figure out what it was.  

It's something between the LTerSlash and TerSlash.  Not mounted on anything by default, but used on cruisers and corvettes in a couple of missions.

is it the one that has the ungodly huge arc path?

I think all slashers have the same arc, which is to pick two corners of the target's model box and slash between them.

[Klaustrophobia]

i've seen a beam shoot >100 degree arc.  i can't recall where, but it was retail fs2 and was fairly consistent, across more than one mission too IIRC.  i suppose it could be a bug, but i got the feeling it was intended.  although i don't know WHY you would intend that, unless you're hunting fighters with it.  it did effectively no damage to whatever it was shooting at (moloch was one target i think)

[High Max]

;-)

[Fury]

WiH's development speed is determined by how quickly Darius and Battuta can fred missions. Darius is not working on any other project and for Battuta WiH is number 1. In terms of fredding, campaign is about 40% done. Still, that likely means WiH won't be finished until next year.

[-Norbert-]

Just finished reading the IRC log. When I played through it, I wondered why the weapons got locked in that mission, but didn't dwell on it any further.
I loved the "I'm trying to break the mission here" line