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Has engine wash been toned down in 24.2.0?

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Iain Baker:
Good job I saw this today - I was about to add engine wash to fighters and bombers too and would have ended up thinking I had done something wrong  :lol:

Out of interest - can engine wash be added to missiles?

Goober5000:
Well, engine wash can only be emitted from big ships, not fighters or bombers.  And no, it can't be emitted from missiles.  However, you could create a ship that looks like a weapon and have that emit engine wash.  See Hamano's Earthshaker for example.

Iain Baker:
That’s a Big Boi Bomb  :)

Re engine was: The wiki says ‘usually only used with large ships’. So is it a case that smaller ships can’t emit engine wash due to engine limitations, or simply that most campaigns don’t use it?

Goober5000:
The engine specifically excludes small ships (fighters, bombers, escape pods, support ships) from engine wash.  That's in one place; there may be other restrictions in other places.

Mongoose:
I have this fuzzy memory of engine wash being changed way back in the day, because originally it was framerate-dependent and thus started to get super-overpowered as everyone's systems got better. Probably not related to this recent thing though.

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