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Offline -Sara-

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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
IMO fighter/bomber mounted beams would either have to be drastically weaker or a 1-shot kindof deal to be realistic/believable. 

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Offline Klaustrophobia

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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
So you're saying you'd try using Subspace missile strikes on fighters?

doesn't have to be subspace, it could be ordinary turrets like with the tag missiles in retail.  being able to direct a frigate's railgun to hit a fighter/bomber would be pretty awsome :)
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Offline -Sara-

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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
Something else I'd like to see. The GTVA using technology to pull ships out of subspace (or to prevent them from entering subspace). I have a cool concept for that somewhere, involving a Fenris and a field-rigged refit replacing the front section with a dome-cut-in-half-like construct housing a coil and spinning components to create a subspace field. It selectively disrupts subspace activity within a certain range, preventing reinforcements and keeping ships right where they are to prevent them from escaping an attack. I'll try and find said concept, flesh it out and show it, if there is an interest for it, it sure is nice to keep the AWACS from becoming a Mary Sue.
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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
An FS version of the Interdictor?  Sounds cool. :yes:

 

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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
We actually had that in mid-production builds of the campaign, using modified intrasystem gates and based on the canonical effect of the Knossos portal on intrasystem jumps. It may turn up again.

 

Offline Ravenholme

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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
What I'd like to see are fighter or capital ship mounted missile/torpedo weapons which are bomb-pumped laser warheads, for the GTVA of course.

Just because that'd be absolutely awesome to see.
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Offline Kolgena

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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
Flashbang bombs, designed to blind intercepting pilots. (Rather long explosion/flare time, and make luminance >9000)



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Offline General Battuta

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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
Flashbang bombs, designed to blind intercepting pilots. (Rather long explosion/flare time, and make luminance >9000)



:P

We...could...they'd only work on players, but...

 

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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
oh my god no

 

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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
Weren't you already doing that? :P
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Offline starlord

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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
an idea might be the possibility of piloting a scimitar in a covert action against the GEF...

I might add that I would appreciate the complete destruction of the GEF and a dogfight with that leader of theirs, sergei something...

 
Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
Something else I'd like to see. The GTVA using technology to pull ships out of subspace (or to prevent them from entering subspace). I have a cool concept for that somewhere, involving a Fenris and a field-rigged refit replacing the front section with a dome-cut-in-half-like construct housing a coil and spinning components to create a subspace field. It selectively disrupts subspace activity within a certain range, preventing reinforcements and keeping ships right where they are to prevent them from escaping an attack. I'll try and find said concept, flesh it out and show it, if there is an interest for it, it sure is nice to keep the AWACS from becoming a Mary Sue.

the pulling of ships from subspace sounds familiar; i think i saw it on an episode of stargate universe. But if the UEF could replicate this that would mean that GTA ships couldn't warp to Earth (they have to trudge there the old fashioned way.
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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
Flashbang bombs, designed to blind intercepting pilots. (Rather long explosion/flare time, and make luminance >9000)

We...could...they'd only work on players, but...

How about scrambling targeting data for the duration of the flash then? Unless if that doesn't work on the AI either...
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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
Flashbang bombs, designed to blind intercepting pilots. (Rather long explosion/flare time, and make luminance >9000)

We...could...they'd only work on players, but...

How about scrambling targeting data for the duration of the flash then? Unless if that doesn't work on the AI either...

EMP already does that (randomly reassigns AI targets.) And the AI doesn't have to gain aspect lock.

 
Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
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Offline Infamus

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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
Hey, do you guize know what Dump and Burn is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_dumping

This would look amazing coming from the UEF's super awesome interceptor as a sort of 'Super Burner' that takes up all of your AB fuel but sends you FLYING at about 500 mps.
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Offline -Norbert-

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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
It doesn't speed you up... it's just a lightshow....
But (apart from overlooking the fact that it wouldn't work in space due to the lack of air) it might cause damage to ships flying directly behind you.

 

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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
I always liked the retail missions, where you fly around in some captured fighter, doing recon deep in enemy space. Would be nice to see something like that in WiH - maybe a little mission to the jovian moons, extracting some spy from the other side.
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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
Ugh, just so long as I don't have to see/hear "keep your distance, pilots!" over and over.  Either my stealthy/commandeered fighter is convincing, or its not.
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Offline Dilmah G

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Re: What do you want in the rest of War in Heaven?
Hey, do you guize know what Dump and Burn is?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_dumping

This would look amazing coming from the UEF's super awesome interceptor as a sort of 'Super Burner' that takes up all of your AB fuel but sends you FLYING at about 500 mps.
Eh, I could never take it seriously after being a citizen of the country that's currently retiring the most famous aircraft to have performed the dump'n burn for real. :D