[crizza]

I get killed so often, when a ship explodes and some debris hit me...realy funny^^

[-Sara-]

From what I remember the FS1 Shivan Megabomb shockwaves were extremely dangerous.

Were the insta-death to a full hull, full shield fighter 50 meters away from the exploding bomb? I don't remember ever dying to a bomb shockwave in FS1 or FS Port, except one time in the final mission, when I was very low on health while getting too close to a reactor.
But in original AoA I died .... often to bombs, even from full health.

It made forced entry all the more frustrating. You manage a perfect playthrough, including taking out all the Ravanas beams and on the way back to your own ships, one of the Temeraires torpedoes is shoot down by the Ravana right next to your fighter and you die .
While it was annoying as hell in the beginning, once I got used to it, it was fun. I was a little disappointed whenthe directors cut turned bombs completely harmless against shields.

I actually got killed by the Ravana splitting in half, when it forced the game into a cutscene. Had to do it all over again.

Temporary godmoding could prevent that when FREDded

[Snail]

That was probably fixed in the Director's Cut.

[Colonol Dekker]

What was the fighting in the caargo bay a metaphor........for?

[Hades]

I get killed so often, when a ship explodes and some debris hit me...realy funny^^

Debris is the most overpowered weapon in FreeSpace ever.

[Rodo]

Enif station's worst enemy.

[General Battuta]

We can actually give debris a damage type now and armor against it.

[-Norbert-]

Would it be possible to have point defense weapons shoot down incoming debris, like they already shoot down asteroids on collision course?

[MatthTheGeek]

Debris are much, much stronger than asteroids (they might actually be invulnerable until they self-destruct), so it'll be only a waste of firepower.

[-Norbert-]

Since they explode on impact instead of bouncing off, they can't be invulnerable. And if the damage type they do can be changes I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to reduce their hitpoints.

[crizza]

Since I like freding ridiculous missions, involving ships blowing up several shivans, including a Sathanas...
If the Sath explodes, sometimes, the debris can be seen floating around quite some time, or, if my little ships keep firing their beams, no debris at all appear...

[Fury]

Debris can be destroyed by weapons fire, weapons just won't target them.

[-Sara-]

Good mission design will ensure that debris is no immediate threat to friendly ships. I remember some other mods where the mission designers did not take into account the possible directions debris can spin off to along with it's speed and how quickly it can reach a friendly larger ship, resulting into friendly victorious vessels being sadly destroyed by debris from an enemy cap-ship, thus failing the mission. So far this didn't happen to me yet in BP as far as I can remember, so I assume debris has been a factor the mission designers have taken into account.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Once, during a run of High Noon, the Colossus was hit by stray Sathanas debris and lost 20% hull because of it.

[The E]

Good mission design will ensure that debris is no immediate threat to friendly ships. I remember some other mods where the mission designers did not take into account the possible directions debris can spin off to along with it's speed and how quickly it can reach a friendly larger ship, resulting into friendly victorious vessels being sadly destroyed by debris from an enemy cap-ship, thus failing the mission. So far this didn't happen to me yet in BP as far as I can remember, so I assume debris has been a factor the mission designers have taken into account.

Except you really can't make assumptions about debris, given the many, many factors involved in its creation. The only way we've found to make sure that mission outcome isn't ruined by debris is liberal use of ship-protect whenever something blows up.

[Snail]

ship-protect won't actually work there though. Have to use ship-guardian in that case.

[Colonol Dekker]

Ship-disco-boogie.



Feature request?

[ssmit132]

Once, during a run of High Noon, the Colossus was hit by stray Sathanas debris and lost 20% hull because of it.

So that's how the Sathanas "inflicted moderate damage to the Colossus" despite having no beams...

[starlord]

Actually, in the last mission of age in aquarius, the orestes has a high possibility of going down to 60 percent integrity due to the reijian's debris...

[Androgeos Exeunt]

So that's how the Sathanas "inflicted moderate damage to the Colossus" despite having no beams...

Yes, via flaming wreckage.