[Talon 1024]

1. Render weapons with @Laser Length: 0.0 as 2D billboards (like glowpoints, engine glows, particles, etc.).  Some weapon effects just don't look right when they are mapped onto planes, and currently, it is impossible to make true 2-dimensional weapon effects.

2. A mission or ship flag that makes enemies randomly scream on death.  Since the "-wcsaga" flag has been dropped, it isn't possible to have enemies randomly scream on death anymore.  A mission/ship flag for random enemy death screams offers more flexibility.

[karajorma]

How's about making 2 a message table setting? It would be very easy to add it that way and I have to make some additions to that table this week anyway.

[Goober5000]

There are already ship flags to "Always scream on death" and "Never scream on death".  You can use those to force the messages.  I don't think WCSaga ever got a SCP feature where their enemies actually sent messages randomly, mostly because they seemed to have perpetual difficulty explaining what they actually wanted their features to do.

[karajorma]

Sending them randomly would be pretty easy though. It's pretty much the same as the changes I'm going to make to a couple of other message.tbl settings. Then we'd just let those flag settings overrule the default, random death screams.

[Droid803]

1. Render weapons with @Laser Length: 0.0 as 2D billboards (like glowpoints, engine glows, particles, etc.).  Some weapon effects just don't look right when they are mapped onto planes, and currently, it is impossible to make true 2-dimensional weapon effects.

What I do is make a "blank" dummy pof with nothing but a glowpoint...
Its hackish but it works.

[karajorma]

I took a look at 1). Can't you already do this with the AI_Profiles setting? It's called something like Do Less Scream Checks.