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Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Red5 on August 14, 2001, 06:14:00 pm
 I'd like to make a cannon similar in style to the awesome pulsar however, i want it to freeze the enemy fighters... Is their away to disable their engines Temporary.  Or how bout to freeze them in a rendered solid block of ice?? or with ice covered hulls or something?
Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Nephilim on August 14, 2001, 06:16:00 pm
The closest thing to freezing is disruption

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Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: phreak on August 14, 2001, 07:22:00 pm
use the "electronics" flag.
Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: WraithHost on August 15, 2001, 02:11:00 pm
you could replace the explosion avi with a frost burst. That would look cool.
Make the damage to systems only and the blast should take out all of a fighters substems.
Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Nephilim on August 15, 2001, 05:44:00 pm
Frost cannon hum, needs a better name then, Sub Zero  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)

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Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Sushi on August 15, 2001, 08:48:00 pm
Not trying to shoot the idea down, but what would be the point of a "Frost Cannon" in the near-absolute zero temperature in vacuum space?  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/biggrin.gif)


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Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: WraithHost on August 17, 2001, 02:19:00 am
perhaps not 'frost' but and 'anti energy' burst that negated all energy in the target including heat. imagine frozen hydrolics, luke warm reactor, fizzz pip cannons and cigarette lighter's for thrusters. could be very useful in smash and grab type missions for special ops where casualties would be bad.

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Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Jabu on August 17, 2001, 09:26:00 am
Water bomb. You know, freezing in space is pretty impossible, because there's no moisture. So, just add water  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/tongue.gif)
Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Kitsune on August 21, 2001, 03:25:00 am
Well, Actually, it's zero when in shadows, if you're on the side that faces a sun it's actually boiling hot...  
I don't have the actual numbers but I think it's as close to absolute zero you can get in shade.  Should be able to find them somewhere online, try www.nasa.gov? ("http://www.nasa.gov?")

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Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Jabu on August 21, 2001, 07:44:00 am
About -270 C to be exact. About 3 Kelvin, 3 K/C above absolute zero (0 K, -273,15 C).

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Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Bishop Gantry on August 25, 2001, 06:09:00 am
WHy not just call it EMP cannon
Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Kitsune on August 27, 2001, 04:57:00 am
What happens if you slap the 'emp' flag on a primary weapon?

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Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: QXMX on August 27, 2001, 10:32:00 am
Hmmm, that's a good question.  If you try it out, let us know what happens  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

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Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Kitsune on August 27, 2001, 09:10:00 pm
Ahh!
It works, you just have to set the length to about 5.0 and the intensity down to like, 50.

I created a flak-emp gun, rate of fire's too high still and the range isn't good enough to stop bombers so far.  
But it's terrible!  Good god, flak if it doesn't fire alot will often get a couple hits, and dogfighting's impossible.

In other words, great for our side, bad when it hits you!

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Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Thorn on August 28, 2001, 01:21:00 am
Good God. Flak is annoying enough as it is...
Why not use it on a regular laser turret instead? Just increase the velocty a bit, or it'll never hit anything...

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Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Kitsune on August 28, 2001, 08:33:00 am
I've never had so much trouble blowing up a d*mn leviathan before!
(gave it two aaaf's, the standard bgreen or whatever, and the rest was emp flak.

Gave it a range of 1500 meters/km/whatever.
Definitely has to be trebbed to death, or at least till unarmed.
Not to mention my custom AAA is really annoying.  Has twice the 'impact' of normal aaa, fires 8 shots (really short ones though, unless it's at a bigger ship) And flickers red/white/blue.

Not only are you getting blown around by the AAA, you can't get keep track of which end is up!
Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: QXMX on August 28, 2001, 10:44:00 am
Looks like some more nebula training will be in order  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)

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Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: ^Graff on August 28, 2001, 12:48:00 pm
I'd like to see an E-Bomb like the design that was featured in Popular Mechanics this month.  High shield and subsystem damage, and  a small shockwave, but is very big and bulky, takes up double the magazine space of a helios.

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Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Thorn on August 28, 2001, 01:24:00 pm
I wanna see the old D-Missile from FS1, very useful weapon...

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Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Setekh on August 29, 2001, 08:16:00 am
Who is in charge of the FS1->FS2 Conversion? Someone at FreeSpace 2 Sector, IIRC...  (http://dynamic.gamespy.com/~freespace/ubb/noncgi/smile.gif)
Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Bishop Gantry on August 30, 2001, 11:18:00 am
EMP Flak BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHA I have created a monster
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Title: Frost Cannon??
Post by: Kitsune on August 31, 2001, 03:10:00 am
No, That's not evil, an EMP AAA Beam!

Keep the damage down, but give it alot of impact and a high emp setting.

Not only are you hit, knocked around, but god only knows what you're targeting!