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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: .::Tin Can::. on July 24, 2004, 12:51:40 pm

Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: .::Tin Can::. on July 24, 2004, 12:51:40 pm: I had this problem a while back but I shrugged it off as a mis-happening with my TVWP Files and the SCP. But now, I dont have any extra things in my Folder due to lack of space left on my 8 gig hard drive. Only 3.6. Anyhow, the Maxim ammo reads at 2000 bullets, and decreases when I fire. Why does it have an ammo count now? :confused:

Dont yell at me! :shaking:
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: kasperl on July 24, 2004, 12:52:45 pm: Oh for the love of god people, RTFM.

Lightspeed made it this way because somewhere in the tech descr. it says that the maxim fires uranium slugs, and Lighty sensibly thought those slugs should come from somewhere.
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: .::Tin Can::. on July 24, 2004, 12:54:31 pm: I just read that command briefing, and while they said that it fired Uranium Slugs, it was still an energy weapon which didnt have a finite limitation. I think putting a limitation on the Maxim will make it kind of... suck, because you run out of ammo. :(

Does it still draw from your energy pool? I never tested it.
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: taylor on July 24, 2004, 01:08:40 pm: It does still draw from the energy pool the same but doing a rearm/reload with the support ship will fill the ammo count back up.
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: karajorma on July 24, 2004, 01:09:09 pm: Don't like it? Don't use it.

Pretty simple really.
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: kasperl on July 24, 2004, 01:09:51 pm: Karajorma: quite what I was about to say.
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: .::Tin Can::. on July 24, 2004, 01:12:14 pm: so then how do I anti-ammo this maxim gun?

isnt it trapped in one of the VP's saying "save me!"
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: karajorma on July 24, 2004, 01:19:12 pm: YOu've downloaded one of Lightspeeds vp files. Last time I checked it was called SPEffects or something similar and it warned you that it broke multiplayer. Remove it.
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: .::Tin Can::. on July 24, 2004, 01:24:57 pm: Okey dokey! :yes:
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: ChronoReverse on July 24, 2004, 01:37:10 pm: Frankly, it doesn't really break the gameplay of the main FS2 campaign since you'd run out of missiles long before you run out of maxim shells.
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: .::Tin Can::. on July 24, 2004, 01:59:17 pm: Who says I reload after I run out of missles?

Me <----

"DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!" :mad: :mad:
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: Moonsword on July 24, 2004, 02:15:04 pm: *blinks*

Anyone who does do that, maybe?
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: WMCoolmon on July 25, 2004, 02:03:09 am: You can grab the new mv_effects (replaces the old mv_effects and mv_speffects) it contains all of Lightspeed's new weapon effects minus changes to the gameplay.
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: Kosh on July 26, 2004, 08:57:53 am: Quote
Originally posted by .::Tin Can::.
I think putting a limitation on the Maxim will make it kind of... suck, because you run out of ammo. :(

That's what rearming is for.
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: Taristin on July 26, 2004, 10:07:04 am: We get all kinds here. :rolleyes:
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: TopAce on July 26, 2004, 12:55:18 pm: And what if a mission disables the possibility of calling in a Support ship?
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: Thorn on July 26, 2004, 01:03:00 pm: Then dont take a freakin Maxim...
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: TopAce on July 26, 2004, 01:05:18 pm: And in scramble mission? :p
And what if it is your favourite or it is the most ideal for that mission?
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: karajorma on July 26, 2004, 03:01:33 pm: FFS TopAce. How many times do you have to be told that the media.vp files are all OPTIONAL.

If you don't like them. Don't use them.

On top of which this one is obsolete anyway since the versions which didn't break multiplayer are the ones now being pimped.
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: TopAce on July 26, 2004, 03:34:45 pm: Quote
Originally posted by karajorma
FFS TopAce. How many times do you have to be told that the media.vp files are all OPTIONAL.
...

How the hell did it come up? I haven't said with a single word I do not like it. I just want to point out that a support ship is not always available, and there are occasions where the Maxim is NEEDED(Scramble missions or when it is the only way you can complete the mission).
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: karajorma on July 26, 2004, 03:48:10 pm: So don't use this mod then. Which is exactly what I said before.
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: TopAce on July 26, 2004, 03:51:37 pm: You don't understand what I want to say.
Quote
Thorn wrote:
Then dont take a freakin Maxim...

I wrote this as a response:
And in scramble mission?
And what if it is your favourite or it is the most ideal for that mission?

If it is still not clear: I am saying the PLAYER MUST[/u] use the maxim when the mission is a scramble one(so you cannot change your weaponry) or the Maxim is the only logical choice, or simply it is your favourite.

Understood?
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: karajorma on July 26, 2004, 03:55:47 pm: And I'm saying that if you run into that precise problem don't use this mod.
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: CP5670 on July 26, 2004, 04:17:42 pm: Although I am generally against having any gameplay changes in the media vp files, the newest version has it set back to normal so it's a moot point here.
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: karajorma on July 26, 2004, 05:02:22 pm: Again. Something I said earlier :D
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: Taristin on July 26, 2004, 05:03:51 pm: Closage. Need Closage.
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: Kazan on July 26, 2004, 05:10:50 pm: this thread is ****ing stupid
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: Thorn on July 26, 2004, 05:17:41 pm: No, a certain person in this thread is stupid. But I'm not going to say who because the admins tend to get antsy about "personal attacks"
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: Svizel on July 26, 2004, 05:20:27 pm: Just quit it alredy... :rolleyes:
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: Taristin on July 26, 2004, 05:34:32 pm: Just close this thread already... :doubt:
Title: Maxim Gun b0rked?
Post by: Goober5000 on July 26, 2004, 06:45:51 pm: By the authority vested in me by the Department of Redundancy Department, I hereby close this thread.