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Title: Capship weapons
Post by: starbug on February 01, 2005, 01:01:45 pm: I was wondering what the Capship weapons are going to be like, apart from beams, torpedos and plasma are there any other Capital to Captial weapons and how diverse will they be between the different species? that was my main critisiam(sp) against FS2 was the fact that the vasudans used the same weapons as the terrans, Or do we just have to wait and see?
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: Woomeister on February 01, 2005, 03:32:30 pm: Vasudans use spacial charges, EA have railguns, Terrans have Plasma weapons and Shivans have some crazy stuff :D
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: InfernoGod on February 01, 2005, 05:56:59 pm: subspace weapon! subspace weapon! oops...said too much.
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on February 01, 2005, 06:20:33 pm: I trust they'll retain their beam armaments?
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: Knight Templar on February 01, 2005, 10:13:06 pm: Flame throwers.
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: NGTM-1R on February 02, 2005, 01:32:33 am: I actually rather liked the fact Vasudans and Terrans were using the same weapons for the most part in FS2. Makes sense from a logistical standpoint.

Of course, Inferno paints a more seperated picture of the GTVA, so different weapons make sense for Inferno.
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: Viper1000 on February 02, 2005, 02:44:26 am: Quote
Originally posted by Knight Templar
Flame throwers.

With the vacuum of space I'm not exactly sure this would be an ideal weapon. :)
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: Woomeister on February 02, 2005, 03:25:18 am: Quote
Originally posted by InfernoGod
subspace weapon! subspace weapon! oops...said too much.

Yeah but they have other stuff too.
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: starbug on February 02, 2005, 02:16:14 pm: cant wait to see some of this Crazy Shivan stuff in action!!:D
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Post by: Woomeister on February 02, 2005, 02:25:26 pm: Well if you see one of them heading your way, you'll probably be dead a second later :D
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Post by: starbug on February 02, 2005, 02:34:45 pm: be worth it, just to see wot kind of crazy mojo they can now do:lol: hahahahaha
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: Woomeister on February 02, 2005, 04:02:57 pm: Fighterbeams aren't Shivan exclusive now, but they get the better ones :nod:

Yeah we have a lot of cluster weapons, we had to bump the limit in our builds because we have too many :D
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Post by: Woolie Wool on February 02, 2005, 04:05:34 pm: I hate fighterbeams. An AI fighter goes from redshirt-like to never missing in accuracy when you give it fighterbeams.
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: Woomeister on February 02, 2005, 04:08:24 pm: Ours can be dodged sometimes, and we've limited the amount of time the ai can fire them.

Best thing to do is not get in front of a Harpy ;)
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Post by: Woolie Wool on February 02, 2005, 04:16:54 pm: If they're anything like Nials in TBP, I will send my army of mutant Wookiees after you.
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Post by: Woomeister on February 02, 2005, 04:17:52 pm: I wouldn't know so :p

Fighterbeams don't penetrate shields either, but once your shields are down, you won't last long.
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: pyro-manic on February 03, 2005, 01:32:15 pm: Big pointy sticks...
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Post by: Woomeister on February 04, 2005, 04:12:35 am: Quote
Originally posted by High Max
Is there any point during the campaign where we get to fly a fighter with a fighter beam?

Also, the Harpy is too damn fast to avoid.:nervous:

Hmm doubt it, only the Vasudan bombers have them.
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Post by: Stardust on February 07, 2005, 04:50:21 pm: plasma weapons???

i got some plasma "pulse" weapon off the internet somewhere. its kinda like those plasma weapons from starlancer. is these plasma weapons something along those lines? i can send ya's the .tbl file for the plasma cannon i have(theres a terran-vasudan one and a shivan one just fyi). it would be also kinda cool if plasma cannons were an additional form of anti-ship weapon, like beam cannons and torpedoes, with their own special-looking turret.

Just a thought :P
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: Woomeister on February 07, 2005, 05:32:19 pm: Ours are slow plasma shots used for anti-warship support. They're far more effective than beams and are heavily carried by the Oberon destroyer. Old versions of the weapon appear in one of the old trailers.
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: Stardust on February 10, 2005, 10:21:03 am: yeah, when i first dl'ed this plasma cannon, it was pretty slow. SO i upped the speed the bolt travels, cuz sometimes the ships were a little ways off.

By the way, i tried doing a google img search for some of the ships, and they're gone! did someone take the pages down.....?? lol
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: Woomeister on February 10, 2005, 10:39:54 am: yeah I did, we take up a lot of space on the 3dap server :p
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Post by: Stardust on February 10, 2005, 05:13:35 pm: i can imagine.

I can prolly get a hold of a server where theres a good deal fo space, if y'all would like to have a website somewhere.....i mean, for the images...

and im taking comp programming at college, so i know html and some CSS, and im learning CGI and PHP, so if ur looking for someone do help out with it(take a load off your shoulders, so to speak, so you guys can kinda focus more on the mod itself...) im available.

Just thought id offer.
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: Woomeister on February 10, 2005, 05:32:54 pm: We have unlimited space here. Though we can't waste space, and the staff modpack takes up quite a bit, so I deleted some of the old stuff.
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Post by: SadisticSid on February 12, 2005, 05:43:50 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Woomeister

Hmm doubt it, only the Vasudan bombers have them.

Check again :D
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Post by: Woomeister on February 12, 2005, 05:57:59 pm: Oh right I didn't know the Isdes was a beam, I thought only the Alkar series were beams :p
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Post by: Jetmech Jr. on February 12, 2005, 06:12:36 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Woomeister
Ours are slow plasma shots used for anti-warship support. They're far more effective than beams and are heavily carried by the Oberon destroyer.

Bah. BAH, I say!

Nothing outclasses beams, at least when it comes to watching the capship duels using them.
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Post by: Stardust on February 14, 2005, 07:04:36 pm: That makes 2 of us!!! Not that plasma and pusle weapons wouldn't still be L33T...
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: Woomeister on February 15, 2005, 03:58:53 am: We still have beams, but they aren't just the only thing used anymore.
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: Stardust on February 17, 2005, 09:57:50 am: that's cool. variety is the spice of life, or something like that.... :P
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Post by: NGTM-1R on February 17, 2005, 10:25:07 am: Well, that saves me somewhat from the EA beam sounds, which have on occasion literally given me a headache.
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Post by: Woolie Wool on February 17, 2005, 10:30:28 am: The EA beams sound awesome.
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: Woomeister on February 17, 2005, 05:38:13 pm: Beam sounds remain unchanged, same with most R1 sounds.
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Post by: Ghost on February 17, 2005, 09:33:16 pm: What? Most R1 sounds will be the same in R2? Can't you get better ones? Jeez... the GTVA Rapid Laser sounds just like something from ST: Voyager(it most definitely is from Voyager), and there are a whole bunch from Descent 3... and those weren't even very good.
Title: Capship weapons
Post by: Woomeister on February 18, 2005, 04:06:11 am: Nope, we're quite happy with them, and we have far better things to do than to run around looking for more sounds. We have 224 sound entries now, so that would be a lot to replace.