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Title: Request: Partially Shield Penetrating Weapons
Post by: BlasterNT on December 11, 2011, 04:54:29 pm

Kind of like the lasers in Nexus.  Is it possible to have weapons that deal shield damage, but also penetrate shields?  Something like a +ShieldPenentrationAmount with 1.00 being complete penentration and .00 being shields absorb all damage. 

Would be useful for railguns and tactical lasers and such. 

Title: Re: Request: Partially Shield Penetrating Weapons
Post by: Trivial Psychic on December 11, 2011, 05:00:55 pm

Also for Dominion weapons in a ST mod.

Title: Re: Request: Partially Shield Penetrating Weapons
Post by: Spoon on December 11, 2011, 05:14:02 pm

The visual effect like you get in nexus is not currently possible, but the damage calculations are
http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Armor.tbl

Title: Re: Request: Partially Shield Penetrating Weapons
Post by: BlasterNT on December 11, 2011, 06:10:38 pm

Oh, good to know.  So to use that on beams, would you set them to no-penetrate and then give them damage types?  In that case, would the shields light up?

EDIT:  Also, what does +Weapon Piercing Type do?  Does that refer to armor piercing, or shield piercing?

Title: Re: Request: Partially Shield Penetrating Weapons
Post by: Spoon on December 11, 2011, 07:42:35 pm

Pretty sure the shields would light up like that, yeah.

Weapon piercing is (if I am not mistaken) the 'gutting' effect when a beam (or other defined weapon) completely starts to penetrate through a ships hull.

Title: Re: Request: Partially Shield Penetrating Weapons
Post by: assasing123 on December 12, 2011, 06:54:20 pm

Quote from: Trivial Psychic on December 11, 2011, 05:00:55 pm

Also for Dominion weapons in a ST mod.

this, currently on the fix of the onmis mod i m doing, i have been on the need to put to all the weapons the no shields pierce flag, except for dominion ones precisely to achieve this effect properly, since i m not very friendly yet wtih armor tables.