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Offline aldo_14

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Re: SD-4 Sidearm Primary Weapon in the Freespace 2
I think it might've been named Herring after the Skipper missile in the Wing Commander universe, which could phase in and out of normal space like SSM torpedoes.
Why has nobody ever made an unbelievably cool torpedo like this yet?

I think it's been made possible (the proper skipper, i.e. launch-jump-arrive-hit rather than targeting laser-arrive-hit) with the SCP.  But I don't know how you'd actually make it......

The SSM IMO isn't used much because it's not only still rather obscure, but it has this nasty problem of being a nearly endless supply of bombs (with the TL at least; I think TAG-C has been edited in the code so as to act in the same way as the TL, making it more feasible).

 

Offline watsisname

Re: SD-4 Sidearm Primary Weapon in the Freespace 2 Trailer..
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There's one for the Quarantine MOD, i think. Kazan also made a badass gravity bomb. :D

There's a gravity bomb? :eek2:
Oh, can you post a link for this?  Please?  ;7
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Re: SD-4 Sidearm Primary Weapon in the Freespace 2
I think it's been made possible (the proper skipper, i.e. launch-jump-arrive-hit rather than targeting laser-arrive-hit) with the SCP.  But I don't know how you'd actually make it......
It's explained here in the wiki.

 

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Re: SD-4 Sidearm Primary Weapon in the Freespace 2
There's a gravity bomb? :eek2:
Oh, can you post a link for this?  Please?  ;7
That's easy.  A weapon with a large radius and a negative mass should draw everything in its blast towards it, IIRC.
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Last edited by StratComm on 08-23-2027 at 08:34 PM

 
Re: SD-4 Sidearm Primary Weapon in the Freespace 2 Trailer..
Does that include the Sathanas, cause i really been waiting for a bear baiting trap for a while.. ;7

 

Offline Goober5000

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Re: SD-4 Sidearm Primary Weapon in the Freespace 2
Ooh, gravitic mines... :drevil:

 

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Re: SD-4 Sidearm Primary Weapon in the Freespace 2 Trailer..
Originally posted by Cobra:
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There's one for the Quarantine MOD, i think. Kazan also made a badass gravity bomb. :D

There's a gravity bomb? :eek2:
Oh, can you post a link for this?  Please?  ;7

well, i can post the table entry for you if you like. :)
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Re: SD-4 Sidearm Primary Weapon in the Freespace 2
There's a gravity bomb? :eek2:
Oh, can you post a link for this?  Please?  ;7
That's easy.  A weapon with a large radius and a negative mass should draw everything in its blast towards it, IIRC.

Yup, I toyed with those back in the FS1 days. Not much practical use though unless you could maintain a sustained negative blast. (tons of small spawn explosions in the same spot with the same negative mass)
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Re: SD-4 Sidearm Primary Weapon in the Freespace 2 Trailer..
Gravity bombs are quite fun to use. just be sure to run like hell once you fire one off. ;)
To consider the Earth as the only populated world in infinite space is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field of millet, only one grain will grow. - Metrodorus of Chios
I wept. Mysterious forces beyond my ken had reached into my beautiful mission and energized its pilots with inhuman bomb-firing abilities. I could only imagine the GTVA warriors giving a mighty KIAAIIIIIII shout as they worked their triggers, their biceps bulging with sinew after years of Ivan Drago-esque steroid therapy and weight training. - General Battuta

 

Offline Goober5000

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Re: SD-4 Sidearm Primary Weapon in the Freespace 2
Yup, I toyed with those back in the FS1 days. Not much practical use though unless you could maintain a sustained negative blast. (tons of small spawn explosions in the same spot with the same negative mass)

Hmm.  Every-time with explosion-effect?

  

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Re: SD-4 Sidearm Primary Weapon in the Freespace 2 Trailer..
there was a gravity bomb mod for FS2 i played many years ago.

i made a sucessful ractor beam once, but it was useless, because it pulled the ship toward you and crashed into you and hurt you.
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