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Offline Kolgena

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Regardless, I still think Terslashes need to be bigger than they are now.

 

Offline Qent

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The default BGreen's actual beam was wider than the Aeolus and it doesn't even kill them in one hit, so yes, it did have a size issue.

The Hecate's beam dishes are all a bit too big anyway, just huge targets to destroy, really.
If you reduce the size of the beam itself below retail, then you'll run into the problem of what looks like empty space killing your fighter.

 

Offline General Battuta

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The default BGreen's actual beam was wider than the Aeolus and it doesn't even kill them in one hit, so yes, it did have a size issue.

The Hecate's beam dishes are all a bit too big anyway, just huge targets to destroy, really.
If you reduce the size of the beam itself below retail, then you'll run into the problem of what looks like empty space killing your fighter.

No you won't. Beam width can be set in tables independent of the visual effect.

 

Offline Qent

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If you reduce the size of the beam itself below retail, then you'll run into the problem of what looks like empty space killing your fighter.

No you won't. Beam width can be set in tables independent of the visual effect.
That's exactly why you will. MVP tables keep the "actual" beam width at retail while the visual effect looks shrunken.

 

Offline General Battuta

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If you reduce the size of the beam itself below retail, then you'll run into the problem of what looks like empty space killing your fighter.

No you won't. Beam width can be set in tables independent of the visual effect.
That's exactly why you will. MVP tables keep the "actual" beam width at retail while the visual effect looks shrunken.

Hrm, you may have a point. Though said widths could be adjusted, it would technically impact retail gameplay.

  

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Regardless, I still think Terslashes need to be bigger than they are now.
If they're made any bigger, they'll be 'out of scale' so to speak, with the other beams. Their damage isn't enough to suggest it being much bigger (or even really comparable to the BGreen in size).

Really, the terslash and lterslash are the closest beams the Terran's have to being pulse beams, which are fast firing yet low damaging beams, which wouldn't exactly make much sense being comparable to something like the BGreen.
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