[rscaper1070]

Very Cool. Is this for Diaspora so raiders can waste more Colonial civilians at once?

[Nuke]

Yes, but it was hard-coded for only one type of weapon with a certain number of missiles, was it not?

there were configurable tables for that
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[torc]

Simply GREAT!

Is this patch already been committed?

[Cyker]

Sweeeeeet!

[KyadCK]

Right now there are two new fields that are driving this effect. One field is called "+Uncaged:" which allows one to aspect lock ships that are not targetted and within the player's forward vector. The other is called "+Independent Seekers:" which allows multiple locks to be present. Only one aspect seeker can be "seeking" at a time but I'll have a parameter called "+Max Active Seekers:" which will dictate how many lock triangles can be locking simultaneously.

This doesn't work for AI yet. The priority is to get this working feature complete then to get this working with multiplayer (Or at least not break multiplayer). Then maybe I'll probably find a way to get the AI to use this.

As for how many missiles, you're limited to how many swarm or corkscrew missiles you have per salvo. Dual secondaries simply has the effect of launching two missiles for each locked up target.

Currently working on a parameter that will have the locks only working if you have the secondary fire button held down and firing when you release. I also need to work a parameter that forces the locks to reset when you fire in case someone wants to decide that they don't want players to spam the ability.

 

Gunboats being able to harass the whole opposing team at once, that'd be interesting... Until all 4 of them get annoyed and gun their ass down anyway.

[haloboy100]

Now let's see you do it with Helios torpedoes and a line of cruisers.

[-Norbert-]

Or maybe locking multiple turrets on a single ship?

[Trivial Psychic]

Or maybe locking multiple turrets on a single ship?

How about the ability for anti-cap anti-turret weapons to individually lock onto different turrets on the same ship?

[Legate Damar]

I am quite impressed