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Offline tEAbAG

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I know next to nothing about tweakin' the source code and  also don't know if someone else has floated this idea, but could beams be rigged to punch through heavily damaged ships?  The bit in the opening of FS 2 where that Orion gets pimpslapped was really kewl and it would be great if that could happen in game.
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Offline CP5670

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I think the game already does this to some extent, since the beams go right through ships that have under some 20% of their hull strength left. Or do you mean actually making a visible hole in the ship? That would likely require geomod capabilities and would be very difficult.

  

Offline karajorma

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Okay. I give up. Questions about Geo-mod goes into the next version of the FAQ :)

tEABAG. We'll let you off cause you`re new but you`ve asked a rather dangerous question.

The fact is that Geo-mod is only possible in a game that was built from the ground up for that sort of thing. The example from the first FS2 mission was done by timing a self destruct to occur at the same time as the beam was fired.
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Offline tEAbAG

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Ah... Well thanks for indulging my noobness.:p

I guess I'll have to wait for that in Freespace 3.

When does that come out, by the way?
:ha:
If happiness is a warm gun and love is a battlefield, why should we give peace a chance?

C-130 rollin' down the strip
hits a rock and start to tip
its all right, its OK
full of soldiers anyway

I think we should go Mung his dead grandma. - anOn

 

Offline diamondgeezer

He didn't bring Geo-mods up - CP did. Do the maths.

I don't see why he is asking what he's asking, though - beams do indeed punch through ships already, but only when the target's hull integrity hits zero. Perhaps we wants beams to always penetrate their target, regradless of the target's hull strenth...

 

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Offline karajorma

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Originally posted by diamondgeezer
He didn't bring Geo-mods up - CP did. Do the maths.

I don't see why he is asking what he's asking, though - beams do indeed punch through ships already, but only when the target's hull integrity hits zero. Perhaps we wants beams to always penetrate their target, regradless of the target's hull strenth...


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Originally posted by tEAbAG
The bit in the opening of FS 2 where that Orion gets pimpslapped was really kewl and it would be great if that could happen in game.


That's a geo-mod question DG :)
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Offline vyper

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Orange Juice is cool.
Vodka is cool.
But to a real man, OJ & Vodka is not cool.

Thus....

Geo-Mod is cool.
FS2 is cool.
But Geo-Mod and fs2 is not cool.

:nervous:

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Offline diamondgeezer

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That's a geo-mod question DG :)


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