[Fineus]

I know we're in code freeze but, something occured to me about the player ship... I realised I get really annoyed with the "red out" that shows up when you get hit by any kind of weapon. Would it be possible to remove / modify this to merely shake the HUD or something (similar to the EMP effect) as I kinda like watching massive ships spray dangerous fire at me but that's hard when there's a red out going on.

[karajorma]

This was proposed a while ago but some of us like the red effect so it goes make it optional.

[Janos]

I think the hull damage should be presented in some more extreme way than the red effect, which is fine in shield damage.

Somekind of a warning summer or classic Big Red Light ("DAMAGE!"), perhaps?

[Fineus]

Well shield damage could ideally be reflected by some large and (almost) obscuring shield hit effect... might be resource intensive though. Hull damage could be reflected by god knows what... warning claxons, hull effects, HUD effects are all possibilities.

[TrashMan]

I remember X-Wing Alliance....

Every time you were hit, your console was sprouting sparks all over and you HUD blinked...not to mention the shake....

[Unknown Target]

Too bad we don't have a cockpit *wink wink nudge nudge*.

Anyway, has anyone here ever played Jane's WWII Fighters? When you got hit, those sound effects let you KNOW about it. Maybe just some big-bass sound effects are in order.

[diamondgeezer]

You think a warning klaxon or even someone saying 'warning, warning' is going to be somehow less annoying then the red-out? If there's so much red it's getting annoying you're getting shot too much. Seriously. It's happened to me, like, twice. Suddenly you think 'wow, that's a lot of red. Maybe I ought to evade like the fish guy says'

[Unknown Target]

It doesn't have to be a KLAXON, you can have a big THUMP when you get hit. Basically, just remove the red, and add a lot of thumps and shudders. You will definately know if you're getting shot or not.

If your fire warning (the little beep beep whenever primaries are being fired at you) is going off like mad, you're ship is shaking, and large thumps are coming from behind you, and you STILL don't notice that you're being shot, you deserve to die.

[diamondgeezer]

Alright, let me put this another way - it was TopAce who came up with the idea last time. That ought to say something.

[Fineus]

Not really, it'd be nice to have alternatives to the red out method though, and if they're made optional then you can turn them off and keep the original method if you really want.

[mikhael]

Does anyone remember the damage effects from Iwar2? The "bloom" on your LDAs when they stop some damage? The THUMP when you take hull damage? Even better, the kick you get when you're in something small, like the AdPat and get hit by heavy PBC fire? You know you're getting beat on in Iwar2.

[phreak]

like when you make a sudden 135 degree turn.  if there were klaxons in FS2, then they should be only on for a second or two once you go below 20% hull integrity.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by diamondgeezer
You think a warning klaxon or even someone saying 'warning, warning' is going to be somehow less annoying then the red-out? If there's so much red it's getting annoying you're getting shot too much. Seriously. It's happened to me, like, twice. Suddenly you think 'wow, that's a lot of red. Maybe I ought to evade like the fish guy says'

DG beat me to it but you do have to wonder about people who say that Klaxons are less annoying.

The only time the red thing ever annoys me is when I'm trying to take screenshots. So like I said keep this optional cause I like things the way they are.

[Woolie Wool]

There should be a big BANG sound as if something's pounding against your hull.

Also, if you are under 25% hull integrity and get hit, a klaxon should sound.

[Carl]

maybe we should keep the red effect, but have a slider in the effects options menu to increase or decrease the intensity.

[Unknown Target]

Agreed with Carl, and there should be a zero setting as well.
And, of course, could the SCP add a "Internal hit effect" to the weapons? So you put a sound in whenever you want the thing to play a certain sound when it hits you (while you're in your HUD).

[Kazan]

i like the way wing commander did it

[Unknown Target]

I played WC IV, but meforgets how they did it. Enlighten us, please?

[TrashMan]

The shiled hit sound when somone's hitting your shield + that blinking light

A thump sound and a red flash when someone hit's your hulll. Possible small HUD distortion or blink

A intensive warning sound when your hull goes below 25% and some major HUD blinking/distortion..

That's my 2 cents...

[Beowulf]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
I know we're in code freeze but, something occured to me about the player ship... I realised I get really annoyed with the "red out" that shows up when you get hit by any kind of weapon. Would it be possible to remove / modify this to merely shake the HUD or something (similar to the EMP effect) as I kinda like watching massive ships spray dangerous fire at me but that's hard when there's a red out going on.