[WeatherOp]

I would really like to see Beam effects like someone said. Maybe when a beam shoots thru a warship it leaves a Huge hole, kinda like the FS2 intro with the Orion. And you can fly thru it. Another cool thing would be to dock in ships Fighter bays to complete a mission. Or for a brief moment when a mission begins you start off in subspace than warp in. But these probley won't be made into the game.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by WeatherOp
I would really like to see Beam effects like someone said. Maybe when a beam shoots thru a warship it leaves a Huge hole, kinda like the FS2 intro with the Orion. And you can fly thru it. Another cool thing would be to dock in ships Fighter bays to complete a mission. Or for a brief moment when a mission begins you start off in subspace than warp in. But these probley won't be made into the game.

1st can't be done without geo-mod or a specially designed ship.

2nd can already be done, just need the end-mission sexp and set the ships flags to have no-collide-invisible so you can physically fly in.

3rd can be semi-done already with the red-alert, and I think there is some work done to further support it with autopilot, although it probably won't be exactly what you're asking for.

[FireCrack]

It would be nice to have a turn on/off subspace sexp

[Falcon]

It would be nice if I could tell a wingman to ignore a specific wing instead of ignoring an idividual fighter would save of time.

[TrashMan]

How about flickering lights when a capship is under heavy fire?

This could be done easily - simply turning the glow effect on and off for the duration of the heavy attack.

Of course, that wouldn't work for parts mapped with no glowmap parts.

[Turnsky]

another idea... in missions with gaseous substances in it, like nebs, or atmosphere for all those skybox missions, anywho, the beam leaving a vapor trail when it stops firing, then dissappates.. can be done using the particle system i think.

[JR2000Z]

Enhanced electrical sortages that happenes when a ship is severly damaged. Like having sparks shoop up over the place and stuff.

[pecenipicek]

oooh... remember FS2 endgame? with the moloch and deimos?
now imagine that scene in normal FS2 and instead of sparks on both ships separately you have sparks jumping from one ship to the other and vice-versa...

[Grimloq]

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nah, that would look too much like some sort of weapon...


i do liek the beam-trail idea though...

[FireCrack]

Sparks on low integrity ships could be thicler and more menacing.

Those ar jut drawn lines right? no texture?

[pecenipicek]

why not grimloq?
if the ships were close enough the sparks would jump between them

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Grimloq
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nah, that would look too much like some sort of weapon...


i do liek the beam-trail idea though...

electrical arc charge-up sequence for some weapons.. like the saths in FS2 endgame.

[Lynx]

Any damage effect that's not those fiery particle trails we have now, they are the magnification of total crap. If I chase I fighter I want ot see it and not being covered by a cloud of glowing sh!t.

[pecenipicek]

oh and you like blasting ships up close

[NGTM-1R]

I always wondered if that happened to somebody. The only time I've ever had that problem was a hit right on the upper tip of the nose of my Herc...and it only got in my view when I was sitting still.

[Lynx]

I meant the particle trail on the hit ship, not my ship. sometime the silouette of the enemy fighter is completely covered by those particle trails. If you hit a ship a little debris and some sparks should fly away but right now they are ****ting out a trail of fire for half an hour.
Oh, and those fire trails look like ****.

As for ideas, some advanced ingame cutscene sexp's would be nice.

[Lightspeed]

Hey, I have a cool idea.

Wouldn't it be great if someone fixed the thrusters?

[Turnsky]

Originally posted by Lightspeed
Hey, I have a cool idea.

Wouldn't it be great if someone fixed the thrusters?

that, and intermittant thruster activation when heavily damaged, like,  say on a herc, one thruster out, one more activating randomly, the other two on full afterburn to take up the slack from the other malfunctioning two.

it's a cool idea, mind you..

i do have one more idea..

a high-poly../canon/ orion   i've seen a few attempts that have been either left unfinished, or too wide, or don't have the true feel and scale that the destroyer has...
as well as high poly turrets.. perhaps even an fs1 version, and a fs2 version, one with better looking turreted beam cannons. 'cuz the ones it has now, are more suited to plasma weaponry, like it was in fs1.  it's not /exactly/ canon i know, but, it'd fit better with the upgraded weaponry of the fs2 era warships.

[Turnsky]

yet another idea.
a different take on the main Freespace 2 campaign..  with the Retail campaign, you were in the shoes of a terran pilot. so, what about a different perspective on this?.. like, start out in the same timeline as a vasudan pilot?.. or NTF?... or even more boldly, Shivan.
as well as having a simular style campaign/chapter selection per species ,etc ala starcraft

also.. a Medal box per campaign/mod.. so one can use the same pilot, and have a medal box for each one you are in..

"on rails" missions.. where you're a turret gunner for a ship.. and somebody else is piloting.. could be interesting.

and... we all remember descent, what about complex flying missions where you have to say, blast a door apart with a bomb, then haveta shoot stuff up inside.. like a reactor or fuel/ammo dump, ai might need to be upgraded in order not to have your wingmen try to fly through rock or steel.

[NGTM-1R]

*coughHiddenTerrorlivesAFAIKcough*

A Vausdan version of the Main Campaign would be interesting, but I'm not so sure about an NTF one; mainly because the NTF loses, after all.