[TrashMan]

Possible to get one?

It can be handy when you want to script a fight 8even visually) so that a ship hits another in a specified place. Basicely a 100% accuracy beam towards the center of the subsystem.

right now I'm trying to script a capship blowing up a subobject door on a small base, but the beam just won't hit there....irritating as hell.

[blowfish]

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[Mobius]

As far as I remember fire-beam allows a ship to hit a specific subsystem with a formidable level of precision...in your case it could miss due to the beam's entry(accuracy?) and/or to the subsystem...

[blowfish]

As far as I remember fire-beam allows a ship to hit a specific subsystem with a formidable level of precision...in your case it could miss due to the beam's entry(accuracy?) and/or to the subsystem...

In my experience, hitting specific subsystems isn't impeded by accuracy.  I haven't confirmed this though

And doesn't this belong in FRED discussion?

[Droid803]

fire-beam targeting a subsystem is 100% accurate. It WILL hit unless the target moves.
That's what I've found at least.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

Depends on the beam.  They do usually hit but not always. 

[TrashMan]

Wow...I've been FREDing for years...how the hell did I miss that the fire-beam sexps can take an aditional subsystem argument? I don't recall that. Is that a SCP addition? Was it there all the time?
HEhe...guess even old dawgz can learn a few new tricks from time to time.

[Mobius]

Boooo!

At the beginning I used to play missions and try to visualize their FREDding in my head. In one of the extra missions of my copy of FS2(I have the Gold version) a Hades fires its beams on a Lucifer's subsystems with a high rate of fire. I opened the mission in FRED and found out about fire-beam.

[Droid803]

Depends on the beam.  They do usually hit but not always. 

Ok, slash beams aside...
I've never seen a direct-fire beam shooting at a subsystem centered on the target miss.

[Akalabeth Angel]

Wow...I've been FREDing for years...how the hell did I miss that the fire-beam sexps can take an aditional subsystem argument? I don't recall that. Is that a SCP addition? Was it there all the time?
HEhe...guess even old dawgz can learn a few new tricks from time to time.

   That ****'s been around since Retail FS2

[Spicious]

Ok, slash beams aside...
I've never seen a direct-fire beam shooting at a subsystem centered on the target miss.

Slash beams should act like direct fire beams when targeting a subsystem.

[Mobius]

Yes but their shots are shot ones and hardly destroy subsystems on bigger warships...