Author Topic: Which weapons would you like to see in FreeSpace? (Read 41189 times)

Androgeos Exeunt · **Reply #200 on:** December 29, 2009, 11:41:58 pm

Quote from: Mongoose on December 29, 2009, 01:00:06 am

"Player X's Flare ignites Player Y's fuel leak!"

Fixed.

Pity the "Player X merges Player Y's face with his windshield" death message isn't vanilla.

Colonol Dekker · **Reply #201 on:** December 30, 2009, 05:01:29 am

I don't remember ever hearing but. . . . Was turret recoil ever implemented?

Because that's one thing freespace is severely lacking in.

Firartix · **Reply #202 on:** December 30, 2009, 05:03:50 am

Yo. I'm just gonna throw all ideas i have.

- Droppable Mines
- Droppable Sentry Guns
- Umbrella Shields. You deploy them somewhere and act as a shield. It could just be a 0 speed infinite lifetime missile.
- Cloud missiles (like Piranas, but weaker and recursive sub-munitions!)
- AAA Beam turrets !
- More subspace missiles
- The laser painting calling subspace missiles
- TAG Laser
- Missile with a constant explosion, making kindda a no-fly zone for 10-60s

Edit: Yo wait! I forgot something nice !
- Energy Transfer beam
- Shield Transfer beam
- Eventually, hull repair nanobots beam ?
- Subsystems repairer.
(Idea stolen from EVE Online) You could make this with negative damage weapons, right?

Commander Zane · **Reply #203 on:** December 30, 2009, 05:12:07 am

Quote from: Colonol Dekker on December 30, 2009, 05:01:29 am

I don't remember ever hearing but. . . . Was turret recoil ever implemented?

Because that's one thing freespace is severely lacking in.

Not suprising you'd ask that considering the mod you're a part of. ;P

Firartix · **Reply #204 on:** December 30, 2009, 05:19:48 am

Anothere idea. Beam trail missiles.
Some missile doing a beam trail that last for a few seconds, damaging everything that pass in it.

Or an explosion trail missile (this wasn't my idea, though) : a missile with a short lifespan that spawn himself. It'll just keep detonating !
Well.. i guess you need a way to remove it or it'll stay forever.

Commander Zane · **Reply #205 on:** December 30, 2009, 05:24:28 am

Quote from: Firartix on December 30, 2009, 05:19:48 am

Anothere idea. Beam trail missiles.
Some missile doing a beam trail that last for a few seconds, damaging everything that pass in it.

The picture I'm seeing, if trail means exactly what it is, I'm seeing the missile leave the ship, then becoming hot molten slag by its own missile.

Firartix · **Reply #206 on:** December 30, 2009, 05:26:11 am

Well it could work another way

A Beamlauncher-launcher missile, carrying the beam launcher missile for 3 seconds.
Then it detonates, releasing the Beamlauncher missile.

headdie · **Reply #207 on:** December 30, 2009, 05:28:06 am

how about a bomber weapon which could be deployed mine style that shoots a flimsy aaf style beam at nearby hostile fighters

Firartix · **Reply #208 on:** December 30, 2009, 05:34:59 am

Following this idea: a deployable generator, making a shield-regeneration field !
However i'm not sure if this would be technically possible... and if it do... it would surely require scripting i guess

Edit: About turret recoil... Why would Laser turrets have recoil ?!
However i think it should be implemented on railgun. Too bad they're for capships.
Following that idea (too), is the turret turn rate implemented in FS2 ?
It is in EVE too, and while your angular speed is higher than the turret, it miss all shots (it's likely with an interceptor)

Commander Zane · **Reply #209 on:** December 30, 2009, 05:42:48 am

Quote from: Firartix on December 30, 2009, 05:34:59 am

Edit: About turret recoil... Why would Laser turrets have recoil ?!
However i think it should be implemented on railgun. Too bad they're for capships.

Actually the very reason Dekker would ask about it is because he's part of the Apocalypse Project team which is making Homeworld for FreeSpace, and Homeworld has turret recoil on their larger caliber weaponry.

Killer Whale · **Reply #210 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:03:56 am

Quote from: Firartix on December 30, 2009, 05:34:59 am

About turret recoil... Why would Laser turrets have recoil ?!

Why would Laser turrets have visible rounds?! Reason: not entirely laser... or rule of cool, both would answer both questions.

Firartix · **Reply #211 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:29:15 am

We talked about this on IRC already
And some people said weapon like Subach are XASER and not LASER. however, i'm not aware of the difference >.>'
They also said, the beams color is just some side-effect. However, i don't remember why. Then i think it may just be the same thing for laser turrets...
But that may also explain the recoil right?

Snail · **Reply #212 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:30:04 am

Subluminal lasers

Ie. Don't look into it too much. If lasers (or xasers, which are lasers just at a different wavelength) travel slower than light then **** physics, more or less.

Commander Zane · **Reply #213 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:36:01 am

Xaser isn't used in reality terms, it was a condensation for X-ray particle which only lasted as long as it took for a person to say it.

Unless you look at computers which Xaser is a model brand.

Firartix · **Reply #214 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:36:59 am

~~Another idea.~~ Other ideas.
AFAIK, Shield only get damaged where you shot it, right ?
How about an EM Weapon equally damaging all shields ?
Or a special EM laser, causing sensor bugs and shield alteration (shield integrity changes of shield part or something, auto-equalize..)

Special energy-drain weapons would be fun too.
Like, you fire anyway on the ship, and it damages engine, or weapons, or something. It could even be random

Last thing: get us disruptor weapons, like in TBP !

BTW, Any chance of seeing those Umbrella Shields somewhere?
I heard about it on Allegiance but they said it was removed.

Commander Zane · **Reply #215 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:39:24 am

Quote from: Firartix on December 30, 2009, 07:36:59 am

Special energy-drain weapons would be fun too.

Lamprey and Leech Gun.

Firartix · **Reply #216 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:40:42 am

Don't they drain energy ?
I was talking about something that would actually disrupt random subsystems.. or damage em

Commander Zane · **Reply #217 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:48:17 am

You said energy-drain.
So I gave you exactly the weapons that do what you said.

Snail · **Reply #218 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:51:43 am

Semantics.

Jeff Vader · **Reply #219 on:** December 30, 2009, 07:56:22 am

Quote from: Firartix on December 30, 2009, 07:36:59 am

Like, you fire anyway on the ship, and it damages engine, or weapons, or something.

...

disruptor weapons

Akheton SDG, Disruptor Cannon, Advanced Disruptor?

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