[Androgeos Exeunt]

So, so true.

Maybe that's why a Deimos takes quite a while to cream an Arcadia.

[RedBaron]

Is there some kind of editor?
Where can I find it?

[General Battuta]

Editor for...?

[Androgeos Exeunt]

* Androgeos Exeunt almost gave RedBaron the directions to find FRED2.

[Snail]

So, so true.

Maybe that's why a Deimos takes quite a while to cream an Arcadia.

Sometimes slash beams do the daftest things, like *just* slice the bottom tower of the Arcadia. Sure, you'll destroy the random subsystem there but the Arcadia will probably take, what, 1-2% damage at most.

I must prefer spearmint beams, they're much more consistent.

[Spoon]

I got wacked out of nowhere by a friendly terslash beam once. Instant death.

[Droid803]

Slash beams are wonderful at taking out enemy fighters approaching it.
...and random fighters elsewhere...

[TrashMan]

I prefer regulr beams too.

There's a something about that big, powefull shaft of light that knows where it's going and penetrates the hull hard...I can't put my finger on it.

[Dragon]

In FS, I prefer regular beams, but I think using slashers helps to balance beams in custom mods, plus they look great in battle.
I'm using slashing for all beams in my mod, so they don't do as much damage as direct fire beams, which allows battles to take longer.

[Asakura]

One death out of every three when I play Apocalypse on medium or below were the lovely results of the Deimos' slashers. The second involves the miraculous chance of being spot on between two capital ships where the large non-slashers go through. The last is just me being stupid in most cases.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

I recall being hit by a glancing TerSlash shot from a Deimos once. I didn't die because I was playing on Very Easy.

Oh, and I believe Flaming_Sword has made some slightly better slashing beams in his Shivans! mod. I've seen them in action before, and I think they're pretty good.

[Droid803]

Lengthening its firing time seems to make it behave closer to a direct-fire beam, so that might be it.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Does it make them slash slower? The Shivan slashers I saw in Shivans! seem to do that.

[Droid803]

Yeah. They slash slower the longer its life is set to.

[Enigmatic Entity]

The "spearmint" beams do absurd things like -just- hit the tip of some spiky protrusion on the ship and deal the full amount of damage...

[Snail]

The "spearmint" beams do absurd things like -just- hit the tip of some spiky protrusion on the ship and deal the full amount of damage...

Yep.

[stuart133]

The "spearmint" beams do absurd things like -just- hit the tip of some spiky protrusion on the ship and deal the full amount of damage...

IMO that is down to the lack of damage modelling in FS.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Yeah. They slash slower the longer its life is set to.

In that case, if you set a slash beam to last for about 0.5s and set its recharge time to 0s...

[Commander Zane]

Rave beam?

[Enigmatic Entity]

Or set an "AAA" type beam with 0s recharge and 0.1s length per fire, 0s wait between volley in the 3-fire part, and you have an inescapable tracking beam, unless you get out of range...an interesting idea would be to set the damage and mass very low so that if you approach a target you slowly get damaged.

Make it invisible and you can have some interesting missions...