Player Features and Ideas Discussion

but the question remains as to why torpedoes look so weak now? before it was huge shockwaves, and now its like a firecracker that farts and burns out. I love the new sounds but really, why would cruise missiles get bigger and better effects than something as heavy and badass as a torpedo?

I am very happy over all the new missile sound and graphical effects, but why on earth degrade badass fat big torpedoes with massive warheads to this degree?

Another thing i would love to see is new ship deaths and wrecks. These 7 year old effects are okay i suppose but sure why not implement something like this to refresh that area aswell?

I understand this game has more pressing suggestions and points that needs working, and i am very certain that people already have suggested this a thousand and one times already.

example of what i had in mind:

Armageddon deaths
Missile hit - exploded into 2 pieces with alot of smaller wreck parts from the mid section around.

Laser hit - Sliced by a laser hit, im sure you all can imagine this one out.

Projectile hit - Looks like a swiss cheese.

Hybrids - I really do now know how in theory things would look with superheated magnetic contained blobs of death flying at you

Hope you took your time to read it all

Melted Swiss cheese.

I like the idea of ship death animations, especially like a critical making it have a massive explosion. Would make it cool when you get big flashes in a big fleet fight.

Also, larger explosions should leave less salvage. Some damage types (higher damage) should have a higher likelihood of causing a catastrophic cascading failure explosion, so salvagers would have a reason to do less explosive, more precise damage.

I also think that structure damage should do damage to modules as well, randomly, so that once you take structure damage, you might get a lucky shot that takes out your tank mod, maybe even allow things like engines and navigation, so if you take a lucky hit, you go all stop, lose control of your ship, etc. Remote structure repair would be able to repair that, giving a reason to use it.

I think there is room here for some cool stuff.

Also, agree, the Torp explosion animation is pretty weak.

I think people have enough issues with overheating and modules breaking down... double edged blade :) if a fight lasts too long you will become useless anyways

To be fair to them it does make sense that kinetic missiles have a smaller explosion since it's essentially an armour piercing round. A physically stronger warhead to allow it to punch through the armour before exploding means a lesser payload.

They were maybe going to do ship shield impacts, and armor damage, and hull breaches on ship models. I cannot remember hearing them saying anything about upgrading wrecks and ship deaths. Also the torpedo opinion still stands.

The explosion from atom bombs isn't caused by the impact. It's caused by the reaction of the materials inside. Asteroids have a huge mass whish is why they are so destructive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ARjuTKdiIk demonstrates an anti-tank round. The small explosion is the actual impact of the round.

EMP isn't actual electricity. EM waves are actually invisible so be thankful for the effects at all ^^

It's like "ex wife" missile from iron man 2.

It's the Hammertech "bunker buster". The one that doesn't work.

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