SEV shipset instructions?

Captain Kwok · #1 August 16th, 2006, 10:07 PM

There are only armor, inner, and outer slots in SE:V - no weapon slots like SF, and also no weapon arcs. There's also plenty of slots so the number of them doesn't matter either. There is directional damage, but battles tend to be melees with little difference between ship sets.

Timstone · #2 August 17th, 2006, 02:25 PM

Kwok:
Directional damage? What do you mean by that?
I'm sure I saw fire arcs in one of those textfiles. What up with that then?

henk brouwer · #3 August 17th, 2006, 02:43 PM

I think the firing arcs are a graphical thing only: If your ship is firing at an enemy behind it the laserbeam will originate at the point specified by the corresponding firing arc somewhere at the back of the ship, when it is firing at an enemy in front of it, the laser beam will originate at the front of the ship.

Captain Kwok · #4 August 17th, 2006, 02:59 PM

Directional damage as in if the ship gets hit in the front, the forward components will get damaged and so on. Henk's assessment on the data file was correct.

Phoenix-D · #5 August 17th, 2006, 03:01 PM

Directional damage but unlimited firing arcs. An interesting combination.

Kana · #6 August 17th, 2006, 05:36 PM

So I guess there is no backward engineering on this arcs thing? I mean if we can track damage coming in, why cant we track damage going out...?

Captain Kwok · #7 August 17th, 2006, 08:03 PM

Introducing weapon arcs makes for a difficult balancing act among shipsets.