Space Weapons Visual Slots

hc8

I would really like to see weapons visuals slots added to the game for starships. I would like to see three slots.

1. Energy Weapons.
2. Torpedos.

For heavy escort weapons, if they are torpedos, they should be affected by the Torpedo visual, likewise if they are energy weapons.

nightken

been asked and they outright said no.

brian334

Polygons! Anims! Bug reports when my new weapons visuals fire from a degree off the muzzle of my DHCs! Oh my.

davefenestrator

I've been asking for this for years. It gripes my soul (rustles my jimmies, irks my ocelot, ...) to see that mismatched beam I need to include to get a set bonus.

meimeitoo

nightken wrote: »

been asked and they outright said no.

Can't be done, really. Torps don't just fire, but do so at a certain rate and modus (TS/HY). And their cd might be shortened. Beams have modi too, and you can't just superimpose something else on it.

An option for weapon color, I'd be in for that. But even that'd be rather tricky, as beams, for instance, tend to have mixed colors on BO, and a unique special fx.

tigeraries

they should make destroying weapon slots as well... sort of silly when your down to 10% hull and all your weapons are still operational. makes having hull/heals important... weapon effectiveness is dependent on hull. with consumables to bring weapons back online for fixed duration... 10 secs 20 secs or 30 secs with cool downs to prevent spam heals.

meimeitoo

tigeraries wrote: »

they should make destroying weapon slots as well... sort of silly when your down to 10% hull and all your weapons are still operational. makes having hull/heals important... weapon effectiveness is dependent on hull. with consumables to bring weapons back online for fixed duration... 10 secs 20 secs or 30 secs with cool downs to prevent spam heals.

Well, you can get ship injuries (on Advanced and Elite); but those are usually pretty mild (so miniscule, in fact, that you could keep flying and not notice a thing).

dracounguis

I could see it being easier to do for energy weapons since they all pew-pew about the same. Some torps do fire a bit differently than others so would be more of an issue. I'd be happy if they just did audio swaps on them! I can live with bad colors but some of the WWEEEEEEENNN!s are horrific.

shadowwraith

a weapon frequency/sound changer would be better for weapons, especially the sound changer for the TOS screechers