Warp core breaches on dark mattered or digital compilation ships.

baucoin

This is something that has always bugged me. It mostly happens when fighting the borg. When you defeat a large ship like a cube or a Unimatrix if you defeat them while under the effects of a dark matter torpedo or the newer digital compilation trait, they disappear like they should, however a short time later they have a warp core breach as if they were defeated normally. Why do they still have this breach? They should just be gone, whether disintegrated or digitized.

spiritborn

baucoin wrote: »

This is something that has always bugged me. It mostly happens when fighting the borg. When you defeat a large ship like a cube or a Unimatrix if you defeat them while under the effects of a dark matter torpedo or the newer digital compilation trait, they disappear like they should, however a short time later they have a warp core breach as if they were defeated normally. Why do they still have this breach? They should just be gone, whether disintegrated or digitized.

I guessing ships that are above the player scale are coded differently when it comes to their destruction. I suspect other similar sized vessels like the dreadnought type Voth ships would behave the same way.

In essence I suspect the "explosively break apart" is hard coded into that style of ships and is far as far coding is separate from the warp core breach.

EDIT: when the foundry still existed IIRC you could place 3-4 different sizes of explosions, 1 for shuttles and other small craft, 1-2 for most ships and 1 for really big things like Borg cubes or Voth city ships.

rattler2

Yea I think its a scripted thing with ships of a certain size. Same with the Transwarp gates. They do vaporize, but they're scripted to break apart as well.

inferiority

Stick around at the end of a Red Alert and watch the Borg Cubes & Dreadnought.
They blow up as expected when defeated. They then have a Core Breach. A short while later, the large fragments then also explode into nothing.

I would suspect that the Dark Matter or Digitized Cubes and Dreadnoughts skip past the 1st explosion as they are defeated; they also do not Core Breach, but the third explosion (large fragments) is likely what we are hearing.
Now, technically, we shouldn't have those explosions either, but I suspect it's just something we have to live with, perhaps as a limitation of the game.