Last night I was playing BC 2 and I was shooting the F out of an enemy tank. then the git suddelny popped up a 360 degree smoke screen and I couldn`t see where he was going...
This got me thinking.
There really is no spoon.
and, more on topic, I thought, why not implement something like that in FL?
A mine or CM that doesnt explode upon impact or counters against cds, but rather a passive defense weapon that creates a cloud of smoke around your ship for a few seconds. For gbs and cruisers only I guess. on anything smaller its pointless: since those ships are too fast and a bs needs a MASSIVE smoke cloud to conceal itself.
But a gb or cruiser can use the smoke as a means to cloud itself from the view of bombers or other warships. as such, it may just be able to avoid snac or mortar fire for a few critical seconds. To avoid people abusing it the refire can be set really low. I dunno if the smoke effect will cause lag though.
Just an idea, anyway.
And dont go 'smoke in space, how unrealistic'. this is FL we're talking about, where aliens got raped instead of vice verca.
edit: this smoke screen is meant for combat purposes only and not as some sort of cloak that makes you invisible on the scanners. 'tis pure to obstrust visuals in combat.
Nice idea, but will be quite useless unless it also makes you disappear from scanners... else the bombers will just aim by your HUD rectangle and still SNACk you.
Smoke in space is actually realistic, a fine particulate dust of sensor obscuring material is quite possible, although it'd dissipate fairly quick. Problem is how you would implement this, as for it to be effective it'd need to hide ships from the selection, something that just doesn't happen < 10K space. As long as you can select an enemy ship you have it's heading and the targeting indicator if you are in range.
The idea is good, I just don't think there's any way to implement it technically:(
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' Wrote:Nice idea, but will be quite useless unless it also makes you disappear from scanners... else the bombers will just aim by your HUD rectangle and still SNACk you.
nah, I thougth about that. Its pure combat related. not some wannabe cloak.
the smoke covers your entire ship. your hud box is still visible. so, in theory, bombers or.caps just aim for the centre of the hud box and go pew pew. but what they cant see is what you are doing.
you may have turned your ship. you may be boxing inside the cloud, you may be charging your cruise engines to gtfo. you may be lining up a snipe combo for a bomber who is approaching you but cant see what your ship is doing.
stuff like that. sure, the reticle may betray some of your movements. but it wont betray enough of your actions: you need to see the ship itself.