Custom made animation for new ship?

[Capt. Henry Morgan]

I know of -one- person who was killed, in a fleeing fighter by the Cruiser front cannon. I shall not mention his name for fear of making JihadJoe blush.

Joe wasn't the only one, dusty. I was in the process of engaging a Lib GB when one came on me. I was turning to make a pass at the GB, then saw this huge circle, then a bright light. After that, I found myself floating in a tunnel, with a light at the end of it. When I reached the light, I saw a button marked 'Respawn'.

On the topic at hand, though. An ammo based gun like that would be a cool feature.

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[Dusty Lens]

Joe wasn't the only one, dusty. I was in the process of engaging a Lib GB when one came on me. I was turning to make a pass at the GB, then saw this huge circle, then a bright light. After that, I found myself floating in a tunnel, with a light at the end of it. When I reached the light, I saw a button marked 'Respawn'.

On the topic at hand, though. An ammo based gun like that would be a cool feature.

Hahaha.

I'm a huge fan of such ship types myself. But I believe Igiss is wary o' forward boomstick guns.

[Screenlag]

I know of -one- person who was killed, in a fleeing fighter by the Cruiser front cannon. I shall not mention his name for fear of making JihadJoe blush.

Oh wait.

The Lib Cruiser cannon could do with a severe uppage of speed, but the main problem with turret boom cannons having high damage ultrahigh speed slow refire is that they'd be super epic against lil bitty fighters. 'less one could reduce their accuracy and slow their tracking some.

If a fighter is going straight for a location then it's impossbile not to hit. If it would be 2k from you, let's say it's a bomber, and it keep's going towards you to make the torpeedos hit easier and harder to evade.
I do not have much experience with flying a bomber, but I've seen some with about 10k (not really sure) And 8k shield (can they have more?)
Well, If the target is a Preafect cruiser, which I have had much experience with. It has 12 turrets, ten of them is located to be able to fire forward. A cruiser turret deals about 3600 hull damage/second and about 1800 shield damage/second. Let's say you only have 2shot/sec turrets.
At first, the bomber will recieve 10x1900 shield damage, that makes 19k, which probably takes the shield out. the other barrage of fire will cause about 36k of hull damage, and pretty much destroying bomber.
As long as a ship flies in a staright line, it wont be hard to hit.
Maybe You could give a missile the same speed as a laser shot, they're pretty fast, but also dodgeable.

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[Jinx]

"Those effects are possible in Freelancer Jinx" ( linkus )

wow - they are? - why don t we have them:crazy:- i want. freelancer may be old, but a few nice effects and a little facelift and it d be perfect. - i don t need flash bumb mapping and normal maps etc and what not feature.... but when i fire a BIG projectile, i love to see a BIG boom, both on firing aswell as on impact. - it just makes the power of the projectile believable. - when its possible to make such effects...... maaaaybe we could get them =)

and i thought the freelancer engine was too old for that. - ( btw. the ships in that little animation look like a rheinland version of a liberty cruiser )

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[Screenlag]

Those effects are possible in Freelancer Jinx. Take a peek at FLCE's weapons. Their large slug firing capital ships have interesting effects. We also did something similar in another mod with mixed results, namely due to the effects just not fitting the gun.

This would make a very nice addition I think. A rail gun on a larger scale for capital ships. The Liberty Cruiser's forward gun is an energy weapon which is probably more efficient than using ammunition but may not achieve the same impact damage. So a solid slug firing weapon like that would be different as well.

Also let's face it. When you imagine capital ship battles you think of vast fleets churning through each other, weapons fire causing carnage and destruction while fighters and bombers whiz by, occasionally failing to dodge the flak and so resulting in the vessel streaking away and smashing into another ship, with flames erupting everywhere. This is a step in that direction.

Maybe the liberty cruiser forward gun should have more shield damage than hull. Maybe it shoots plasma.
well, if this was made, then the liberty cruiser would still be able to equip it right, as a missile launcher is a gun. Then the lib cruiser would be more flexible for your personal style.

And by the way, you describe a space battle exactly the way I think of a real one.

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[Tortured_Soul]

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=17919

My Railgun suggestion more or less the same as yours. As for the effects, if they're possible then awesomeness shall ensue.

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[Walker]

While the MAC would a nice addition...
Liberty Cruiser's Cannon Needs to be faster.

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