Thrawn's Revenge

Ascendancy [SoaSE] => Ascendancy Tech Support => Topic started by: Indignation211 on February 18, 2016, 10:19:11 PM

Title: Ion Cannons damaging hull, among others
Post by: Indignation211 on February 18, 2016, 10:19:11 PM

I first noticed this back in .95 with the Executor, but going through the files again for 1.0 beta I noticed a lot more instances of this:

AttackType "CAPITALSHIP"
DamageAffectType "AFFECTS_SHIELDS_AND_HULL"
DamageApplyType "BACKLOADED"
DamageType "ENERGY"
WeaponClassType "ION"

Am I right in assuming this means these ion cannons damage hull as well as shields? Is this intentional or a bug? Off the top of my head I know the Executor, Viscount, Bellator, Nebula, MC90, MC80B, and MC80 Liberty are like this, but i'm sure there's more.

I also noticed a few other curiosities, like one set of turbolasers on the Dauntless having ion cannon particles and the other being able to fire on fighters... again, bugs or intentional???

Title: Re: Ion Cannons damaging hull, among others
Post by: Corey on February 20, 2016, 03:31:58 PM

I recently did a pass on all ships and fixed all of these. Will probably do another later to change some firing arcs.

As far as the ability to target fighters goes, that's more to test how it impacts targeting/how it impacts fighters.