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| ID | Project | Category | Date Submitted | Last Update | |
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| 0013731 | The Last Federation | Gameplay Idea | Apr 9, 2014 5:45 am | Apr 14, 2014 6:43 pm | |
| Reporter | Darloth | Assigned To | keith.lamothe | ||
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 0.851 (Better Smuggling) | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 0.900 (Adviser, Attitude Dispatches, Science) | ||||
| Summary | 0013731: Gigacannon usage - is it feasible to change to manually targetted? | ||||
| Description | The gigacannon being autoaimed seems like a holdover from when the game was more twitch based. I think it would much improve the fun of this weapon (and allow some amusing skillshots as well as hilarious "why did I not check behind that thing!" moments) if you could target it manually. As it is, it occasionally fires at flagships I didn't intend it to because I couldn't see which of two was actually closest, and additionally it's really hard to use in some cases when enemy flagships are far away or not present. If it could be made to fire manually (using the same style as the manual point targetting of the normal weapons, so I would hope it wouldn't be a massive amount of work to do) then you could do a lot more with it, like taking out incoming swarms of enemies. Since it only has 5 shots, I think this would be just fine. Additionally, it would be nice if the effects for it were a bit more giga. I would most prefer a gigantic glowing hot-yellow fading to reddish-orange energy wave with trailing particle effects and perhaps some fancy swirls in the immediate wake of it, but anything a bit more impressive would be good. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Internal Weight | New | ||||
| duplicate of | 0013666 | resolved | keith.lamothe | Show targets of Anti-Swarm laser |
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Unfortunately that actually would be a huge amount of work, the ability system isn't really designed for that. :/ |
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Ah well. Perhaps as an expansion, along with some targetted AoE abilities? :) |
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Oh well. |
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For 0.863: * Mousing over a special ability (not a normal weapon) now highlights the target(s) it will fire at. Particularly helpful for multi-target stuff like anti swarm lasers. Thanks :) |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| Apr 9, 2014 5:45 am | Darloth | New Issue | |
| Apr 9, 2014 10:22 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Note Added: 0035652 | |
| Apr 9, 2014 10:53 am | Darloth | Note Added: 0035668 | |
| Apr 9, 2014 2:27 pm | zharmad | Note Added: 0035675 | |
| Apr 9, 2014 8:36 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Assigned To | => keith.lamothe |
| Apr 9, 2014 8:36 pm | Chris_McElligottPark | Status | new => assigned |
| Apr 14, 2014 9:30 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Category | Suggestion - Gameplay => Gameplay Idea |
| Apr 14, 2014 10:12 am | Chris_McElligottPark | Relationship added | duplicate of 0013666 |
| Apr 14, 2014 6:43 pm | keith.lamothe | Internal Weight | => New |
| Apr 14, 2014 6:43 pm | keith.lamothe | Note Added: 0036049 | |
| Apr 14, 2014 6:43 pm | keith.lamothe | Status | assigned => resolved |
| Apr 14, 2014 6:43 pm | keith.lamothe | Fixed in Version | => 0.900 (Adviser, Attitude Dispatches, Science) |
| Apr 14, 2014 6:43 pm | keith.lamothe | Resolution | open => fixed |
