battleships forever

Vanas · Post by **Vanas** » 2007-09-29 12:18pm

After getting a gun that could bisect the Leviathan, I decided to edit it a litte.

I don't know what went so awesomely wrong, but I created the Mrs.Cake out of the wreckage of the prototype.

This is it when it's not firing.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2007-09-29 09:32pm

What the flying fucking hell was that?

Darkevilme · Post by **Darkevilme** » 2007-09-29 10:34pm

i'm not sure either but i think beamers with 360 deviation are involved somewhere. lots of them.

Vanas · Post by **Vanas** » 2007-09-30 12:34pm

Rogue 9 wrote:What the flying fucking hell was that?

As I said, I'm not entirely sure. The 6 beamers all have 45 degree deviation and a 10 clip size, yet they fire a metric fuckton of beams in all directions. Is it a bug? I don't know. Is it great? Yes.

They are, it must be said, the same kind of beamer that on normal deviation can bisect the Leviathan in a second, so it's essentially death to anything within a screen of it.

Andrew_Fireborn · Post by **Andrew_Fireborn** » 2007-09-30 04:55pm

Running the tournament, I found a number of interesting things out.

Deflectors don't set damage to zero, they 'restore' damage a few frames after it's taken. This can lead to a few low health sections being destroyed when they're hit with enough force.

Mining Beams seem to almost ignore deflectors. Dunno about Aegis, but I'd imagine they're also similarly negated.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2007-10-01 02:52pm

Made me a ship...

Ariphaos · Post by **Ariphaos** » 2007-10-01 03:33pm

Darkevilme wrote:i'm not sure either but i think beamers with 360 deviation are involved somewhere. lots of them.

Those are point defense beams. You only need 3 or so if you set their rate to 1 though >_>

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2007-10-01 03:43pm

Awesome, Einy. I knew we could rely on you to create something cool. Are those redundant tactical jump drives?

Darkevilme · Post by **Darkevilme** » 2007-10-01 03:45pm

Firebird, shaped like a bird, and coloured...wow...now i must find a place to steal style.

Vanas · Post by **Vanas** » 2007-10-01 03:55pm

Xeriar wrote:Those are point defense beams. You only need 3 or so if you set their rate to 1 though >_>

Nah, they're full-on beamers. Here's the blueprints if you want to see for yourself.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2007-10-01 04:43pm

I think the thread has jumped the shark. I wonder how

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2007-10-02 03:19am

that does it, you need to build shark fin componets.

Darkevilme · Post by **Darkevilme** » 2007-10-02 11:48am

There is no such thing as too much overkill

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Though this comes close.

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Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2007-10-02 12:26pm

HOLY SHIT WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?!!

SilverWingedSeraph · Post by **SilverWingedSeraph** » 2007-10-02 12:29pm

Not quite as awesome as a super-nova ship, but pretty damn close.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2007-10-02 12:42pm

My eyes!! The goggles do nothing!

Marko Dash · Post by **Marko Dash** » 2007-10-02 03:21pm

where do the screen shots go?

SilverWingedSeraph · Post by **SilverWingedSeraph** » 2007-10-02 03:27pm

Say, does anyone have, or can anyone find me, an accurate top-down picture of the Executor? I wish to make a version for BSF that is as true to the original as I can possibly make it. It's gonna be HUEG, and have thousands of guns.

NRS Guardian · Post by **NRS Guardian** » 2007-10-02 06:57pm

SilverWingedSeraph wrote:Say, does anyone have, or can anyone find me, an accurate top-down picture of the Executor? I wish to make a version for BSF that is as true to the original as I can possibly make it. It's gonna be HUEG, and have thousands of guns.

If you go to the Star Wars Technical Commentaries Saxton has some very good pictures and sketches on his Executor page. Including these: http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/given/at/ssdapt1.gif
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/books/ ... rdian1.gif
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/cg/bop/xvt-bop.jpg
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/Xbarbi ... ecutor.jpg
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/Xbarbi ... ecutor.jpg
http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/Xbradf ... tor_33.jpg

I created some Honorverse ships and will upload them to the BSF site today or tomorrow. I've done Medusa-B and Invictus SD(P)s, Nike BC, Saganami-C CA, Courageous CL, the Fearless, Katana LAC, Shrike LAC, and Ferret LAC. Though they're somewhat simple, and use stock weapons.

EDIT: I just uploaded my attempt at Honorverse ships, here's the link: http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... _Ships.zip

SilverWingedSeraph · Post by **SilverWingedSeraph** » 2007-10-02 07:29pm

Hrm... looks like I fucked up a bit on my proportions. I'll be posting what my precious Executor looks like once I've tested her out a bit and tweaked her weapons load-out.

EDIT:

And here it is. Not to scale, and not carrying quite as many weapons as I would have liked. (Because I wanted the full 4000, damnit!)

But, I did my best with the tools and patience that I had.

th15 · Post by **th15** » 2007-10-02 09:47pm

Marko Dash: The screenshots are saved to your Battleships Forever folder (which should be c:\program files\battleships forever\) as screenshot100.bmp and so on.

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2007-10-02 09:52pm

The pace of development for BF is pretty impressive, it's gone from 77 to 79f in maybe two weeks.

Seraph, does Executor really have a heavy central battery? I thought it just had a relatively homogenous but huge battery? And the 'core' should ideally be further back in the broadest part of the ship.

Isn't nitpicking fun?

Hawkwings · Post by **Hawkwings** » 2007-10-03 01:14am

Just make an Eclipse. With an axial superlaser. And then pump it up to the maximum stats possible in the game.

Then, just to be mean...

Surprise! The "axial superlaser" actually rotates really really fast! Suckers!

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2007-10-03 02:56am

Those honorverse ships need a *little* balancing. For some reason if you break the hammerhead, the entire ship shatters dramatically?

And what's with only four lasers per broadsides on a huuuge ship?

Covenant · Post by **Covenant** » 2007-10-03 03:07am

Hawkwings wrote:Just make an Eclipse. With an axial superlaser. And then pump it up to the maximum stats possible in the game.

Then, just to be mean...

Surprise! The "axial superlaser" actually rotates really really fast! Suckers!

Just for that, I'm going to make a Cultureverse ship, and it'll bisect your Executor with Gridfire.--
--...having been informed there are already culture ships, I'll be going with the option below! Drat!

Or perhaps some ships from Star Control? I prefer Starflight myself, but I think Stark, Neph and I are the only ones who ever played it. Wait... did Neph even play it? I'll make some G'nunk and Humna Humna vessels and see who cracks up at them.

Star Control 2 was basically Starflight 2 anyway. Same difference!'

What would people want to see?