Re: [MAIN] XPiratez - N7 16-Dec-2023 Flying Tiger, Hidden Tentacle

[juff]

The online Ufopaedia could add a glossary page for piratez. Which terms do you find troublesome?

[Foxhound634]

Having to navigate to other screens, menus and even websites is tedious by today's standards, where tooltips would alleviate that. Since it wouldn't be an easy thing to implement however, i'll just go through it the old-fashioned way

[Voidflame]

I should probably know this, but is power bonus the same as extra weapon damage? 

[Ashghan]

Statistically speaking - yes. Technically it's just that - bonus power, so if a gun has a damage roll of 0-200% you can still do no (or insignificant) damage, even with the bonus. It just makes average damage higher and 0-dmg rolls slightly less possible.

On a sidenote - that actually pisses me off on sniper weapons - you can have a weapon that can shoot once, should deal more than lethal damage and... 'ping' >> no damage. I'd really love for snipers to have a 50-150% roll. Or maybe a 25-175. The near-miss explanation kinda fails for shots that have over 200% chance to hit.

[legionof1]

Upping the bottom percentage wouldn't do much for most sniper type weapons, most of the "0 dmg" hits are actually failure to penetrate armor rather then a true 0% roll.

The slow rate of fire and high per shot output naturally leads you to using them against well armored targets which makes the odds of a low roll failing to pen armor very likely. Given that only a small subset of snipers have armor pen they end up performing poorly in use.

Snipers are in a very poor state right now compared to other weapon types. The state of vision makes low mobility weapons that don't arc very vulnerable, low rate of fire hurts when you have small crew size(which last a good while), and lower reliability vs hard targets.   

[Troubleshooter]

Ehm... "2" means "2-handed", lack of "2" means "not 2-handed"?
I don't think you need a tooltip for that...

Actually, I noticed that this paticular feature (the "2" next to two - handed weapons) is disabled in the latest patch. Like, it's still there as an option, but turned off by default. Just thought I'd point that out!

[ninjajolt]

hi, i have a bug right now with the newest version that means alot of the names and text remain the same. alot of the countries are still just called France and Germany and many buildings do not have custom names. was wondering if there is a way to fix this, thanks.

[Meridian]

was wondering if there is a way to fix this, thanks.

Change language from en-GB to en-US.

[ninjajolt]

Change language from en-GB to en-US.

thanks for the really quick response man

[Zharkov]

Psi will be expanded in the final version, that is for sure.

For all those as impatient as me, use the switchable psi-amp until then.

[khade]

How hard would it be to add wind direction and speed to a map, as an environmental effect?  Basically, wind is moving south and fairly briskly, so fire and smoke will spread in that direction, and clear faster the further north the tile is.

Alternately, a good ventilation system could make smoke clear out very quickly, for entirely indoor areas.  Caves could have the chimney effect, and have the smoke move in the direction of the nearest entrance.

[Starving Poet]

In short - extremely

[khade]

Well, that's why you ask things 

So, two possibly new ideas:
    The dragon, an early tech pistol blunderbuss.  Essentially a single shot sawed-off shotgun.

    Dragons Breath, shotgun shell that mimics a flamethrower, once per shot, usable only with the double barrel shotguns with no autofire.

Of course, the dragon might be more useful we didn't get access to a sawed off shotgun in the first month.

[Nord]

A question: was someone successfull in shooting down silver towers?

[legionof1]

Doable?  Yes.  Worth the effort, a great big resounding hell fucking no. The tactical map is one giant trollfest. Get your stargod codes from the Public Enemy that spawns on the larger smuggler ship.