CommanderJohnson Posted February 8, 2002 Report Posted February 8, 2002 Ok, I underrstand that after knocking down an enemy ship's hull integrity/armor REALLY low, they will show up as disabled and/or emit an SOS. Now, what i'm trying to figure out, is why is it that it's impossible to disable an enemy ship's weapons and/or engines specifically. I take my phased array IOD or the normal one and target SPECIFICALLY other ships engines or weapon area (where their shots are coming from), and they show NO performance loss, while on the other hand when I am directly damaged in a weapon bay/engine area, I lose engines or weapons and have an actual performace drop in BC functionality. Any advice?
Eclipse Posted February 8, 2002 Report Posted February 8, 2002 CTAS was dropped and has yet to be implemeted... maybe MP patch or XP1?
CommanderJohnson Posted February 8, 2002 Author Report Posted February 8, 2002 CTAS? Is that area accurate damaging? Just an added point, I just lowered my shields, got in a FC, and shot one 100% blast into my engine. I ended up losing my fore laser turret and bridgeviewer, among other systems. Interesting. [ 02-07-2002, 23:07: Message edited by: Dredd ]
Sunanta Posted February 8, 2002 Report Posted February 8, 2002 lol- haven't tried that one yet... Anyway, CTAS is Component Target Acquisition System, I believe, allowing you to target specific components- it was dropped from BCM. [ 02-07-2002, 23:47: Message edited by: Sunanta ]
Guest Grayfox Posted February 8, 2002 Report Posted February 8, 2002 im a firm believer in the spray and pray technique myself
Emmett.hendrick Posted February 8, 2002 Report Posted February 8, 2002 I believe I remember SC talking about this before Afaik NPC ships damage is limited to 4 areas where as player ships have alot more damage areas I believe it was done to reduce the processing power required during larger battles.(Can you image the processing power required to track an monitor the damage to lets say 10 ships if they all had the same damage levels that pc ships have?)
Soback Posted February 9, 2002 Report Posted February 9, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Emmett.hendrick: I believe I remember SC talking about this before Afaik NPC ships damage is limited to 4 areas where as player ships have alot more damage areas I believe it was done to reduce the processing power required during larger battles.(Can you image the processing power required to track an monitor the damage to lets say 10 ships if they all had the same damage levels that pc ships have?)SC can do it So maybe we will see CTAS in BCM or one of the XPs (x - fingers).
CommanderJohnson Posted February 9, 2002 Author Report Posted February 9, 2002 I don't think that component damage even applies for PC ships. I took a FC out, shot my CC's engines once, and I lost by fore laser turret and bridgeviewer. :-)
Emmett.hendrick Posted February 11, 2002 Report Posted February 11, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Soback: SC can do it So maybe we will see CTAS in BCM or one of the XPs (x - fingers).[/QB]Check the XP1 Feature set
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