Small Shield Depleters = Uber Troop Weapon
 

I was going to email this to Aaron but I thought I'd post it here first to see what reaction I got...

Small Shield Depleters appear to be the uber-weapon for troops, surpassing even ground cannons - since damage types don't matter, they do massive damage to all enemy troops, and they only take up 2kT and are cheaper than ground cannons! So how about making small shield depleters mountable only on fighters?

Re: Small Shield Depleters = Uber Troop Weapon
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">easy http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif simply edit components.tct file and set vhicle type := fighters only for small SD.

Re: Small Shield Depleters = Uber Troop Weapon
 

Um, wasn't that fixed with 1.84?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana"></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Work properly == do no damage?

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It would help me understand you if you'd use complete sentances. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

As I understand it, the problem originally was shield depleters used against units would do normal damage. And under those circumstances Ed would be right, the small shield depleters would rock as troop weapons. But I believe that with 1.84 that was fixed so shield depleters fired against units only deplete the shields instead of doing normal damage.

Although I could be incorrect. Ed, have you tested this to see if it still does what you are saying?

Geoschmo

Re: Small Shield Depleters = Uber Troop Weapon
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It would help me understand you if you'd use complete sentances. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Hmm, that was indeed quite unclear sentence. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif I meant shields are counted as hit points for units, so how the shield depleter works then? Or do troops work differently than other units?

Re: Small Shield Depleters = Uber Troop Weapon
 

Geo, he is talking about in troop combat, not any other units. Ground combat follows its own set of rules that are wholely separate from those of regular combat.

Re: Small Shield Depleters = Uber Troop Weapon
 

How PPB and SD work against fighters/units/drones/weapon platforms? Geoschmo said SD works normally (i.e. depletes shields), but I thought shield points for units are added to their HPs. Is it changed?

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i guess that they're split into Groups..

Re: Small Shield Depleters = Uber Troop Weapon
 

correct me if i am wrong but didnt all units turn shields into armor befor 1.78 and after 1.78 they had real shields (i know sats make shield picture when hit).