New Patch - Fatally Flawed - I give up

[Otter]

What scattering armor foes? Only the Abbidon use it and I never have reason to fight them. I have to agree with Vortex - the game has become seriously unbalanced. No, make that fatally unbalanced. Not as bad a flaw as MOO3 but still a complete buzz kill none the less. A fun diVersion gone so frustratingly difficult as to not only completely discourage playing but to have the even more chilling effect of negative word of mouth and lost sales. If it takes even a month to fix this gaff, I predict the patient will be as moribund as the MOO3 forum. Come to think of it, this board is pretty much dead already. Maybe the less literate, motivated, or hopeful have already voted with their silence.

[ January 31, 2004, 16:49: Message edited by: Otter ]

[Phoenix-D]

And I still can't see what I'm missing. Otter, are you -just- refering to the scattering armor thing or are you seeing Vortex's problems as well? Because I'd like to know what the @!$% is going on, and I can't find anything that changed over the previous patch.

I'd rather be doing my own campaign than replaying this again to see if I can find a problem I couldn't duplicate through testing..but if I don't resolve this it's going to come back and bite me in the ***.

EDIT: if you want the scattering armor back to how it was before, here.

http://members.cox.net/phoenix-d/Main_Components.txt

copy that to your Starfury/Campaigns/Campaign # folder. Overwrite the existing file. If you need to change back, use this file.

http://members.cox.net/phoenix-d/Mai...onents.txt.bak

[ January 31, 2004, 17:07: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

[Otter]

I have seen the same behavior as Vortex describes and was initially very frustrated by it. The only strategy facing two or more ships was to run, get one to break off from the pack and chase you, tear his rear off, and then go back and repeat for the rest. Then I discovered the wonderful effects of scattering armor and no longer feared wading into even a dozen enemies. OK maybe a little too overbalanced in my favor but then I appreciate Patton's words, "War is not dying for your country; it's making the other sonofab**** die for his country." Remarkably poetic.

Anyway, I should have known the Scattering Armor fix would be in a mod file and take far less than a month to fix. Thanks! [wipes egg from face and happily goes back to playing game]

[ January 31, 2004, 17:34: Message edited by: Otter ]

[Phoenix-D]

That's very strange. The only thing I can think of is you two are much higher level than me- which would raise the ionic missile's damage. It would also give the enemies a fairly substantial Resist All bonus, since they gain 3% of that with every level.

The fix took about..3 seconds. Of course, it would take longer if I didn't already know what was needed before I started.

[Baron Munchausen]

Actually, this thread brings up an important point. There are many useful abilities in the game but not available in components in the stock game. We need a mod to add some good images for extra components and implement these abilities. I've modded Neutronium Armor to use the 'Resist Armor Piercing' ability for myself, but there are several more I haven't gotten to, like 'Resist Speed Slowing'. For resist speed slowing it could be called 'Ionic Baffle' or 'Ionic Buffer' or something like that.

[ace joh]

won't the components pack from the se4 image mod work for that? (after changing background color, and such)

[Suicide Junkie]

Actually, SF uses higher-resolution components than SE4.

We could always start a collection.