Weapons Prospects

[Suicide Junkie]

If you have multiple PD weapons on your ship they fire in a stagger pattern.

If you increase the shot speed of the PD, then the first shot will have a chance to hit the target before the second PD cannon fires a fraction of a second later.

[Phoenix-D]

I've had a hard time doing that without making the PD overpowered or hitting the "magic speed" where projectiles tend to randomly explode.

That's why I was going for PD beam weapons..

[Siirenias]

Well, you could have long-range countermissiles, then medium and short-range point defense guns.

[Suicide Junkie]

The easiest way is to just use very-rapid fire guns that do very little damage.

Then if you waste a shot firing at a missile that is about to die from a previous shot, its no big deal... only 1/5th of a second and 2 damage points wasted, rather than 1-2 seconds and 30 damage.

[Siirenias]

Ehhhh...Usually I wouldn't mind, but HW2's Point Defense Systems told me what would happen if you used a bunch of them (framerate cries for mercy). Plus, the tired system is a harder challenge

Of course, using a few wouldn't hurt. The concern may lie that it could be too effective.

[Suicide Junkie]

I suppose it depends on your video card, but the pirates in my P&Nism mod use 200ms, 6 damage meson blasters as anti-ship weapons.

Looks somewhat like a starwars battle, and dosen't even dent the framerate. Each bolt is only 2 polys.

I also don't see how a tiered system will help very much.
All the weapons will still be firing on the nearest incoming seeker. You only get an advantage if the Tier X weapons kill the first missile before it reaches Tier X-1, AND if the Tier X PD has a very long reload time, such that the second missile reaches X-1 range long before Tier X can fire again.

You still need to make the shots move very fast, which solves much of the problem with stock PD already.

[Siirenias]

My game just miraculously started working last night. I tried implementing one of my weapons by adding the text to the main components file and adding it to the terran stores...but I believe I left something out, because it won't load the campaign.

(I made a copy of the first campaign and named it "Campaign 1 - Homefront2" and am using that)