The Novelty Weapon Collection

[Water_and_Wind]

Impeder speeds up projectiles fast enough to go through the shields?

[mtheminja]

Well, simply slapping a speed-up impeder won't do it...

[ChaosTheory]

I suspect the impeder has a range that encompasses the enemies, so their weapons get bounced around inside the impeder field and often strike the target ship. If the weapon fires inside the impeder field, it will just be bounced back and forth inside the field until it gets loose or kits something.

Yes?

[Water_and_Wind]

Well, there's also a slow down impeder so I guess one impeder brings bullets through the shields while the other keeps them there.

[mtheminja]

I suspect the impeder has a range that encompasses the enemies, so their weapons get bounced around inside the impeder field and often strike the target ship. If the weapon fires inside the impeder field, it will just be bounced back and forth inside the field until it gets loose or kits something.

Yes?

This sounds... cool, although that's not what I did.

Well, there's also a slow down impeder so I guess one impeder brings bullets through the shields while the other keeps them there.

Yup. This took a lot of tuning, but an impeder with -2 effect and 500 range makes many projectiles skip over the aegises, which are placed at ~200 out from the core. Then, a 0.8 effect impeder with 300 range slows them down so they can hit the ship. This way, we can finally make ships that are beam immune, but not projectile immune.

Non-obfuscated example: http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... rigate.sb3

My favorite weapons to attack it with are tachyons, plasma charges, and demeters, because they get frozen in place, but can still do damage. Pulsars look cool too, though.

[Spoot Knight]

What the hell is up with everyone making negative effect modules / weapons? Every time I try entering a negative value it makes it zero.

[mtheminja]

Select the module you want to put a negative number in and put in a distinctive number for the parameter you want to change. Hit R, then ok. Then hit E, change the number you put in to the negative one you actuall want, and hit ok. Voila!

[TheBlueEcho]

You can also use the same trick to do different things, such as flip weapons.

[Auriak]

Has anyone tried infinite firing beams yet?
weapon|MiningBeam|180|-1|-1|0|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1||65280|3|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1|1|1

It will fire forever until its target is destroyed or moves out of range. It's better left at low damage to keep the beam firing for a maximum length of time.

[ChaosTheory]

Has anyone tried infinite firing beams yet?
weapon|MiningBeam|180|-1|-1|0|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1||65280|3|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1|1|1

It will fire forever until its target is destroyed or moves out of range. It's better left at low damage to keep the beam firing for a maximum length of time.

1) Take beam.
2) Give lucky-9 duration
3) Put high damage
4) Give 3-5 deviation
5) Activate.

Swingin Swords!!! Customize to taste.

[mtheminja]

This is a useless, but funny 'weapon': Snake Cannon!

Teller Snake

It only works when spawned as ally...

[Tsakara]

did I ever post the paintship?

[mtheminja]

[Arcalane]

Has anyone tried infinite firing beams yet?
weapon|MiningBeam|180|-1|-1|0|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1||65280|3|-1|-1|-1|-1|-1|1|1

It will fire forever until its target is destroyed or moves out of range. It's better left at low damage to keep the beam firing for a maximum length of time.

Duh. People were trying to make these even before th15 made beam duration moddable.

[TheBlueEcho]

did I ever post the paintship?

I don't think so.