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Another Small Thing

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 10:12 am
by Arcalane
What's better than a tiny drone corvette?

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A tiny drone corvette that can enter a hibernation phase, during which it looks completely harmless!

Just something I was messing around with a little while ago.

Re: Another Small Thing

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 10:18 am
by Corporal Jomn
Can we see it in action? Maybe more of these "harmless" ships.

Re: Another Small Thing

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:10 pm
by Arcalane
I hadn't armed that version yet. But here, have the armed version:

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Harmless, right?

...right?

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WRONG

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Ed:
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"You ever get the feeling we're being watched out here?"
"God not this shit again. Will you knock it off? There's nobody else within several thousand clicks of this goddamn asteroid belt."

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"Hold on, I'm picking up something on the rear sensor array."
"The asteroids are blocking our sensors, we can't see in or out of this shit much less what's behind us. It's probably just our own emission signatures bouncing off the metallic rocks or some pseudoscience bullshit like that."

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"See? There's nothing there. I can't pick anything up on optical except asteroids, asteroids, and more fuckin' asteroids. Sensors're fuzzier 'n' those goddamn aliens we ran into last week."

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"I'm tellin' you man there was somethin' there!"
"You've been up for like two days straight man, you're seein' shit. Go get some rest, I can handle this shift..."

Re: Another Small Thing

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 4:19 pm
by Anna
The way it folds up into a dormant mode looks pretty nice, really. Do you have that set to a specific key press, or something else?

Re: Another Small Thing

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 5:09 pm
by Arcalane
It automatically deploys when spawned, but can be enabled or disabled by pressing the comma key.

Re: Another Small Thing

Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 6:59 pm
by wingstorm
Love it.

I saw your "Harmless, right?" post, and got this weird vision of the drone corvette "opening up" with a swarm of missiles.
Just a suggestion for weapons mounted.

Re: Another Small Thing

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:12 am
by Arcalane
It's already armed. :|

Image - Bigger guns for the wing pods.

Re: Another Small Thing

Posted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:16 am
by Anna
Err... that actually looks kinda silly, Arca. :lol:

I much preferred the smaller, more subtle chain-guns it had before. These things just look way too big and chunky for such a small craft, and the way they slide outwards seems somewhat goofy.