Bubble shields (looking for advice on 'em- anti beams?)

Bad Boy · Post by **Bad Boy** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 8:06 am

lol, I don't hate you, your ships are just so fun to obliterate.

Koross · Post by **Koross** » Mon Feb 25, 2008 4:05 pm

Just wondering what is this "Hidden Section" method for shielding. Any explanations please?

Latooni · Post by **Latooni** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:56 am

Koross wrote:Just wondering what is this "Hidden Section" method for shielding. Any explanations please?

Create a section, aegis it, and shrink it to invisible thinness.

Zancloufer wrote:AI uses the rosarch.

When was this fixed? I haven't downloaded the last few releases but I try to keep up on the release notes.

ArcaneDude · Post by **ArcaneDude** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:13 am

You don't need to aegis it. Just give it a high hp.

Latooni · Post by **Latooni** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:44 am

You don't need to, but sometimes I like doing so; letting it have a low hp value creates what amounts to an "aura" as opposed to a barrier; well, if I was playing Megaman anyway. You will need to do the targeting before the shrinking though.

Koross · Post by **Koross** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 12:57 pm

Müg wrote:Create a section, aegis it, and shrink it to invisible thinness.

Wait, if you shrink it, won't the hitbox follow suit? Or is there a bug of some kind that the game thinks that the section is still the original size (before you shrunk it)?

Sorry about the questions but I am really interested in how the mechanics work.

Droid · Post by **Droid** » Tue Feb 26, 2008 2:42 pm

Shrink it so that it is only reduced in one direction.
For example, take section 25, and only shrink its width, leaving its length. Even if the hitbox scales along, you will still have a very thin, yet wide hitbox. Exactly what you want.

ArcaneDude · Post by **ArcaneDude** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:27 am

What I do is lengthen a section 22, change it's HP, and shrink it's heighth. The hitbox will still be there.

Normandy · Post by **Normandy** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:06 am

Yes, the hitbox will be there, but especially with faster weapons, there's a good chance it'll skip the sections.

Ethril · Post by **Ethril** » Thu Feb 28, 2008 7:44 am

I just use thinned/elongated section 25s.

Spoot Knight · Post by **Spoot Knight** » Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:15 pm

Auriak wrote:You can mod them so that they stop projectiles outright, or even cause them to bounce away harmlessly... it's really cool. I just wish they made projectiles explode though.

How exactly do you make them "bounce away?"

M123 · Post by **M123** » Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:32 pm

I think it involves negative values in the edit tab...

Latooni · Post by **Latooni** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:42 am

I think it's actually values over 1, someone said that a value between 2 and 2.5 works best.

theonemephisto · Post by **theonemephisto** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 5:42 am

M123 wrote:I think it involves negative values in the edit tab...

From what I've heard, negative values actually speeds the projectile up.

ChaosTheory · Post by **ChaosTheory** » Thu Mar 06, 2008 8:48 am

Müg wrote:I think it's actually values over 1, someone said that a value between 2 and 2.5 works best.

Correct.