WF Ships

Talhydras · Post by **Talhydras** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:14 am

There's a bit of a story behind why I made this thing all of the sudden at 4 am last night, but it's boring.

EDIT: I forgot to say, I drew massive amounts of inspiration from the Metal Fox project, here: http://www.wyrdysm.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=514

Something about watching a brave little ship strike at the weak points of a bigass boss inspired me to get back into WF, and well... now look at where we are. [end EDIT]

Suffice to say if you've not played WF this will be a bit confusing.
http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... F_Ship.sb2

But what the hell is the WF ship good for if there's nothing to shoot at? I took a few boss screencaps, and here's an Asura for you. It sucks a LOT more, mostly because WF components are not the same as BF components. http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... -Asura.sb2

And here's some action shots, though nothing still does the WF ship's gun justice IMO.
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg9/ ... reen00.png
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg9/ ... reen01.png
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg9/ ... reen02.png
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg9/ ... reen03.png

For comparison purposes
http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg9/ ... /Asura.jpg

Any thoughts, commentary, and especially suggestions on how to better recreate the WF pieces used in the Asura would be massively appreciated.

TheBlueEcho · Post by **TheBlueEcho** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:21 am

Why Didn't I think of this!?
Give you Suggestion shortly.

TormakSaber · Post by **TormakSaber** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 12:31 am

Awesome, you een made it so it doesn't turn.

Talhydras · Post by **Talhydras** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:11 am

Heh. Did a bit more work, on something I've never actually found before ingame but has a real nice screenshot on the official website.

http://www18.big.or.jp/~hikoza/Prod/ref/ss_wf06.png

This calls whatever's coming next a Hecto-Beam Wing Defender, so in honor of whatever it was I decided to name the mystery boss after it: http://www18.big.or.jp/~hikoza/Prod/ref/ss_wf01.png

And for the ship itself: http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... fender.sb2

It's pretty easy to get overconfident about the missiles. If you ignore just one and it slips up behind you, you die. In other news, I did a few minor tweaks to the WF ship to bring it more in line with the original and also to make it a bit easier for straight-front shots to kill you, available from the same link as before. Screenies of the Hecto-Beam Wing Defender would be forthcoming except Photobucket is misbehaving and logging me off every time I try and upload new ones. So I guess you'll have to live with these imageshack links.

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/876/ ... n04si2.png Doesn't look TOO bad...
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/3530 ... n05uw3.png See that? That's me about to blow the hell up.
http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/2700 ... n06ps7.png Gotta go gotta go gotta go...

I'm considering nixing the 9000 HP sections... it still seems pretty easy to smash the bosses with relative immunity to side attacks. I guess it was easy in WF too. Suggestions are welcome. Enjoy!

EDIT: Did some tests with a WF Ship without the 9000 HP segments. Graphically it looks kinda crap, because your ship gets chopped up, but it's a bit more rewarding gameplay wise. http://www.wyrdysm.com/battleshipsforev ... p_Weak.sb2 Any opinions, people? End EDIT.