The difficulty with enhancements is communicating them to the player. Right now you can kind of learn to recognize weapons based on their projectile sprites, but that goes out the window with enhancements. Armor is completely opaque to the player until they destroy the ship, at which point they have...

I'm giving up on the chain lightning gun for now; too much fiddliness. Instead, I made a repulsor wave consumable . I don't have much of any idea how useful this would be in practice; presumably not as useful as Defense/Sustain (let alone Circle of Wrath / Shatter), but in a purchaseable form you co...

Quoting from this article : About this time the representatives of the military (who were funding this project) noticed that if you could make the plume a little faster and with a narrower cone, it would no longer be a propulsion system component. It would be a nuclear directed energy weapon. Thus w...

I tried to make a weapon that would, on impact, spawn a new bullet aimed at a nearby target, and so on until everything nearby had been hit. Unfortunately, instead the weapon would, on impact, spawn a new bullet on top of the player, hit the player, spawn a new bullet on top of the player, hit the p...

I've noticed that the Minotaur looks kind of odd when under the effects of Sustain or Defense -- parts of the ship poke outside of the bubble. Does that have any effects on gameplay or is it purely aesthetic?

Playing many restarts I have noticed shields are not equal. Using a monopole deflector in the arena some games earning the right to be called a gladiator it works great, yet other games in the free for all -the shield is gone in seconds. Would this be a feature or a bug? lol It depends on the enemi...

I do dimly recall it being mentioned that the Urak use sentinels in one of the less visible bits of fluff text.

Wow, thank you! There's some great info in there. Regarding mod loading, what I've determined is that if you have an existing ship equipped with the weapon you're testing, you don't need to make a new game; the ship will pick up changes to weapon logic/behavior automatically. However it won't pick u...

I do not want charges visible for all items by default. Weapons can have variants based on charges, which I have taken advantage of for some of my more exotic mod weapons. Also, I have used charges as an easy data storage variable on the item itself (e.g., place to store result of (unvGetTick), num...

Aha! That explains the bare "True" statements I've seen in some other weapons people have shared. Thanks.

Oh cool! Glad to see someone had the same idea. I'd say it's fine to release even without blurbs for all the ships.

I admit I'm not entirely clear on what that line is doing, but if I remove it, then the weapon fires a straight line of lasers in addition to the oscillating laser, so I assume that "fire" is a special property used to say "this OnFireWeapon event actually produced a projectile, so no need to produc...

Just one this time, but I'm pretty fond of it. https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/923675201855206358/D7AD0A89317CF97564F9C24B011B6D356D02FDF3/ The appearance is nothing special, but I like the description of this Atomic Gun: "Promotes dated atomic models." :D Too bad it's positrons instead o...

These are really neat! So you got the "sprinkler" working the way you wanted? Because there are several issues with the code you posted for that which I could get into. The wiki is not kept perfectly up to date, but it does have a lot of useful information. For instance, the weapon page has info ab...

I got for loops figured out, and AP pointed out the objSetData function so I can store state across events now, which let me make this: https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/924800981068723857/E28D1877F85CB41C1B5BC96A83BE3DEA028A1E18/ And then I spent a lot of time banging my head against targe...