Alpha strike mod?

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M'fairly sure the question came up at some point in the past, but blazes if I can find th'topic...

Anyway, is there some way to impliment an 'alpha strike' -- that is, firing all installed weapons at the same time -- firing behavior?

I just starting playing Trans again after a while, and I badly miss the old 'hold down W and space and slaughter' trick. Seeing as how several of the computer ships can do something similar, I'm curious if it can be put on player ships.

Adding the 'secondaryWeapon="true"' tag to a few devices, ala the Dragon Slaver's particle beams, didn't seem to do... well, anything, and I'd really rather the effect not be limited to a limited number of weapons, anyway.

Suggestions, ideas, comments? Anyone managed to pull this off or know that it's not possible?
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I don't think that is possible...
Your best bet would be a Spread7 with multitarget=true and firerate=1. Or a fast launcher with seeking.
I made a weapon with 20 shots in all directions but it was suicide near friendlies.
I also make an item that used domina powers (shatter & circle of wrath) which was nice for area affects...
I'm sure there are other ways of making the weapon you want, but firing all weapons simultaneously is not possible.
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-enum the installed weapons on the playership
-get all the UNIDs
-sysCreateWeaponFire all the weapons.
-additional code to deal with ammo weapons (remove ammo from cargo and so on)


it could be an usable item or something
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I tried Alpha-Striking with my mod weapons, especially with my Arcana Mage's initial weapons: An auto-shotgun [kinetic] and a fiery kinetic machine-gun. And yes, the shotgun weapon I've made is a launcher.

SHIFT and CTRL would be my bet for alpha-striking.
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Isn't there an on-fire event or something so that even a normal weapon could do that?
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No. I'm hoping it shows up in 1.0.
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Atarlost wrote:No. I'm hoping it shows up in 1.0.
We need to get George to implement this then!
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Wolfy wrote:
Atarlost wrote:No. I'm hoping it shows up in 1.0.
We need to get George to implement this then!
I really, really agree! Especially if my ships had lots of guns, missiles and Star Light Breakers :D
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