Turn down salvage beam intensity a smidge...

[Edymnion]

Don't know about anyone else, but when I make a mining ship, I put the camera in the nose right in the middle of the salvage beams because thats the easiest place to aim from.

Until the weapons update...

Here's my smaller miner. You can sort of see that there's an asteroid back there...


My large miner? Forgetaboutit...


So yeah, maybe find a way to make salvage beams a little less blinding?

 

[Zoolimar]

On the other hand if you lower the intensity then double waffles would look pretty pitiful from the side. There is also no need to put a camera in the middle considering that beams are instant hit.

 

[Cluwne]

Camera sitting in the middle of an array makes for easy aiming, or at least it used to...
On a related note, I would love to have an option to make a wide latch-on salvage beam as the single-output low-profile alternative to big-ass waffle arrays that blind people.

 

[Nosajimiki]

Even placing a camera just above the waffle is pretty blinding.

 

[EricBlank]

Ive always found it easier to aim from a diagonal offset a few meters away. Even before the update i couldnt stand the beams getting between me and the target.

I usually use two cameras, one on each side of the ship, and sometimes on in line with the array to line up initially. Then i can view it from different angles. I actually like the more intense beam effects now.

 

[DrTarDIS]

Eh, I tend to watch from "behind" the sweep so i can adapt the speed. Most of my salvagers use a downward facing beam array so it's like sweeping a broom over whatever i'm harvesting. Only issue i then have is that the camera has this weird rotation..

 

[BDLS]

I’m a bit late to the party, but I turn off beam visualization in graphics options when I mine. It’s a pain in the ass but is a nice band-aid until schine implements a way to tone it down normally.

 

[OfficialCoding]

My miner the beam output is under the cockpit, so I'm good.

 

[MacThule]

Yeah, I really want an in-game toggle to muffle flare.

 

[Nosajimiki]

My miner the beam output is under the cockpit, so I'm good.

I do the same, but the problem is that you can't see what effect they are having so you don't know when you are blowing through and need to sweep your aim. With combat beams this is not an issue because they either do enough acid to see around the flare effect, or they are a smaller class of beam that retargets as blocks blow up. Salvage does neither so we need to rely on our eyes to prompt user behaviors.

 

[MacThule]

I do the same, but the problem is that you can't see what effect they are having so you don't know when you are blowing through and need to sweep your aim. With combat beams this is not an issue because they either do enough acid to see around the flare effect, or they are a smaller class of beam that retargets as blocks blow up. Salvage does neither so we need to rely on our eyes to prompt user behaviors.

Wondering why mining beams don't do acid damage. It would certainly reduce the number of outputs needed; a single-layer waffle would be more than sufficient.

 

[Nosajimiki]

Wondering why mining beams don't do acid damage. It would certainly reduce the number of outputs needed; a single-layer waffle would be more than sufficient.

This is why I wish salvagers still accepted secondaries. Be really cool if normal stayed as it is, Salvage+Missile gave it acid, Salvage+Cannon gave it old scatter beams, and Salvage+Beam made it and non gimbaled stronger acid beam

I would also go back to needing 60-100 blocks to get max penetration instead of 8. That way a basic salvage array would be a big bulky but functional option for cheap starter ships, and then the others would be able to be shrunk down into smaller spaces making for more expensive but also more maneuverable mining ships.

 

[paranoidx2]

I had the same problem. The way I rectify that is by docking a ship with a basic armor covering my core view on the color of choice. I think it should also work in front of camera, though I haven't tested it.

 

[Woodshovel]

Don't know about anyone else, but when I make a mining ship, I put the camera in the nose right in the middle of the salvage beams because thats the easiest place to aim from.

Until the weapons update...

Here's my smaller miner. You can sort of see that there's an asteroid back there...
View attachment 49483

My large miner? Forgetaboutit...
View attachment 49484

So yeah, maybe find a way to make salvage beams a little less blinding?

 

[Woodshovel]

Don't know about anyone else, but when I make a mining ship, I put the camera in the nose right in the middle of the salvage beams because thats the easiest place to aim from.

Until the weapons update...

Here's my smaller miner. You can sort of see that there's an asteroid back there...
View attachment 49483

My large miner? Forgetaboutit...
View attachment 49484

So yeah, maybe find a way to make salvage beams a little less blinding?

Theres a way to disable them, but idk about lowering intensity.

Esc - Options - Adv.Graphics - Draw Beams

 

[MrGrey1]

...this eliminates bloom.


Edit: and I like salvage beams the way they are. Leave 'em alone. ;p