damage beam deeper color

[wanzer]

hi
a few days ago I swapped some cannons with damage beams.
usually I hang a color crystal to give the weapon some bling blings.
and so I did with the damage beams...

and then they fired...

now I know im not totally color blind but .. wtf?
the beams are white with a slight hue toward the color of the used light or crystal

cant we have damage beams just have the same coloring depth as the cannons?

I mean.. we already have white ^^

 

[sayerulz]

Beam coloring is a longstanding issue that is on the dev's list.... somewhere. I imagine we will eventually get a big update for all the weapons effects, doing things like adding an actual missile to missiles, scaling cannon and beam size to damage batter, Ect.

Soontm.

 

[Nickizzy]

Beam coloring is a longstanding issue that is on the dev's list.... somewhere. I imagine we will eventually get a big update for all the weapons effects, doing things like adding an actual missile to missiles, scaling cannon and beam size to damage batter, Ect.

Soontm.

Yes please. I want to see my doomcannon shots as the miss completely.

 

[Lecic]

BearishMushroom and Crusade both have shaders that massively improve beam quality. I don't know if they're still working, but they make beams much more nice looking.

Here's an example of Bearish's.

 

[wanzer]

BearishMushroom and Crusade both have shaders that massively improve beam quality. I don't know if they're still working, but they make beams much more nice looking.

Here's an example of Bearish's.

this *in a bit more subtle way* is exactly what I like to see

 

[BDLS]

A bit different than OP's suggestion, but a low performance beam option would be cool. Instead of rendering a ton of those animated sprites, just a long rectangular polygon (same size as current beam) with whatever color is bound to X beam system. Low end PC players would likely benefit a lot.

 

[SneakyFish]

Would be nice to have the size of the beam scale with damage too. Kind of underwhelming using beams as a main gun with 24k damage per tick and have that firing skinny little beams

 

[ohartenstein23]

Would be nice to have the size of the beam scale with damage too. Kind of underwhelming using beams as a main gun with 24k damage per tick and have that firing skinny little beams

Or have waffled outputs somehow combine to make a bigger beam with intensity based on total damage. Also, why 24k per tick? Super Ion Beam?

 

[Nickizzy]

Or have waffled outputs somehow combine to make a bigger beam with intensity based on total damage. Also, why 24k per tick? Super Ion Beam?

But that's just a waffle anyways. you might as well make it work like robocraft with the damage spread system then.

 

[ohartenstein23]

But that's just a waffle anyways. you might as well make it work like robocraft with the damage spread system then.

I meant just visually; if multiple beam outputs are close enough together, draw only one beam but still keep the waffled block damage.

 

[Nickizzy]

I meant just visually; if multiple beam outputs are close enough together, draw only one beam but still keep the waffled block damage.

That might look good. And increase the render distance a lot so you can see a megalazer from across a sector.