Super Weapons

[Keptick]

guys guys guys, there's already an effect that increases damage for an even bigger increase in power consumption, it's called overdrive. All the stuff you people are suggesting can already be done at any scale (so it's better than big ships only super weapons like the OP is suggesting):

something-pulse-overdrive

Humongous burst damage (proportionally to the size of the weapon) with an even bigger power consumption. If that doesn't fit the definition of super weapon then I don't know what does.

 

[Spartan-228]

"Super Weapons" don't need to be added by the game as a separate thing.
You can make the things you're talking about already.
It just takes some basic knowledge of geometry and making sure outputs don't touch eachother to get a large gun without a checkerboard effect.

S0 how did you do that? all my attempts have been less the satisfactory and only work if you fire your gun with the reticle in the middle. If its not I get two shots and one of them comes from the middle of my gun barrel which looks retarded.
Being able to have a round bigger then one meter would look better on a lot of ships, and I am not saying that the rapid fire cannons should get bigger rounds, but the slow firing ones should definitely get a size increase.

 

[Winterhome]

You do know how tedious and ineffective checkerboards are?

Compared to hull detailing work, they're not tedious at all.

S0 how did you do that? all my attempts have been less the satisfactory and only work if you fire your gun with the reticle in the middle. If its not I get two shots and one of them comes from the middle of my gun barrel which looks retarded.
Being able to have a round bigger then one meter would look better on a lot of ships, and I am not saying that the rapid fire cannons should get bigger rounds, but the slow firing ones should definitely get a size increase.

Looks a little like this, but without the cannon lines being all different lengths. Red lights are placed on the outputs.

 

[ltmauve]

Yeah, that's a royal pain, and it still not as visually imposing as a single large shot.

 

[Winterhome]

Yeah, that's a royal pain, and it still not as visually imposing as a single large shot.

It *IS* a single large shot >_>
Or, rather, it appears to be due to extremely tight cannon clustering.

 

[Keptick]

I'll just leave this here

 

[Leanson]

I'll just leave this here

Purdy.
Azereiah I use the same layout for my weapons lol. It worse and focuses damage, their are fun things you can do with it too.

 

[Thalanor]

@keptick that is exactly what I went for on my battleship, with punch-through and rapidfire :D
Basically a plasma stream launcher, that rips a huge hole through the hull and systems, not just one lously block. It can get laggy when you hit a very large target with shields down, but it can slice through hull leaving a 7-block wide chasm. Tactical systems bisection It is easy to destroy power lines and docking enhancers this way, if the core isn't hit by the immense puncturing bullet spam anyways.