Why do Missile/Pulse Weapons destroy docked cores inside the ship?

[BDLS]

Fixed explosions? Hope so!

I'd love even a placeholder missile explosion effect while we wait for the real thing. Just recycle the pulse effect but make it less opaque and the color of the missile. Battles would look way more flashy. Do missiles explode or just vanish when shot down by point defense?

 

[iceman6491]

Fixed explosions? Hope so!

I'd love even a placeholder missile explosion effect while we wait for the real thing. Just recycle the pulse effect but make it less opaque and the color of the missile. Battles would look way more flashy. Do missiles explode or just vanish when shot down by point defense?

i think they have a small little explosion. barely noticeable tho

 

[BDLS]

i think they have a small little explosion. barely noticeable tho

Yeah they have that tiny pixel animation. We need glorious destruction spheres that match the radius of damage

Curious if they still do the radius damage when shot down by pd though

 

[CyberTao]

Personally, I think that tiny explosion is the from the cannon shot, not the missile.

The new missile thing is in the Dev build now btw, Crusade has been testing and sampling it for chat.

 

[godmars]

So in the dev build does it just prevent missiles from killing stuff behind other blocks? or did they make other changes to them as well

 

[CyberTao]

So in the dev build does it just prevent missiles from killing stuff behind other blocks? or did they make other changes to them as well

Well, look at the twitter post Trydeth linked

If the wireframe is the "explosion" and the hull is the ship hit, you can see how the radius is wrapped around what it hit. Should be interesting.

 

[EricBlank]

Anything that helps missiles make better sense balance wise in relation to the other weapon systems is a good change in my book. I'm looking forward to this update.