Buff Skeleton posted:

ravinghobo posted:

the times where there's that one guy with a laser rifle just baaaarely managing to avoid being stomped just plugging away at you while you deal with a massive swarm of Spacer everything...

verbal enema posted:

You could buy this game then at a later date get MDMA and have some real fun

Mithaldu posted:

The book massively increases the enjoyment of the game by helping you understand much better just what kind of war crimes you are perpetrating. It also has a ton of action, and the guy reading it has a hilarously fitting voice.

You could barely have a more perfect mech warfare audiobook.

Mithaldu posted:

7.5 hours

StrixNebulosa posted:

I've ventured into GBS for the first time to save you from drugs. Fingers crossed the poll closes with Brigador in the lead!

Captain Foo posted:

I love Pitbull/Pitbull

anthony patch posted:

We don't have any true beam weapons, which is to say the engine doesn't support anything that fires truly continuously, we can only handle something that just fires really really fast, then mask that in various ways so that it looks continuous. Standard practice btw is to not set a firing rate faster than 0.035 seconds, as you then run into performative concerns—it's possible the rate of fire would be lower on slower comps. That being said, if you want to do a Mech Warrior style beam weapon, just set the "burst_cooldown" to 0.035, the "cooldown" to whatever the true refractory period should be for the weapon (that timer starts from trigger pull, so if you sett the cooldown to be shorter than the time it takes to fire all burst rounds then you essentially have no cooldown), and set the "burst_count" to be however many you need for the beam to last; at a "burst_cooldown" of 0.035 you're looking at 29 shots = 1 second. Then just look at the "accuracy_cone_width" and "Bloom Params" tab—i'm guessing for that you'll want to set "accuracy_cone_width" to 0 and then if you'd like the laser to destabilize a bit at the end then set a >0 "bloom_cone_width" and ajdust "bloom_per_burst" and "bloom_decay_rate".

Actually, let me just run through all of those so you know how they work:
bloom_cone_width = radius of the bloom cone when at maximum bloom. If "bloom_cone_width" < "accuracy_cone_width" then the accuracy attenuates rather than decays, which is how we got the Otomo to work.

bloom_per_firing = how much the bloom cone increases per trigger pull. Which means if you have a burst weapon like the Stutter, this value only adds at the beginning of each burst.
bloom_per_burst = how much the bloom cone increases per shot, so in the case of the Stutter the bloom cone would change as each projectile is fired in a single burst. Note this ignores >1 shot counts.
bloom_growth_rate = how much the bloom cone increases per second while holding down the trigger. This is purely dependent on the firing input, aka if you're holding down LMB then this is increasing at the given rate. Only really useful for continuous fire weapons like the Belter and Otomo. Note that if you have a slow RoF weapon that the bloom will be dramatically different for players who hold down the trigger and who wait to click until the weapon is ready to fire.
bloom_decay_rate = continuous rate of decay per second. This is always active, and is the main way to handle resetting the bloom cone for most weapons.

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As for the Varlet, that's a really weird holdover bug we never solved that has to do with the unit information being set regarding having equippable weapons. The short version is that the unit file needs to be saved out as having been equipped with a weapon then reloaded/repacked in order for the sprite information to be loaded properly. The reason you're only encountering it on the Varlet and Lineman is those are the only two vehicles in the game that have never had weapons equipped on them. I've made the necessary changes on my end, the fix will be part of the next update which should come this weekend. Weapons balancing ahoy!

Count Uvula posted:

Mithaldu posted:

Use them to snack during the attack!

Kai Tave posted:

Idea for a new Corvid vehicle: a Party Van, but with Great Leader's corpse propped up in the passenger seat wearing sunglasses, Weekend at Bernie's style.

Faffel posted:

I bought Brigador and opened up on a crowd of civilians with what I think is a Gau-8. Nice.

Mithaldu posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs5MpsGBH_0

DOWN JACKET FETISH posted:

someone please mod the konig to fire zeus rounds

Captain Foo posted:

ok

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26m0CqWfAtI

atomicthumbs posted:

good discussion timing as i was just now having a great run with a hoker/black hand/black hand/EMP setup until I realized I didn't actually have a way to safely destroy anything that blows up

anthony patch posted:

I love this

atomicthumbs posted:

I finally beat Wait For The Blackout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi5qm38VdTg

atomicthumbs posted:

she paints her face; the corvids paint their faces