TOs is deep

[LarkinVB]

Just lost a game I played with my friend, sharing an 8 titan squad, 4 titans each. We had some heros with assaults and some green with lights and somthing in between. Usually we set rank to 1 step below our average and balance to +40% for the enemy. We lost horribly this time, thanks god we had 4.000.000 $ spare to buy 7 new titans. We did split our squad to team 1 & 3, enemy did airdrop.

Why do I call TOS deep ? Near the end of the battle my best assault lost his left torso with plasma gun and damage control. He was green in all other locations. Heat regs were damaged heavy. I looked at my heat balance and it told me +2.0/-2.0.

Why ... I wasn't hit by napalms or flamers, I did not shoot the last second, my shield was down, my engine was ok, no burning woods or lava .....

Why +2.0 ? Why ? I saved the game for debug when it did flash in my head. Damaged plasma guns will produce heart ! I forgot my own invention. Nice !

[Silvermane]

Just to clear things up, as I'm a bit puzzled:

Will the damaged plasma gun still produce heat when it's completely gone (as in, location with gun ripped out of it's socket)?

-Silvermane

[LarkinVB]

Good point. Currently it does. It shouldn't. Patch ....?

[Sleeping_Dragon]

Or maybe a small burst of heat the round its completely destroyed with no additional heat afterwards?

[LarkinVB]

Don't think so. Often I like code which does not have too much exceptions to the rule. I added heat to damaged plasma to balance the weapon a bit without tweaking damage/heat/weight/slots again (it was Icemans suggestion if I rembember correctly). It was comparable to the Gauss power usage on firing. I just forgot that it makesxno sense if the bodypart is totally destroyed. This will be fixed.

On another topic, a good D.C.S with a decent skill is VERY valuable for assaults. My hero could repair light damaged equipment in 12 secs at 98%. He did so for heat, gauss, plasma and shield in one battle. Maybe it was possible cause one of the emenies was equipped with 2 heavy mesons. Yep, TOS is deep.

[Thorgrim]

And the experience you get with repairs. Oooh.
Well, not at 98%, but in early teams it makes a difference.

BTW, a PG can be destroyed and the location it is in not destroyed. Not very likely, but possible. In this case, I think it should produce heat.

[LarkinVB]

BTW, a PG can be destroyed and the location it is in not destroyed. Not very likely, but possible. In this case, I think it should produce heat.

It will.