Fix the beamlasers please

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 23 Nov 2007, 07:52

I can set a beamlaser with a beamtime of 5 and 5000 damage, only about 1500 damage gets dealt even in close quarters.

Fix plox!

imbaczek · Post by **imbaczek** » 23 Nov 2007, 08:08

beamlasers by default dissipate with range. Test at close range.

There's a way to modify that behaviour - see minIntensity tag (setting it to 1 should fix your problem.) If it still doesn't work, then it's a bug.

lurker · Post by **lurker** » 23 Nov 2007, 08:22

O_o By default? Why in the world was such a large change in average damage turned on by default?

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 23 Nov 2007, 08:35

Probably the same reason bonusshield is on by default. I think minIntensity should be 1 by default (overall I think a system with the least assumptions should be default so we don't need a forest of tags just to make a unit simple) but that would seriously break existing mods.

lurker · Post by **lurker** » 23 Nov 2007, 09:31

You missed a key word in my post. This was a rather recent change turned on by default. Bonusshield was on because it had always been. And I'm all for tag(s) to go in modrules to remove all legacy wtfs.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 23 Nov 2007, 10:49

Change? I didn't know the intensity stuff was a change, when did it happen?

imbaczek · Post by **imbaczek** » 23 Nov 2007, 15:54

minIntensity was a change, yes, I added it when I tried to monkeypatch beamlasers into melee weapons when I noticed that damage isn't what I specified. Dissipation had been there a looong time before that.

lurker · Post by **lurker** » 23 Nov 2007, 16:23

imbaczek wrote:Dissipation had been there a looong time before that.

Really? I had not once heard of it in that context, and mantis didn't show such. Oh well.

imbaczek · Post by **imbaczek** » 23 Nov 2007, 16:26

I've never reported this publicly, but minIntesity is there in a commit message together with one of targetBorder patches.

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 23 Nov 2007, 16:31

Forboding Angel wrote:only about 1500 damage gets dealt even in close quarters.

Fix plox!

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 23 Nov 2007, 16:40

did you try minintensity=1; ?

Forboding Angel · Post by **Forboding Angel** » 23 Nov 2007, 21:56

KDR_11k wrote:did you try minintensity=1; ?

Why would I need that when the target is right next to the tower?

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 23 Nov 2007, 22:34

Who knows how the falloff formula works? Just do it.

imbaczek · Post by **imbaczek** » 23 Nov 2007, 22:52

FA: to reduce the possibility space to the bare minimum.

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Fix the beamlasers please

Fix the beamlasers please

Re: Fix the beamlasers please