Spring RTS Engine

Can shields be made to block damage from all or nearly all weapon types?

Can shields be made to block AOE damage? I heard there was a problem with this.

Can shields be made to directly transfer damage to thier slave unit if they break down compleatly rather then simply being made noneffective? If a shielded unit gets nuked or something and it's shield is resistant to nuke damage but get broken down compleatly the shielded unit should then take the remainder of the nukes damage.

All shields do is cause a projectile to explode immediately if its damage is lower than the remaining shield power and its interceptedby bitfield has at least one bit set that is set in the shield's bitfield. The bitfields can be customized in any way you want so you can define which projectiles are caught by which shield.

Alrighty then, I'm moving this to feature requests then.

is it impossible for a shield to block lightning? it's not working when i'm trying it (other weapons such as lasers and missles working fine)

You're right, I've changed a weapon to lightning and suddently it was able to break through a shield it couldn't previously penetrate.

KDR_11k wrote:You're right, I've changed a weapon to lightning and suddently it was able to break through a shield it couldn't previously penetrate.

bummer. i chose to have an entire race use the one weapon that'll feck up the only unique thing about the other race - shields

Just wait for the next version.