While testing beams I noticed they would often pass right though or partially through my target. With the increased beam ranges in .1792 this is even more apparent. It seems the farther away I get the less likely I am to actually hit.
Sometimes it hits deeper inside the ship, bypassing the exterior or sometimes it just goes through it completely.
This issue makes beams unreliable.
(old) youtube video: http://youtu.be/E9BwkOXeIew
2 issues remaining for beams.
The things mentioned below is for testing in the *same sector* with *unfocused* beams
When I rotated my target 45 degrees, it seemed to behave differently:
The circle itself seems to turn white from time to time and heavily depends on range and thickness of target. That's probably better for another task though.
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Issue is not to do with sector borders per se, that seems to be another issue entirely. On the server I play on we use 10km edge to edge sectors, giving beam slaved to beam approximately 15km range. However it is nearly impossible to hit stationary targets beyond 2-2.5km.
I can also weigh in by saying my experiences:
Damage Beams seem to ONLY HIT when the GREEN CIRCLE is showing, Its exceedingly rare Beams will hit without that green "Aimed at Ship" marker on screen, and will rather commonly decide to deal completely nothing even with a green circle.
I Have lots of experience in medium and large-ish ship combat, and on the larger ships you can clearly be looking at something like centre-mass of a giant cube, yet there is no green circle, and thus, the Beam will not deal damage.
Hope this helps somewhat?
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It helps but your information seems to be slightly incorrect.
2 issues remaining for beams.
The things mentioned below is for testing in the *same sector* with *unfocused* beams
When I rotated my target 45 degrees, it seemed to behave differently:
The circle itself seems to turn white from time to time and heavily depends on range and thickness of target. That's probably better for another task though.
-QA Testing-
It helps but your information seems to be slightly incorrect.
2 issues remaining for beams.
The things mentioned below is for testing in the *same sector* with *unfocused* beams
When I rotated my target 45 degrees, it seemed to behave differently:
- The piercing effect doesn't start from the correct position, seems that the position it start from is not properly rotated with the ship direction and keeps using the sector alignment.
- Beams still hit even if your circle is white but when it is white, it won't apply the standalone piercing effect. so instead of killing 20-30 blocks in my case, I killed 5 (1 for each tick).
The circle itself seems to turn white from time to time and heavily depends on range and thickness of target. That's probably better for another task though.
Can I assume that my 15km range beams will be able to shoot out to 15km and hit a target? (Beam slaved Beam with 10km edge to edge sectors)
A friend of mine who is working on turrets told me this bug does not affect AI turrets. I think AIs skip the raycasting step and just hit what the game already knows they're shooting at.
The white <-> green reticle works a lot better now, seems to still suffer from an update issue but the beams themselves seem to work fine. Going to leave it open a bit longer and see if I can find a better hidden issue.