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Starmade | beam weapons lose damage across sector borders
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I like beam weapons, but from experience, I've noticed that they tend to do much worse than cannons. So I did some testing. I did many tests, but this is the one I want to show you.

This is my beam weapon...
216 total size
Main - 108 - Damage Beam Computer
Slave - 108 - Damage Beam Computer

This is my test setup...
The beam weapon is in sector 8,102,11
The cubes are in sectors 8,102,11 and 8,103,11

This is the damage to the cube in 8,102,11 (same sector as beam weapon)

This is the damage to the cube in 8,103,11 (different sector than beam weapon)

The beam weapon seems to do far less destruction after crossing a sector border. Also, I lined up my weapon on the target and pressed "V' to make sure I was stationary and not moving while firing. In the above pictures I performed 4 shots on each cube. And the cubes are using green standard armor and thruster blocks.

Details

Task Type
Bug
Testing Results
Affected Gamemode(s)
none/unspecified
Reproducible
Yes
Category
none/unspecified
First occurrence (version)
v0.199.402
Hardware/Software/System
OS-Specific
No
Hardware-Specific
No
Video Card Vendor
NVIDIA
User/Reporter/Contact
Username on Registry
Kingofanime
Steps to reproduce
  1. create a large beam/beam weapon
  2. shoot at a target in sector and then one across a sector border
  3. compare the penetration and number of blocks destroyed
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Clientconfig (settings.cfg)
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Kingofanime added a comment.Jan 28 2017, 9:09 PM

In the newest version (v0.199.432)... it now destroys zero blocks when shooting a beam/beam weapon across a sector border. Shooting a target inside the same sector is more impressive though.

Kingofanime added a comment.Feb 2 2017, 3:18 PM

I mentioned this bug in the latest starmade update thread and schema hotfixed it. Long range beams are working good now.

Random forum posting - 1 point
Using Phabricator - 0 points

lancake added a subscriber: lancake.Feb 2 2017, 10:00 PM
lancake claimed this task.

-Rejected-

This task is a duplicate of T1024. And the issue was fixed using that report.

What you're seeing in the 402 release is a broken system that still shows you some results. There's no penetration damage whatsoever in sector crossing. After fixing T1024, the way it works changed which also resulted in the first damage block moving inside the penetration iteration.
That made this issue way more apparent since now you did no damage at all with sector crossing stuff. That too was resolved in one of the hotfixes as you said, although not because you mentioned it on the forums. We noticed it first when some people poked me on slack about it ;)

Using Phabricator - 1 point (never would have started a fix attempt on it otherwise)
Using Slack - 1 point
Using random forum posting - 0 points since it's just repeating what we already knew

lancake shifted this object from the S1 Public space to the S3 Starmade space.Feb 2 2017, 10:00 PM
lancake changed the visibility from "Custom Policy" to "Public (No Login Required)".
lancake changed the edit policy from "Task Author" to "Starmade (Project)".
lancake closed this task as a duplicate of T1024: Damage Beam applies damage inconsistently to armored blocks.
lancake triaged this task as Normal priority.
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AndyP moved this task from Unclassed to Archived on the Starmade board.Mar 29 2017, 1:23 PM