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Ignorance
Grand Admiral
Joined: October 27, 2012
Posts: 85
|  Posted: 2013-11-23 16:48
I'm not sure if Medusa does/can support this kind of graphic effect, but in the case it does or can be manipulated to do so, this effect might be nice ti have:
Perhaps instead of other friendly cloaked players being completely invisible, they would have a sort of light bending effect showing the very outline of their ship so you can still see where they are. This graphic effect could be enabled with the "Enable shaders" button.
If the devs also thought it fit to be in the future of DS, this same effect, perhaps more defined, could become visible on cloaks that are at or below 75% health, rather than every "battle tick"(for lack of a better word) the cloak completely shuts off for a tenth of a second then restarts.
Just some ideas. Please let me know what you think.
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Borgie
Chief Marshal
Pitch Black
Joined: August 15, 2005
Posts: 2256
From: close by
| Posted: 2013-11-23 22:01
back in the day when you were damaged below 70%, your hull damage used to apear through cloak, at 30% the blue flame lit up the area with a huge sign saying shoot here please
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Guyton (Angel of Death)
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Joined: January 25, 2004
Posts: 706
| Posted: 2013-11-23 22:21
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On 2013-11-23 22:01, Borgie wrote:
back in the day when you were damaged below 70%, your hull damage used to apear through cloak, at 30% the blue flame lit up the area with a huge sign saying shoot here please
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Than again back then being cloaked didn't mean a thing. You cloaked for fun for the most part.
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Entil-Zha the Starkiller
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Ravenous Wolfpack Clan
Joined: May 02, 2005
Posts: 261
From: Arizona - Where DST is a myth
| Posted: 2013-11-23 22:34
You could fire while cloaked too...
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Ignorance
Grand Admiral
Joined: October 27, 2012
Posts: 85
| Posted: 2013-11-23 23:56
I guess what I'm proposing is for the cloak to conceal the damage, including the blue flame, and everything else from the hull, and rely on the cloak hp itself to base how visible the light-bending shader effect would be. This would help and hurt I think.
As of now, I have a pretty crappy laptop that can run ds at High settings just fine with the shader enabled, but assuming that the medusa engine can simulate this effect, it would put heavy graphics load on the player who had that effect being rendered. That kind of light bending effect being enabled would probably be best of in a button of its own.
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Borgie
Chief Marshal
Pitch Black
Joined: August 15, 2005
Posts: 2256
From: close by
| Posted: 2013-11-24 06:27
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On 2013-11-23 23:56, [*DI*]Ignorance[Helper] wrote:
I guess what I'm proposing is for the cloak to conceal the damage, including the blue flame, and everything else from the hull, and rely on the cloak hp itself to base how visible the light-bending shader effect would be. This would help and hurt I think.
As of now, I have a pretty crappy laptop that can run ds at High settings just fine with the shader enabled, but assuming that the medusa engine can simulate this effect, it would put heavy graphics load on the player who had that effect being rendered. That kind of light bending effect being enabled would probably be best of in a button of its own.
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it already does on the enemy side, only every now and then do they see like a flash of damage, and most people don;t even notice
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Pand0rum (Dragoon)
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Joined: May 06, 2007
Posts: 51
From: Arizona
| Posted: 2013-11-25 14:55
I would say that the only way you can ping a ship if it's under 75% Hull, contradicting what you said from ship outline. instead of adding a shade outline that literally makes them visible, I would say you can ECCM or ping a ship only if the opponent is 75 percent hull or lower.
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