Is there a way in this game to create a giant charged particle beam cannon?

[Tentacule Un Seigneur]

Akin to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV0x4XHdbyc

Like many beam generators that can work together to charge up then fire a huge destructive stream of energy.

So........any way to make something like that in this game?

[Admiral Obvious]

Probably. Can't guarantee that the accuracy would be any good, but a consistent, high damage fire rate should be possible, with enough power of course, but the new steam engines seem to excel at that.

[Matt]

particle cannons can hit hard and deal explosive damage, might look like the wave motion gun if you tweak it. Lasers can fire a continious beam, can be color changed/have the diameter changed. you'll find both under the lasers tab.

[Tentacule Un Seigneur]

Originally posted by sano:

particle cannons can hit hard and deal explosive damage, might look like the wave motion gun if you tweak it. Lasers can fire a continious beam, can be color changed/have the diameter changed. you'll find both under the lasers tab.

So there is a way to create a giant Wave Motion Gun style weapon?

[Matt]

yes, you can. I'd probably choose the laser so I can adjust the look of the beam.

[pizzasheepz]

Ehhhhhhhhh... there are plasma weapons that are planned to act akin to the wave motion gun, but release date is unknown and exact details are nonexistent.

Chances are, if you want something like this, you will have to use a giant laser(In order to get the actual "size" of the shot, since you will be able to tell the individual streams from the particle cannon.)

[Tentacule Un Seigneur]

It would be nice if there were things like beam emmitters that could focus their energy to a central point, then after it has built up enough it could be fired as a giant stream like a wave motion gun.

[CX6]

Originally posted by gentlemanintacta:

It would be nice if there were things like beam emmitters that could focus their energy to a central point, then after it has built up enough it could be fired as a giant stream like a wave motion gun.

Now it's only have laser what can shoot giant stream like that.

[capnguts]

Try a particle shotgun? Use the secondary lenses and cluster 10 or 20 together set to piercing.

[Tentacule Un Seigneur]

Originally posted by capnguts:

Try a particle shotgun? Use the secondary lenses and cluster 10 or 20 together set to piercing.

But will that result in a giant particle beam that causes a massive explosion where it hits?

[Berserk Knight]

Particle cannons have the "explosive" setting as well.

[david.pearson]

^Particle shotgun... I have one on my Cthulu mothership (two, actually). Made of a few particle cannons using the pipes and lenses all clustered together. Makes one hell of a mess of other ships but drains my ship's 12,000,000 energy in seconds when they are both firing.

[david.pearson]

Having just wasted four minutes and 16 seconds of my life watching that clip... I have the following feedback:

1) What a crappy, archaic, rudimentry targeting system! Honestly, why have a pistol grip joystick for manual firing? One sneeze and it's all gone Pete Tong.

2) The iris opening looked a lot like one of the close-ups in the internet sensation that was "2 girls, 1 cup" (don't google it, kids)

3) In the time it takes the damn thing to fire, the enemy would have not only destroyed your ship, they would have got bored, gone home, finished fighting the war, and evolved into a higher life form before the thing charged.

4) Too many moving parts for an energy weapon. Bugger being the poor bloke who has to go down and grease it all up to get that shaft to slam home smoothly!

5) Why do manga cartoons always make people's mouths move like pac-man when they talk?

6) Am I the only one who had inappropriate thoughts about the blondie?

7) Why is Captain Birdseye in charge?? Isn't there a fish fingers marketing campaign to run?

8) While I am a big advocate of the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974, I would argue making everyone carry tinted safety goggles at all times on the offchance they have an inpromptu firing of the plasma-wave-thingy-rectum gun might be considered excessive. I mean, really, in the time it took to charge I rather suspect that everyone had plenty of time to go fetch their glasses (FROM HOME!), eat dinner, have a sleep, come back to work and still be bored waiting for it to charge.

[david.pearson]

9) Why is rectum a swearword??? It's a body part, a legitimate, correct name for a human body part! Fot those wondering what word is hiding behind the love hearts, well... It is the bit of you that stores poo and fits between your anus and your large intestine. Part of your colon. Immediately behind your sphincter.

[david.pearson]

Damn it, anus is a swear word too? Another legitimate, correct name for a body part?? ARGH! What do the moderators have against the parts of the digestive system that deal with our waste products!?! Ok, so the four letter hashed out word is the bit of you that opens and closes like the iris on that weapon, the bit that I was making reference to in the "2 girls, 1 cup" comment, it's the bit of you that makes your finger smell when you scratch it. Yeah...

[david.pearson]

#threadkiller lol