Directors Cut?

posted on March 11th, 2009, 9:45 pm

its good to know you could easily bring it back if you wanted...

Though in the current fleet operations a ship does easily loose its weapon range advatnage... A Saber always moves in way too close, like when fighting bops even though it could easily stay out of their weapon range?

posted on March 11th, 2009, 10:37 pm

yea, there are still a lot other issues in the battle system of armada...
i just made a rough implementation of the "directors cut", it would need a lot more tweaking and testing before it is really usable again..

posted on March 12th, 2009, 2:40 pm

i have played a bit to get that feature back in armada 2. it basically is, as in the formations menu you can select an attack pattern that is exactly the movement you have from armada 1. and yes, it is a big difference in gameplay, as ships would start moving in to attack other vessels and so loose their advantage of long range weaponry plus it makes your ships harder to control. i'd really like to have that back in fleet operations too, but it didn't work out so well when i tested it in fleet operations..

So basically it's exactly what I said, The only way of bringing it back is to set the default behaviour to one of the attack patterns. That's not really directors cut.

posted on March 12th, 2009, 2:46 pm

ships would of course dynamically change their patterns, different attack patterns for different targets. and that's exactly what happens in armada 1

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posted on April 12th, 2009, 11:59 am

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dont supose you can mail me the odf files to replace one of the formations  with the cloverleaf attack pattern??? I was able to do some amature copy pasting with Fleet ops 2.0 to get it from the old armada 2 but my tacky efforts dont work with 3.0 

posted on April 13th, 2009, 1:19 am

welcome to the forums
i fear that's up to you. we just don't have the time to support modding directly maybe someone elso from the forums might help you with it