Dominion Weapons

posted on July 20th, 2009, 3:14 pm

In the shows the dominion ships weapons could break through the shields like they never existed, I was wondering if the dev team was planning to include something along those lines or if they were planning on saving that for veteran ships? Anyways, I was wondering if the development team wasn't going to include this into the game I was wondering if this was even possible ( for beams to ignore the shields ) I know it would give the dominion a huge advantage, but I was wondering if you had the weapons weakened against targets with shields it would be a very cool addon. I know this would take a lot of work, but it would make the game feel quite a bit more realistic.

[Tyler]

posted on July 20th, 2009, 3:17 pm

Last edited by Tyler on July 20th, 2009, 3:25 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Dominon weapons passed through shields only for early fights because they used a type of directed energy the Alpha Quadrent races were not familier with. They adapted sometime before the War started.

Ignoring shields is possible, multiple weapons aready do that and it could even happen in the stock game.

posted on July 20th, 2009, 4:15 pm

and i'm wondering that you're wondering so much.. 


sorry, couldn't resist

posted on July 20th, 2009, 4:58 pm

Curious. In the shows the feds eventually adapted to the polaron modulation of dominion weapons - in fact to the astonishment of Weyoun in the attack on DS9 at the outbreak of the dominion war.

The bolts that were seen breaking right through mirandas in episodes were akin to the our excessive strike that we already have in place.
A graphics change to make the excessive strike more elongated like we see in the dominion miranda battle sequences would be more to our needs, but other than that the dominion pretty much do beak through - and using the correct ship class to boot (as those sequences reused the same footage of the dominon V-13 taking out the mirandas).

posted on July 20th, 2009, 5:08 pm

A graphics change to make the excessive strike more elongated like we see in the dominion miranda battle sequences would be more to our needs

The graphics overhaul (the anti-aging program Optec was talking about) will be coming soon, so I hope this will be one of the things that is prettified 

posted on July 20th, 2009, 5:09 pm

Some classes probably couldn't be adapted to block the weapons completely, not as easily at least.

posted on July 20th, 2009, 7:40 pm

Hmm, eh it still would be cool for veteran ships. But when I went into the scripts and made a copy of the bug ship added it to the shipyard, and gave it a new weapon with ignore shield set to one I still couldn't get it to work.