Attack patterns

posted on January 30th, 2011, 1:17 pm

I would love for some effects (maybe to cover fire?) to make your ships fly around just a little bit. Would make fleet engagements so much more dynamic with just a couple of ships moving around in combat.

posted on January 31st, 2011, 4:58 am

Well in stock you can do that. Can anyone tell me how to restor that feature to FO?

posted on January 31st, 2011, 7:54 pm

I take it you are talking about Director's Cut?

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posted on February 1st, 2011, 4:37 am

No not directors cut; that never made it into A2. If you go into the menuver menu in stock you will find several commands the don't form ships up it makes them move in a certain way when in battle. FO took them out. I want them back.

posted on February 1st, 2011, 12:24 pm

He means stuff like the clover leaf and circling formation.

You could simulate this with the pathing feature I suppose.   Thats how I do it in my BSG mod.

posted on February 2nd, 2011, 7:05 am

Whats the parhing feature?

posted on February 2nd, 2011, 9:20 pm

Hold town tab and right-click multiple times.

posted on February 3rd, 2011, 8:10 am

You mean the nav waypoints?

posted on February 4th, 2011, 4:14 pm

I takw it that no one in the FO comunity has ever coded any starship physics have they?

posted on February 4th, 2011, 8:24 pm

There are plenty of people who have I'm sure - it just takes time for some of them to find this thread I assume 

posted on February 7th, 2011, 1:27 pm

What you are referring to is a handeled just like formations and can be added or removed like any other formation. Check the stock Armada2 Formations for more information. They don't have much to do with physics.

posted on February 8th, 2011, 9:21 pm

They don't have much to do with physics.

They related indirectly. The real payoff for having good ingame physics is watching the ships look cool moving around while they fight. For that I need the attack patterns. Otherwise it is not really worthwhile to do all the work overhauling the files in the first place.

posted on February 9th, 2011, 12:41 am

What you are referring to is a handeled just like formations and can be added or removed like any other formation. Check the stock Armada2 Formations for more information. They don't have much to do with physics.

In which case, why were they removed from FO?

posted on February 9th, 2011, 12:43 am

I assume that means the Clover Leaf and various other types of formations/attack commands - I think the reasoning was that they do not work too well with the flat battlefield of Fleet Ops, nor were what was desired.

posted on February 9th, 2011, 1:48 am

well if it's a mod, someone could just un-flatten the battlefield.