Support Ships, Fighters and Marines

posted on June 25th, 2008, 11:47 am

Is it possible to have the Point Defence target fighters and workerbees. It always bugged me that fighters, worker bees and stations under construction couldn't be attacked.

posted on June 25th, 2008, 2:28 pm

I think in vanilla A2, ships couldn't target fighters/worker bees because they weren't technically ships, were they? Weren't they just kinda of....an animation? or something like that?

posted on June 29th, 2008, 8:07 pm

An animation? But the Drones and Workerbees both have an SOD. Or did you mean a Background Object (like the Suns and Blackholes).

posted on June 29th, 2008, 8:10 pm

If I recall, they behave as weapons, rather than ships.  In theory, they could be made valid targets.

posted on June 30th, 2008, 6:51 am

the v3 fighters are vessels even though you can not select or command them. they are attacked and affected by all weapons just like normal starships would. the PR fighters can not be targetted

posted on June 30th, 2008, 12:34 pm

i have just read all the news posts and MY GOD I AM IMPRESSED! The team have done some bloody great work and i can't wait for the release! 

Well done Flops you never cease to amaze.

posted on July 1st, 2008, 12:48 am

*cough* screenshots *cough*