Shield impact effects

posted on February 22nd, 2011, 10:57 am

This one is more of an aesthetic thing than anything game breaking. Shield impact explosions are attached to the craft rather than being in world space. So if a ship is rotating or moving, the explosion will move with the ship. I guess it works OK for movement, but looks a bit odd with rotation.

posted on February 22nd, 2011, 11:21 am

yh, i just figured it was impossible to change. Its funny when a torpedo explodes, then the cloud follows the ship as it turns lol

posted on February 22nd, 2011, 1:22 pm

Yes... for the same reason though (though more believable), Phasers don't slide along the shields. These sound like some difficult things to change.

posted on February 22nd, 2011, 1:54 pm

I actually found this out several patches before the devs added in the feature when I was trying out some shield explosion effects.  It looks even worse when a battlestar turns away from oncoming missiles with explosions chasing it.