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Thread: Devs, your making a mistake! Add laser convergence to JTL!!!
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SerialJedi
Sat Oct 23, 2004 9:22 am
#1
I've posted this on the beta boards numerous times with no dev taking consideration of it. The game is about to go live and i'm willing to wager that this will bea gripe for many people. The game needs laser convergence. I can't tell you how annoying it is when your directly behind your target and your just trying to angle your ship so that you can get both lasers to hit and not just one.
Rikkialamay
Sat Oct 23, 2004 9:25 am
#2
do you mean that you want to be able to turn the individual cannons so the zero range is closer?
If they were to implement that though it would be a manual adjustment that you would have to do on the ground
If they were to implement that though it would be a manual adjustment that you would have to do on the ground
SerialJedi
Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:20 am
#3
Yes. so that you can set the range at which the lasers will meet. Or maybe an auto convergence in which if you have 100% chance of hitting the guy it will converge right on your target.
Polarbear868
Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:32 am
#4
I remember reading in a Star Wars novel about how before a bunch of X-Wings took off, they had to set the Laser Convergence Range to the distance they thought that they would most likely be engaging the enemy. I think this would be a great idea that you would set yours on the ground.
Ffolks
Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:17 pm
#5
hmm, if it is the case that the gun fire doesn't converge at some point in front of your vehicle then that is rather a glaring oversight. It would also imply that someone flying an x-wing, for instance, would never be able to hit a target that was directly in front of the nose of their craft.
Polarbear868
Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:24 pm
#6
I don't think that it should just converge at one point and stay together, but converge at one point then spread out again.
deadOne
Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:27 pm
#7
I agree, there should be convergence for fighters with multiple weapons, but this has always had to be done on the ground in the books or In real life for our fighter aircraft.
Polarbear868
Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:29 pm
#8
deadOne wrote:I agree, there should be convergence for fighters with multiple weapons, but this has always had to be done on the ground in the books or In real life for our fighter aircraft.
Yeah! =D
futuramafan
Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:33 pm
#9
yeah, it was hard to hit stuff in the z95, but the ywing made things a bit easier. i was going mad looking for the toggle convergence key (like in xwa) and i found out alot later there was none 
there defn. needs to be some kind of convergence thing
there defn. needs to be some kind of convergence thing
Polarbear868
Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:22 pm
#11
How complicated can it be? Set it for 200m, 300m, etc... or just in case, have a default.
Toguro
Sat Oct 23, 2004 2:59 pm
#12
great idea! also we should be able to choose to fire both lasers at once or one at a time. or on ships with four lasers like xwing and tie interceptor we should get to choose between four at once, two at a time (corner to corner), or one at a time.
Akiram_Glockem
Sat Oct 23, 2004 3:06 pm
#13
Toguro wrote:
great idea! also we should be able to choose to fire both lasers at once or one at a time. or on ships with four lasers like xwing and tie interceptor we should get to choose between four at once, two at a time (corner to corner), or one at a time.
In an X-wing you can set up weapon groups so you can fire 2, 4, or 6 blasters at a time.
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