Destructible missiles video - Battlestar Galactica: War of the Colonies mod for Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
What if the Cylons hadn't been able to hack into the Colonial defence network? What if instead of shutting down all the Battlestars with the push of a button they had instead had to fight their way through the layers of defences that had been built up over forty years of uneasy peace. This mod aims to allow you to find out for yourself. Take command of the mighty Colonial fleet or the colossal Cylon armada and fight for the Twelve Colonies!
My thanks to jedimasterjason for making me realise that this was possible.
Ladies and Gentlemen, the flak barrier is now a fully realised reality!
It is now possible for missiles to be shot down as they fly in and all ships, on both sides, will actively target them with their flak guns as can be seen in this video. The finer details and balance is not yet worked out but nevertheless I'm very excited by this development.
Please note, the juddering in the video is caused by the recording software. The actual game you are watching played smoothly with very little lag.
As far as I can see, it is really awesome, but still there is only one thing that bothers me: it is still possible to do some damage with missiles? For what I saw, only KEWs are doing some serious damage.
Anyway, I truly like the effort you're putting into it! Keep going!
PS: also, will the other hero ships be more recognizable with proper textures?
Some missiles still get through, and i can tweak the health to make it so more get through, up the damage etc. Ill balance this so that cylon ships are still effective.
Can you elaborate what you mean by heroes being more recognisable?
For example, by giving the Galactica darker textures for the armor or the seal of the Twelve Colonies on top of her. You know, something which makes hero ships esthetically different from standard ships.
Gotcha
I dunno, its a possibility
Glad to hear. Looking forward to more updates!
Wonder if we can get the full complement of flak guns instead of just those along the flight pods. Still great improvement, this will probably make the colonials even more powerful though, especially when combined with the electronic warfare packages.
I've been asking about this, but it requires either invisible hardpoint usage or a re-rigging of the models.
Glad to be of assistance! i've spent many years experimenting with eaw/foc personally and i'm glad i could add something back to the community, really want to see this mod excel if i can think of anything else relevant i'll be sure to post rather than lurk in the shadows!
Anything you can think of, please share! This was really rather easy once i realised it was possible, who knows what else i might have just assumed couldnt be done?
Omg that's so awesome - just the concept of ships being able to Target and shoot down missiles in the game is revolutionary!
Its been done before, but its still cool to have a mod actually implement it, nice work.
One of the problems with EAW these days, a lot of knowledge is held by individuals now that the sharing sites are dying off.
Yeah, In all honesty the issue I found most with doing this in my mod is that you somewhat need the missile models to have a collision box mesh to make them properly targetable/killable by anything other then splash damage.
I will obviously need to balance this... I can change the number of missiles that get taken out (and not all of are being taken out at the moment) by changing flak accuracy, increasing/decreasing health, changing missile speed etc so it can be balanced. I'm planning to add unguided missiles which will not be affected by the missile field to reduce the effectiveness of that and to dramatically increase the damage of missiles and nukes now that they can be countered