Beside numerous bugs, Avaruustaistelupeli is filled with weird game-overs that are logical under the hood, but the logic is hard to figure out. Lots of them can only be detected by carefully watching videos of the battles. I have already added some statistics to clarify things, but obviously it is not enough.
A very common mishap happens when players launch projectiles at high rate. Projectiles often collide and explode upon the ship that launched them, which causes heavy collateral damage to modules in their vicinity. Explosions near the cockpit may end the battle abruptly.
Players are now given an opportunity to make projectiles trigger only when they leave the ship’s bounding area. Untriggered ones won’t explode on collisions, only disappear. A dust cloud with a loud clang indicates the collision and lessens confusion on vanishing projectiles. The new mode should make the fighting more careless. As AI pilots are already rather careful with projectiles, this doesn’t affect their behavior.
Another similar case are mishaps with energy overflow, but I’m pretty clueless what to do with them. Experimenting with the subject has already taken too much time, so, in order to keep a steadier posting rate, I will probably do something else first.
