Projectile Changes image - Empire at War Expanded: Thrawn's Revenge mod for Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
Thrawn's Revenge is a large-scale mod for Empire at War: Forces of Corruption. It includes the events of the Galactic Civil War after Palpatine's death at Endor, up until the signing of the Pellaeon-Gavrisom treaty. If you own the Steam version of EaW, you will have to complete extra steps to run the mod after installation. Please see the manual for these steps.
I was gonna do these changes about a year ago, but forgot about them until Cheesecake mentioned it a few days ago. Turbolasers, Ion Cannons, and Megamasers have been scaled down 50% and also sped up. The former is to allow you to see ships better, and the latter should improve performance (you have to render the particles for shorter amounts of time, so you're rarely going to render as many). Visually, it should also prevent any ships from having the tail-ends of their projectiles from sticking out the other side when they fire.
I may still play with the size and bring it back up a little.
Great news, the projectiles were the only thing that erked me in this mod.
Definitely this! It was the only thing that always bugged me and now it's vanished, finally. Amazing work guys, you're awesome!
agree, it looks much better now
I really liked the old ones. And got no performance issues.
Cheesecake mentioned it? ...I believe I've said this since the original release that the lasers are too large :) Glad it's changed, will you do a small patch for this or wait untill a larger patch to release it?
Like I said, I've wanted to do this for a year (probably longer), and just kept forgetting because I always prioritized other stuff first. He commented a few days ago and it reminded me that I wanted to do it, so I just did it then.
This would be released with all the other stuff we've been working on. I don't like doing too many individual patches because people tend to get confused.
Glad I was able to help, lol. Looks very nice btw.
Always good to have performance improvements.
Awesome :)
Here's a image for comparison. Found it in my screenshot section :D
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Cheers
Jesus that looks 100% better especially on the eyes. Plus Like you said the ships are more visible now too. Great job!
The existing ones were excellent but later you could feel performance issues and even find it difficult to find your smaller ships amidst the laser show....
These ones are a welcome edition....
very nice indeed cant wait for the patch
I approve of this change!
Great change. The old projectiles are HUGE. Feels like you are firing small starships around in space with every pulse.
Nice, smaller yet large enough to seem powerful.
You guys are amazing, this looks great.
I'm loving this Amazing mod. I have one thing I don't understand though. During skirmishes I build a tank or train a militia unit and they say,"reporting for duty," but they are no where to be found!? Am I missing something obvious/
Thanks
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Got a question.... I'm playing as the Empire of the Hand in GC and Thrawn's "Clone" has returned but his ship isn't a capitol ship, it's a frigate a Chaf (if i remember right). Is it supposed to be that? I think he should have a star destroyer or some special Chiss-Imperial ship. Can you guys help me here I don't what's up.
Did this smaller laser ever happen? I just installed the new version and its still massive laser
Nice Job, is that the full size of the Super Star Destroyer?