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Re: Anyone have .5a RC3?
« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2017, 09:27:55 PM »

I edited the apogee loadout to have a plasma cannon and like I saw in an video of these earlier versions, the plasma cannon has a charge up effect to have different projectile properties.  My question is, what happened to that mechanic?  Is it still possible to have a weapon like that in the current version?

My guess is that it was probably was removed because it didn't play nice with autofire or AI ships, and any similar weapon would have similar problems. I feel like it might be doable as a ship system, however. (Tap F once to start charging, tap again to fire.)
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Re: Anyone have .5a RC3?
« Reply #16 on: January 18, 2017, 09:40:48 PM »

http://www.mediafire.com/file/59s25r9q6h2kh8x/starfarer_install-0.35a-pre-RC2.exe

That should work. Don't have your old files, Alex? ;) If you want any others put up, I probably have many of them.

Thank you!! Didn't keep old builds around from before upgrading to this computer. I mean, theoretically I could always pull an old version from SVN and rebuild, but in practice it's too much of a pain to do without a solid reason.


I edited the apogee loadout to have a plasma cannon and like I saw in an video of these earlier versions, the plasma cannon has a charge up effect to have different projectile properties.  My question is, what happened to that mechanic?  Is it still possible to have a weapon like that in the current version?

"specClass":"pulse",

In the .wpn file. Not officially supported (meaning, it'll break whenever a refactor makes it at all hard to update to continue working), but for now I believe it works.

As to what happened to that mechanic: it went away because it turned out that with as many weapons as ships generally have, that mode of operation doesn't work well. If you only have one or two weapons, sure.
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Re: Anyone have .5a RC3?
« Reply #17 on: January 18, 2017, 11:38:17 PM »

I edited the apogee loadout to have a plasma cannon and like I saw in an video of these earlier versions, the plasma cannon has a charge up effect to have different projectile properties.  My question is, what happened to that mechanic?  Is it still possible to have a weapon like that in the current version?
AI didn't get it I think
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Re: Anyone have .5a RC3?
« Reply #18 on: January 19, 2017, 04:10:10 AM »

Just checked my old backed up download files; interestingly I have 0.33a and 0.34a (preview2 and RC2) as windows installers.

Did you want me to share these as well?
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Re: Anyone have .5a RC3?
« Reply #19 on: January 19, 2017, 04:46:33 AM »

I have these window installers:

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Re: Anyone have .5a RC3?
« Reply #20 on: January 19, 2017, 06:26:01 AM »

I'd download any old installers, if only for data preservation.
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Re: Anyone have .5a RC3?
« Reply #21 on: January 19, 2017, 08:09:44 AM »

Very nostalgic. It's nice to see how far we've come :)
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Re: Anyone have .5a RC3?
« Reply #22 on: January 19, 2017, 08:13:55 AM »

Just checked my old backed up download files; interestingly I have 0.33a and 0.34a (preview2 and RC2) as windows installers.

Did you want me to share these as well?

I'd love to get my hands on these, too :)
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Re: Anyone have .5a RC3?
« Reply #23 on: January 19, 2017, 10:20:53 AM »

So Alex  ;D  after you downloaded "our", games, shouldn't you return a favor in same manner... Like, i dunno, something... 0.8a download?  ::)
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Re: Anyone have .5a RC3?
« Reply #24 on: January 19, 2017, 10:39:35 AM »

Give and take, that's a nice motto to follow!
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Re: Anyone have .5a RC3?
« Reply #25 on: January 19, 2017, 12:09:19 PM »

Working on it :) You have no idea how much I want to get it out - just needs to be in a good place for it.
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Re: Anyone have .5a RC3?
« Reply #26 on: January 19, 2017, 01:07:28 PM »

On our hard drives might be a good place to start ;)

I kid of course! You know we're waiting patiently and politely... sorta.
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Re: Anyone have .5a RC3?
« Reply #27 on: January 19, 2017, 07:10:43 PM »

i think i'll try one of those very early versions as well, the earliest i played was 0.54, i believe. i only know the earlier ones from videos, like this one:
my favorite part is where the Venture overloads itself by firing its 3 HAGs at a Condor that is shooting 2 Mining Lasers at its shield. :D


Working on it :) You have no idea how much I want to get it out - just needs to be in a good place for it.
do you still intend to write a blog post about that industry combat playstyle you mentioned, before release?
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Re: Anyone have .5a RC3?
« Reply #28 on: January 19, 2017, 08:45:36 PM »

On our hard drives might be a good place to start ;)

Oh, you :)

do you still intend to write a blog post about that industry combat playstyle you mentioned, before release?

Yeah, definitely.
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Re: Anyone have .5a RC3?
« Reply #29 on: January 19, 2017, 10:35:04 PM »

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