public static boolean isFighterOrDrone(ShipAPI ship)
{
return ship.isFighter() || ship.isDrone() || isFakeFighter(ship);
}
public static boolean isFakeFighter(ShipAPI ship)
{
return ship.getHullSpec().hasTag("fake_fighter");
}
void setHullSize(HullSize hullSize);OK can give one really simple and low hanging fruit example off the top of my head that is even easy to test and observe.
Would be really cool if this evolves into a full Faction Mod.
Creating a rival to Diable Avionics with different objectives, or perhaps and ally for Diable Avionics (considering how many enemies they have on a Nexerelin run)
This looks amazing, keep it up!
Spoiler1.0.5
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-Any carrier with at least 1 Cataphract wing will now get the hullmod "cataphract complement" that grants small ground support bonus, applied when visiting markets
=== Einhänder ===
-can start active vent during phase instead of having to exit phase first, and then venting.
- Increased OP from 30 -> 35
- Added small SYNERGY hardpoint
- Decreased armor from 325 -> 310.
-Juno-
- Increased Juno's per shot damage from 83 -> 100
- Burst size decreased 16->9
- EMP Damage Increased 30->60
- Juno now has a 25% chance to create EMP arcs on impact that do 3x EMP damage(150) and 1/2 its per shot damage(50) in energy
- Chargedown decreased 3->2
-AS Javelin renamed -> AS Glaive ((II has weapon with very similar name))
- Damage decreased from 500 -> 400
- Ammo decreased from 10 -> 4
- chargedown decreased from 6->3
- EMP Damage increased 0 -> 200
- No longer fully reloads between engagements
-Homing Laser-
- Chargedown decreased from 12->10
- Limited Ammo weapons can be reloaded by returning to carrier, if the weapons max ammo count is at least 2 (no spamming reapers ): )
- Einhänder has been fully switched to fighter hullsize, outside of a few edge cases. Gameplay wise this means it **should** suffer or benefit from all the same effects that fighters do, including custom ones (so long as that effect checks if a ship is a **fighter** and not checking its **fighter_wing**), including custom ones, and AI will react and evaluate it as as a fighter also. Thanks to MesoTronIk for bringing this to my attention.
-Fighter Doctrine Lv2 bonus now applies to the Einhänder as well
=== Valken ===
-Fixed severed Valken arms showing up in markets.
-Replaced Valken's AAF system with new system: GU-14 Firebolt Feeder
+25% Damage, +25% ROF, -10% Flux Cost for ballistics[close]
public static boolean isFighterOrDrone(ShipAPI ship)
{
return ship.isFighter() || ship.isDrone() || isFakeFighter(ship);
}
public static boolean isFakeFighter(ShipAPI ship)
{
return ship.getHullSpec().hasTag("fake_fighter");
}
Is the Bihänder wing intentionally called "Bihänder New Variant", or is this a mistake? It doesn't seem to line up with the other cataphract's naming convention.Spoiler(https://i.imgur.com/EifpUI7.png)[close]
Thanks for the update! Also it's a little nitpicky but you can use OBS to record gameplay instead of Bandicam, it's free and open-source recording and streaming app ;D
Didn’t get a chance to explore what happened because I had to step out but my game crashed after installing the new mod. Something about missing a trail fx probably on the homing lasers. Just thought you should know.
Didn’t get a chance to explore what happened because I had to step out but my game crashed after installing the new mod. Something about missing a trail fx probably on the homing lasers. Just thought you should know.
Thanks for letting me know! I did a quick double check and don't see anything missing in the files, so just to double check do you happen to have MagicLib (https://fractalsoftworks.com/forum/index.php?topic=13718.msg230881#msg230881) and installed?
EDIT: Nevermind, I see what the issue is. Fixed!
V1.1.1
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Einhänder:
-Increase turn rate 100->110
Offense Mode: Speed+Manuverability:40%->50%
Corrected system desc; stated 30% dmg increase, replaced with more accurate description
Juno DMG: 100->110;
DP: 7 -> 6
-Juno hit fx with system active reduced in intensity
-misc fx adjustments
- AI controlled Einhänder will autonomously return to carrier at low CR
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Bihänder:
-System: Damper-> Production P-Damper
-HP: 700
-Armor: 150->200
Replaced Micromissile -> Homing Laser
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Awesome! Love the new updates to the mod. Keep up the great workThanks :)
Upon deploying the Einhänder (seemingly only when I'm not currently piloting it), I crash. Here's the relevant part of the log.Spoiler35511 [Thread-4] ERROR com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain - java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.tasks.CombatTask.o00000(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.tasks.CombatTaskManager.createAssignment(Unknown Source)
at data.scripts.plugins.armaa_EinhanderHaxPlugin.advance(armaa_EinhanderHaxPlugin.java:75)
at com.fs.starfarer.title.Object.float$Oo.o00000(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.oOOO.B.super(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatEngine.advanceInner(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatEngine.advance(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatState.traverse(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.state.AppDriver.begin(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain.main(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)[close]
This even happens in the mission accessible from the main menu.
Edit: Also occurs if switching from the Einhänder to another ship, but not when toggling autopilot.
V1.1.2 (https://mega.nz/file/aZ8XlIhQ#X2ZOWr7QicBh6YzhYIRwlZkWJWoeKgFyjKOwpDt2QBk)
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-Fixed crash when deploying AI-controlled Einhänder in certain order
-Fixed crash when deploying Einhänder without any weapons assigned to the Pila
V1.1.3
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DOWNLOAD V1.1.3 (https://mega.nz/file/KJ1ywTwA#ocx2juYu3bqYVVWbjEGHDvWPZmNJS-L8uS_zqZUbPZU)
-small fx adjustment on Einhänder + Bihänder
-Add system desc for P-Damper Field (Bihander ver)
-Fix bug where Pila would never equipped their assigned weapon due to bad logic
Alright I'm back again, I've noticed the kouto wing seems to be either missing a weapon, or the change wasn't reflected right in the patch notes.(note the first weapon lacks a name)Spoiler(https://i.imgur.com/M14felr.png)[close]
Looking at the files, "armaa_kouto_torso" appears to have been a weapon at some point, it's also unique in the fact that it's missing the SYSTEM tag. I've dug up my old version, seems that it used to be a "Micro Missile Pod" at some point.
While I'm at it, the homing laser is missing a primary role.
Finally, I'm curious as to why the vulcan built ins differ from the standard vulcan. Were they too strong as-is, or was it for a different reason?
Edit: While testing for the missing weapon, I saw that the Valken wing doesn't appear for use in missions. Not really a big deal, since it appears in the campaign, but odd nonetheless.
Wow. Very nice! It seems that auto pilot is not working if you set hullsize to fighter. I am working on something similar and I ran into the problem of losing auto pilot as well. For me the soft breaks mentioned by MesoTronik is more playable right now. Especially if you want to have multiple fake fighters in the fleet, they need auto pilot. Oh well.
ui = engine.getCombatUI();
if(ui.isShowingCommandUI())
{
fighter.setHullSize(HullSize.FRIGATE);
}
How did you get the Einhander bits to be selectable on the ship refit screen? That's really cool, I'll take a look. Thanks for the mod.
V1.1.4
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DOWNLOAD V1.1.4 (https://mega.nz/file/aM1G1JrK#tUmaz9EBq9gpsfN7l3-mEZsiV7OIHgq_3dmwJ7SJatA)
V1.1.4
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- Fixed damage bug with Starship Legends
- Added Nex Carrier(small) start
- Can now immediately issue orders to Einhänder instead of having to open Command UI and unpausing
- Fixed "bug" where Einhänder being the last living friendly remaining would result in an instant loss
Cataphract Complement:
-Each wing now grants a different ground support bonus:
Valken, Kouto: 4
Bihander: 16
Ilorin: 12
Einhänder:
-Phase Damper Field Time Dilation: 50%->60%
-Phase Damper Field Beam Resistance: 40%->50%
-Beam Coat Beam Resistance: 35%->40%
-Beam Coat tooltip stated total stacking beam resistance was 77% when it was in reality around 60%, corrected to reflect new values. Max resistance is 70%
-With these changes beam heavy enemies and burst PD beams shouldn't be as insurmountable, while remaining a threat
-AS Glaive size: Medium->Small, this will give it a more accurate (and reduced weapon health) HP for its physical size
-Increased texture scroll speed on AS Glaive's trail
-Added role for Homing Laser
-Vulcan Cannon: Chargedown: .1 -> 0.05, Damage: 35->25, Range: 350->250; Replaced projectile for vanilla vulcan_shot
Kouto:
-Added System: Overshield
-Shield Radius: 90->75
-Blank Torso Weapon-> Seeker Flares
Valken:
-Wing Size: 3->5
-IR Pulse Laser: Energy/Shot: 0->50
-Flux Dissipation: 25->60
-Adjusted sprite
-Vulcan Cannon: Chargedown: .1 -> 0.05, replaced projectile for vanilla vulcan_shot
-Refit Time: 10->9
-Changed Engine Style from lowtech to midline
Ilorin:
-Rocket Pod Ammo: 9->15
-Added System: Fast Missile Racks
-Minor description tweaks
-replaced midline tags with low tech
I'm really enjoying your mod, more mechs are always welcome as far as I'm concerned! The Einhänder is a blast to pilot even if I get dusted in it more often than I probably should. As a heads up to anyone updating to 1.1.4 it might be incompatible with saves from 1.1.3, I got an error when I tried to load my save with the new version then it loaded right up when I reverted to 1.1.3. It might just be a problem I'm having though since I use a lot of mods. Wasn't a big deal in either case for me as I wasn't very far along in my current campaign so I'll just roll with 1.1.4. Thanks for all your work bringing these neat mechs into the game.
The Einhänder is a blast to pilot even if I get dusted in it more often than I probably should.
I won't lie that the whole playable fighter thing left a bit perplexed. You went through many hoops to make it work, and it does, it's quite impressive. My main question is : Why? Why is it a fighter and not a normal ship? Am i missing something important?
But overall, it works. I would be interested in seeing more content from this mod. A Tri-tachyon equivalent to the Einhander, some hacked together Luddic Cataphract... There's many possibilities for expanding the mod.
However.
The whole playable fighter shitck might make the whole ordeal trickier than for a standard mod. Yes, i would eventually love to fly a pilotable mech with a custom loadout. A chaingun in your right hand? Sure. A phase lance (phase blade?) in your left? Awesome. Hammers in the shoulder pods? Of course i'd like that (just throwing exemples here). The problem is : it wouldn't work really well for a playable fighter. Because hovering over a target with custom guns, or even powerful built-ins is bound to be a balance headache. The player could mercilessly exploit it, like i did, or worse, being on the receiving end of it. That issue can be countered by only allowing relatively weak weapons on a playable cataphract, similar to the Einhander, but then it would be also be cursed with the "toy syndrome", limiting its usefulness.
I don't know what's your roadmap for the future of the mod, so maybe all my rambling is irrelevant. Still, if you're planning to add new content, i'd be curious to see you attempt something more "normal" like a non fighter mech, a bit like the Tahlan Regalias. From there, you can see whether or not it works, and if it's worth expanding upon. So yeah, i'll keep an eye open on your future updates.
I'm guessing we can't use the Bit drones on anything but the 'armaa_einhander' hull? I've been tinkering with making skins for the Einhander and it looks like it breaks changing the drones' weapons. The fake Bit module doesn't appear in the refit screen.
hmm, there's nothing in the script that would stop the module from appearing.
I'm gonna assume you duplicated and renamed the hull; did you create a new variant for it as well? Modules are assigned by variant files, so If that's the case, it may not be showing up because the new hull doesn't have the fake module specified in a variant file.
I won't lie that the whole playable fighter thing left a bit perplexed. You went through many hoops to make it work, and it does, it's quite impressive. My main question is : Why? Why is it a fighter and not a normal ship? Am i missing something important?
QuoteI won't lie that the whole playable fighter thing left a bit perplexed. You went through many hoops to make it work, and it does, it's quite impressive. My main question is : Why? Why is it a fighter and not a normal ship? Am i missing something important?
dont listen him, i tired of hundred mods with BIIIIG SHIPS YAAAAAA. Its very satisfying to play with small fighter or ship and play own role in big fight. While big ships fighitin each other u do own job, like supportin big ships, defending it from bombers and stuff as tiny piece in ur fleet war machine. Very thnks for the mod, hope will be more playable as pilot mechs and weapons to refit them.
hi!, dont know why but causes a null exception when i try to fly the fighter in simulation (the sighter ship, not one of the wings) cheers!
QuoteI won't lie that the whole playable fighter thing left a bit perplexed. You went through many hoops to make it work, and it does, it's quite impressive. My main question is : Why? Why is it a fighter and not a normal ship? Am i missing something important?
dont listen him, i tired of hundred mods with BIIIIG SHIPS YAAAAAA. Its very satisfying to play with small fighter or ship and play own role in big fight. While big ships fighitin each other u do own job, like supportin big ships, defending it from bombers and stuff as tiny piece in ur fleet war machine. Very thnks for the mod, hope will be more playable as pilot mechs and weapons to refit them.
Hi there, I can't seem to access the posted download link; the redirection to tinyurl is giving me an error. Anyway, the Altagrave looks cool to fly around, this mod reminds me of a mobile game called Iron Saga. From what I see, Arma Armatura is slowly building up its roster, perhaps it will turn into a full blown faction soon.
Looking forward to more mechas in space!
Do you happen to have the name of a carrier it doesn't work on? I can probably look and pin down the issue with that to bounce off of
Something about the fighter wings added in your mods is not playing nice when using "allwings" command with console command. Everytime I try to access the storage it crashed my game.
Sorry for the delay on this, should be fixed now :'(
-removed phase field hullmod from fighter that would cause ctd
-temporarily removed fighter systems that would cause ctd from being phase based
Requres the latest MagicLib
(https://i.imgur.com/VSXHl3o.png)
Download v.1.4.3 for 0.95a - Probably Save Compatible (market changes need a new game tho)
(https://tinyurl.com/fn34x444)
I adore the Iloren. Trident, Broadsword, Iloren on a Heron and they're gonna have a bad day.
can i get a 0.9.1a download ?
So I picked up an Einhander Experimental from salvage and it's currently missing a description. Intended that I should have found one that way?
(Running it in a militarized Gemini for TV-ish authenticity, and turns out to be an excellent combo.)
I keep gettig a crash in the mission simulations when trying to fire the small mech's main gun when using the ship system....
thank you very muchcan i get a 0.9.1a download ?
This should be the latest version for 0.9.1a :)
https://mega.nz/file/CEkyxJAI#pXE6qMDsy7czUWCe1Zz8DOfAm7ue6FV8-0Jsq4o_YNg
False alarm seems you fixed it....
Say will you make mechs for every major stage of the game ?
like you can go through the whole game using nothing BUT mechs ?
It's better to think of the Einhänder as a super fighter than a frigate. Even then, losing to a Cerberus - especially instantly - would be pretty bizzare. The only way I can imagine that happening is if it attacked the ship directly from the front without using its defensive system..and even then, i've never seen AI do that terribly when using it.
As for the Garegga, if you added the mod to an existing save, the only way you'd be able to come across it would be by finding the blueprint. In new saves there's a new system that's added with an independent market that sells everything.
This can be kind of a pain, so the next update will have them and most of the mod roster show up in independent + black markets at a reduced rate, while they wil appear at the mod added planet at higher rates.
It's better to think of the Einhänder as a super fighter than a frigate. Even then, losing to a Cerberus - especially instantly - would be pretty bizzare. The only way I can imagine that happening is if it attacked the ship directly from the front without using its defensive system..and even then, i've never seen AI do that terribly when using it.
As for the Garegga, if you added the mod to an existing save, the only way you'd be able to come across it would be by finding the blueprint. In new saves there's a new system that's added with an independent market that sells everything.
This can be kind of a pain, so the next update will have them and most of the mod roster show up in independent + black markets at a reduced rate, while they wil appear at the mod added planet at higher rates.
I think I got the possible reason why the Einhander lost to a sim Cerberus. I set it to "auto pilot". During one of my encounters with a pirate fleet, I tried to use it but had to switch to auto pilot due to irl reasons. I did get the "Auto Pilot Engaged" message on the top left of the screen. Needless to say, I saw it just drifted straight on its own. No movements or what-so ever. Is this intended as if the unit is only designed to be used by players?
Double post, but I made a mistake in the latest release that would cause a crash with certain mods. It's been fixed now, so if you happened to download prior to this message, you should redownload the updated version in the previous post, or here: https://tinyurl.com/y59a8k3x
Double post, but I made a mistake in the latest release that would cause a crash with certain mods. It's been fixed now, so if you happened to download prior to this message, you should redownload the updated version in the previous post, or here: https://tinyurl.com/y59a8k3x
When I download and extract this, it says its version 1.4, not 1.4.2, and it crashes on startup. Do you still have this version? Thank you.
Hello, I really like this mod and am using it, sorry I am not an English user so I am trying to communicate with you using translation software.
I am still using version 1.4 and am not sure if this issue was fixed in 1.4.3C. However, I do not see a fix in the changelog.
When I try to use the "Bihänder" carrier, his purple beam weapon crashes my game.
When I try to use the 'Einhänder-Class Cataphract', his tactical system crashes my game.
I'm not sure if this is a personal problem for me. But I hope this problem is solved.
I have "GraphicsLib 1.5.0" "LazyLib 2.6" "MagicLib 2.6" installed.
The error message when it crashes is as followsSpoiler18158754 [Thread-3] ERROR com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain - java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.fs.starfarer.api.combat.CombatEngineAPI.spawnEmpArc(Lcom/fs/starfarer/api/combat/ShipAPI;Lorg/lwjgl/util/vector/Vector2f;Lcom/fs/starfarer/api/combat/CombatEntityAPI;Lcom/fs/starfarer/api/combat/CombatEntityAPI;Lcom/fs/starfarer/api/combat/DamageType;FFFLjava/lang/String;FLjava/awt/Color;Ljava/awt/Color;)Lcom/fs/starfarer/api/combat/CombatEntityAPI;
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.fs.starfarer.api.combat.CombatEngineAPI.spawnEmpArc(Lcom/fs/starfarer/api/combat/ShipAPI;Lorg/lwjgl/util/vector/Vector2f;Lcom/fs/starfarer/api/combat/CombatEntityAPI;Lcom/fs/starfarer/api/combat/CombatEntityAPI;Lcom/fs/starfarer/api/combat/DamageType;FFFLjava/lang/String;FLjava/awt/Color;Ljava/awt/Color;)Lcom/fs/starfarer/api/combat/CombatEntityAPI;
at data.scripts.weapons.armaa_einhanderEffectC.advance(armaa_einhanderEffectC.java:266)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.entities.ship.super.J.advance(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.systems.G.advanceLinked(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.systems.G.advance(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.entities.Ship.fire(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.entities.Ship.advance(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatEngine.advanceInner(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatEngine.advance(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatState.traverse(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.state.AppDriver.begin(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.combat.CombatMain.main(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher.o00000(Unknown Source)
at com.fs.starfarer.StarfarerLauncher$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)[close]
Thank you for providing such a wonderful mod.
And I apologize for any grammar, order of words, etc. errors.
Thanks again for your dedication!
Power wise, how do these compare to the Diable Avionics wanzers?
The ones you can pilot at least are VERY, VERY strong.
It would be cool if the cataphracts, wanzers and rosenritters were all compatible, and you could have diable avionics carriers shuttling cataphracts around, or rosenritter filled with wanzers and whatnot.
So mod author: would you consider talking to Tahlan and Tartiflette and making this happen?
I'm new to Starsector and I think this mod is cool.
Are there any other mods featuring mechs besides Arma Armatura, Tahlan Shipworks and Diable Avionics?
I'm new to Starsector and I think this mod is cool.
Are there any other mods featuring mechs besides Arma Armatura, Tahlan Shipworks and Diable Avionics?
I've seen everything in this mod except the Altagrave. Is it incredibly rare? I'm a few days in and I just cant seem to find it.
On discord some peopel told me that Altagrave "EX" at least requires Nexerelin, since Nexerelin isn't updated...
I gave myself an Altagrave with console command. Early game it is really, really good, can kill a ton of things.
Lategame not so much... it doesn't do enough damage to help in endgame fights... It can be helpful tanking a bit though, with shield mods. Theretically it could be a great frigate hunter but often enemy AIs have frigates faster than Altagrave :(
I'm new to Starsector and I think this mod is cool.
Are there any other mods featuring mechs besides Arma Armatura, Tahlan Shipworks and Diable Avionics?
There was a mod with Mobilesuits from Iron Blood Orphans but the original author has never updated it since 0.8.
Ahoy.
Great mod, I'm always a sucker for mechs. However two things I've come across don't exactly seem right.
Firstly, New Meshaan never seems to actually have any Arma things for sale. Always seem to have some Apogees though. I've never even seen an Altagrave. I've picked up Trihanders off Tritach, and have built Gareggas and Einhanders, and the Fighters are around the place everywhere, but neither hair nor hide of any of the three Altagraves.
Secondly, on the topic of Einhander, it seems entirely bugged the *** out in the Refit screen. Like the stats and capacitors/vents don't change to its from the previous ship's, I can't edit any of it, and they completely disappear when in the Hullmod screen. I guess it COULD be intentional, given their odd status as not-fighters, but yknow.
I went to check I had the latest version, and I've got b, but the download says the latest is c, but the changelog only goes to b, so I don't even know what.
Still, jammin' mod everywhere else.
Oh yes, and another issue I'd forgotten until now.
Manually firing the Trihander's pulse weapons doesn't seem to work when they're set to Alternating. Looking at the weapon charge bar, it looks like they don't actually have the time to reach full charge and fire before 'Alternating' switches to firing the other weapon, thus cancelling the first. Linked works fine, and Alternating works when they're set on autofire, it's just manual alternating fire that has a problem.
I honestly wasn't a huge fan of the Garrega in my hands, but as an officer frigate it's great. One issue, though - if I issue a retreat command they seem to no longer care about overloading the SILVERSWORD system.
I can't reproduce the issue you mentioned with Einhänder. Does it always happen? Did you click on the module or something?
I have three Einhanders, and it's consistent. Going into Refit them just gets me this.
Also what do you mean about clicking onto modules? Einhander doesn't have any modules, does it?
Just an appreciation post! This is amazing and I think mechs implementations in SS has just been getting better & better! I loved the mission on defense on Meshan. Still couldn’t get a win yet but the amount of work that went into it showed so much you’ve considered to write out the stories. I haven’t finished my play through yet, but I’m kind of half expecting seeing old Meshan as a volcanic world somewhere :3. This is amazing work and I appreciate every effort that went into this.Thanks :) it's not actually in game, but i probably will stick it in somewhere and do something special with it once i get a chance
Re: Garegga, they indeed do spam the system when retreating, since the huge speed bonus is pretty desireable in that scenario. The system is based off of DR's Overdrive in II, which does the same thing.
As for EX, hmm..maybe I increase pellet damage by 10%
I got some things to ask about the Einhander (player pilotable version).-get near carrier with no enemy in 2000 su and ship will launch drones to repair or rearm. There's a delay between them if one gets destroyed
- How exactly does the repair system work? I only got it to work in simulators but it sometimes doesn't work on actual battle. From what I've tried, I just need to land on a carrier (Seems to also work with converted hangars) right? But during battles it doesn't work or rather, I see the carrier glows red but none of the repair drones are being launched.
- Resupply is just as odd. I used up 6 shots with it's cannon and went back to reload. But after a minute or so, it didn't resupply my unit.
- I found a guy who built me an Einhander that doesn't have a bit system on it and has 0 OP. I think this is a bug or something?
A little request, there is the Industrial Evolution mod and one of the things in it is the engineering hub. Can you allow the disassembly of both the Garegga and the Trihander (seems like a whitelist issue)? I find it weird that I can disassemble the Einhander which is quite advance but not the Garegga and the Trihander.
How would I go about changing it so in Nex the Alt EX is an option to start with?
How does one get a hold of the trihander?
So about my Altagrave EX adventures.
1. About it being weak: With nocooldown + infiniteflux active, it still takes a quite long time to kill some larger, lategame or rarer ships (paragon, [redacteds] of various kinds, a bunch of capital ships from mods).
2. With infiniteflux and infinitecr active, enemies still somehow, shoot off parts of it, I dunno how but seemly they can poke through the shield and blast off the rear parts, had to stay on my stoes even with blatant cheating, some fights I had nocooldown, inifniteflux, infinitecr and inifniteammo all active at same time, and still had to actually pilot, because risking getting shot too much by fighters and or explosive weapons could still kill me through the shield somhow.
3. The special system it has is no match for phase ships and some other special systems frigates have, unless you abuse mods to make the ship faster, but then your CR is screwed. So some endgame fights (for example "Ordo" ones) were a pain: big ships just shrugged off my damage, and frigates kept hunting me, and if I tried to kill them they would just lure me away from my own ships and leave them undefended.
Still, had a blast playing with it :)
Must ask though... why you need Nexerelin to get the EX without cheating?
What determines which carrier the Einhander picks for refit? First time I tried it in battle it trucked past a number of other carriers to stop at one battlecarrier knee-deep in fighting.
Regardless, Einhander is good fun.
YES!!! Thanks for the update, your work is pure GOLD!It should be save compatible. Infinite overload is unfortunately a vanilla bug affecting all fighters atm, but if the ships is just floating off in a single direction, that's more than likely a problem with the AI. Do you happen to remember what condition the Einhander was in? Was it a low HP/CR / Did you take control of it at any point? If I had to guess, it got stuck in some kind of evaluation loop, but I thought I accounted for that... :(
Edit: The einhand piloted by a officer just flew to the far left of the map and is just kind of.. wiggling lol
It is not obeying orders or anything XD It is saying overloaded over and over.
The secret store is still selling random ships, but I did find some pristine Gareggas from time to time. Haven't found some in blackmarkets though.yeah, they still know midline + high tech BPs, the chance for arma stuff showing up was just increased
I played for another hour or two after that and it didnt happen again.Cool, good to hear!
Hmm, I'm running into that issue with the faux bit module not appearing again in my Einhander skin despite it being assigned in the variant too.Thanks! I can't think of anything that's changed that would affect it, though. As long as the module is in the .variant, it should be fine.
Not sure when that happened as I missed a few updates. Thoughts?
Really liking the new docking functionality btw! It's a great addition.
I have this strange issue where sometimes when my Einhander docks, it randomly explodes, is there somthing im doing wrong when i do this?
Also sometimes itll get stuck in an infinite loop and rearming and wont launch again.
Thanks! I can't think of anything that's changed that would affect it, though. As long as the module is in the .variant, it should be fine.
I did have an issue before with the Altagrave's where the alternate versions would appear in markets without modules when they initially skin files, though. Is there any difference when you spawn in the variant hull vs the full variant id? (I.e. trickyTidy_einhander vs trickyTidy_einhander_Standard)
I tried version 1.4.5 and I noticed something weird but pretty cool.
I noticed my AI controlled Einhander dock with an enemy carrier. I'm guessing this was a bug, but it would be pretty cool if the Einhander decided to infiltrate the enemy carrier and attack the crew from the inside!
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at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)Loving the new system with the Einhander but I got a serious error as shown in the attached file.
How it happened is that I was fighting a larger Pirate fleet and accidentally caused my Einhander to get overload. Needless to say it got stuck with the overload bug. Needing to retreat I opened the map but for some reason the unit automatically got set to Autopilot and went dead silent while drifting for a few seconds. Then the game crashed.I tried version 1.4.5 and I noticed something weird but pretty cool.
I noticed my AI controlled Einhander dock with an enemy carrier. I'm guessing this was a bug, but it would be pretty cool if the Einhander decided to infiltrate the enemy carrier and attack the crew from the inside!
Happened to me too. I was able to trick an enemy Venture and disabled it's PD then docked in it and got a fresh supply of ammo. Went to destroy it afterwards. Would love to see that implemented where you dock inside an enemy carrier and cause damage like blocking it's ability to relaunch fighters or sabotage it's hangars.
Hi! First of all I love the mod. I'm always in favor of anything that adds more pilotable mecha to Starsector. I've been using this mod, Diable, and Combat Docking to have an awesome mecha/fighter pilot campaign playthrough and the Einhander has been hilarious fun. I'm still early-game so I'm flying off a Condor that has a couple of other Cataphract squadrons to back me up along with a Mule with fighter clamps and a squadron of Valkens.
I think I may have run into a bug with the Einhander in 1.4.5 Once it goes into flux overload the 7 second timer never starts counting down, and so the overload continues until I dock with a carrier and get rearmed and repaired. Is this intentional behavior? I can still fly okay, the weapons and systems just don't work. I've also noticed that sometimes the Einhander just doesn't want to dock while in that state, and will just stay escorting the carrier even with degraded CR. My Einhander also exploded inside a living carrier that was under fire at the time. The carrier died maybe 20 seconds after I did, so I'm not sure if it was combat damage or if it was the same problem Roka ran into. I've also had the game CTD a couple of times when trying to return to the carrier, but that happened after hitting U for autopilot, then going into the map screen and right-clicking on the carrier. When I do that the game crashes and I get this error:
If you're taking suggestions for future units, a pilotable mass-produced cataphract along the lines of a Jegan would be awesome. To counter its weaker individual performance relative to the Einhander, perhaps it could have a couple of small hybrid "shoulder hardpoints" similar to the mounts on the Einhander's drones. That'd give the pilot some useful configurability and the ability to set it up like a "Jegan Cannon" or a variant with a couple of torps for extra punch while still leaving that Grunt Suit feel.
As far as extra Mobile Armor goes, I'd love to see something set up a bit like the Deep Striker from Gundam Sentinel or the GP-03 from 0083. It's fast and has impressive firepower, but its playstyle could be more based around maintaining momentum and making cavalry-style "slashing" attacks against a formation rather than getting stuck in.
I finally got a hold of a trihander and set it up. I must be missing something but it just feels overall much weaker than the bihander? What am I missing? Or was it designed to be worse?
Anyone know if it is possible to make a navy of cataphracts?
oh, I think im comparing trihander to gregga. nvm
How would you go about building a trihander?
Whatever you did, it seems to have fixed my instant death bug.
The Einhander is fun as hell to use, perfect for an overly aggressive person like me who tends to get themselves blown up by other ships exploding because im always too close and forget to use my shields.
Would love to try a Kouto or Valken at some point if that ever becomes possible, maybe as early game pilotable mechs.
Either way, i love this mod!
Picking the ArmaA start sets your relation to everyone to 0, this includes Pirates, Pathers, and even [REDACTED].
hello man i love the mod with my hearth it amazing what you have made but when i try to pilot the blue mecha the game crash what can i do ?
i add my log
In the meantime, i'm working on adding something more customizeable based off of some stuff Tricky mentioned.Nice! Yeah I've been struggling to get the weapon selector hullmods to change properly. I got it to work in .91 but in .95 it doesn't switch to the next hullmod in sequence when I remove it. If I strip the hull though it randomly assigns a weapon hullmod so I've just been doing that until it switches to the weapon I want lol
Here's an aleste with some extra weapons and a laser blade. I don't think it's possible to allow full customization for the arm weapons without breaking animations, but I was thinking of maybe a toggle that cycles between a few options..? (I.E. swap between laser blade, the notpilebunker, ...some other weapon i'll probably have to make..machinegun, etc)If you're thinking about more left arm weapon ideas, I made a flamethrower that used your old leftarm mkII sprite from previous versions and basically mashed in the plasma thrower stats from the Ship & Weapon Pack and the effect of the Cryoflamer. It looks great but ended up being super janky because the weapon rapid fires multiple projectiles so the animation of the left arm extension rapid triggers too lol.
Hey! I love your mod, and I was wondering if you'll add a cruiser sized mech, or if you'll focus mostly on destroyer and frigate sized ships. Also, thanks for this mod, I love the Altagrave.
So I had an idea
What if there was variants of the mechs based on vanilla factions ?
Like a Altagrave thats tri-tachyon themed that replaces the gun on the arm with a litteral jousting lance shaped tachyon lance ?
and a physical shield-shaped weapon in the other ?
A Hegemony themed Garegga with thumper-like minigun arms ?
and a Pirate themed Einhander with a shotgun and skull head motif ?
thoses are the only ones I can think of right now but I feel there could be potential there to expand the lineup...
I know its a pretty stupid thing to ask, half expect you already got that question...
BUT
Would there be a chance you ever make a full on faction mod where the player starts off with very rudimentary mechs (like ships with makeshift arms) and have him work his way up a sort of tech tree to some Gundam levels of [email protected]@t ?
Like you start off with the equivalant of a "Ball" in gundam to eventually work your way up to some Zone of the Enders level tech ?
Also not just mechs but also ships built to support said mechs in combat, like a carrier that gives strike crafts a speed boost for X amount of time after being launched or even a massive shield that allows strike crafts to fight from within ?
yep, making another right now. I want to try avoid bloat so I probably won't make every single possible mech combination possible. The new Aleste should cover most bases, and then i'll look at what to go for after that. Speaking of the new Aleste, here's a teaser:
Right now it has six weapons that can be toggled between, three for the left arm and three for the right. Right arm weapons are basically the main weapons, while the left arm weapons are usually ammo-limited with some type of ancillary effect (the grenade launcher weapon above for example, is great for anti-fighter stuff, but it also does well against stuff large enough where the inaccuracy doesn't matter)
@Tricky: Great minds think alike, I guess, haha.
I don't know if there is a good way to do a physical shield, mostly because for it to work, I would probably have to make it a module, and if it's a module, once it's destroyed/detached I don't believe there's any way to ...reattach it
For making a shield, if you made it a module and are worried about it breaking.. why not make it invincible? Or have massive armor/hull?
The maker of Kingdom of Tera would also probably be a good one to ask for help as well.
Your new work is amazing, cant wait to try it out. Will we ever see a melee mech? Or a standalone faction?
I know its a pretty stupid thing to ask, half expect you already got that question...I probably won't make a faction. Just from personal taste, I don't really like faction bloat. Anyway, really low level mechs just aren't viable - trying to play with a regular valken for example would be next to impossible. That said, maybe there could be some sort of individual upgrade system for mechs. idk about that.
BUT
Would there be a chance you ever make a full on faction mod where the player starts off with very rudimentary mechs (like ships with makeshift arms) and have him work his way up a sort of tech tree to some Gundam levels of [email protected]@t ?
Like you start off with the equivalant of a "Ball" in gundam to eventually work your way up to some Zone of the Enders level tech ?
Also not just mechs but also ships built to support said mechs in combat, like a carrier that gives strike crafts a speed boost for X amount of time after being launched or even a massive shield that allows strike crafts to fight from within ?
I don't think he has plans on making a full on faction atm.
I'm excited on the new pilotable mech. Don't get me wrong, the Einhander is sick and I loved piloting it even in mid-late parts of the game (soup up Einhander with an edited settings file to allow me to stuff it with 9 built-in hullmods + plus a powerful Remnant Burst PD on it's "bits" from another mod pretty much causes havoc on larger capitals by killing of their engines) but it does feel a bit too strong as a starter unit. Was planning on suggesting on a custom Valken (or X) as a starter unit since it feels more logical that a nameless captain gets a modified/customized Mass production unit rather than a rare and precious experimental unit.
On a side note, I saw a unit called Spriggan in the files, I don't remember seeing it being used in the game. Is it something like a left-over from previous version or something new for a future update?
I can also confirm that the altagrave(c) temporal field also breaks the shotgun. Re-entering and exiting the field doesn't seem to fix it for me. Anyone know of a temporary fix?
Anyway, really low level mechs just aren't viable - trying to play with a regular valken for example would be next to impossible. That said, maybe there could be some sort of individual upgrade system for mechs. idk about that.Yeah that's something I've been toying with. I converted unpilotable mechs into pilotable versions but as you said some are really weak. What I've been exploring is just using a custom hullmod on them.
V1.4.7
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-Removed LPCs from vanilla factions since there's no easy way to control their usage in fleets
-Scavengers still have access
- Fixed missing description for Gallant LPC
- Cataphract(Hullmod)
-Reduced Ground Support Bonus: 30->25
-Ships with hullmod can no longer install Advanced Optics
- Aleste
- Equipped missiles with per shot damage > 200 will now increase refit time
(Multiplied by number of barrels for LINKED, by 2 for DUAL_LINKED, and by the number of missiles for MIRVs), up to 30%
- AIleste equipped with LS-99 will actively attempt to use the melee weapon with ...varying degrees of success (Thanks Sinosauropteryx!)
- Reduced flux cost of Dispersal Grenade
edit- having serious einhander issues. after a short time it goes overloaded stating tenseconds however does not count down-it turns out that this only occurs if you overload (like any phase ship can) however whether in mission campaign or sim if the einhander overloads it stays that way.
was this intentional to nerf it?.
i cannot (and havent) been able to dock the einhander with carriers in the simulator.you can only dock when HP < 50% or out of ammo
the grenade weapon on the aleste doesnt fire manually, on auto, or when piloted by ai. not sure if this is just me or what i may have done wrong (other than possibly using the console commands)The grenade launcher has a higher flux requirement than the aleste default capacity. (1100 vs 850) just add more caps
I’m a bit sad that the Einhander is getting removed as a fighter wing. Personally I love it as a super high end fighter wing as it feels like one of the few really high cost gunship wings that are actually worth their massive OP cost. Personally I’d prefer keeping them as a fighter wing but increasing their OP cost even more to balance it some?
Makes sense. Well, I thought of doing something similar, like making the laser sword shoot a beam(how? no one knows!) based off having a skill or something