Nice mod dude 10/10

They're just slow missiles, pals.

Ahh i see the script for these bombs were made before planets and as such the gravity aspect has broken the bombs.

I think if you made the bombs penetrate the shield of the popular shield mods are increased their damage by 15% this would be the most popular weapon on the workshop.

It was an odd system to begin with, with a specific use-case. It's even more marginalised since the advent of planets with their atmospheres and gravity. It just wouldn't make sense.

Update this by any chance?

lol

Something tells me that the Rebels paid you to design something for their Y-wings, something that could possibly blow apart a fully operational battle station...

what you should do then. is make this one for small ships and make a double or triple length version for larger ships. or you can keep the cal the same, and just make it one block again. because it seams really out of place on larger grids

Okay thanks. If you do find out what it is for certain let me know.

I... don't know actually. I forget what the cutoff size is. I don't think it can go through small ones, off the top of my head.

Do the bombs travel through small ship small conveyor tubes?

@PotatoedTophat I believe that it is actually called the "wakebomb launcher" in game. Just use the search and you should find it.

I can't find this weapon in the weapons tab, and it doesn't appear that there is a CSD tab, either.
Could someone point me to where it is?
Thanks.

It works well now that I understand the limits and definitely fills a needed niche.

Yeah, it's a bid hacky and oddly specific, I only really made it because I liked the idea of a space dive bomber!

Okay, given the damage output I can totally live with the speeds.

It only really seemed off to me because if I mount it backwards as suggested I need to counter the momentum of it's launch or they wind up moving back away from the target or standing nearly still.

So I figured 40 m/s was a good deploy speed, but it's actually like 60+ if you mount backwards and you'll run into your bomb going over 20m/s if it's mounted forwards.

I should add that you don't gain anything by gunning it past 40m/s, as the bomb, which deploys relative to the launcher at 20m/s, will then inherit the full 40m/s bringing it to a global -20m/s relative to the launcher's heading. This isn't a high-speed weapon by any means.

After some testing, this seems to work as intended. The bomb should never exceed 20m/s in *any* direction regardless of inherited momentum. It's not so much that drag-lunching it will give it better performance, it's more that this is the only safe way to deploy it. You can, of course, launch them from a stationary position, if tactically viable. Generally it's a last-second-dive-bomb kind of weapon. Think space-stuka.

Yeah... sort of works may have been optimistic.

When I say fire forward, I mean relative the launcher... so the suggested backwards mounting results in the launch force and ship momentum canceling each other and the bombs move slowly if at all.

Orient it with the ship and the bombs launch, but their speed cap causes you to ram into them instantly and jitter like mad.

The only viable way now is to orient forward and launch from incredibly low speeds.

Looks amazing now though :)

That sounds a bit fucky. I'll try it out when I find a moment. Thanks!

Well I have good new and bad news.

Good news: The graphical error was fixed by recent patches.

Bad news: It now fires away forward from the ship like a normal missle instead of coming out the back. It seems to inherit some of the ship's momentum but will launch forward from a standstill.

To be honest it sort of works like this.

Not so much the models as the alignment of the flare effects. The thrust exhaust overlaps the missle and the thruster flare winds up well ahead of both.

Is there an update in the works for this little beauty? I have a player on my server that would very much like the mod installed. He says they still work, though the models are a little wonky, at this date.

Great stuff, Ninja!

Omg i been for something like this
<3 <3

Oh, that's a relief. Yes, I've uploaded the updated battlecannon, have yet to upload auto and scattercannons. In the works. Glad the launcher is working as intended. Cheers!

@NinjaPirate Whoops, turns out it was a mod conflict of some sorts, or problem with the world, because when I tested it on a fresh world, it worked as it should. Still, auto- and scattercannon remain broken. Sorry for the trouble.

Also, bomb launcher and scattercannon have little white backgrounds, and autocannon doesn't show up at all in the G menu. Hope I helped

The other weapons won't fire because my built .mwm models don't have data for a barrel piece, since they're based on the gatling gun. The missile launcher had no such fault as far as I was aware, but thanks for bringing it up. I'll see what I can find.

Which are all unique in some way

Would be great if you could fix it, it's the only mod adding good balanced weapons for small grids

@NinjaPirate It doesn't do anything when you pull the trigger. Same for most of CSD collection blocks.

That's a damn shame. In what way?

@NinjaPirate It appears to be broken currently

I can get behind that! Post a link here if you wind up making a dive-bomber!

STUKA TIME

hi is it working

@NinjaPirate Have you quitted modding?

what if it was to face down?

when i have time i'll get back to you on the rough range :D

That's a good question, I'm not actually sure! By design, it's really the *opposite* of what you propose, this is a close and personal dive-bomb sort of weapon. I've never tested it in any other application myself.

quick question, what is the range on this thing? if it's super long range that might make it far more valuable opposed to a standard rocket launcher and you could truely "bombard" targets from a distance before closing in with other ships >:D

That's all this is I'm afraid, it's a very slow backwards missile launcher that, when fired in space from a forward moving craft, inherits most of the craft's velocity and will 'follow' that momentum towards the intended target as the craft pulls out of that trajectory. It won't work as intended in-atmosphere because of how screwy projectiles and missile are on planet surfaces - they don't really follow any known laws of physics!

doesnt work for me on planets just continues to fly backwards

PM me on Steam I'll find you somebody

I was really busy IRL and I need a modeller who could make a new Bomb launcher. So currently fix is stalled.

@Cheetah what's the status of your attempted fix? I just saw this old conversation and was curious what the status of this mod is

Sorry for delay, I was a tad busy IRL and with fixing other mods.
Anyway, here it is:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=699655100

I'd prefer if you made your own version applying the same principles. By the sounds of it, starting with a blank up-to-date vanilla missile launcher template is best, and even my 3D models are outdated to the point that I'm surprised they still render in-game. It's all work-arounds and temporary fixes that are barely holding together at this point.

But ultimately, whatever. If you do it, throw me an invite on steam before you upload it so we can go over it first, that's my only condition.

If you are not maintaining these mods... can I have a permission to try to fix this bug and, if successful, re-upload it to Workshop? Of course, all credit will be given to you.