0027450: Fan Beams have...either an incorrectly functioning mechanic or an incorrect tooltip.

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0027450	AI War 2	Bug - Gameplay		Jun 7, 2022 10:23 am	Jun 17, 2022 10:20 am

Reporter	RocketAssistedPuffin	Assigned To
Severity	minor
Status	new	Resolution	open
Product Version	5.014 The Tom Show

Summary	0027450: Fan Beams have...either an incorrectly functioning mechanic or an incorrect tooltip.
Description	You can set this on a beam weapon system: number_beams_to_fire="12" The tooltips for such weapons say that, in this example, it hits targets with 1/12th the damage per beam that hits them, i.e it is split evenly amongst each beam. In practice, the damage is actually full. So the above weapon would be doing 12x what it suggests. The only thing that seems to do this logic, splitting across each beam, is knockback. Nothing else ever mentions this.
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RocketAssistedPuffin Jun 7, 2022 10:23 am reporter	BeamOddity.jpg (29,741 bytes) BeamOddity.jpg (29,741 bytes)

CRCGamer Jun 7, 2022 2:18 pm developer ~0066952	I know that when I made the Frenzy Golem with converging beams I had to account for this because of the full damage application. In effect you have to hit with all beams to get full damage yes. But the damage cap is the max per beam times number of beams that hit. There would be a number of ships needing a balance pass if this gets changed.

Dismiss Jun 17, 2022 10:20 am developer ~0067007	I'd love to see this fixed. Also, if the effect worked, it suggest rewording the tooltip to use the phrase "Damage is split evenly between beams".

Date Modified	Username	Field
Jun 7, 2022 10:23 am	RocketAssistedPuffin	New Issue
Jun 7, 2022 10:23 am	RocketAssistedPuffin	File Added: BeamOddity.jpg
Jun 7, 2022 2:18 pm	CRCGamer	Note Added: 0066952
Jun 17, 2022 10:20 am	Dismiss	Note Added: 0067007