I did a little bit of work this morning on the parasites, the GSB race I’m working on in my spare time (ha!).
I added two new weapons today. One is just a tweak, it’s a plasma launcher that fires lots of small plasma torpedoes rather than big ones. The plasma torp is balanced as a weapon that isn’t colossally effective, but it is able to damage both shields and armor. It now has a rapid-firing version (parasites only).
I also added a ‘return-to-sender’ version of the guidance scrambler beam. This doesn’t scramble enemy missiles, but reverses them, so that they fly back and destroy the person who launched them. often there won’t be fuel for that, and I’m considering making it also reset their fuel. The beam is a one shot deal, you can’t reverse a reversed-missile.
All the ship hulls are done, it’s just balancing and code now. here is another screenshot of some cruisers:
I’m also working on gameplay and GUI for Gratutious Tank Battles. The GTB UI mockups look incredible, it’s just a looooong slow process of translating them into working code.