Multicannon Colour?!

Chiral

Chiral
Fdevs,

I bought tasty purple laser colour and it looks awesome! However, why are my multicannons fire also purple? Doesn't make any sense! :)

Does anyone know about this? Is this intentional?

Thanks!

/Cmdr Chiral
 

IceFire122

IceFire122
It is intentional. The shop item says weapon colour, not laser color.

Point defense shots are coloured as well with the item. Multi Cannons use tracers.
 

jasonbarron

jasonbarron
I've tried them all for my multi's and am partial to pink. They're all awesome, though, especially in PvP where everybody has them.
 

GG7

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Chiral said:
Fdevs,

I bought tasty purple laser colour and it looks awesome! However, why are my multicannons fire also purple? Doesn't make any sense! :)

Does anyone know about this? Is this intentional?

Thanks!

/Cmdr Chiral
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Considering they are charging for these upgrades, the least they could do would be to allow you to "assign" the color effects to specific weapons and not just cheap out with the blanket effect we currently have. That is just lazy in my opinion!

I agree that these colors make no sense for Multi-Cannons and other weapons like that. I would also like to pick and choose which beam laser color each weapon uses on a particular ship rather than all of them using the same color. Especially true in the case of a large ship that may have multiple banks of Beam lasers setup as both smaller turrets and large gimbaled versions like the C3. Also if you use both beams and pulses, it would be nice to give the beams a different color than the pulses. Technically these are supposed to be different types of laser weapons, so using a different mod color for each type makes more sense than everything using the same mod color.

I also HATE the fact that my Point Defense rounds are no longer the easily identified GREEN and instead now use the same mod color I choose for my Beam Lasers etc.

Like I said.... This is just lazy programming on FD's part! If they are going to charge real money for something like this, they should spend a little time refining how this works and give us some premium options for a premium add-on.

The fact that they only cost a buck 75 each isn't the point. They are making money from the community on these, and really should show a little more attention to detail on how they work in practice than they have thus far.
 
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jasonbarron

jasonbarron
GG7 said:
Considering they are charging for these upgrades, the least they could do would be to allow you to "assign" the color effects to specific weapons and not just cheap out with the blanket effect we currently have. That is just lazy in my opinion!

I agree that these colors make no sense for Multi-Cannons and other weapons like that. I would also like to pick and choose which beam laser color each weapon uses on a particular ship rather than all of them using the same color. Especially true in the case of a large ship that may have multiple banks of Beam lasers setup as both smaller turrets and large gimbaled versions like the C3. Also if you use both beams and pulses, it would be nice to give the beams a different color than the pulses. Technically these are supposed to be different types of laser weapons, so using a different mod color for each type makes more sense than everything using the same mod color.

I also HATE the fact that my Point Defense rounds are no longer the easily identified GREEN and instead now use the same mod color I choose for my Beam Lasers etc.

Like I said.... This is just lazy programming on FD's part! If they are going to charge real money for something like this, they should spend a little time refining how this works and give us some premium options for a premium add-on.

The fact that they only cost a buck 75 each isn't the point. They are making money from the community on these, and really should show a little more attention to detail on how they work in practice than they have thus far.
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The color's working on multi's is because of tracer rounds.
Plus, re: your "lazy" comment. It's just a fun little extra. Nothing to get your panties in a bunch over.
 
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GG7

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ShadowWolf Kell said:
You can even toggle them on/off on the power priorities panel.

Personally, I like my purple MCs. :)
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The Toggle is a nice touch and confirms how the mod was applied in the game code.

As far as the new add-ons themselves...

I like the Purple the best too. Especially cool on my Python's C3s where the beams are right above your head! :)

But before I purchased these, I was really expecting a lot more user options than we got.
 

Drelthar

Drelthar
GG7 said:
Considering they are charging for these upgrades, the least they could do would be to allow you to "assign" the color effects to specific weapons and not just cheap out with the blanket effect we currently have. That is just lazy in my opinion!

I agree that these colors make no sense for Multi-Cannons and other weapons like that. I would also like to pick and choose which beam laser color each weapon uses on a particular ship rather than all of them using the same color. Especially true in the case of a large ship that may have multiple banks of Beam lasers setup as both smaller turrets and large gimbaled versions like the C3. Also if you use both beams and pulses, it would be nice to give the beams a different color than the pulses. Technically these are supposed to be different types of laser weapons, so using a different mod color for each type makes more sense than everything using the same mod color.

I also HATE the fact that my Point Defense rounds are no longer the easily identified GREEN and instead now use the same mod color I choose for my Beam Lasers etc.

Like I said.... This is just lazy programming on FD's part! If they are going to charge real money for something like this, they should spend a little time refining how this works and give us some premium options for a premium add-on.

The fact that they only cost a buck 75 each isn't the point. They are making money from the community on these, and really should show a little more attention to detail on how they work in practice than they have thus far.
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I agree, I was massively dissapointed it just sets all weapons to the colour, and there's no way to choose.
 

h347h

h347h
Novo Mundus said:
I agree, I was massively dissapointed it just sets all weapons to the colour, and there's no way to choose.
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So make a constructive thread about giving the option to choose colors for kinetic weapons, lasers, point defense, and other types separatel. They might do it if you ask nicely as they have done with ship kits and weapon colors. It might even generate more sales for them due to people wanting more colors.
 

veryinky

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Chris Simon said:
Personally I'm happy about it. I was afraid it will be just lasers. :)
Anyone tried PAs? How do they look in green?
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Like little balls of green.
 

Chiral

Chiral
Ok.. thanks for clearing this up. I really think we ought to be able to assign the purchased weapon colour to whichever guns we want. I can't use my weapon colour now because it looks so stupid with coloured multicannon fire... :/

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GG7 said:
Considering they are charging for these upgrades, the least they could do would be to allow you to "assign" the color effects to specific weapons and not just cheap out with the blanket effect we currently have. That is just lazy in my opinion!

I agree that these colors make no sense for Multi-Cannons and other weapons like that. I would also like to pick and choose which beam laser color each weapon uses on a particular ship rather than all of them using the same color.

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Like I said.... This is just lazy programming on FD's part! If they are going to charge real money for something like this, they should spend a little time refining how this works and give us some premium options for a premium add-on.

The fact that they only cost a buck 75 each isn't the point. They are making money from the community on these, and really should show a little more attention to detail on how they work in practice than they have thus far.
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Completely agree with u. I have disabled the colour until we get to assign it to whatever guns we want.
 

Dommarraa

Dommarraa
I find the natural different colours really quite important now that we have loads of special effects on various weapons, so I can tell which of my many multicannon effects is currently loading etc, so the weapon colour addon is pointless for my main ship.However, applying it to my fighter is very useful, I can now see what the AI is doing (or not doing) in a CZ Melee
 

Spacecat

Spacecat
Chiral said:
Ok.. thanks for clearing this up. I really think we ought to be able to assign the purchased weapon colour to whichever guns we want. I can't use my weapon colour now because it looks so stupid with coloured multicannon fire... :/

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Completely agree with u. I have disabled the colour until we get to assign it to whatever guns we want.
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On the plus side, it's only a couple bucks, unlike some of the paint packs which are comically expensive.
 
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