Weapon Colour per weapon not per ship & disable on target.

[Alex Brentnall]

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/307183-Oooh-shiny!-Weapon-colours-on-store-now!

So since yesterday lots of people have been testing the new weapons. It seems a very common thought I'm sure has already been seen that we would very much like weapon colours to be available per weapon and not per ship.

This would require GUI work, coding work and a bunch of other things I can't even fathom but would allow for complete customisation of weapons & utilities allowing players to determine what they want. Also because to be honest, we all want a disco Anaconda that shoots nyancat style weaponary.


Additionally of note is the common suggestion that people would like to be able to see their own coloured weapons but have the option of seeing the default on any other ships that are flying so they can identify engineered weapons. I'm in 2 minds over this as I can understand why but it kind of invalidates the cosmetic if people have the option to change what they see to default. The key difficulty in this is to have it affect the way 1 player sees everyone else but not affect their own weapons they paid money for. Could be difficult but I'm sure a lot of people would support this option.

 

[Parmo]

Everyone should see the same world - this includes laser colours.
If you see your lasers as blue, as you have set them, then every other player should see your lasers as blue.

 

[aRJay]

A compromise on the whole ship individual weapons that might be easier would be to apply the colours to weapon classes so kinetic pink, energy green for example.

If the ships didn't have cockpits so the whole "view" was a display in your armoured cell in the heart of the ship the ability to change how reality looked would be plausible but with the ships as designed no we shouldn't be able to change the appearance of someone else's ship other than by blowing holes through it.

 

[markuslig]

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php/307183-Oooh-shiny!-Weapon-colours-on-store-now!

So since yesterday lots of people have been testing the new weapons. It seems a very common thought I'm sure has already been seen that we would very much like weapon colours to be available per weapon and not per ship.

This would require GUI work, coding work and a bunch of other things I can't even fathom but would allow for complete customisation of weapons & utilities allowing players to determine what they want. Also because to be honest, we all want a disco Anaconda that shoots nyancat style weaponary.


Additionally of note is the common suggestion that people would like to be able to see their own coloured weapons but have the option of seeing the default on any other ships that are flying so they can identify engineered weapons. I'm in 2 minds over this as I can understand why but it kind of invalidates the cosmetic if people have the option to change what they see to default. The key difficulty in this is to have it affect the way 1 player sees everyone else but not affect their own weapons they paid money for. Could be difficult but I'm sure a lot of people would support this option.

Haha disco anaconda, awesome if i can cover it with tiny square mirrors as well and play ABBA music for the galaxy

 

[Cypher2139]

I for one have only in the last few weeks managed to unlock incendiary MCs for my Corvette, and tbh I'm a bit peeved that having spent ages 'earning' my red multi cannons, that now anyone else that feels like it can now have the same thing for nothing more than £1 with zero effort...

I would however like clarification on exactly what is disabled when you switch the 'disable weapon colours' toggle? Does it only disable MY colours, or those of everyone I can see?

Because it's kind of important to know if I'm being shot at by G5 incendiaries, or just normal MCs for example...

 

[Alex Brentnall]

I for one have only in the last few weeks managed to unlock incendiary MCs for my Corvette, and tbh I'm a bit peeved that having spent ages 'earning' my red multi cannons, that now anyone else that feels like it can now have the same thing for nothing more than £1 with zero effort...

I would however like clarification on exactly what is disabled when you switch the 'disable weapon colours' toggle? Does it only disable MY colours, or those of everyone I can see?

Because it's kind of important to know if I'm being shot at by G5 incendiaries, or just normal MCs for example...

In the current view it disables your weapon colours and reverts them to the default including engineering mods which go back to whatever they are supposed to be. This does not disable the colours other people use as far as I know although thats based on other peoples comments.

 

[goemon]

yes please. the synth paint asks for it...