BioPulse Weapon Question

posted on October 27th, 2011, 5:44 am

Hiya,
Does anybody here happen to know how Armada chooses which ship of the multiReqX types to use for the chargers and which for the main firing unit?

Even if this isn't known, does anybody know of a mod that uses the BioPulse weapon with other (non 8472) types of ships? 

posted on October 27th, 2011, 7:30 am

If memory serves me right, I think in future wars the maquis. They have a ferengi ship that uses that ability.

posted on October 27th, 2011, 4:28 pm

Thanks, seems they didn't know either 

posted on October 27th, 2011, 4:50 pm

i think i do afta spending a while looking into it

as far as i remember in my tests
multiReqClass0 just defined the firer

multiReqClass1 defined the charger if memory serves correctly this weapon can not support anything higher than
multiReqClass1 the rest wil be ignored

posted on October 27th, 2011, 5:09 pm

Nah, that's not correct unfortunately, you can put as many multiReq classes as you want and they aren't ignored at all 

Unless I've been screwing something up, multiReqClass0 doesn't define the firer - it could be that there is something hardcoded with the 8472 Frigate-Battleship ODF name association, but when with other units, the game seems to somewhat randomly choose which will be the firer and which the supporter.

posted on October 27th, 2011, 5:11 pm

I thought multireqclass was used for the fusion cube too.

posted on October 27th, 2011, 5:15 pm

It is

Ok, figured it out, I'm quite silly. It appears that Armada looks at the shipType designation to determine what unit to use for the lead vessel. Considering this is a formation weapon I should have thought of that first...