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Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack[message #100982]

Mon, 29 March 2004 09:05

Ninth Hour

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Burst fire, at present, isn't very good at hitting multiple targets in a crowd. This is especially true if the person firing is a good marksman, with auto-weapons expertise. Most of the shots will be closely grouped and will hit the same target multiple times, rather than several targets.

One tactical option that would be nice is the ability to disperse fire over a number of tiles, instead of just one. This feature would be epecially useful in giving light machine guns their proper squad support role.

Of course, I wonder how feasible it would be and how it might be best accomplished. Either

1) a separate mode/button could be created to specify a cone-shaped spread of fire, with multiple target tiles, (which would require too many changes to current game interface and mechanics) or

2) burst could be kept centered on a single tile, as it is now, but the cost to "sweep" the burst to tiles directly adjacent to the original target could be very low (e.g. 1 AP to burst 1 tile adjacent, 2 AP to burst 2 tiles adjacent, 3 AP to burst 3 tiles adjacent). The firing arc may be limited to a reasonable number of adjacent tiles, e.g. three. Any burst that has to be adjusted to a new target more than three tiles away from the first will incur the usual burst cost.

Don't know how this may fit in with the new full autofire scheme, but it may be worth considering, if it's not too complex to implement. With full autofire now a possibility, it seems like the next logical step to be able to sweep a long, continuous burst across closely grouped targets. This ability would have to be properly balanced though.

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		Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Ninth Hour on Mon, 29 March 2004 09:05
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Digicrab on Mon, 29 March 2004 10:43
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Ninth Hour on Mon, 29 March 2004 15:53
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Digicrab on Mon, 29 March 2004 16:04
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: defrog on Tue, 30 March 2004 01:46
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: KIA on Tue, 30 March 2004 05:49
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Ninth Hour on Tue, 30 March 2004 05:50
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: KIA on Tue, 30 March 2004 07:33
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Thrangar on Tue, 30 March 2004 09:35
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Digicrab on Tue, 30 March 2004 11:19
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Ninth Hour on Wed, 31 March 2004 04:32
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: PegasusJF on Mon, 12 April 2004 06:35
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Khor1255 on Mon, 12 April 2004 10:30
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Kurt on Mon, 12 April 2004 22:32
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: xcorps on Tue, 13 April 2004 01:48
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Ninth Hour on Tue, 13 April 2004 02:43
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: PegasusJF on Tue, 13 April 2004 03:38
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: xcorps on Tue, 13 April 2004 03:52
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Khor1255 on Tue, 13 April 2004 10:25
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Kurt on Tue, 13 April 2004 22:20
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: xcorps on Wed, 14 April 2004 01:10
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: fpro on Wed, 14 April 2004 05:22
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: SharkD on Tue, 20 April 2004 10:15
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: SharkD on Tue, 20 April 2004 10:17
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: DaCheetah on Tue, 20 April 2004 12:00
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Khor1255 on Tue, 20 April 2004 12:06
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: tuccy on Tue, 20 April 2004 18:56
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Kurt on Tue, 20 April 2004 21:47
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: markpoll on Fri, 23 April 2004 16:28
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Kurt on Fri, 23 April 2004 21:55
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: erutan on Sat, 24 April 2004 20:58
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: ADG Wraith on Tue, 04 May 2004 17:17
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Kurt on Wed, 05 May 2004 02:53
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Khor1255 on Wed, 05 May 2004 09:42
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: markpoll on Wed, 05 May 2004 14:58
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: markpoll on Wed, 05 May 2004 15:03
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Kurt on Thu, 06 May 2004 15:55
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: ADG Wraith on Mon, 10 May 2004 09:56
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Folkewulf on Mon, 10 May 2004 10:47
		Re: Burst fire as an area-of-effect attack By: Kurt on Mon, 10 May 2004 19:06

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