Liberty Vs. Rheinland

[Jinx]

@X-lancer:

the video does not show the mechanics behind the flak concept. - admittedly, they do not look as flashy as the flak88 ones - but they ARE effective ... and extremely punishing when a bomber / fighter gets too close.

they are not as effective as they "might" be... but its still a matter of balance. - 3 bombers with good pilots doing the "legal" shieldrunning will take down a battleship - if its not escorted... the end.

but in 4.84... 3 bombers will take down a battleship, even if it has escorts... we tried to make it so that 3 bombers that face a battleship with even 1 VHF pilot escort of approximately the same skill level as the bombers will give give the battleship a very very long time to survive... and even longer if the bombers must deal with an escort. - flaks are a desperate measure - they are "dumb" projectiles that make no difference between friend of foe..... .

the battleships main defense against bombers is fighters - the absolute primary defense. - the secondary defense is to be durable... and only after that comes the weaponry.

but a battleship captain can also mount weapons that offer quite a good chance to take down bombers if he gives up turrets that harm other capital ships... its a matter of choice.



so, what you see in the video is not how the flaks work - but only the effects that were applied. - i cannot compare it to the flak88 mod, never played it.... but i believe that we achieved a FAIR balance of both - weapons and shipclasses. - all in all, disco is of course not as fancy looking as some of the other mods, - no dx9 emulations, no fancy features.... but it runs good for a lot of people - the effects we got make it possible for medium sized fleets to fight without much lag ( clientside lag ) - and on even low end computers, it still runs all quite smoothly.

having great flak effects with multilayered explosions and debris might looks awesome, but its no good when it make the actual battle nice to look at but impossible to actually fight.


oh, and the flaks can intercept missiles - only... jure didn t manage =)

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