Weapons with more 'zing'

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So anyway, I was playing an immense sized game in TA as the terrans, and I was being teamed up on by another terran faction (apparently I modded my terran faction so much that the game treated it as a differant terra) and the thalan.

The other terrans and I are researching missile weapons.  I'm on nightmare torpedo and they've just finished photonics. Now, most missile weapons are cool and all, but they lack punch. When the ship fires them, they go 'shwump...foomsh...KERPOW!' with the foomsh being that generic fireball and the kerpow being the ship exploding. It works, but it's not spectacular.

Meanwhile,

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
whoops. post got cut off. continuing...

Meanwhile, the Thalan are researching beam weapons and are using plasma. I smash their insectoid ships and conquer one of their planets, stealing the tech 'disruptors' from them.

Now, in TA, the terrans don't get disruptors, they just go right to doom ray from phasors.

But it's good to have strong beam weapons, so I bolt some disruptors onto a large hull and send 'em into the fray.

Now, the disruptor ships (I called the dising the osiris-class battleship, for those who care) went into battle with their lighter, torpedo armed bretheren. They attack a thalan fleet, and it goes something like htis.

Missile frigate; "Shwouuuumm....fwoomsh...pop"
Missile frigate: "Shwooouuuum....fwooomsh...pop"
Osiris Dreangouhgt: "SQUIDDLYFLAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SQUiDDLYFLAM!!!!!!!....fwoomsh...pop"

Now, in case those automonopeia need to be interpreted, what I'm trying to say is that the disruptors sound WAY better (and look cooler, too) than any other weapon IN THE GAME. Now, it's not so much that the disruptors are so amazing (they kind of are), it's just that the other weapons could have some more 'zing' to them. Hopefully, it won't be a big thing to change, but for GalCiv3, I'd like to see the weapons have more graphical and audio punch.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I agree. Most weapons look and sound a bit... well, weak. I think it'd help to make the missiles and mass driver projectiles move faster - they don't look all that dangerous when they move this slow.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I think that there are updates for the weapon graphics coming in TA.

And it's "Onomatopoeia". :P
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
And it's "Onomatopoeia".


So it is. Thanks for the correction