Aircraft Weapon Scaling

[Skribbles]

Hey!

Not sure if I'm somehow building in an unusual manner or whether this is already being addressed, but right now the aircraft weapon scaling feels a bit frustrating. One full barrage of tier 2 (Alenium) Missiles/Torpedoes seems to completely destroy anything less than Corsairs (or is it Landing Ships?) which prevents you from being able to make money/get alien resources from ground missions in order to build the tier 3 aircraft that can even somewhat stand up to tier 3 UFOs. I couldn't seem to go back and trade out Alenium weapons for Sidewinder/Avalanche (which may have been a bug), but even if I could it would have felt like a really bad solution.

I'd honestly really rather have more options in the dogfighting screen to control my rate of fire or intensity of aggression so I could choose how to fight the ships I encounter on the fly with either the intention of destroying them or forcing them to crash.

[Sathra]

The ships being 'Destroyed' are probably all Fighters or Heavy Fighters, which don't create crash-sites. The game does slow down around about Landing Ship era. It picks up again about Cruisers I think.

[smoitessier]

heavy bomber also are 'destroyed' leaving no ground missions, they look quite big on the air combat and it's unrealistic that they can't be recovered

[Sathra]

When the Xenopedia reports for them show up properly it gets explained.

Simple answer? They're flying bombs.

[Skribbles]

Ah, that makes sense. I do agree that the game gets a bit slump-y in this area then, as I find myself gaining resources almost exclusively from Terror Sites.

[Waladil]

By "Heavy Bombers," do you guys mean Strike Cruisers? The one that's basically a Cruiser but with an odd curve at the bottom? I did always wonder why they never had a crash site.

If they were one big bomb... that'd be a heck of a Strike, all right.

[lennard]

I seem to recall discussion about fighter/heavy fighters leaving crash site a while back. I think the plan was to leaving recoverable crash sites but no ground missions. Don't know if this is still the case.

[Sathra]

You're meant to get the datacore from them, and as a result get the research pop-up after you kill one. Should be relatively simple to add an alloys gain after that works I guess.

[Aaron]

We do need a better way of telling the player when they have shot down a non-crash site UFO what's happening. The simplest way is probably to show a popup message immediately after the air combat saying:

"

The following items were recovered from the crashed UFO:

1 x Bomber Datacore

20 x Alien Alloys

"

I'll put this on the my todo list.

[smoitessier]

Yeah that sounds good

By "Heavy Bombers," do you guys mean Strike Cruisers? The one that's basically a Cruiser but with an odd curve at the bottom? I did always wonder why they never had a crash site.

If they were one big bomb... that'd be a heck of a Strike, all right.

No the Heavy bomber comes after the strike cruiser, and it's a little smaller then a corvette if i recall.

Talking about strike cruisers.. what is that thing, it always seems to escape to space after i destroy it, do they not have a ground mission? What is their purpose? they seem so close to the cruiser, my first impression is I'd prefer to see dreadnoughts that are different over these imo

[Sathra]

That's the one that's a huge bomb (Strike Cruiser). They don't have ground missions but they shouldn't escape to space after being destroyed. That's a bug.

What does this Heavy Bomber look like? Disc with a long spine sticking out the side?