Are bombs from Bombers supposed to be just a white circle?

[Baleur]

  I'm just wondering, if its supposed to be like that? The other weapons have fancy effects to differentiate them, but the bombers shoot opague circles bigger than most ships ? 

[x4000]

They aren't big white balls, if you pause it.  Think of like the energy blasts from (if I recall) Ryu in Street Fighter, etc.  To see a still image of it to see what I mean:  http://www.arcengames.com/lightbox/AIWar2/BombersFiring.jpg

They aren't bombs, as in regular bombs, but are "energy bombs" that are made of plasma or something similar.

[eRe4s3r]

Well i think these effects should scale down (get smaller) as you get closer to the action - maybe x4000 can tune it.

You are perfectly right - the shot effects are very large compared to the explosions and ships which looks really odd - this was done to make them visible in "zoomed out" view but as it is now its less than optimal.

I don't really know what happened with the scaling effects and icons feature, that was a fairly major suggestion way back


Actually, i have an idea how to make the shots look much better.. (less opaque) .. suggestion with graphics is coming up

x4000 sadly i am not 100% sure my suggestion i posted concerning this is really better... Atm some shots look awesome (double lazers) in both far and close but energy bombs look nearly opaque from afar (circles indeed) - i think i am not much of a help here ;p

[x4000]

That's okay -- I think that having the shots be a little bit exaggerated in size is not really a horrible thing, it's just stylistic.