I've played a Secrets of the Shroud game to endgame with this mod and no issues. All of the particle effects and cool visuals of this mod still function with the old ship parts, however there are no new effects for the new psionic weapons (obviously).

I wonder if the author plans on updating the mod for those new weapons?

Are the addons not compatible with this mod or with the Ironman mode? I use this because i use another mod for behavior changes and i would still like to use more particles but dont know it would work

This works back to 3.11 at least.

What I've discovered with mods in PDX games, is the mod if it was originally made for an earlier game version will still work with older game versions, even if it's updated to newer ones.

Please upload the 3.14 version too. Stellaris 4.x is still a mess.

Do you still have the 3.14.15 version of this? Steam unfortunately automatically updates all mods and I forgot to make a backup. And after only seeing these graphics for a while, Vanilla now looks bad.

@kreon - Looking at the actual ap_ballistics file in the mod folder, whatever Irony is saying, neither of those things are true in the actual files. There is a closing brace in both of those entries and if you're getting an error for those lines, based on what follows them in other clauses, you should also be getting errors for the next few too.

@Chickenhunt - what I am getting in the Stellaris error.log is a missing "shield_impact" texture in the same file (ap_ballistics) referenced between lines 528 - 967 (inclusive). And also "Unexpected token max_duration" near line 22 in ap_missiles.txt

Can't say I've noticed any weirdness in game though, so maybe these errors don't matter?

I'm getting this error with irony:

Error at line: 528 column: 16 file: gfx/projectiles/ap_ballistics.txt.
Please report this error to the author of the mod: ASB Ironman.

Error message says:

Error in gfx/projectiles/ap_ballistics.txt: Ln: 528 Col: 23 (UTF16-Col: 16)
shield_impact = {
^
Note: The column count assumes a tab stop distance of 8 chars.
Expecting: closing brace or statement
Other error messages:
The clause opened at ("gfx/projectiles/ap_ballistics.txt", Ln: 496, Col: 23)
was not closed.


Thanks! great mod

I have

@Lyv Do you have the "more particles" add-on? It could be the game is hiding them.

I guess this might be because the XL slot added in the mod section is a turret rather than a fixed one?

It seems that the Origin version also has the same problem. In the first few test battles, the particle effects of windup and the trace after the main gun was fired could be seen, but for some reason, it stopped working after a while. I can see that some of the Ai's ships' kinetic weapons fire projectiles with trails, but my Titans can't, the Mega Cannon is using the projectile of L artillery.

@Lyv Because changing those make it non-ironman compatible.

Vanilla does not have unique XL effects so I had to make new code. New code is not ironman compatible, only replacing effects is.

It seems that, for some reason, the Mega Cannon is using the projectile of L artillery. After I overwrote the artillery’s projectile with that of the Mega Cannon, the Mega Cannon in-game suddenly displayed the visual effects it was supposed to have.

For some reason, the XL artillery cannons I'm using on my Titan (with modded ship sections and vanilla weapons) have visually identical projectiles to the L artillery, and they don't show any trail effects at all. In fact, the Gauss cannons on the enemy's defense platforms, which are only M-slot weapons, look way cooler by comparison. QAQ

@Gonaks You can subscribe and play. Its backwards compatible until 2.1.3 (planet tyle system and old launcher)

Is there a way to download an older version? I still want to play 3.14

Updated to Stellaris V4

AMAZING MOD, thank you for it!!!!!!!

Tiny update today that makes small changes to autocannons graphics

@Bookie Thanks ^^

This mod is awesome! Strongly recommend to ironman players

@Beaver Thank you :)

figured it out had to unsub and resub in STEAM not in a browser.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR UPDATING!!!! If I wasn't disabled I'd definitely donate, instead I just tell all my friends about your mod lol.

Updated to 3.14 and NEW content!

Please read the patch notes in the pinned discussion above if you want to know more!

it works and i should've probably checked before commenting in the first place :c
tho while i'm here the first line of the description says 3.13

Are there any plans to update this to 3.14?

Thank you. Looks great. Always hated how I couldn't see any projectiles in battles, so glad I can now.

Yes

This work on the latest version?

update bro

Updated to v3.13

@Avan Thank you, that's great ^^

As a missile main this has been a very good update. I've been using it with Downscaled Updated
ships mod and have noticed no issues.

Mod is updated to v3.12

Lots of brand new content check out the pinned patch notes right above

tyvm

Yes I will be updating the ironman version and the other addon mods later today

Can this still work with 3.12 ?

I know you're probably too busy with the main mod right now, so I'll be waiting for you to have time to finish this one as well.

Wanted to go for a synth queen run, and there's an achievement for it, but it's very hard to enjoy how the vanilla combat looks like in Stellaris.

Hello Chickenhunt, do you plan to update this mod regularly? Will you be releasing an update for the latest version of the game soon?

I'd like to echo what Beaver said last year - the laser effects are just too much. I loved ASB for its amazing graphics, but couldn't stand how it altered combat.

could you pleas add graphics from the original to this description, I do not understand was it different Visual. :)

does it work with 3.10?

Please consider using "turbo laser" star wars-like laser effect instead of a continous stream of energy. I found myself dropping laser weapons completely because I feel they confuse the battlefield a lot. thank you mod is great ;)

thank you so much! Just sent the link to all my friends.

Small update uploaded:
-Titan laser hit gfx size reduced

Updated to V3.9 - New content!

You can read the pinned discussion directly above to read the patch notes

I know, I have been working on an update since 3.9 released. So much has been broken that it takes much work to finish.

To help with the bug, my game crash when a ships attacks with the plasma thrower. I'm not sure if more weapons are affected, but for sure that ones makes my game crash.

Again start crashes when it comes to a ship battle