Am I the only one hyped about that Guardian Plasma Charger and Gauss Cannon?
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its called Focused Plasma Accelerator with Dazzle shell experimental effect
But it doesn't made THE SOUND! (Also still too slow. PPC was quite fast) Dazzle also doesn't make the HUD get jittery for a moment.
I dread the new content because it just means riding the merry go round back and fourth to get it and engineer it. Yawn, yawn, yawn!
I want to know how they differ from the plasma acc. and railgun since theyre both pretty much the same thing. More damage to xenos?
If Plasma Charger is anti-xeno weapon, definitely more damage to Thargoids than ordinary PA.
As for Gauss Cannon, your guess is good as mine. We don't know what that weapon is but I suspect it's not anti-xeno.
Might be a computer disruptor?
The Gauss, is the cgs unit of measurement of magnetic flux density (or "magnetic induction"). (Named after "Prince of Mathematicians", Carl Friedrich Gauss).
One Gauss is defined as one maxwell per square centimeter. (The cgs system has been superseded by the International System).
Targetted magnetic flux could ......
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Possible. However, Gauss weapons, aka coil guns, used in a number of games and movies uses magnetic induction to propel a projectile at high velocicty just like a rail fun
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Agreed, great post. But you forgot the visually guided missiles, as seen in Starlancer and equally fun in Earthsiege 2. I'd kill for some of those in Elite
Repped simply for the Earthsiege 2 reference.
i was a fan of the "guided" missile in Descent and Unreal Tournament too.
but somehow i doubt i would like it in elite, unless used by gunners.
but what i forget, was the combination of seeker missile with the flak mechnic.
i remember outfitting bombers in Freespace 1 and 2 with "Synapse" and "Piranha" missles, to defend myself against swarms of fighters.
those been slow missiles that would explode and fire a swarm of smaller seeker missiles when you hit the trigger again.
could be nice against thargons.
I'd prefer all those new modern weapons over some gun powder powered projectile any time.
After all, we're in 34th century
But don't mind having some old school guns too.
Miniaturization will make any weapon OP! As will Hyper-Focused Beam (50% more base beam damage that through wonky math works out to a lot more than that), Achilles Targeting Computer (ignore armor entirely), and Structural Analyzer (double all damage that penetrates shields); pair with Phasing Cloak and Time Warp Facilitator for sheer invincibility.
Crap, maybe mentioning Moo2's (quite flawed) design will give Fdev bad ideas....
Gauss Cannon?
Hehe, feels like good old MechWarrior II.
Huge gun, insane power draw, very slow firing rate - but darn fast projectile, very long Range and did seriously big holes
All that's still needed is a Neutron Blaster and an Ion Cannon then xD
Can I haz ER-PPC, please! [heart] Oh... wait! (Wanders off to buy plasma accelerator.)
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Is that stuff in any way relevant to the game as a whole, or is it just another fragmentation like AX weapons for yet more separate game-within-game?
unlike the AX weapons, the guardian stuff can be used against everything.
they did implement synthesis for it right away, but no engineering.
yep, just harvesting blueprints, conduits and sentinel debris
I'm not sure the guardian stuff is working properly then. I was dual plasma chargers the other day, versus a Dangerous Cobra III NPC, and it took six full charge shots (12 total) to bring his shields down. I'm not sure my aim is that bad, so I'm wondering if something's up.
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Was extremely hyped for tech brokers.
then I found out they are just another Mat grind.
Not only am I not hyped now. I will never use them. Ever. Because I refuse to partake of ANOTHER grind. Engineering killed my interest in this game for months. I have no plans to repeat that or a similarly terrible experience with these things. No thanks, game would be better off without this sort of garbage.
then I found out they are just another Mat grind.
Not only am I not hyped now. I will never use them. Ever. Because I refuse to partake of ANOTHER grind. Engineering killed my interest in this game for months. I have no plans to repeat that or a similarly terrible experience with these things. No thanks, game would be better off without this sort of garbage.
what else did you expect from the tech broker?
that you log in, pay a few millions space credits to unlock everything? someone not eploiting money faucets would call it grind
that you have to run a few missions to unlock each module? again, someone may experience that as an endless grind because it has to be done for every module again.
there is only one thing i dislike about those brokers - and thats the fact that you have to unlock fixed/gimbal/turret version of the weapon individually,
and those weapons are by default engineered, so no way to personalise them
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what else did you expect from the tech broker?
that you log in, pay a few millions space credits to unlock everything? someone not eploiting money faucets would call it grind
that you have to run a few missions to unlock each module? again, someone may experience that as an endless grind because it has to be done for every module again.
there is only one thing i dislike about those brokers - and thats the fact that you have to unlock fixed/gimbal/turret version of the weapon individually,
and those weapons are by default engineered, so no way to personalise them
Yes. I did expect to use credits. Because thats they way it work, if fdev had any respect for our time. But they dont. As usual.