Does the thermal vent effect on beam lasers stack together?
Engineers Thermal Vent Stacking
- Thread starter Troika Crossfire
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Yes, i tested them in 2.2 beta
How much cooling were you able to get?
It's about thermal VENT not SHOCK or CASCADE
Thermal Vent cools your ship when you hit your target but cooks your ship when you miss.
I'd also like to know how much of an effect you can get with the vent.
Well I HAD ONE in my Cobra MKIII cool runner + 56% heat reduction (YES BELIEVE ME!) , and I found that one is really LAME...
It couldnt keep my cobra firing a med fixed pulse with g5 rapid fire and a small g5 efficient pulse under 30% even on hitting DEAD center on any ship...
Bear in mind that my cobra IDLES at 18% and boost at 36% max....
Plus i didnt saw any good effect on having the beam on and off...
so stacking might be the ONLY way that it will work...
It couldnt keep my cobra firing a med fixed pulse with g5 rapid fire and a small g5 efficient pulse under 30% even on hitting DEAD center on any ship...
Bear in mind that my cobra IDLES at 18% and boost at 36% max....
Plus i didnt saw any good effect on having the beam on and off...
so stacking might be the ONLY way that it will work...
I run 2 huge Beam with Thermal Vent on my Corvette. Overheating not really an issue so long as you on target.
Same here. As long as I hit target with those two huge beams, the temperature stays where it is.
Only two huge beam lasers? You don't run any other lasers on your corvette?
Before you even try to think about Thermal Vent.. You have to know how this work exactly. And so far as i can see no one in this thread could know how it work.
Here we go..
In fact Thermal vent don't do anything to make your temperature low. Actually this effect simply CAN'T make your ship more cold than it is already.
The main design of this effect is to allow pilot to have 5GR OC PP and fire Beams. So this effect ONLY lower temperature of WEAPON that you use. Only weapon that have Thermal vent.
How it works?
You have stock temperature for about 40% ok? And you fire 2 huge beam without Thermal Vent with 4 pips. You will get like 80% of heat while firing this beam.
And second example: You have now stock temperature for about 40% and you firing 1 or 2 huge beam (same Thermal load as a 2 stock beams because of secondary) with Thermal Vent while in 4 pips. If we assume that your % of accuracy is 80% or close to 90% or even 100% then your temperature while firing will be... 40%.
Yes, same 40%. As i already say, this effect only about your WEAPON and not ship. Ship can't have low temperature with such effect. It ONLY make your weapon COLD ( like not firing at all. That is exactly a reason why this effect feels broken in Silent Run. Because it is not broken. It is a main design of this effect to not cooling your ship BUT WEAPON.
While without effects 2 beams will deal only 80% of heat. 2 beam with effect will be like 4!!! stock huge beams if you did not hit your target.
Oh and by the way. If you understand what i am talking about. You will realise that the effect is not stacking at all.
Oh, and one more thing. If you have firing not only beams but also some MC. What will be with your temperature? Just fire with MC and look for your temperature. See? Let's take for example 55% of heat while firing MCs.
So after firing beams with Thermal vent + MCs we will get.. 55% of heat. Ofc it is depends on how good is your accuracy.
Here we go..
In fact Thermal vent don't do anything to make your temperature low. Actually this effect simply CAN'T make your ship more cold than it is already.
The main design of this effect is to allow pilot to have 5GR OC PP and fire Beams. So this effect ONLY lower temperature of WEAPON that you use. Only weapon that have Thermal vent.
How it works?
You have stock temperature for about 40% ok? And you fire 2 huge beam without Thermal Vent with 4 pips. You will get like 80% of heat while firing this beam.
And second example: You have now stock temperature for about 40% and you firing 1 or 2 huge beam (same Thermal load as a 2 stock beams because of secondary) with Thermal Vent while in 4 pips. If we assume that your % of accuracy is 80% or close to 90% or even 100% then your temperature while firing will be... 40%.
Yes, same 40%. As i already say, this effect only about your WEAPON and not ship. Ship can't have low temperature with such effect. It ONLY make your weapon COLD ( like not firing at all. That is exactly a reason why this effect feels broken in Silent Run. Because it is not broken. It is a main design of this effect to not cooling your ship BUT WEAPON.
While without effects 2 beams will deal only 80% of heat. 2 beam with effect will be like 4!!! stock huge beams if you did not hit your target.
Oh and by the way. If you understand what i am talking about. You will realise that the effect is not stacking at all.
Oh, and one more thing. If you have firing not only beams but also some MC. What will be with your temperature? Just fire with MC and look for your temperature. See? Let's take for example 55% of heat while firing MCs.
So after firing beams with Thermal vent + MCs we will get.. 55% of heat. Ofc it is depends on how good is your accuracy.
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Still relevant - the buff to the ships included cap/limits to how much heat could be taken from weapons. It's capped to 95% according to the patch notes. So no matter how many VENT or whatever weapons you stack, it's capped and the effect isn't the same as pre-2.2.
That cap is only for heat weapons being used against you. You are still very able to roast yourself over 100% heat with your own weapons.