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Author Topic: [0.9.1a] Disassemble Reassemble v1.6.9 - Another lovingly kitbashed ship pack!  (Read 414983 times)

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Re: [0.8.1a] Disassemble Reassemble v0.7 - Another lovingly kitbashed ship pack!
« Reply #90 on: September 29, 2017, 02:03:07 AM »

No? Neither is the Shepherd. Neither is the Tempest  ??? Why would the Katrina be tagged as a carrier? It's a mining ship.
actually, Shepherd is tagged as carrier, and not tagged as civilian. Alex removed the civilian tag in 0.8, because that (usually?) prevents the AI from deploying it into open battles. since it's designed as a mini/budget carrier for early-game fleets, it's not meant to always be kept back and encountered only in pursuit battles.

Tempest is another thing entirely, since it's still primarily an attack frigate, which Shepherd is not. Terminator drone also has an even shorter leash range than Borers.

i don't know which role Katrina fits best, but if it's supposed to be deployed alongside proper combat ships, i think it shouldn't have the civilian tag. if it's meant to engage at close range in addition to providing light drone support, it shouldn't be tagged as anything.
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Re: [0.8.1a] Disassemble Reassemble v0.7 - Another lovingly kitbashed ship pack!
« Reply #91 on: September 29, 2017, 02:28:12 AM »

actually, Shepherd is tagged as carrier, and not tagged as civilian...

Huh. So it is.  :-X I always thought it was only tagged as Civilian, because it never wants to engage in fights. Guess that was the Carrier tag.



i don't know which role Katrina fits best, but if it's supposed to be deployed alongside proper combat ships, i think it shouldn't have the civilian tag. if it's meant to engage at close range in addition to providing light drone support, it shouldn't be tagged as anything.

Perhaps that's a better thought, yeah. It does have a built-in mining blaster, so perhaps encouraging it to throw its weight around a bit more isn't a bad idea.
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Re: [0.8.1a] Disassemble Reassemble v0.7 - Another lovingly kitbashed ship pack!
« Reply #92 on: September 29, 2017, 02:52:18 AM »

I tend to bring the Katrina in early-game industrial builds, which is the role I'd assume it to have. Beyond emergencies (pirates), I'd only ever use it for fighting derelicts. For this it is reasonably well equipped, but I did note that it was excessively cowardly if you have both civilian and military ships in a fight. Even without a military escort they are cautious. Directly in player hands they work much better.
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Re: [0.8.1a] Disassemble Reassemble v0.7 - Another lovingly kitbashed ship pack!
« Reply #93 on: September 29, 2017, 03:10:19 AM »

Katrina becomes one of those "Beggar's Carrier" at the start since the Borer drones could provide support to the combat ships as well as a cheap distraction to the enemy point defense  :) . Making the drone a free roaming unit kinda cuts that effectiveness especially on times where you will need to try and turn the tables on an enemy.

Also, seeing the Katrina doing a Defensive yet close-combat kinda made me worried alot of times since its mining blaster builds a good chunk of flux per shot, putting the ship at risk to overheating especially when engaging/running away from ships that are equipped with kinetic weapons.

But hey, its up to you man. I just pointed that out since it kinda bothers me a bit.
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Re: [0.8.1a] Disassemble Reassemble v0.7 - Another lovingly kitbashed ship pack!
« Reply #94 on: September 29, 2017, 03:52:46 PM »

Sorry to burst your bubble, but you may have missed previous versions of this mod where the Seraphim's large missile mount was a modular slot. However, in discussions with folks on the Discord channel, I'm afraid the following conclusion was reached by a great number of respectable modders:

Large missile mounts are overpowered on destroyers.

So, yeah, while I could stick one on and otherwise nerf the ship to the ground, there won't be one in this mod any time soon because A) it previously had one already, and B) they generally aren't a good idea.

Strongly disagree with that, and frankly I don't think most starsector modders are qualified to be authorities on what's balanced or not. But whatever, it's your mod.
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Re: [0.8.1a] Disassemble Reassemble v0.7 - Another lovingly kitbashed ship pack!
« Reply #95 on: September 29, 2017, 04:22:46 PM »

... frankly I don't think most starsector modders are qualified to be authorities on what's balanced or not.

This comes from discussions with MesoTronik and Tartiflette, among others, and if you don't think they're "authorities" on balance, then I can't help you.  :-[
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Re: [0.8.1a] Disassemble Reassemble v0.7 - Another lovingly kitbashed ship pack!
« Reply #96 on: September 29, 2017, 06:20:07 PM »

frankly I don't think most starsector modders are qualified to be authorities on what's balanced or not.
balance is always tricky, and changes over time, so of course no single person knows it all -- save for Alex, kinda. and even he changes his views on many balance issues over time.

but if there is anyone you should listen to when it comes to balance, it's the people who've spent hundreds or even thousands (yes, literally) hours creating and tweaking mod content, extensively testing their own stuff and repeatedly comparing it to various vanilla pieces, to ensure the mod fits in with the base game as well as possible. if several of these modders come to the same conclusion, it's generally safe to assume that there's something to it.
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Re: [0.8.1a] Disassemble Reassemble v0.7 - Another lovingly kitbashed ship pack!
« Reply #97 on: September 29, 2017, 06:29:23 PM »

Actually I was arguing that a Destroyer with a large mount is not impossible to balance. But it would require some rather strong limitations: No ECCM, no Expanded Missile Racks, no Flight Decks, little PD, pretty much no secondary weapons to speak of... But it should be workable.
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« Reply #98 on: September 29, 2017, 10:30:50 PM »

Well, the point made is that a large missile toting destroyer would have to nerfed very hard in other aspects to be considered "balanced".

And the Seraphim really didn't have those nerfs. Nor am I willing right now to give it those nerfs, or make a new destroyer with them. I've already got two missile destroyers in this mod - I really don't need a third.  :P
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Some feedback about the new version, only minor things:
-The modular high-tech frigate, in its freighter variant, is selected when auto-deploying fleets in combat, i.e. it's not designated as a civilian ship
-The Constellation carrier has a "off the track" engine trail in hyperspace (probably also on real space but I figure it when I was in hyperspace). The engine concern is the left one, and its trail is like 30° clockwise off
-Seraphim-class Missile Destroyer : nice new iteration. With the new kinetic launcher it makes a good support destroyer, pretty effective when deployed in full scale engagement (with wings, other missile boats or combat destroyer).

The new version of the anti-frigate missiles is better, more efficient with only two missiles per shots. However, Maybe its a little bit too fast to correctly track ennemy frigates? They are quite easy to dodge if the ennemy ship slides off the way, unless it is launched at point blank range.
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Some feedback about the new version, only minor things:
-The modular high-tech frigate, in its freighter variant, is selected when auto-deploying fleets in combat, i.e. it's not designated as a civilian ship

Yeah, it doesn't have the CIVILIAN tag. Originally this was due to some confusion between that tag, and giving a ship the "Civilian Hull" hullmod - also slightly due to my desperation for more cool combat freighters, which the Acanthina-F really does not fit into the role of.  :-X Not rightly sure what I was thinking. Nonetheless:

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-The Constellation carrier has a "off the track" engine trail in hyperspace (probably also on real space but I figure it when I was in hyperspace). The engine concern is the left one, and its trail is like 30° clockwise off

I've also noticed this, and I've got no idea what's going on there.  ??? The ship's engines flames are completely symmetrical both in combat and in the Ship Editor, so why they're not in the campaign map I really can't say. It's certainly not game-breaking though, so I'm not too bothered about being unable to diagnose or fix that.


-Seraphim-class Missile Destroyer : nice new iteration. With the new kinetic launcher it makes a good support destroyer, pretty effective when deployed in full scale engagement (with wings, other missile boats or combat destroyer).

Glad you're enjoying it as much as I have been! ;D MesoTronik and I really pulled a winner with that launch sound, no?


- The new version of the anti-frigate missiles is better, more efficient with only two missiles per shots. However, Maybe its a little bit too fast to correctly track ennemy frigates? They are quite easy to dodge if the ennemy ship slides off the way, unless it is launched at point blank range.

The Swifts are ideally used at close range, so firing at point blank is definitely a viable tactic with them, if not what you should be attempting to do in the first place.  ;) At longer range you kinda need to have slowed the target ship down somehow - say, Salamanders or some form of ion-wielding fighter to disable their engines - before unleashing the salvo.

On the subject, have you found and/or tried out the medium version of the launcher? It's nice against destroyers and such for a short-range punch that's just a little too quick for hostile point defense to dampen, hehehe...

Anyway, thanks heaps for the very comprehensive feedback!  :D Always massively appreciated.
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Major Update: Version 0.8 - Proto-Dyna, Sweeping Clean!

The long weekend (for me at least) brings with it the new version of Disassemble Reassemble for you to enjoy! Potentially most exciting, I have started doing what I can to introduce compatibity with Dynasector - which includes creating ship, weapon and fighter tables for Dynasector's randomization logic. Take the time to see what good old Dyna' does with my ships; Some of them turn out pretty wild, hehehe!

As I always find myself doing, there is of course new content in this version, though it doesn't go much further than one new ship, one new skin, and one new fighter wing: a tiny, carrier-converted version of the Vigilance frigate; a Luddic Path skin for the Retribution (hey, where'd the bloody Pathers get their hands on a Thermal Pulse Cannon!?) and a Luddic Path variant of the stock Thunder Heavy Interceptor respectively - the latter is really too fast for its own good, but great fun to drop in combat! Along with them, a new small ballistic weapon ought to show itself in the form of the Force Mortar, which you might start referring to as a "wittle babby Mjolnir" - I'm sure your enemies will see why when you pull the trigger!

... Oh. You saw the Vendetta-class Battleship in the changelog? 8) Cool your jets; it's still a working project - especially the sprite - but it's available to fly in the included test mission and I'd appreciate any early feedback on its balance.

This version's focus however is on balance and spritework. Three of the integrated ships have received sprite updates; for instance the Acanthina-P is now encountered in a cleaner matte-red livery, matching style with what you may see on the stock Wolf-P. The house favourite Harrier Cruiser has also been granted a gorgeous sprite rework, and is now much more pleasing to the eye while remaining just as beefy as it was before.

The pirate-built Junker Gunboat has been hit with a redo as well, which has spread beyond the sprite to a revamp of its weapons loadout - watch out for it now toting an angled medium missile mount in combat!

Early balance passes have also been made on the Rogue Strike Fighter, and the as-yet unintegrated Starlifter Mining Platform, though the latter is still very much a work in progress. Other minor changes have been made to a number of other ships - but I'll let you discover those for yourselves.  ;)

As always, check the OP for more details.
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Got a question about the Retribution : how do you use it?
I give it a try, but fail to get any usefullness in it (except for catching 8 harpoons...). I found it too poorly armed to fight against cruiser, and too slow against destroyer. Maybe I should have try a custom variant...
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Retribution seems like a gimmick ship unfortunately. It's not very fast, despite being "Light", and the arnament doesn't seem very "oomphy" (well comparing it to the Falcon it's pretty ok, but not the speed)
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Hmm. Especially since it just got a speed boost, the Retribution should be faring better than that in combat.  :-\ It doesn't have quite the on-paper armament of some other cruisers, but it's supposed to make up for it with the Accelerated Ammo Feeder. Do try it with custom loadouts, if the defaults aren't working. I'll keep tabs on it nonetheless, and see what other people have to say about it.

(All previous feedback on the Retribution - in the Discord chat - has been good, and that was before its speed buff, so if something's amiss I'd like to know.)
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