When will they get actual music?
Soon ...ish
... especially the unique energy weapons that would hypothetically be fantastic if somebody with any sense of loadout design (perhaps an upstart spacer suddenly rising to fame) got their hands on them.
Indeed!
Fun stuff. I'm picturing the GIGACANNON as kind of like a PPC out of Battletech, except with poor range. Does that fit? Better have a kickass firing noise regardless of how awful it is.
(Oh, jeez, I didn't have a TODO note for the sounds!)
I think the blog shows you really, really like the Orion drive, considering there's 2 more ships using variations on it.
Guilty as charged
Overall, I like the Persean League's new laser missile identity. Although, I do kinda wonder if that's a bit limiting for the Persean League's Pegasus to be only mounting Hydra and Dragonfire torpedoes. Essentially only 3 variations. All Hydra, all Dragonfire, and a mix. Of course the player won't be restricted in that way, so perhaps not an issue. And Mercenaries likely can have fully random loadouts for these things. And as the blog post is titled, it does uniquify the Persean league.
Pretty much with you on all points; I don't think the PL being a bit restricted there is a big deal.
With the discussion of the Paragon, Odyssey, and Astral for Tri-Tachyon, will Odysseys be showing up in actual TT fleets more often?
It should, yeah. So should the Medusa.
I like the added Remnant ship diversity. I do wonder if the high tech Orion device (Nova Burst) will end up feeling any different from Plasma Burn. Certainly looks cool though.
I think it feels diferent just because you go a good bit further, but I mean, functionally they're all in the same general category. (Aside from the limited utility of blowing up nearby fighters/missiles, but that's just so situational.)
My biggest issue as a gamer is their sprites look too good.
I do wonder how that poor effectiveness impacts bounties? If a fleet with Lion Guard ships and "elite" fitting is intended to be easier to defeat, does that mean you'll run into more Sindarian Lion's Guard themed bounties early on/at low difficulty, but then they phase out for basic Sindarian fleet ships as the bounties go up in difficulty? Or are Lion's Guard purely around Sindaria and don't show up in bounties? Or simply not enough difference in effectiveness to really worry about?
The impact of "special modifications" isn't enough to really factor into to kind of difficulty discussion - it's not like pirate ships with stack a bunch of meaningful d-mods; this one is more of a flavor one in comparison. I don't *think* you get LG-deserter person bounties, either?
Well the thing is that PL also primarily uses Midline also, and unless I missed something in the blog post, that’s not changing. So couldn’t one argue that PL is already homogenous in that aspect for midline? And since the lore drop from the new weapons tells us that TT is helping the diktat behind the scenes, wouldn’t it be more interesting to have HT sprinkled in to differentiate them more? Otherwise it will just feel like PL without the carriers and primarily just falcon and eagle/etc spam. Which I feel would make them boring to fight in the long run.
I think mixing in some high-tech ships would make their fleets have less of a defined character. And they're a minor faction, so having more limited ship availability seems reasonable, too. I mean, what you're suggesting seems like it could be reasonable too, but that's just not the way it went.
Maybe there can be a small positive buff to a LG ship in that arrogance and hubris give a bit of a morale boost?
Fanatical loyalty and doctrinal purity give a CR boost or ....?
I'd be tempted to give the modification package a 2% hull durability bonus that any fine officer could point to while also being completely not worth it.
(I was thinking of giving it something minor, but I think that just makes it a bit confusing.)
Hmm...unfortunate, but entirely understandable. Can it be found as exploration loot? Samples and/or the blueprint for it? I do want to try it, but getting high rep and a commission with the Diktat would be...a lot of effort for one gun.
Oh, you can't get it from a Diktat commission. They're not going to sell prized, secret technology to some
mercenary. There are no blueprints for these, and they can't be found as exploration loot, either.