Firstly, the fundamentals are the same. Get ship, upgrade ship in different ways, find exotics through exploring ruins and stations to get particularly powerful improvements that you know and love. But the devil is in the details;
Bandwidth - Has replaced Quality and functions the same. Pay cash to make it so you can mod your ship further.
Upgrades - Are the biggest overhaul by far. Gone are the no brain picks that make your ship systems cooldown faster, instead replaced by a system of great gains at small losses.
As you can see,
Infernal Engines is a net gain but in a focused direction with a downside. You are trading decelerating and increased fuel consumption (with handy actual numbers for when those rise high enough) for increased accelerating, turning, burn level and speed. Similar to how the exotic upgrades sometimes had trade offs;
all upgrades are like this now. President Matt Damon is working on future upgrades so don't expect this to be it, but the core upgrades are solid. I highly recommend
forced overtime for your frigates and
commissioned crews for your civilian ships once you're rolling around in cash.
Infernal Engines are amazing for your slow capital ships that you don't care to decelerate on, or on your fast hit-and-run ships that don't brawl and veer away.
Exotics - As I said, are similar to what you might have already seen. They can also be removed from ships with a story point now which brings me to another big change;
Enemy ships now can come with upgrades and exotics! Hope you're ready to run into Dominators with a spooled feeder! I wasn't!
I hated it! On the plus side you can now rip out their upgrades into a chip to install them onto your own!
Finally lets talk about
Scanning fleets. When fleet dialogue appears, you might see extra dialogue mentioning that the "Other fleet appears modified". Open coms with them and you will get an extra option to scan them. This will open up a similar ship menu as upgrading to let you pick ships your interested in seeing how they are modified.
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Topic: [0.96a] Exotica Technologies v1.8.5 - updated Jan 21st (Read 268454 times)