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Author Topic: Add autopulse or new medium/large anti-shield energy weapon to base weapon set  (Read 489 times)

Megas

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Add autopulse or new medium/large anti-shield energy weapon to base weapon set
« on: January 11, 2023, 05:43:25 AM »
With mining blaster getting redesigned as a HE weapon, Apogee and player's battlestations with only starter weapons are stuck with mining blaster for main gun(s).

Ballistic users have heavy mortar, arbalest, hellbore, and mark IX, which are basic but effective.  Sometimes, more useful than rarer weapons.

Energy users have mining blaster and... that's it, for both medium and heavy mounts!
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Grievous69

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Re: Add autopulse or new medium/large anti-shield energy weapon to base weapon set
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2023, 05:49:45 AM »
Wait, Pulse Laser isn't in the base weapon set? Not sure how good that would feel on the starting Apogee and stations but it seems like an obvious pick.
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Re: Add autopulse or new medium/large anti-shield energy weapon to base weapon set
« Reply #2 on: January 11, 2023, 06:01:55 AM »
Pulse Laser is mid-tier like Heavy Autocannon is for ballistics.  The only energy weapons in the base set are mining weapons, Mining Laser and Mining Blaster.

Apogee can start with Heavy Blaster as the main gun if no other weapon mounts get changed (i.e., keeping tac lasers and pilums).

High-tech battlestations ought to get something more than mining blaster.
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Re: Add autopulse or new medium/large anti-shield energy weapon to base weapon set
« Reply #3 on: January 11, 2023, 01:56:05 PM »
This is a valid point, when you consider that the only energy weapons in base_bp are the mining laser/blaster, it would be nice to add one or two extra "low tier" weapons to help round out the types.

eg:
- A somewhat inefficient higher per-shot damage weapon for the small slot, so it has (limited) value as anti armour, and gives you a common hardflux option for small slots.
- not sure what exactly, but some sort of "general use lowish power" energy/frag damage weapon for medium mounts (maybe this could be the IR autolance if it's in base_bp?)
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Re: Add autopulse or new medium/large anti-shield energy weapon to base weapon set
« Reply #4 on: January 11, 2023, 02:32:31 PM »
I think the Pulse Laser and Autopulse are generic enough weapons that they should be ubiquitous. Relative to the weapons in their size class, they’re clearly the most generalist. That doesn’t make them bad necessarily, but it would make sense for them to be the most common.

The Apogee start, for example, would be significantly improved if it started with an Autopulse (now with the Mining Blaster change) but of other alternatives, it’s probably the least powerful, yet sensible, option.
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Re: Add autopulse or new medium/large anti-shield energy weapon to base weapon set
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2023, 06:03:51 PM »
There’s also the mothership to consider, if it’s left as is then it’ll be a punching bag for any destroyer and many frigates.
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Re: Add autopulse or new medium/large anti-shield energy weapon to base weapon set
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2023, 06:29:15 PM »
IMO the mothership itself has always been a pinata. What danger there is comes from the swarm of Ramparts that usually surrounds it.
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