I know, i know, high tech ships are great at dismantling slower out of position ships and bursting things down, but not everything can be a Nova.
With enough low/mid tech kinetic dakka you delete high tech shields and without them, those ships are made of paper.
On my current game made a killing developing Tri-tach contacts and farming their high tech bounties. It was incredible how much faster they die.
I have no idea how, or if they could be changed and to be honest, they DO work against slow ships without burn drives/enough speed but at this point, it just feels unfair to bully them. I kinda hope Tri-tach gets a rework at some point.
Disagree. Been playing nothing but high tech recently, after low and mid, and its the best dopamine.
High tech is bad at the hands of AI with suboptimal fits, no argument here.
In hands of a player it is the strongest possible, it will chew several low- mid- tech fleets at same time and ask for more.
- Just a few Overdrive Hyperions with 2 x Heavy Blaster and Heavy Machine Gun will rip apart anything up to late game, including Remnants and dorritos. They will dance around your slow ass low tech junk and kill Onslaught 1v1 in under 20 seconds.
- Slap 4 Autopulse on Paragon and will tear everyting apart albeit slowly crawling from target to target lol. Still using it for harder fights, can tank up to 3 *** onslaughts long enough to clear escorts.
- Overdriven Aurora with 3 Heavy Blasters and torpedoes rips apart anything in its way up to battlestations.
- Fury and Medusa suck, but again slap anti shield on them, safety overrides, 2 heavy blaster and they wlll punch way above their weight.
- Odyssey with 3 Autopulses is high octane high risk high reward. Can do 2 plasma cannons for ridiculous results too.
And the best part is - it''s FAST, unlike mind-numbingly slow and boring low tech fleets. All fights are done in under 30 seconds.
Another important thing is shield tanking rocks, and armor/hull sucks. Shield is indefinite, while armor/hull are not.
And low tech suffers terribly to it. A high tech ship with 1hp hull and full shield will fight and kill, where low tech just flops.
You can also build boring long range sniping high tech fleets, and they are very good at it with advannced optics - low tech has nothing like this.
But why bother when you can shred everything in seconds.
P.S. My current best 240 DP fleet now is 4 Autopulse Paragon + 2 Alpha Core Radiants 5 autopulse at 40% CR and 4 SO Hyperions. The amount of Dakka carnage is glorious and fast-paced, and there is nothing close low tech can do similar to this. Phase skimmer is the best battle ability in game, hands down.