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Galaga Galaxian posted:So does charging your broadside only increase accuracy, or does it increase damage? I mean, when I pull in close, can I just rapid fire to do damage faster since the accuracy doesn't matter as much?
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Deadmeat5150 posted:It increases accuracy, and damage in the more shots connect. Even close up and spamming away you will still miss shots. Unless you take a frigate up against a dreadnaught or cruiser. 
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Oct 23, 2015 04:53
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Gotta say this is the first space game to hold my interest since Freelancer, it's really rad so far(Still in the first system). Love their decision to make ships/equipment 1:1 buy/sell price.
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Oct 23, 2015 04:57
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Game owns and is a steal at $18. I'm having a blast so far and I've only played for like 15 minutes. The music is awesome, combat is fun, and it's simple enough to just dive in and play. Does it have any stability issues for anybody else? The game locked up and crashed on me when I opened up the map.
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Oct 23, 2015 04:58
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HiroProtagonist posted:Unless you take a frigate up against a dreadnaught or cruiser. Honestly, I bought the cheaper Militia Dreadnaught and I loved the look, but I didn't have much after to supply additional turrets. I scrapped it and went back to the Tennhausen and haven't looked back. If you're good enough I think you can get by with just about any ship given that you upgrade defense and weapons appropriately. EDIT: I've also recently been addicted to adding music to the custom library, and it's mostly 80's space anime jazz fusion and stuff like that. It's great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qilYvWSg-Co void_serfer fucked around with this message at 05:16 on Oct 23, 2015 |
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Oct 23, 2015 05:07
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Klyith posted:Yup, also someone from reddit just posted a ship pictorial index with the base data from the ship purchasing screen. (Spoilers if you care about being spoiled on the list of ships available.) Hmmm... already came across them all it seems. Dang. Well, guess I'll be sticking with my little Hellion for a while then; hopefully it'll hold up well enough to last me; if I switch to anything else I might experiment with the Minotaur, but I like smaller more meneuverable craft in general.
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Oct 23, 2015 05:27
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MShadowy posted:Hmmm... already came across them all it seems. Dang. Well, guess I'll be sticking with my little Hellion for a while then; hopefully it'll hold up well enough to last me; if I switch to anything else I might experiment with the Minotaur, but I like smaller more meneuverable craft in general. Get a Sturville on the way to a Minotaur. The Sturville is as strong as a mid-tier ship but really really nimble.
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Oct 23, 2015 05:33
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Good news re: escort quests:Upcoming patch 1.04 posted:Tons of escort mission improvements. Escorted ships will blow the crud out of any asteroids in their way. Your ship also won't noodle off into the distance if they react to damage from other ships. Also, escort missions are always to outposts - not stations just on the other side of an annoying planet. Deadmeat5150 posted:It increases accuracy, and damage in the more shots connect. Even close up and spamming away you will still miss shots. Jimbot posted:Does anyone actually use missiles? My entire loadout has been beam and pulse weapons. My fights around where I am last a bit and there are a ton of monsters and swarms in the engagements so I feel like I'd run out of ammo half-way through, ordinance crates and all. I do feel like ordnance crates should only refill half your ammo and drop like 2.5x more often.
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Oct 23, 2015 05:45
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So is the blackgate the end game ship? Or is there anything bigger?
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Oct 23, 2015 05:57
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I have only played a short while, but yeah sometimes a fully charged shot of my default set of broadside guns on baby's first ship will veer downwards to explode a fighter below the targeting indicator.
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Oct 23, 2015 06:03
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I fitted the beam cannons on my broadside mounts, and now I know what it feels like to be a multi-beam frigate captain.
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Oct 23, 2015 06:14
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I really wish the flak turrets would target enemy missiles.
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Oct 23, 2015 06:53
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So are the quests from the mission board repeatable?
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Oct 23, 2015 07:03
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Galaga Galaxian posted:I really wish the flak turrets would target enemy missiles. That is why I use secondary flak batteries As for the missions on the board, They are randomly generated. so if you see a very very good one, pick it up
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Oct 23, 2015 07:19
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Deadmeat5150 posted:It increases accuracy, and damage in the more shots connect. Even close up and spamming away you will still miss shots. I like to get really close.
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Oct 23, 2015 07:35
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Wrr posted:I like to get really close. Yeah the Tenn is quite nice for that. Just drive up to an enemy ship all gangsta style, match speeds and just unload your broadside, then boost away when it blows up.  as gently caress
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Oct 23, 2015 07:39
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Wrr posted:I like to get really close. Same. I use the skills of the wolf, get close enough I can use my knife.
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Oct 23, 2015 07:42
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If you like getting that close make sure you pick up the ramming deflectors.
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Oct 23, 2015 07:57
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Been using and enjoying the Icarus but I think I'm going to switch to the Tennhausen cause it looks cooler
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Yaos posted:No, they are randomly generated and just give you a random mission somewhere else in the system.. I've seen a dead drop, shows all bounties in the system, and shows a place for mining. Nothing interesting. I thought I found an interesting one as it was surrounded by Korian ships, but it just told me about a great place to mine. I've hacked a few of these, some give you other stuff like up to date trade pricing information for all stations in the system. Others do give coordinates, and I've always has a fight and then found cargo containers at the locations marked, and I once found a special cargo container at one which contained a MK2 alien laser turret which shreds everything faster than my broadsides
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Oct 23, 2015 09:24
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The majority of my hacked sites have been mining sites, which was kinda useless in that I did not have a mining gun or the cargo spot, after the 5th strait one in a row I ended up strapping a mining turret on and buying a guilds large cargo extender. That single other one I found was a list of all local bounties on the map
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Oct 23, 2015 09:36
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Now that I'm on the second system, hoe do you rank up in the guilds? Is it just a matter of building rep by doing the missions on that guild's station boards?
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Oct 23, 2015 10:06
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So yeah, I loving love the Null Gravity or whatever you call them boosters. The ones with slow acceleration but a top speed multiplier of %250 with the cheapest ones. Pulled out of warp by pirates? Later shitlords. Pirate trying to escape from my newbie ship? Nope, I'm going to inevitably catch up with you forever. I expect it will probably be harder to escape in later sectors where enemies can probably slow me down or something, but for the moment it's just so great. Also, everybody should follow the advice of the threat and get at LEAST one laser turret ASAP. Worth the investment even just starting out when 11,000 sounds like a lot.
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Oct 23, 2015 10:47
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Section Z posted:So yeah, I loving love the Null Gravity or whatever you call them boosters. The ones with slow acceleration but a top speed multiplier of %250 with the cheapest ones. I got good news for you. They can get better, and you can make them even better with a choice of upgrades in the story missions to make them 10% more fuel efficient. You can still just gently caress off or catch up to someone, the only slow in the game only applies to your warp and sub drive. Boosters give no fucks
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Oct 23, 2015 10:52
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Section Z posted:So yeah, I loving love the Null Gravity or whatever you call them boosters. The ones with slow acceleration but a top speed multiplier of %250 with the cheapest ones. Now get leech weapons and boat circles around people.
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Oct 23, 2015 10:54
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How can I tell my relation with various factions? Been doing a lot of missions that give + and - but I don't see my overall ranking anywhere.
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Oct 23, 2015 10:56
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Berious posted:How can I tell my relation with various factions? Been doing a lot of missions that give + and - but I don't see my overall ranking anywhere. The "Push CTRL" screen will show reputation bars as well. No numbers but at least it's something. It also will show your rank in things like the Merchants Guild (I just joined and now it shows my Rank 1 status in the upper left).
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Oct 23, 2015 11:04
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Section Z posted:The "Push CTRL" screen will show reputation bars as well. No numbers but at least it's something. It also will show your rank in things like the Merchants Guild (I just joined and now it shows my Rank 1 status in the upper left). Oh cool, thanks for that.
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I am flying the Sturville, and totally recommend for a sub 1m ship. It is the 700k'ish from the mercenary guild. Its combination of speed and power is very attractive compared to other ships of the same price.  I am thinking I might need to mix some shieldbusters into my turrets. Trying to go 100% laser boat has been tough with a few of the missions. Somehow a mission which tells me to go destroy 5 leviathans is marked as average, and I am having a tough time with their shields.
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Oct 23, 2015 11:46
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So I just got this game and it's awesome but I am regularly getting my rear end kicked by hostiles. If the threat level is red I should be running for dear life, correct?
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Oct 23, 2015 14:15
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Some nitpicks I have: 1) The OST gets really, really old after the first 20 minutes of playing the game. 2) Custom music is nice, but the game switches states so rapidly that I only get to hear 30 seconds of a a song. I ended up turning the music off and just playing my own soundtrack from foobar in the background. 3) What the gently caress is up with flying to a space station and having 20 mines hit me all at once that disable my engines? Is there no way to nullify or destroy them? 4) The menus are pretty terrible. 5) Combat doesn't really feel like it has any weight to it. I can't really tell if I'm hitting my target. They'll have 100% health for the first 4 hits and then suddenly their healthbar just disappears and then they explode. 6) Trade interface sucks. 7) It'd be nice if there was an upgrade (long-range sensors maybe?) that gave you a visual on the local map of the relative threat level of an area so you don't accidentally fly into an instant death. Other than that, I like the game - especially for $18 - and really look forward to patch improvements/Rebel Galaxy 2: Rebel Galaxier.
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In combat, every ship (including yours) has shield, hull plating, and hull. Shield and plating are per quadrant. You need to do enough damage to knock out the regenerating shield, then destroy the plating, and then all your damage applies to the hull which is the big health bar (just a percentage for your ship), I don't remember leach mines, but if they are doing the thing that makes your ship all lightning-crackley, the merchants guild sell an add on that reduces the time that effect sicks. You can shoot mines and missiles if you are cool enough.
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Pogue Ma Hoon posted:So I just got this game and it's awesome but I am regularly getting my rear end kicked by hostiles. If the threat level is red I should be running for dear life, correct? Yes. See this point: quote:- The general rule when designing the Mk. X equipment upgrades was that each higher level is 1.5x as powerful and 3x as expensive. So it's better to upgrade 3 things one step than one thing two steps. Also hire a merc. They're ridiculously cheap for what you get.
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Joe Gillian posted:Honestly, I bought the cheaper Militia Dreadnaught and I loved the look, but I didn't have much after to supply additional turrets. I scrapped it and went back to the Tennhausen and haven't looked back. If you're good enough I think you can get by with just about any ship given that you upgrade defense and weapons appropriately. I just upgraded from the Tennhausen to the Arcturus and it seems like I take so much more fire and damage that it's sorta a downgrade in how effective I am- I'm guessing that speed and maneuverability factor in to how much of the AI's fire connects with you. I had one of those swarm missions in my log (The ones where you go to a place, kill a couple dudes, and then a huge ring of a billion fighters spawns all around you), and while those were probably the most dangerous mission for me in the Tennhausen, they were totally doable. Even with more than double the number of turrets on the Arcturus it's enough slower that I couldn't get to one side of the ring to put enough distance between myself and most of the fighters/bombers, so I just get surrounded and wrecked. Maybe once I have higher tier defensive gear it'll work out better in the big slow ships (I only have mk4 shields and mk3 hull plating/deflector). The other thing is the secondary fire ports are much further back on the ship model, so my secondary flak cannons are far worse at tagging missiles that are vectoring in on me. That's something that really doesn't show up on the ship stats pages, too. Probably going to try and hunt down a Minotaur since it looks like it gets similar firepower but far better speed. I'm sad about the Arcturus not performing super great since I like the looks, and as we all know, the rule of cool is the most important factor for picking a ship. Is the Minotaur a faction ship? Or the Damocles? Gwaihir fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Oct 23, 2015 |
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I noticed that the price for one merc was higher than the one I originally hired. Do mercs have different stats? If so, how do I know which one is better?
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Gwaihir posted:Probably going to try and hunt down a Minotaur since it looks like it gets similar firepower but far better speed. I'm sad about the Arcturus not performing super great since I like the looks, and as we all know, the rule of cool is the most important factor for picking a ship. Is the Minotaur a faction ship? Or the Damocles? The big thing there will be you're going to get pretty wrecked without upgraded defensive equipment on large ships. You deal out a huge amount more dps-wise, but you also get shot a lot more. I didn't upgrade to the Arcturus until I could afford mk 6 shields, mk5 hull/deflector for it, and all mk4 weaponry mostly. Most missions are snooze mode now, though, you kind of just crush things, even when getting swarmed by fighters you can kite effectively by wiping out half the junk that comes flying at you before it gets into a real engagement around you.
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Magnus Venator posted:I noticed that the price for one merc was higher than the one I originally hired. Do mercs have different stats? If so, how do I know which one is better? I've started to find "pro" versions for 200k where its the same people but better and they all seem to have converged around that same price point.
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FaintlyQuaint posted:The big thing there will be you're going to get pretty wrecked without upgraded defensive equipment on large ships. You deal out a huge amount more dps-wise, but you also get shot a lot more. I didn't upgrade to the Arcturus until I could afford mk 6 shields, mk5 hull/deflector for it, and all mk4 weaponry mostly. Most missions are snooze mode now, though, you kind of just crush things, even when getting swarmed by fighters you can kite effectively by wiping out half the junk that comes flying at you before it gets into a real engagement around you. That makes sense- I'm still at the point where the highest stuff I see is Mk. 4 gear, I just really wanted the bigger ship because rule of cool (And I'd been staring at the Tennhausen for a while).
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Got an Icoris from an Outsiders outpost. Stats-wise it is a completely beefed up version of the Hammerhead, and I have loving loved it from the start. You get two more turrets, better speed, hull and maneuverability, and comparitively speaking it's not that expensive. If I could only find some of those sexy lasers people have been talking about... I've salvaged a few parts from the field, but they've all been junk to sell. Real good turn-over at market at least.
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I took a mission that I thought would be pretty easy, find and deliver 9 robots. Well, I've only found 2 in the system. Is there a easy way to find where I can get more or do I just have to keep visiting stations and seeing what they stock?
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