Sex with Radiant.

>when someone says that it's wrong to solve all of your problems with violence, so you sat bomb their planet to prove them wrong

Nia Tahl?

>>2000917
No(ah)

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Eid Mubarak everyone!
In celebration of Eid, I am doing a Luddic Pather run, only trash junk ships with safety overrides.

What should be my main destroyer/crusiers for this run?

>>2000927
brawling eradicators best eradicators

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>>2000917
>>2000922
This is the creator of Legio Infernalis

Say something nice to her

>>2000931
*sends 500 squadrons of Wanzers and Gundams to destroy your entire fleet*

PSsshhhhh nothing personnel, kid.

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Any luck on the Anubis anons? It's really weird to use, but so far I think I got something interesting going with the gigacanon and temporal shell to minimize the recharge time.
Seems useless without Ordnance Expertise covering the shit flux stat, and I really question Alex making this as merely a High Tech AA escort with his wish to use 3 Paladins...

>>2000905
oh fuck, i hope it doesnt fuck with all the mods

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>>2000939

I tried out High Scatter Amplifier on an Eagle, and I gotta say, I quite like it.

>>2000938
Do NOT show this to Alex

>>2000915
Radiant and Onslut rubbing butts together

>>2000938
Never considered being able to put converted hangar on a ship that already has fighter bays.

>>2000953
Oh no the Anubis is special in that it can do that. "Design Compromise" stat gives it that ability, so I tried it making it into a combat carrier.

>>2000939
Alot of mods have already updated, and apparently most faction mods should work with a single version change. Will be testing out the rest myself to see if there's anything to note.

>>2000938
how many you use? maybe warthog swarm would be better to get more OP for a few extra hull mods

Is the Mk 1 Onslaught also a slut?

>>2000927
I like the new pather basilisk.

>>2000938
As funny as gigacannons are... 3 paladins are kinda nuts, because they fire over allies. S mod expanded mags, ITU, Advanced optics, elite point defense, gunnery implants, maybe even a escort package, and your entire anubis blob can almost reach across the map and focus down anything with overwhelming PD lasers. And they seem really good at firing harpoons when the shields are about to drop.

It seems like a great ship for converted hanger bay.... but I think id rather maximize the carrier skill speed bonus, as the AI does not seem great about using the temporal shell to retreat out of danger... maybe i am doing it wrong, but if the hard flux gets high, the anubis needs to drop its shields, stop using weapons, and use the temporal shell to back up. instead it kinda just tries to keep its shields up as long as possible... which is the desired behavior on most ships, but not really great when you need a certain amount of flux to activate your gtfo maneuver.

>>2000931
Raping and impregnating nia tahl while her crew is tortured in front of her

>>2000948
Honestly if he was that obsessed with making sure the Anubis used the Paladin he should have fucking built it into the ship
or un-nerfed fighters

>>2000968
>her

>>2000960
Yeah definitely better with 2 warthogs, give me breathing rooms to vent and better shield poping.

>>2000965
Gonna try your build too. Interestingly I do the opposite and TempShell before going in for the kill, because Anubis surprisingly can overwhelm the opponents with high recharge weapons.

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>>2000968
he literally said in the blog post that if the players found a way to memebuild it into other stuff, cool, that was their right
anon is just exaggerating in an act of jocularity
for comedic effect
you know, a joke

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should mk1 be a unique (impossible to stealth/be unrecognized with) ship like ziggy?
It kind of sounds like it should from the description. Description honestly makes it sound like THE onslaught, not just the the original model or whatever, which seems even more unlikely and distinctive (except that it starts with a gibberish, non 0001 serial number)

>>2000993
You can buy it from arms dealers.

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RS update when
I need my tomboy cuddling fix

>>2001000
000 trips demand it
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>>2000965
Tried 3Paladins, very good build. Have to be more tactical in the fight with TempShell (as the rapid fire can flux you out quickly), but can kill most really shit well. Recommended proximity mines as the can reduce the armor and can be used as emergency PD if your flux is full.

>>2000996
isn't that obviously a bug?

>Star Federation still works with a simple json change

That made my day. :)

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>>2001008
I'm doing testing right now to determine which mods work with 0.98. Here's my progress so far. These are the ones that already have updates, or shouldn't give problems when changed with json.

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I know it might look stupid, but this Eagle build has actually been putting in work. Triple Graviton Beam with High Scatter Amplifier really shuts down shields.

>>2001023
replace thumper with heavy mortar
its frag damage won't mean shit when your only reliable way of creating holes in armor to shit frag shells into will be limited breach missiles

Haven't played the new patch waiting on Alex to release a first pass bug fix build. How would you rate the update? Thoughts on these mods Second in Command and Ashes of The Domain?

>>2001082
>second in command
mandatory because waifu officer start
>ashes
if you want more colony stuff its gonna give you that.

>>2001082
>Rate the update
9/10, amazing, a lot of new toys, mechanics, end game opponents, lore chads are eating GOOD, some new quests, nice balance changes and the Anubis is shockingly NOT shit.
Overall would be perfect if not for the fact that it kind of cock-teases you with turning up the heat on the story without explaining anything or tying it together at all AGAIN. I would love if it came with come new colony/politcal mechanic where you can set up culling expeditions for the new [DOMAIN REDACTED] or something. Without it it just feels like extremely good modded content.
>second in command
Good and fun, I still slightly lean towards vanilla because it allows for more RP rather than combat min-maxing.
>Ashes
Oh boy
Okay it has a lot of good ideas that are executed well enough to be cool... but poorly enough to break lore and gameplay pacing around colonies.
Like it feels just a bit TOO easy to just essentially piece the Domain's industrial complex back up again like nothing happened. Would be perfect if it took longer and added more stuff to do in the meantime other than watching paint-dry

Okey guys
So how do we fight the new [DOMAIN REDACTED]? I can easily deal with [LITERAL DEMONS] but the prior really kicks my ass.

I run 3x Auroras, Escort Anubis, 4x Omen, 2x Executor with Double Tachyon Lance.
I have no issues with the swarms because my PD is honestly quite strong but by the time I reach the big ships in the back I am high on flux and surrounded with nowhere to vent.
My Executors can bitchslap the smaller ships easily and the Auroras can out-damage and out-last like 2 of the smaller ones but I just get overwhelmed and eventually picked apart.

I don't even know how to make it better as Low-Tech would just likely die when surrounded even harder because of how cumbersome the ships are. Midline does not have the endurance for such a fight, and High-Tech the only thing that I can think of that would make things better is bringing Paragons.

Do the big ships run out of CR so I should just sit in formation and attrit them? Is the answer really just bringing a swarm of low-tech shit and fighter swarm?

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>yfw Ludd was 100% right about EVERYTHING

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>>2000927
>not using ill-advised modifications ships
not a real pather, do you even burn drive?

>>2000931
Does the author of Legio actually identify as a female? Or did he just make a female self insert?

I hate founding colonies in the procgen systems and usually settle Penelope's Star but I like it to have every resource. So, time to reroll until I get a seed where Ithaca has farmland and Dorus has organics.

>>2001145
former

>>2001141
l*dd wasn't right about anything, by waging war against tech he made it easier for THREAT to kill everyone in the sector.
>>2001146
so penelope's star is literally the best system to colonize in? but this means you will always have beef with l*ddic church or maybe it was intentional?

>>2001152
>"factionsClaimUnpopulatedCoreSystems":true,
this appeared in the settings json in 0.98 so i guess enough people complained about penelope being luddic clay

>>2001106
pilot a monitor yourself and sit infront of the radiant taking literally no damage while your fleet kills the rest

>>2001142
i don’t see any SO ships in that

>>2001156
BUT I LIKED FUCKING UP THEM
FUCK YOU ALEX.
>>2001158
>he doesn't know
IAM is not SO.

>>2001160
its true by default so they still claim penelope but you can turn that off if you dont want it

>>2001141
He literally caused all that shit. He is Lorgar of this universe.

>>2000931
Gentle-rape bait

>>2001106
Strictly speaking, you cannot wait them out - Threat hulls have *unlimited* CR. They also have *1000* OP each... only Ludd knows how many different hullmods the autofit feature will load those ships with!

>>2001106
>So how do we fight the new [DOMAIN REDACTED]?
i just sic oldslaught on the big ones then mop up the rest with my usual trash fleet of whatever i salvaged

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I will update once all the bugfixes are done.

How do I pilot the Paragon without falling asleep at the wheel?

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>>2000905
>jump with a church fleet with a demon hullmod ship
>they lose their fucking shit. permanent -100 with church and path
well. it did warn me.

>>2001213
incoming bugfixes seem minor, like esc red eye spoilers and black market onslut mk1 duping, probably fine to start now

As for me, gonna wait for a few more factions and rs

Does RS work with a json edit or is it broken in .98?

>>2001082
>How would you rate the update?
Basically fucking perfect. There's a ton of shit to do, both in and out of quests, plus a ton of new flavor events to really put the world together. It's also nice that there is actually real shit to do in the abyss, and the Onslaught Mk.1 is the most beautiful fucking ship ever. Also check above for Anubis-related info.
>Thoughts on these mods Second in Command and Ashes of The Domain?
SiC is actually better than the vanilla skill system, and I'll die on this fucking hill.
>AotD
Haven't checked it out, but everything about it sounds like an attempt at turning Starsector into a Paradox game.

>>2001216
Time to bomb their worlds

>>2001219
buckbroken even

AI-controlled ships seem to be getting overloaded a shitload more often than they used to

>>2001215
just hit u and take a nap

fearlesscucks don't vent

>>2001243
i'm seeing it on agg 2 fleets, they just keep their shields up until they overload

Slow and steady wins the race

test

>>2001239
Have you tried NOT using the anubis?

>>2001082
Update bad

>>2001258
seeing it on all kinds of ships, seems to be a general ai change

>Defeating the Luddic Path crisis permanently halves the amount of interest your colonies generate, allowing the use of more items and AI cores without creating active Pather cells
>Persean League crisis reward: Added +10% accessibility to all colonies ("established polity")
>Pirate crisis reward: changed to reduce shipping disruptions from pirates (was: increased accessibility)
Great colonies are now even stronger and require less active management.

>>2001199
>have *unlimited* CR
same as omemega then, 1000 OP is to not limit their compositions of threat guns unlike player ships are limited to, unless you edit their OP to 1000 too then it's only limited by size/type.
>>2001244
agg officer? because the fleet doctrine shit doesn't seem to be working, never did, i haven't been dropping agg officers to check but i'd be retarded to give a ship with shields to any non-steadycuck.

>>2001265
Yep can confirm
My AI officers in Auroras with 360 shields and maxed capacitors CONSISTENTLY get boxed in even by lowtech and die
I had an Aurora escorted by an Omen get cornered in the middle of the map by Enforcers!
The AI now also constantly gets in the line of fire of friendly capitals even when high on flux and unable to fire

Steady officers seem MUCH more shit than usual, they are either actively suicidal or uncapable to deciding what to do until they get cornered and die or flanked and crushed behind the shield.

>>2001271
>Steady officers seem MUCH more shit than usual, they are either actively suicidal or uncapable to deciding what to do until they get cornered and die or flanked and crushed behind the shield.
i'm using timid more than i'd like to as escorts because fucking steadycucks keep getting themselves killed with overflux unless i turn on the balls to the wall order, they aren't cucking out on drovers with piranhas though.

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>>2001271
>Aurora's
>360 shields
My current flagship, pic related

>>2001266
yeah! its great.

>>2001275
Why are you running two Anubises? It seems like overkill for PD.

>>2001146
>>2001152
You don't need to colonize just one system.
Just hoard alpha cores and put a colony on every tier 4 or 5 planet you find. Human governors suck.

If deciding what to build where seems like a chore just follow this guide:

If the planet has good farmland then build farming and light industry, and make it a freeport. Don't build anything that will annoy the Luddics, they are by far the best modifier in the game.
If the planet has good minerals, build mining, refining and fuel production. Pick two mineral planets with no volatiles and switch the fuel production for heavy industry in one and for a military base in the other. They aren't profitable but you need to supply your faction with machinery, supplies, armaments, hulls and marines.
Every colony should have ground defences (don't upgrade), a patrol HQ, commerce, a waystation and a star fortress (I like the high tech one the most) for stability and protection.
Always upgrade the space port into a megaport (accesibility = money).
Use your story point upgrades on commerce and then on the megaport to increase income and accesibility. Same priority with your spare alpha cores if you don't want to build more colonies. For free ports, once they reach size 6 you can put an alpha core on pop & infrastructure to export organs.

man usually theres 5 hotfixes by now.

>>2001277
For the new update

The Threat has a lot of missiles and fights, plus a ship that spams them. I find that dual Abubises are necessary to deal with the flanks.
Also, they can deal with the little ones very quickly.

>>2001284
not the point, anon, it was about luddic church claiming penelope which usually have good planets, alex made it optional now.
on a unrelated note the game autosaved when i was jumping to a system and now every jump has a delay to load the system, on a new save there is no delay, amazing.

Champion or Apogee?

Any advice on dealing with Shrouded?

>>2001239
So you're saying I should use more Harpoon missiles in this patch?

>>2001304
mass kinetics plus whatever finisher, even low-tech aren't armor tanking properly

>>2001275
anon you do know what shield conversion front does right?

>>2001296
Apogee is better at holding the line and more defensive due to the much better shield, but I believe Champion has much better weapon placements and is more versatile with loadouts. I think with vanilla weapons Apogee is pretty much railroaded into Plasma+Squall.

>>2001152
No, although it IS pretty good due to accessibility if you don't mind fighting the Church every time you make a colony.
I just don't like settling random worlds, I like settling ones that are part of the game's hand made setting.

>>2001312
HILpogee is a perfectly fine fit

>>2001296
apogee is garbage
not as garbage as anons aurora build above you but still bad

>>2001317
what you don't like a 500 f/s underflux on an SO ship? lmao

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>>2001275
Absolutely bizarre loadout, why not invest in capacitors and use frontal shield conversion?

>>2001309
yeah, it turns a ship into reaper bait

>>2001309
i think he might be genuinely retarded

>>2001239
Alex is also aware of this issue, fortunately. Pretty stable release compared to the last few version changes really. I've seen more typos than bugs.

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>>2001325
i might be retarded, ty for the advice anon

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>>2001271
>they are either actively suicidal or uncapable to deciding what to do until they get cornered and die or flanked and crushed behind the shield.
Good to know I wasn't hallucinating.
>mfw battlecruiser and multiple normal cruisers just sit around doing literally nothing until they get surrounded and die

>>2001336
Do you really need that omemega PD at the back of a bubble shield?

Im gonna launch SWP arcade mission and wait till blue red menstrual cloud spawns and nobody can stop me

>>2001339
Not really, but I'm currently farming more SP for a new Aurora fit, I'll post it when it's ready

Have yet to play the new version, but your officers being either suicidal or bitches was also a problem in the previous version. Did it get worse or what?

does elite point defense increase range of Oldslaught megaflaks

What's the best small size carrier.

>>2001351
It did, steady officers are nearly useless. They behave more like cautious ones now.

>>2001355
Joy. I usually only field aggressive officers, seems like I'll have to sprinkle in some reckless ones.

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fun fact
AI prioritizes destroying the (basically another battleship in hp) oldslaught armor plates than hitting it in nonarmorplated center

We got super phase ship and super onslaught, we need a super frigate next.

>>2001377
hyperion was in from the start

>>2001378
Doesn't count. It has to be unique.

What was it ol' Ludd forgot?

>>2001354
mora

>bro that's a cruiser-sized brick
yeah i know

>>2001382
big
fat
cat
tats

>start new game
>find cargo transport mission that pays quadruple my current cash total
>also requires quadruple my current cargo capacity
>check shipyard
>there's an Atlas for sale in perfect condition
YEAH YEAH YEAH SPACE TRUCKIN

>>2001418
There are no downsides to buying every Atlas you find. Truly the greatest ship in the sector.

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>>2001339
>>2001349
Current Aurora fit

The new void blaster is probably the best anti-armor weapon in the medium slot, 1200 HE DPS over 5 seconds is no joke.

So should I play through the main story again? Or should I skip it ala Nex? Is there anything new or juicy to enjoy?

So how are the Threat weapons performing

>>2001464
the kinetic guns are the only ones worth using

>>2001336
get a new aurora everything you built in is complete meme shit

>>2000938
Where's your SO?
also you should s-mod that CH

>>2000962
Doesn't even have shields at all
its the sluttiest of all the slaughts

>>2001456
There's not one but TWO super secret ultimate boss enemies to fight, bringing the total in the game to four, only one of which is actually fleshed out to any degree.
At this rate two more updates and we will have more secret scary boss factions with unique ships than actual factions you can interact with.
One of the two new enemies is Domain-era ships captured by a virus and modified by it, it is implied that said virus is the non-human enemy that Onslaughts were designed to fight against and the other enemy is literal demon niggers from P-space, Ludd save us

>>2000993
>should mk1 be a unique (impossible to stealth/be unrecognized with) ship like ziggy?
It IS a unique ship like the ziggy

>>2001507
extended shield isn't

how long does it take for the hotfixes to happen? i thought about trying SS but want to wait for all patches first.

>>2001141
LUDD was ALLIED with the THREAT AND SHROUD DWELLERS

fucker was an ANTI DOMAIN ACTIVIST

>>2001423
>using threat guns
>without the fucking threat hullmod
Nice useless brick you got there
you DO know those things don't fire if it doesn't have the fabricator installed right?

>>2001312
>he doesn't know about the Disco Apogee meta
ishygddt

>>2001301
bring lots of anti emp

>>2001521
a week

>>2001301
Kill the beam ASAP

>>2001512
>demon niggers from P-space
someone make the edit

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>>2001338
yup pretty much so.
the only fix so far is to not use steadycucks or turn on full assault.
i had tried this battle with commands'n shieet and they all died, turned on FA and they are tearing through the enemy, thanks alex.

>>2001537
F1+F3 Chads win again

Any cruiser without either of:
>Large Energy Hardpoint
>A mobility subsystem and a easily moddable 360 shield
Is dogshit!
Maybe barring some hyper-specialized meme builds like the Ziggy submission Grendel spam

>>2001512
>My theories are right once again, P-space demons are real and they're coming to rape reality.

>>2001555
Which cruisers fulfill those two requirements?

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>entire fleet dies within 20 seconds of contact
>rest of the fight was just me giving kill commands to the oldslaught and protecting her rear and EMPing the enemy
kino
i love this ship

>>2001375
not fun fact, probably intentional.
>>2001548
>literally had a pegasus with gryphons and eagle tore to bits with one fury and two auroras
i kneel, steady officers eternal cvcks

>Omega AI is weapon of last resort released by the Domain
>Threat is Alien intelligence/virus using AI ships it corrupted and highly modified them, also it corrupted nanoforges too
>Shrouded are space demons
>Remnants are subordinate to Omega
>Omega/Remnant is good, Threat is the alien menace, Shrouded are demons
>it's all over

Don't know if this is an unpopular opinion, but does anyone else think that the number of insanely strong player-only super-ships in the game is slowly getting too high?

I mean things like Ziggy, the automated XIV ships from Sentinel and now the Onslaught Mk I.

We're reaching the point where fleets from the Hegemony, or Tri-Tachyon or whatever pose no challenge to the player anymore unless the player limits himself by not using these ships because these player-only ships punch way above their DP price. I guess the new threat factions are probably meant as challenging endgame content, but I don't like the idea of having to go to the abyss to be challenged at all.

>>2001623
I don't think threat is alien. It seems to be a nanite swarm and probably originates from the domain itself or a rebel faction that fought the domain.

>>2001266
>Defeating the XXX crisis

I actually like this system better. Once you prove that you are the point when whatever shit the game can throw at your colonies is beneath you, and at most an annoyance, it stops doing it and just lets you be to deal with the rest of the game.

>>2001628
Alex is trying to replace factions tactical variety and interactions with blatantly overpowered space horror elements because it's way easier to make a red menstrual cloud with heal on hit weapons than come up with a challenging fleet composition or code an AI with more than one braincell. And of course to fight op things he gives you even more op things under player control.

>>2001659
I feel like it also limits tactical choices in the game, because these unique ships are just blatantly better than normal ships, so using something like a Pegasus or Conquest instead feels like a downgrade.
I don't want optimal play to be "just use all the uniques".

>>2001628
>anyone else think that the number of insanely strong player-only super-ships in the game is slowly getting too high?
Nope not really. I want more unique ships. I want one you can only find by exploring. Currently RPG and combat is rewarded with uniques exploration not. Also, uniques are cool.

>>2001706
I understand that line of thinking too, but I just wish the uniques weren't blatantly better than the non-unique ships. I wish they'd be just cool and different without being blatantly better.

>>2001659
>>2001663
and how would you combat it?

I kinda like the the "unique ship is always recognized" mechanic, and any downsides should also come from out of combat sources. So the question is, what other mechanics the player engages in, that could be made harder when a unique ship is present in the fleet. Domain gates malfunctioning and spitting you out elsewhere? No commission unless you turn in the ship to the parent faction as "tribute"? AI cores self destructin in inventory while ship in possession? Attack on sight for relevant factions (the hegeniggers for the AI onslut, tritach for ziggy). A kind-of crisis counter for DP of ships destroyed with the unique ships, and when it reaches the top, the sector just says enough is enough and you become enemy no.1?

>>2001659
Good point anon
I think something he could do is give enemy ai "orders" like the player has
Even if ai had just a couple "orders" like ignore, and avoid applied cleverly that ccould make the game more challenging

Additionally a few plans rather than orders like "skirt around in an to sorround THEN we all dart in" could make enemy ai much more challenging. And I don't think just a couple moves (which might only be executed if they have a high level captain) would be that difficult to implement

Do you think it'd be too much for weapons to tell you how much range they have after factoring in buffs/debuffs?

>>2001727
No, I think that should have been added years ago. It can't be that hard since the game already does that calculation in battle anyway.

>>2001706
I agree with this guy. I LOVE when the player can have unique cool stuff. Each weapon in Fallout New Vegas having a special, named version comes to mind. Or the famed weapons from Battle Brothers. Or the meitou weapons from Kenshi.

>>2001713
at the end of the day does it matter?
them being better is offset by the fact that you cant hide what you do with them
the game isnt hard that you would struggle without the uniques
and the ships themselves take alot of effort to get
(oldslaught aside)
by the time you get to the ships your fleet can probably take out anything in the sector anyways
any aggression from the factions will be more inconveniences than threats to your default fleet

>>2001528
Only threat missiles need fragments in order to function, retard-kun
>>2001585
Onslaught 1 is unironically kino, keep its flux neutral though, the ship's AI is reckless and seemingly never wants to vent.

>>2001739
>(oldslaught aside)
Yeah, thinking about it, I think that's actually my main problem. I feel like Oldslaught appearing so early and not really being gated behind anything at all is what I actually dislike.

>>2001727
Fuck, I know there's a mod that adds this, but I can't remember what it's called.

I know it doesn't matter that much, but if planet has Moderate Ore and Abundant Organics, is it worth to put mining on it or would it be better to only have Farming+Light Industry+Commerce for the Luddic pop modifier?

>>2001301
their small emp beams can hit phase ships so they sort of counter xeno. the weapons they have aren't that OP except for the reskinned cryoflamer that does kinetic damage and the evil eye nigga, your ships get stunlocked to death if their ever shield drops though. a large shield efficient fleet with radiant could probably take them easy

>>2001747
IMO Alex should make the Threat fleet bigger when you first find the MK1, meaning you need a to bring an actual fleet in order to win
>>2001751
The newest version of Refit filters, I believe

After the Onslought mk1 was able to man fight a Paragon in the sim with little difficulty, I can't help but feel that it almost made as a direct response to the op nonsense that modders get up to. That thing hard counters everything the UAF does for instance.

>>2001758
Seems like a thing you must test by building it at max colony size then demolishing to reliably know since it depends on the colony itself.
Moderate Ore is not that profitable but Abundant Organics are pretty good, if you have spare SP, Alpha Cores and the ability to slot in a Bore it might be worth it, if you want to roleplay it as a Luddic colony you are fine just leaving it as is.
Just for this reason I run mods that add colony industries, fuck getting cucked at 3/4.

>>2001720
>I think something he could do is give enemy ai "orders" like the player has
Don't they already follow the same order system that players uses to control his fleet? But AI orders are chaotic and make little sense or simply f1+f3
>>2001716
>So the question is, what other mechanics the player engages in, that could be made harder when a unique ship is present in the fleet.
Something like Morrowind's vampirism system, you get OP stats even on low-levels after becoming a vampire but it basically locks you out of any interactions with NPCs and quests.
Like if you have an operational and fully armed alpha-cored Radiant in your fleet, every time you find yourself within hegemony/luddic controlled space they will go apeshit and demand you to surrender your ship or face a battle; spaceports (except tritach) being unable to restore a D-modded radiant/refit it because they don't know how it works + AI's banned; some unique dialog with factions, like tritach reacting to your aplha Radiant/ Just add more interactions to factions outside of scripted """story""" dialog
>the sector just says enough is enough and you become enemy no.1
A simple player bounty would be nice even without OP ships desu

>>2001739
>them being better is offset by the fact that you cant hide what you do with them
When you get OP ships you are so strong and done so many things faction rep is basically irrelevant anyway.
>any aggression from the factions will be more inconveniences than threats to your default fleet
Story point bail/autoresolve/ai core dump

>>2001758
Luddic Majority only appears on Habitable planets, that can't use a Mantle Bore anyways. Consider going for mining if the planet has three to four mineable deposits (note: this also means you can't use Soil Nanites) because one Mining industry will then generate a lot of products, but if it's just one or two mineable deposits, Luddic Majority will benefit you a lot more, especially if you're running a free port since they'll grow a shitton of poppies for that sweet, sweet opium trade.

Is tachyon lance on a sunder any good?
Is there any way to use IR autolances on sunder?
did something change? I thought IR autolances weren't supposed to fire at shields on autofire.

>>2001768
>meaning you need a to bring an actual fleet in order to win
Or you can transverse jump out of there with your slaught and not waste time on a tutorial OP fleet

Anyone have a link to the RS discord? Thinking I'm gonna get back into starsector with the new update, but I think I cleared out the server at one point when I was clearing old chats.

Shroud thunderhead confirmed works on beams if you have HSA

Colonies were a mistake. They should have been stations instead.
Any random pirate/luddite can set one up too, and they could fulfill every gameplay need of the player that the current colonies provide, but it would be a lot more realistic to explain why it only has a few tens of thousand of residents, and any faction with actual planetary colonies with millions of ppls would see them as inconsequential or an annoyance at most and picking a fight with one would be guaranteed death, instead of the player being able to single-handedly repopulate the sector in a decade, with the only limit being artificial gameplay ones like the limited number of administrators.

Why is there no consequence to using AI to pilot ships? The only Bad Thing about AI seems to be if you use it as a colony admin and then try to remove it. Ships? No worries. Station? No worries. Mining? You bet.
Is AI actually Just Fine?

>sunrider was one of the first mods updated
unfathomably based

>>2001850
KYS

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So the good news is that any of these mods that didn't update for 0.98 seem to work with just a simple json change. I haven't encountered any major bugs or glitches or crashes yet. will keep yuou guys updated.

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>>2001886
AIs are playing the long game. The consequences won't be felt in your lifetime.

There was a scifi i read where the threat was a digital race fucking with literally all life across the galaxy for their need, and if shit hit the fan, they only needed to burry countless nanoforge equivalent caches, wait for 100 million years, because there is no way any organic would remember them by then, then just build back up, subverting shit for an another few millions of years, and the stage is clear again.

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>Added even more mods than in 0.97
>Half of them needed me to change the version at least
>Didn't increase the available RAM
>Didn't change the game to Java 23 or whatever the fuck it was
>Starting a new game, everything runs much smoother
I don't know what fucking black magic is going on and I won't question it. Ludd has blessed me.

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>>2001623
>>2001632
The Threat being a rebel weapon seems doubly plausible because the TT spook says they're inimical to our tech base, and because their weapons and ships are essentially civilian tools (see pic related) respectively modified or run through genetic algorithms until they became world-class weapons/ships.

Why is the oldslaught stronger than the modern onslaught? That doesn't make sense

>>2001984
Inferior post collapse tech.

>>2001886
they're just a bunch of silly little balls

>>2001984
It's an old Onslaught but then it got a ton of modifications done by the crew over the years.

>>2001898
How does it compare to Arma Armatura?

>>2001955
he updated the java with this patch

>>2002050
Thank Ludd. Java 7 was sooo last year.

>>2001984
heavy adjudicators (domain tech) are strong
AI are better captains compared to humans
also combat burn is pretty much broken so im assuming its domain tech

>>2002050
Then that shit I did didn't actually change anything or I fucked up somehow. Still feels good.

>>2001966
There are all kinds of Threat ships used as baseline though. Skirmish, Assault and Line units were derived from warships, Overseer seems to be a colonization/terraforming ship, Fabricator is self-explanatory. Only the Hive unit stands out as something covered in [INFOSEC REDACTED] stamps all over.
Basically, they're X's Xenon. Playing with gray goo is all fun and games until someone botches a software update and it starts unfabricating you out of existence because it can't perceive reality properly anymore.
The Domain's heavy-handed AI laws and fabrication DRM coming into in existence right after pretty much spells out that this mess is the Domain's fault alone.

>>2001336
>>2001517
Extended is the worst of it. Just get a shield conversion for full coverage.

>>2001767
you are supposed to use anubis because of the paladin buff, although you can use gigacanno apogee and a astral/radiant.
fucking annoying that alex wants to force people into using it because i like using shitbricks with fucktons of pd and a alpha core with pd for cost/efficiency.
>>2001831
escort package + advanced optics + ITU solves any laser needs for a sunder as long as you have a capital, usually onslaught or conquest, retribution is 2fast4sunder and invictus is too shit for it even with timid/cautious officers.

Does the Academy guy pay you if you pick different dialogue options?

>>2001709
The Demonkilla

What are some decent Tempest builds? Is it a top tier frigate again after the buffs?

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get spanked

What if recovering oldslaught instantly (for player, storywise you are busy bringing it back to operational state the whole time with THREAT DETECTED blinking on its bridge) threw you into the Threat fight, then after it solos the enemy fleet it becomes inoperable again from battlestrain after drifting in space for so long, and you have to do some more story shit to properly fix it up, including maybe stealing or somehow convincing Heg to give you whatever schematics of it they still have archived

>>2002065
Regular Onslaught is also Domain tech, in fact the Domain replaced the gigachad superflaks with experimental laser cannons when laser tech was getting good enough to put on ships despite the flaks being actually better ingame

>just found a MK1 dealer for 600k
oh sweews, haven't even done galatia quest yet and i was in the middle of building a fleet for zig kek.

>>2002086
What do you mean?
The Abyss dive guy gave me 200k if that's what youre asking

>>2002157
I feel like it should just force you to fight a threat fleet without the oldslaught so you can't get it immediately before you have any real combat-capable ships.

>you can savescum "finishing" a bar mission until a potential contact pops up
WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THIS?!!

>Try out some refits mirror match to see what works or doesn't
>keep losing assuming the builds are trash
>decide to put on auto pilot, suddenly winning
wtf, the enemy ship acted like a retard when I put it on auto pilot like dropping shields to tank reapers levels of retard. Meanwhile when I control the ship, the enemy somehow shoots down the reapers when their flux is at 99%.

>>2001215
download speed up mod and just speed through the boring parts.

>>2002151
excuse me anon, why haven't you stolen their nanforge yet?
shameful display

>>2001377
No, we need a super midline capital ship.

>>2000938
Neat. I just went a single paladin and dual high intensity with two longbows. Not sure it's worth 17 DP tho.

I'm trying to figure out a fleet that can deal with a 2x Fabricator Threat fleet and isn't just a lowtech brick.
Current plan is midline cruiser spam with
>mostly Eagles with a Heavy PD Burst in the middle slot
>Sunders with Tachyon Lances
Very mixed results on this one, too squishy, the damage is not as impressive as I imagined for a ship that is not contributing to the PD cover of the fleet significantly
>Herons for fighter spam
Fighter to spam still to be decided, not sure if I want bombers or fighters to maybe kill the goo
>Shieldmaxxed executor to slap the smaller units with tachyon lances
>2 Anubiii with Xyphos/Paladins for total PD death
Final split of DP still to be decided, might get rid of the executor but I have a feeling the retarded AI will get the carriers killed in the back without a fleet anchor. If that happens just replace with even more eagles.

If that fails I will actually have to play Low-Tech for once which is awful. I feel really bad about having to use either the Invictus brick or the IGNslaught

>>2002221
2 paragons, 2 anubis' and a flagship of you choice can clear those 0 problem.
Don't forget your officers + S-mods!

Any I the only one in current year that still uses Falcons?

holy shit fighting those new demons feels like i'm fighting i a pit molasses
half the fight is me just yelling at the fuckers to get back here so i can shoot them

>>2002184
Could do both actually but then it would mean branching story so Alex wont do it.
When recovering oldslaught and Threat is closing in you get 2 options:
1. Protect oldslaught getting repaired, fight Threat fleet with whatever you came with. After battle oldslaught is ready to serve.
2. Reprioritize repairs and force oldslaught into functioning right now, fight Threat with Oldslaught. After battle it gets fucked up by combination of battle damage and hasty repairs, have to do some more quests to bring it online.

>>2002237
Fury replaced it

>>2002256
For cost effective NPC ships? Please elaborate.

>>2002237
The only Falcon ever worth using was the pirate one.

>>2002188
>google "save scumming contacts starsector"
>nothing
d-did i discover something new?
should i spam it every thread?

It's time for you to accept that UAF is the best mod and better than the vanilla content of Starsector as well.

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>>2002270
Sure, before the DP nerf. But I never had any issues with either of these kits.

running around with ~15 frigates is comfy but fighting rust buckets with 2-3 eradicators is hell.
i don't want to use bigger ships before getting a comfortable cushion of credits and several trade contacts for easy core worlds money.
paying for ships is the fool's way. iron price or bust.
i did a bounty for only 200k that had an Invictus and 2 Eradicators. i pulled my Aurora but still lost 2/3rds of my fleet and my Aurora survived with a sliver of health.
anyway, what are some good destroyers?
i felt Sunder was the best during orevious playthroughs but they are too squishy.
i couldn't make use of Enforcers or the high tech ball one.
ended up ditching destroyers alltogether and just running capitals, cruisers and frigates.

>>2002283
>t.falseflagging USCfaggot

>>2002292
>anyway, what are some good destroyers?
Sunders with escort package
>but I used Sunders already
Yeah, well, they're the best. Shrikes are also ok, Hammerheads are ok but destroyers in general aren't great in later game fights, they don't have Frigates' ability to gtfo quickly but also don't have the tankiness to last that long in intense combat, Sunders work because they're long range and especially if they're escorting a backline capital with escort package they can be good fire support.

>>2002299
huh, ngl, it feels good stumbling on meta.
and what are the good cruisers?
i was using SO Diminators and Apogees. tried some other ones but the felt weak.
i piloted SO Auroras and they felt good and powerful with antimatter blasters and ion pulsars even if they're flux hungry.

>>2002299
if anything enforcers with escort package and 1000 drivers and thumpers are good for onslut.escort due to burn drive, hell, even retribution escort they are good too.
shrikes are mosly on the odyssey escort than anything but sunders are best all around due to laser slots + advanced optics, give it unstable injector if you think it's lacking in the speen part.

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>Forgotten in a discussion of destroyers
:(

>>2002313
they are only good for escorting invictus with gauss cannons or devastators else they are too fucking slow.

>>2002299
>they're the best.
lol no they're not

>>2002310
SO shield tank aurora is one of the strongest ships in the game when used by players. For AI, Dominators are solid, Champions are great, the AI actually does an ok job with Auroras too (but nowhere near as godly as it is in player hands). Apogee has great shield stats but in my experience it ends up being too slow to get to safety when the enemy focuses fire on it.

Doom is good, AI can't use it as well as a human but it can still do a solid job harassing enemies. Heron and Mora are both very good carriers, Heron more so.

And obviously Eagles and Falcons are both great, Eagles in particular do really well as long range gunboats, give them some beam weapons and as much range as you can stack on them and they'll just hang back and pressure the shit out of enemies' shields so they can't vent, very good pressure. I always keep a few beam Eagles in my fleet.

>>2002313
i like blapping frigates with hellbores mounted to these

>>2002284
>Salamanders
I cringed.

>>2002317
you forgot harbinger-chan with escort package you dingus
literally best to pull zig out of p-space after it fluxes

>>2002327
fuck you salamanders are good

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Can't believe this, I go on a KoCSucking holiday for a few weeks and come back to this:

>ICL/Crashcode/Discord drama
>0.98 is finally out!
>Demons and Nanite swarms everywhere
>????
>Oldslaught is bestslaught
>anything_else_i_missed.png

Guess I better get updating!
And don't forget to fix your 'slaughts arms.

>>2002331
NOT THE SINGLE SHOT ONE

>>2002331
THEY ARE SHIT
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

>>2002334
when used against me they are always able to hit my engines no matter what unless shot down I fire one off and it ether goes in cercles around the ship doing nothing hits the side of the ship no where near the engines or just zooms off into the void never to be heard from again i fucking love these things

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>>2002327
They're annoying, cheap and can mess with the AI so they do their job. What else would you put? Gazers are a decent alternative but I've yet to see AI utilize them effectively. Torps or harpoons are great but that requires officers and more hullmods and I'm just fielding these under support doctrine for anchoring the battle.

onslut mk1 makes bounty hunting piss fucking easy lol

>>2002368
>the best ship in the game makes combat easy
wow thakns anon!!

>>2002331
they really aren't

>>2002250
That onslaught is ugly, it doesn't fit the other vanilla ships like it was a reskin from a mod.

>>2002374
i know right, it only cost me 600k and it's paying itself off easily.

>>2002374
>>the best ship in the game
how'd you figure that?

does your fleet get marked when your transponder is off with the new old 'slut like with Ziggy?
i need to know if i should get hyped or not.

>>2002386
the triple hp bars were a hint

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>>2002390

>>2002334
>>2002348
>>2002378
Wrong

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>>2002403
you're being a retard, but not in a funny way, be a quiet retard instead.

>>2002407
why so defensive?

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>>2002402
>shitpicket comes up to my murder fleet to turn the transponder on
>"no"
>relation dips into hostile
>let them go
>they instantly eburn away "running away from your fleet"

Had a little laugh.

Then killed every hegenigger in the system

>>2002399
I'm just not seeing it as better than a radiant. How do you build them?

Hegemony says it's penis(AI) inspection day

>>2002175
>experimental laser cannons when laser tech was getting good enough to put on ships despite the flaks being actually better ingame
Thinking modern Onslaught seen in game has waterdown thermal pulse cannon while main domain fleet has superior version of TPS.

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i could be your angle or your devil

>>2002418
the build it starts with can already solo most of the game including zigger

>>2002435
Servant of Moloch

>>2001984
It makes perfect sense to me that a technology developed during or immediately after the collapse of all knowledge would be more advanced than stuff that comes much later. It's the basis of the entire Warhammer universe and there's lots of precedent from the fall of the Roman empire.

>>2002438
People solo'd ziggurat with a gremlin. You got an actual build or just memeing a new ship?

what the fuck happened last thread
no i will not read 1500 posts.

>>2002237
I never stopped
>but they're non optimal
this game isn't hard. Aesthetics is more important than anything else and by Jove they're sexy looking

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How's that one JaydeePiracy mod?
That weird Apogee speaks to me.

I like mods that add in-lore modified/kitbashed ships, such as Pirate or Scavenger retrofits, and dislike mods that add a hundred different new ships to factions, and ones that wildly break lore.

>>2002445
Starsector mod reviewer wasnt happy his video got keked over a joke and released a grudge video colluded with Alex to release new updated Starsector for maximum BUZZ.

>>2002445
Alex finally updated his game. 0.98 is out, Anon.

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>>2002447

>>2002453
wasn't that 2 threads ago

>>2002441
The laser version Onslaught was already outdated by the time Domain fell, MK1 was the first big bettleship of the whole domain long before shield and laser technology developed, its fucking ancient

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>>2002445
rape won like usual

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>>2002456
About that...

>>2002443
The build it starts with.

>>2002386
It can just fly at a Paragon while holding down mouse1 and defeat it while getting barely scratched itself. It also completely neuters carriers and missiles. I dunno about you, but that sounds pretty damn strong to me.

>>2002460
Invictus is newer than mk1,older than lasernaught

Praise Ludd
Pass the ammunition.
We got demons to kill.

>>2002456
It's a ship meant to fight ayylmaos, of course it's gonna be stronger.
Regular Onslaught is meant to fight against rebels, it's strong enough for what is does. Domain saw how good oldslaught was, created a cheaper but still very effective variant that got streamlined and upgraded with new tech until we get what we currently have.
Like a very advanced pistol versus a hand-cranked gatling gun of ye old, different needs, and we need dakka.

>>2002467
>citation needed

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>>2002467
you gotta lay of them space rocks, man

>>2002465
So can a radiant or a regular well built regular onslaught or a paragon you built. I don't think it's bad just nothing special. If it had a non automated ship tag and didn't directly compete with some really good ships, as in a radiant or multiple other redacted ships for the comparable DP cost I'd like it as a sidegrade to the regular laser brick. But like this? Just not seeing it.

>>2002478
The Onslaught mentioned is clearly the shielded one

>>2002480
Its not competing with anything m8

>>2002486
It uses up the cap from the automated ships skill.

>>2002451
To think that after matt damon's freak out we had several months of peace and actual starsector discussion

nothing good ever lasts

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>>2002483
>The Onslaught mentioned

>>2002483
>lore was made before mk1 existed
>literally says it's design was the core for onsluts
you fucken wot

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>>2002333
>And don't forget to fix your 'slaughts arms.
WHY WOULD YOU GIVE UP 10 SUPPLY COST OLDSLAUGHTS?
they even have rugged construction so the d-mods aren't even that impactful

>>2002493
>arbalests and pillums
>in built dual super devastator
>better add some more devastators
anon.... what in the actual fuck

>>2002491
It clearly says shield tech was the reason it was replaced, ergo the modernised shielded Onslaught was the replacent

Alex confirmed that the Oldslaught is getting nerfed severely in the next update.

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>>2002500
t. most literate follower of ludd

>>2002488
Well you dont need it

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>>2000905
wtf has it already been a year

>>2002499
It is the oldslaught build and it smashes everything.

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>>2002499
>.75 flux/dmg arbalest
>.5 flux/dmg devastators
>.1 flux.dmg super devastators
>shield shunted
>still maxes out capacitors within 10 seconds
at this point im scared to replace anything since it works so well
watching it combat burn into a group of ships and kill anything it drives by is pretty awe inspiring
the stupid amount of guns and reckless AI makes anything else hard to slot in

>>2002503
good riddance

>>2002508
Yes.

for me the appeal of oldslaught isn't that you can just w+m1 a paragon
it's not even that that you can do that at 135 speed, and instead of a paragon it's 3 radiants, and while the other two dump uninterrupted DPS into your sides and rear you just laugh and kill one of them and then turn toward them next
it's that the AI actually knows to do this and often will. I just give my oldslaught an eliminate command on whatever their biggest threat is, give the rest of my fleet a defend command on it, go afk, come back to no casualties. works against every enemy in the game

>>2002499
NTA but that's similar to the loadout that I use except my smods are automated repair and extended mags. the THREAT demand a lot of PD and having this ship as your anchor with 3 devastators makes the fight an absolute joke (not that endgame content is hard anyway, you can kinda do whatever you want, especially with le edgy red clouds). As for the arbalests, they're pretty flux efficient which is good for a ship with terrible flux stats. Does your oldslaught not have trouble with flux during extended fights with remnarts or threats?

Time for a vanilla run
I'll name my player character Solomon and cage all the demons I possibly can
YEA, AND WISDOM WAS WITH HIM, AND 72 LEGIONS OF HELL ANSWERED HIS CALL, FOR HIS PACT BOUND THEM INTO THE SERVICE OF THE RIGHTEOUS

>>2002499
>>2002524
i just swapped the arbalests for thumpers + ITU and oh lordy, i got mine from black dealer but it usually remains with top flux destroying everything, it vents every blue moon or so but it doesn't seem to be bothered by a 99% flux bar.

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Thats vanilla done, kind of sucks that a whole bunch of shitballs are immune to being fully bombarded.

>>2002525
more like Solamemon

>>2002524
>automated repair and extended mags
See, that's reasonable. But you're not selling me on arbalests. Those things are probably the worst weapon in the game. And why not some helbores on the side slots?

What if literal demon hullmods on oldslaught

Is the new shit hard to find? Abyss spelunking is a time sink

>>2002542
>why not helbores
Saturation PD trivializes THREAT, the wide spread lets it hit things in front of it and it denies the ability for overloaded frigates to strafe its shots, and it's comparable in flux efficiency
>arbalests being the worst weapon in the game
I know arbalests are bad, it's not about the weapon performance it's about not capping your flux and denying your built-ins the ability to fire. I could perhaps be convinced to slot smalls into those slots, like railguns with rangefinder or something, or just use thumpers instead but then you kinda get btfo by radiants and paragons (who are so large that the inaccurate arbalests can't miss)

arbalests are good

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>>2002553
S-mod Shroud Mantle on oldslaught with the Hungering Rifts is a pretty good meme, the healing is strong, but oldslaught doesn't struggle with survivability, it struggles with damage. S-modding in automated repair + extended mags solves all your damage problems

>>2002557
Brother, if you're depending on arbalests to fight ordos things have gone horribly off script.

>smalls with rangefinder
I like that. I really do. Railguns are very flux hungry though and that beats the point. Heavy MGs are an interesting idea. Maybe a couple of small needlers as well.

>thumpers
But why? You already have obscene hull damage. Helbores are nice since both low flux and can't be intercepted with PD. If it's a flagship I'd go with manual fired Gauss and when they start sparkling rip them apart with the integrated guns.

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>>1995655
>turkler is back

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>>2002542
>But you're not selling me on arbalests
arbalests are bad because of accuracy
the oldslaught always combat burns towards the enemy at
125~ish 100% of the time which is faster than most caps and cruisers
this negates the downside of the arbalest since it cant miss since it will always be 0-300 units away from the enemy
what you have now is a med size gun that costs 8 OP with good flux stats
this makes it great for the oldslaught since its flux stats are horrible for the amount of hardpoints it has
this applies to the devastators as well
also what the fuck the AI knows that it can just rush a paragon and kill it pretty much instantly this thing is BUSTED

>isekai factions arent lore friendly! no, space mechs aren't lore friendly! no, any mod faction isnt lore friendly!
>alex adds eldritch abomination from another dimension
>eldritch abominations are canon

l m a o
inb4 mod mafio makes 58372897489324 cosmic horror knockoffs like what happened with omega

RAT did it first as much as al*xtrannies try to steal the valor
lukasz > alex
germany > pidor*ssia

>>2002575
They're allround crap. Autocannons have comparable to better range for a small slot and are even cheaper. Comparable DPS because, you know, they can actually hit something that's not further than 20U away. Railguns are straight up better if hungrier on flux. Freaking heavy mortars have a stronger case to be used as a mid-close range brawler and ghetto armor stripper than them.

>the AI knows that it can just rush a paragon and kill it pretty much instantly this thing is BUSTED
A reckless core will rush a paragon in a mudskipper if you let them.
And what's with this obsession with paragons and or stacking PD? Neither of those are hard to deal with in vanilla.

>>2002583
>isekai factions arent lore friendly!
Correct
>no, space mechs aren't lore friendly!
Correct
>no, any mod faction isnt lore friendly!
Correct
>inb4 mod mafio makes 58372897489324 cosmic horror knockoffs like what happened with omega
Still won't be lore friendly. Vanilla is the only way.

>>2002585
is fractal russian?

>>2002575
>also what the fuck the AI knows that it can just rush a paragon and kill it pretty much instantly this thing is BUSTED
without ai core or skills it's not and can be easily destroyed by DEM's.

>>2002596
Yeah, technically.
green-card-lottery-liberashka expat russian, to be precise

>>2002556
Bls respond ;_;

>>2002601
huh, thank
figured it was post soviet of some kind just by the flavor of the setting

>>2002589
>obsession with PD
There's 2 ways to deal with Fabricators; either rush them down, or use PD to clean up the fragments before they can return to them and gimp its CR
Oldslaught has rushdown in spades, and honestly any loadout will facilitate that, but I guess people want it to be able to do both simultaneously, hence the devastators. It could be killing faster with other weapons, but it kills fast enough, especially when you consider you have an entire fleet to back it up and pick up the slack. Any ship can deal damage, only the oldslaught can plant itself in the middle of 4 radiants and hold their uninterrupted attention for 3 actual goddamn minutes
again, though, like you said, all of it is overkill, nothing is hard in this game, I killed le hard mode red clouds using pirate falcons, and the entirety of THREAT are helpless against phase if you focus down the Overseers

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So this is the end for Jeff for this False Idol story line currently?
He got shot but I think I got everything good for him except lying about the Church trying to buy the false relic.

>>2002589
>They're allround crap
im not saying they aren't crap in general
im saying that in this specific ship they aren't a bad choice
every fight i bring the oldslaught into it gets close enough that the accuracy does not matter
the fucking devastators hit most of its shots at the range the AI brings the ship into so i dont see a problem with the arbalests

>stacking PD
because of the new enemies
also its pretty cool to have a ship that can clear out all the fighters on the board and be able to eliminate any opposing ship

>>2002590
Schizo

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>>2002585
I prefer Alex's abyss over RAT's tbdesu
RAT is still very cool though

>>2002624
same, I think its hard to say he didnt get some kind of inspo from it tho

>>2002610
>middle of 4 radiants and hold their uninterrupted attention for 3 actual goddamn minutes
On armor alone? I'm sceptical but aroused.

>all of it is overkill
Yeah. Just that.

>>2001027
Heavy mortar is dogshit, thumper is actually good now, and this ship doesn't operate in a vaccuum. There's more than enough missiles to strip hull, if you run out of missiles you can just let another ship strip hull for you. If all else fails the Eagle is nimble enough to back off from anything big enough to actually threaten it.

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>>2002557
>railguns with rangefinder or something
25 extra flux adds up when you have 9 slots firing at once
i think the direct upgrade is the light mass driver you get from threats though they are1 op more so might need some messing around

>>2001157
Does he know?

>>2002402
thanks

>>2002503
major update or hotfix?
why does he not allow fun?

>>2002649
>direct upgrade
>less dmg

>>2002649
actual direct upgrade is the threat mass driver but it costs whopping 5 more op

>>2002671
if you pull your head out of your ass you could see it more clearly

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>>2002671
>less damage
its more flux efficent so its more effective damage since the AI does not like to vent with the oldslaught
it would just stay at 100% and only fires like 1/2 of its weapons
the worst part is that it will refuse to fire the adjudicators too since its 600 flux a second when its charged

>Increase available RAM
>Game stutters and loads like ass
Can one of you /g/ays spoonfeed me, is the game struggling because too much of my RAM is used overall by the game, browser, etc. and having trouble loading, because without allowing more RAM it was buttery smooth? It's the only thing that comes to mind even if contrary to my layman mind since more RAM=better even if it reaches cap.

>>2002677
>higher accuracy at longer range
>somehow less damage

>>2002681
is your new ram the same frequency

>>2002686
No I mean editing vmparams

>>2002683
oldslaught fights at headbutting range

>>2002681
how much RAM do you have, how much did you make available for the game and how much is used with and without the game, gay ass faggot?

guys how do i stop the oldslaught from kissing the star fortress?

>>2002688
your mother lied you to, you're not special. you're just retarded.

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>>2002674
>5 more op
then i guess its not a direct upgrade then

>>2002689
8gb, allowed 4gb, same setup as when I opened the game says 3,2gb